Chicago Fire 4-1 Inter Miami Live Postgame Show

Name: Chicago Fire 4-1 Inter Miami Live Postgame Show
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I was doing good until about 8.30. 8.37. Yeah, but man, I just don't know what to say about this team. I don't know. Like, I want to be positive. I try to stand behind them and try to look for, you know, positive things. But it's games like tonight that it just makes me wonder if Messi isn't around, like, do we actually have a team? Because I'm looking at our record without Messi. I was looking back at the games that we had without Messi, which was Chicago, New York City, Houston, Orlando, Toronto, Atlanta, Sporting KC. And we're struggling in most of those games. Uh, what? Looks like the club behind you. I'm sorry, keep going. That thing is on its own. Uh, I don't know. I tried to program. That thing has a mind of its own. But no, yeah. But I would say, like, we struggle without Messi. We had a couple of games there without Messi that we were able to do well. But most of them we struggled. And tonight it's like, what is going on with this team? I don't, you know, every night we talk about, is it fatigue? Is it effort? Is it that maybe they don't care so much about the playoffs anymore? Like, I don't know what the excuse is because every night we find excuses. I think we can only use fatigue so much because to me tonight, it wasn't about fatigue. And the reason I say that is because they didn't look tired. I feel like the effort in running, the effort in trying to defend, the effort, which speaks to fatigue was there. To me, it was just everybody is off their game. If Messi is not around, they don't have the confidence that they do when Messi is not around. It's like they drop like they drop like four or five levels when Messi is not around. They're like half the players, half of what they play, half of what they can actually play when Messi is around or when I was around. And look, here's something we haven't mentioned much. To me, it's part is on the players, right? Like when you see a mask, you miss a goal like that. When you see ideas, miss opportunities and play just horrendous. OK, those are things that the coach can't do anything about. Like those are you as a professional, you make those you score those goals. But I'm sorry, the tactics aren't there. I mean, as a coach, you got to put these players in positions to excel. They're just not there like nothing. Messi's not around. Somebody has to be creative, which in theory it should have been Farias, because how many times have we heard that to say ideas is the closest thing we have to Messi? He's the one with the closest skill set to Messi, but he doesn't do anything. And then there's just nothing from a coaching perspective. There's no creativity at all. In my opinion, you don't have anything going on. It's just lateral stuff lateral from one side of the field to the other side of the field, to the other side of field with no verticality. There's no playmaking. There's nothing creative going on. And that's on the coach. They're so stagnant. They don't do anything. They have 60 something possession and they don't do anything with it, which is really frustrating to me. Like I'm looking at this team and I'm not a coach and I'm already seeing opportunities to fix the game. Like you see Farias on the left hand side and Noah, not how many times did we see them actually associate themselves with each other and do something on that wing? Where Noah comes up, touches the ball to Farias, then overlaps. And then Farias plays the ball back. And then maybe Farias makes a run to the middle and Noah centers it back. We didn't see any of that. Same thing with Yevlin and Taylor on the right. We didn't see them associate themselves in the least bit. If Joseph is, at least at the beginning, he had two good plays at the end. So I have to give it up to him for that. But for most of the game, he wasn't. Yeah, yeah. But he wasn't doing much at the beginning. And what I think is for Joseph to excel again, other than those two really good plays that he did, which men props to him, he did great there. Joseph is a guy that you need to get him involved and get him in stride. Place the ball with him running where he's going to have an opportunity to kick the ball. And that's tactics. That's telling the team, get the ball to Joseph in the open space. Have Joseph make the run so that he can kick. That's where he excels the most. They didn't get him those opportunities. Or ask Joseph. Joseph, play the false nine, play a little back, confuse the defense. When you push more into the midfield, have Farias come in and play the space that you just left behind you and then have Grimasky or somebody play the ball into you. Like all of that stuff to me is missing the creativity. You can't depend on Messi every single game for him to create everything when he's not there. People got to step up and you have to play your tactics for a messy list team. And it just didn't happen. I mean, there's more, but I don't want to. I don't want to talk for an hour. Obviously, I know that you probably have a lot to get off your chest as well. It's a couple of comments saying ready for an all-time meltdown from Ali. Well, actually, I'm past the meltdown point. Like, you know, when you're so mad or whatever that you like calm, that's where I'm at. But a couple of things. Without getting into too much of a debate about biases and nationalities and all those things, because I really don't want to. If Facundo Farias wasn't this young hot shot of Argentina, do you think he'd be playing 90 minutes of every game of the last 10 since his performance has dropped? I don't know. I don't. I don't know. I know that that's entirely wrong. And you know, he's had spurts of great play, but with how many tired legs that we have and the need to rotate, is there a defined reason he's getting to play 90 minutes when had a severe drop off? That's number one. Number two, with this, let's say for the League's Cup, with the exact same players, how different do you think Phil Neville would have done? It's a rhetorical question. Because I haven't seen something so phenomenal out of Tata Martino in terms of rotating and tactics. Besides, it's kind of like that meme where, you know, and this is an American football reference, but it's like, what is it like? Just throw it up. Justin Jefferson or Jamar Chase is somewhere. Throw it up. Jamar is somewhere down there. You'll get it from the Bengals, right? Like, that's like what it is that they've had to do with Messi, which is just put Messi on it. You know, it'll it'll make it'll make do. And then I don't see a future for DeAndre Yedlin next season, which is a shame because I think he's a really great guy and great for the community. But I imagine that this the plan for my moving forward is going to be a back four and Jordi Alba is going to be your left back as long as injuries are not an issue. And DeAndre Yedlin just won't backtrack. He hasn't done it all season. He didn't really do it last season. And over the last few games, when you know, playing a lot of young players, he's really been, in my opinion, disgraceful. He's been terrible. He has not tracked back at all. And two of tonight's goals were 100 percent because he didn't run back. Literally forget tactics or other people. You know, yeah, we had some bad left, like some bad giveaways in the midfield. But that happens sometimes in soccer. You know, that's why you have defenders. Two of the goals was literally because he just didn't run back or didn't run back fast enough. And if you're playing a back four and a high nine, that's your job. And so with the guarantee of Alba on the left and now Miller, who I deserve a center back on our team, to be completely fair, not that he's, you know, he's not the greatest of all time, but he's certainly, in my opinion, he does a very good job. He does what he's asked to do with those two defenders and obvious guaranteed. I pretty much think they need a new right back who's going to run and who's going to be able to backtrack because DeAndre Edlin hasn't done it all season. And so, yeah, those are kind of my five points, right? Like I think Farias, who is a good young talent and who we've said great things about. He's young and he's had a complete he's had a drop off and Tata Martino has not taken him out when he really should have or put him in positions where he can succeed more. And he's he's asking the young players to do the wrong things. He's expecting more out of others. And it's been really sad. And, you know, for an Inter-Miami team that definitely has overachieved, but if you're going to double, triple and quadruple the pricing of tickets for next season, the performance for these last 10 games or eight games or whatever the case may be, has been really, really disappointing as a club and really something where you're going to have to see big changes in the roster moving forward in order to to give the fans what they deserve. And it can't be messy. He's 36 years old, 37 years old and is the greatest player. But, you know, people are going to pay their hard earned money and put their support behind the team where you can't you have 11 other professionals on the pitch that you need to see perform. Yeah, no, I agree. And, you know, there are people asking about Kremasky in the comments, and I'll say this, Kremasky was thrown into a role very early out of necessity. And I think he showed he had a better game. He had a much better game than he's had. But no, I know. But I think that he showed a lot of a lot of promise from when he first started seeing a bigger role. But at the same time, you have to remember, he's 18 years old. And I've seen him struggle as of recent. He's had some off games, but we haven't seen him have those great games that he has when Messi's around. There's a big I think there's there's completely different. He's a completely different player or when Messi's on the field and when he's not. And you have more experienced players like I'm not saying don't play Kremasky maybe at all, but at least you can have a game where you play him the entirety. There'll be games where maybe he plays the last 30 minutes in the second half. But you've got John Mota who's experienced. You've got Stefanelli who's experienced. Like, I think that that's failing in the rotations as well. Man, you're talking about fatigue, right? And we're tired and we played so many games back to back. But why aren't you playing guys that are fresher, that are vets that have played with this team and have shown that I think that they can hold their own again, like Mota and Stefanelli. They're available. But you're just you're asking so much out of these young players that, OK, they can shine here and there. But I don't think that you can expect them to be consistently at the top of their game at such a young age. And I think that that's something that that that fails in is to you. Like, how many times actually have we talked about how deep this team is? Like, why did we see why are we seeing Kremasky play? I had to step away the last 10 minutes of the game to set this up, so I'm not sure if he got subbed, but he's playing and an incredible amount of minutes. Farias, why is Farias seeing all these minutes? Like you said earlier, like switch people out, give them to give them a chance to rest if fatigue or tired or whatever is an issue. I think that sometimes that is so set in his ways that it sometimes is to a detriment of the team. But then I saw a comment. I know you like to give Manchester City comparisons. If they don't care about Cup but finish last, they overachieve. Fair enough. No, it's so Mota and Stefanelli are also poor quality. Look, I'm not saying that quality. Yeah, no, I don't think they're poor quality. I think that I think that they can serve their role and put and do well enough to merit time, especially when you have so many games back to back to back. I think that they're playable players that should have seen the field instead of milking such a young player and expecting him to perform at an all-star level. And then when he doesn't perform at an all-star level, it's like he sucks. Like, no, he doesn't suck. He does well. I think that. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, go ahead. Go ahead. What were you going to say? I'm just going to say that I think that, you know, and obviously I can't hear the press conference live or translate in real time. But if we hear again from Tata Martino, it's too many games and that the team is tired. Why have you played the same 11, give or take one or two injuries on the last five games without really any changes? If you are going to just keep complaining about the rest. I think that unless for injury reasons, there's no reason that John Mota did not start the game today when we clearly needed an offensive boost and we needed to have some more creativity. And again, I don't think Tomaski had a bad game. I think especially compared to the last couple of games, he did play a little bit more aggressive a little bit more composed. Royal had a pretty good game. And then, yeah, I Robert Taylor, just his like his legs are out or I don't know what it is, but he is just he's run his race. And that's another opportunity where why are you playing him when it's, you know, it's not because he's a poor quality player we've seen in many instances. And even before Messi came, I know a lot of people haven't seen, you know, are new to enter Miami and not in a negative way. Like I know we're we're getting more and more fans each game. But Robert Taylor had a lot of great moments before the Messi era where he showed a lot of brilliance. He's a very he's a good player. He really is. He's just been, I guess, overused or maybe whatever the case may be. There's no reason why you shouldn't be playing Stefanelli or Robbie Robinson or any of these players simply because you need to rotate. And, you know, that's if you need to rotate, you need to get some creativity and players to show their hunger. This is when you have to do it. And so it's just it's been a real tactical failure. It's been, I think, personnel failure. It's been it's been tough to see. And and it's not like you're asking like when you're rotating, like to your point, if you're bringing in other players like like Robbie Robinson, Stefanelli, Moda, it's not that you're saying that others aren't going to see the pitch at all. They can come in in the second half and rotate and get at least some time at rest. But it also helps your opposition, different players. They've exactly exactly. You think these teams aren't watching video and making sure that they're ready for these formations? You got to switch it up. Look, I see, for example, somebody is asking about Campana. Supposedly Campana didn't play because he was injured. That's what came out on the injury report. So that's why he wasn't traveling. He went out of Alaska. Yeah, he didn't travel either. Haroon says, bro, stop in Europe. They have players at 16, 17 and 18 that play the game at the highest level. That's also Europe, bro. Like I was going to say, that's why they're in Europe. And I mean, yeah, exactly. He's getting better and better. No doubt. Our league's getting better and better. There's a, you know, a drop off in quality. I like there's another comment I saw that I wanted to touch on. Oh, you know? Yeah, here it is. I've seen a lot of hate for Noah Allen. You know, the kid is 19 and I know we keep saying the age thing. You're asking him to be Jordy Alba. He's not. You know, he's doing the best he can and and tactically know it. That's your only left footed available available player on the left side. Then tactically, you should be you should be ready to overcompensate for it and have players behind if he does get beat. He does this. I think he's he hasn't been great the last few games, but he hasn't been, I think, as bad. Let's say Edlin or as bad as other players who are much older and much more seasoned than him. Yeah, there's a there's a lot of point fingers. Yeah, I'm going to say this. Yeah, no, I mean, no matter what you I don't think you can find any excuse for the misses that we saw. Yeah. Easy shots from Grzymaski. That should have been a red card. That's been a red card on that player. It was a deliberate, in my opinion, denying of a goal scoring opportunity. He made himself bigger and his he purposely he purposely tried to use his his other parts of his body to deny a goal. And that's a red card. Yeah, I don't even know how that wasn't even checked by VAR. Yeah, I think that my my biggest takeaway from tonight's game. Other than than turning the ball over, I think these are I would say, let's I'm going to give a couple of my key takeaways. One of my key takeaways is into Miami has to do a better job at getting back on defense when turning the ball over. And one of the primary offenders of that is exactly who brought up DeAndre Edlin. So that's one of one of my key takeaways. The other key takeaway is finding a way to be creative and to generate good plays when Messi isn't around, because right now, if Messi isn't around, the team is too stagnant. Nobody's making runs. Nobody is take it. Nobody is able to take one or two players to open up the field. Like nobody's nobody's giving that type of individual effort at this. Sometimes we'll see a flash from Taylor, sometimes from Farias, but not often enough. I think Farias needs to step up, especially if that is giving him this opportunity where it seems like he's untouchable. He is the man when Messi is not around. So I think that Farias needs to step up to the plate and prove why it is that that has so much confidence in him and start playmaking. That's important. And the last one would be coaching. That has got to do better at coaching from rotating players to the game planning and game scheming and finding ways to create offense. Because I just in case there are people that just came in. I said this at the beginning. We how many times have we seen in prior games, especially when I was in or Messier, where again, the fullbacks, the left fullback or the right fullback will run up, touch the ball with the wing, overlap the wing and make the run so that the wing passes the ball right back. And that opens up so many different. We could be a center. It could be a touch back to the right outside the 18. I mean, there's just a plethora of different plays that can come out of that. And I just saw nothing like I saw no place. I was trying to see if there was something that I can point to. OK, they're doing this on a consistent basis. This has got to be at the direction of that. And I saw nothing to me that pointed that there was anything that was preplanned from because it was just stagnant. Sixty something percent without anything. Yeah, exactly. I'm going to say speaking, I say the number and you tell me what the significance is. Twenty seven, twenty seven days since Leo Matthew got injured or was taken off versus Ecuador, you know, for the first game or two, let's say versus Atlanta. You could understand that we had trouble figuring our way out of it because we just came a great flow with Messi over a thousand minutes. He played right for Inter Miami. Yeah, but maybe that's the first week. What changes have been made over the last twenty one days, the last three weeks, the last eight or nine games to show that we've had any life in us? And it's run a game shows, by the way, how poor Toronto is to ship to that. No, we blew them out of the water. Twenty seven days since Messi's fatigue and whatever it was versus Ecuador. Twenty seven days and we are still acting. This club is acting tactically in their press and in their personnel like he's still playing. Yeah, yeah. Don't have an excuse for like a first week. Understandable, you made a real 180. Things changed drastically with him. What about the last 20 days after it? This is a world class coach. Millions of dollars. These are many players at least try new things, you know, at least try new things. And if they don't work, then sometimes things don't work. Do you think this is a competitive? Do you think this is a competitive team? Like, honestly, like let's say when when Messi isn't on the pitch and let's say allies on the pitch on paper, should this be a competitive team? Because I know I'll probably get some hate in the comments now, even though there are some people I see that I think it's a competitive team. I look at this team and I think I think I'm not saying they're going to compete with the top three teams in each conference. I'm not going to say they're a top team, but I think there should be way more competitive than they're showing, especially against teams at the bottom of the table, because that's what we've been struggling against these last few games without Messi. Yeah, there's been some top teams like Houston, right, or Orlando or Atlanta that are pretty good. But there have also been teams at the bottom of the table like today, like New York City. I don't have the rest of them, but there's there's teams that we shouldn't. There's no excuse for us losing for one in Chicago. This should be a much more competitive team. I don't know. Do you think it's a competitive team or should be on paper? I mean, it should be. I think that, first of all, Busquets is still, in my opinion, better than, you know, 80 percent of the midfield in the MLS. Maybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration. I need to kind of like look to really give an answer. But at over 50 percent, Busquets is better than Campana slash Joseph Martinez. I still think it's probably better than 50 percent in terms of your your front front player that's supposed to score goals. And, you know, I'm seeing in the comments and that's why obvious, by the way, why I keep looking down in the stream is because I'm reading the comments so I can interact with it. But, you know, it's not all Tata's fault. For all we know, he's putting in tactics and, you know, the players aren't executing it. But it's also not not his fault. There's a mixture. You know, it is it is your job as the coach to create a game plan that everyone should do. And let's just say that the players aren't doing the game plan or the other team as maybe they had a different game plan that now you have to try and counteract. You have time to change it and you are seeing no changes being made, especially during the first 60 minutes. You're seeing nothing being done. And again, did we only use two subs today for a team that is incredibly tired and that our players are burnt out? Is that right? Am I right in saying that? We only did two, maybe three. And I think so. I don't know. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. We had some attacking players that didn't make it on the field team until the game is already out of hand when he he's a very good attacking player. It's not amazing, but he's he's good. And I mean, right, you know, before we had Messi, Alba, Busquets, there was a reason we were last in the league. You know, we did not have the quality of other teams and or the execution. And that is why they've, you know, they've quote unquote gambled in and saving their money or saving their roster spots and instead put it in these big three. And when you do that and two of the big three, you see obviously that. But we have three other DPs, young DPs that are very talented and are supposed to. We have other players who, like I said, a Robert Taylor, Joseph Martinez, who are, you know, supposed to be of this caliber. And overall, it's just it's you know, I think that they made the decision and I really do believe this about me after the Toronto game that, you know, the season's awash. And I just think it's unfortunate how they handled it. But it's good insight on who's going to stay and who's going to go and who has the ability to step up and have composure and who doesn't. Yeah, no, of course. And I'm not saying that this team is competitive in the sense of, yeah, this is the team we have. This is what we're you know, this is the future. This team is great as is for next season as well. No, I think that on paper, we should be more competitive than we're showing is what I'm saying. And I do think that there are going to be changes moving forward for next season. There's going to be changes in the defense. There's going to be changes in the midfield. And I think we need help literally in each I think in each part of the field, also in the offense. Because while I like Campana, I think if there's somebody that's better than Campana, we definitely need to bring them on. We I just think that we should have been more competitive with what we have now than what we're showing. So I see a couple of comments about we don't need Luke Modric. I'll take Luke Modric any day as our as our if we can get it where the Luke of their skits and maybe a royal let's just say and then our front three are messy. Campana, Thaddeus. Yeah, sign me up for that one. But I want to be still the quality, the quality. I'll take him and his quality over 31 year old or 28 year olds who who can't make the right pass. Okay, fine. No magic. Fine. People are not not magic saying one champions league like a year and a half ago. He's still cooking. Yeah, I know. We'll see it. It will be interesting. It'll be an interesting offseason, right? Because what this is shown and what they obviously know is that they need to build players who can play with and without messy. We've seen most players how I can play with messy in terms of he will make me better. He will make me look great. He will put me in positions to succeed. But you need players who can play with him. Well, without him well enough, right? That's kind of like the drop off we're seeing. It's we don't expect you to be up here without messy like understand that there is a drop off like the the greatness he possesses the fact that you're the greatest to ever play. It means you're going to make everyone better by a lot. But we're not going from we're going from here to here. We need to be going from here to maybe, let's say, here and understanding there's a drop off both tactically and through rotations, being able to continue to perform at a good level. Yeah, I 100% agree with you. To make up for messy. Yeah, but messy is irreplaceable right now. It's crazy. Yeah. No, you're never going to replace messy. Nor do we. Do we expect that? Or do we think it can happen? But to your point, the difference shouldn't be that big with messy off the field. Like you shouldn't you shouldn't struggle to score that much without messy on the field. You should the on field product shouldn't look so bad without messy on the field. And I think that that's going to be as the front office looks towards next season. I think that that's what's going to be top of mind for them is knowing that messy is probably not going to play every game next season and seeing based off because I mean, in the short span of time, we've seen that, you know, I think that this kind of proved it to everybody. Messy is not going to play every game. So moving forward, priority. Yeah. And I think the priority of this offseason is going to be bringing quality players to still be able to field a competitive team. Those games that messy and Alba possibly Busquets. We've seen that Busquets seems to be someone that's more. I think he's someone that's been able to stay on the field longer or more consistently. But those games that were messy and are going to play. We need to field a competitive team. And I think that that's what they're going to do is bringing quality players. So I think that this team is going to look a bit different for next season. Like this is the lowest scoring team in the MLS by a wide margin. Here's a good analogy to that. I think that Inter Miami needs to do and hopefully the plan is going to be. And this is it's an American baseball reference, but maybe people will know there's a there's a movie and a book called Moneyball with Brad Pitt. I recommend it to people, even if you're not American. It's a really great movie. The point of it that instead of just getting some stars, only stars and having a really like high payroll where it was a couple of great stars and else kind of the bottom. He basically went and created a team with a couple of a couple of great players. And the rest of them were just good enough to get on base. And this is obviously the analogy, but just good enough where his was which players give us the highest on base percentage. Let's add them all up. And that's how we're going to win. Or that's how we're going. We're going to score more than the other team. And that was tactics. And it was called Moneyball because it was based on analytics. And it was based on saying, OK, maybe not the biggest and brightest enough. What we have done so far, what the game plan seemed to have been for this season was the opposite, where we are just getting our couple of three or four shining stars that have a huge drop off and hope our shining stars get enough home runs that we win. And it worked in the beginning. But this goes to show that it's not sustainable, especially when we said, yeah, Messi is not going to play every game next season. And Copa America is 1000% going to be the priority. And so you will see, especially before and after Copa America, his his lack of playing for Inter Miami, even if he's quote unquote healthy. And that's and I mean, you know, it's understandable. That's what their priority is. And so what, you know, Inter Miami needs to do is they need to get enough players who maybe don't knock your socks off every game, but are good enough to not concede goals, play the positions they're supposed to and create enough goal scoring opportunities. Because right now we're not doing either of those things. We're not defending goals, right? We're letting a lot of goals go by and we're not setting up goal scoring opportunity. You need both of those things at this kind of level. In order to succeed in this league, again, doesn't need to be like this, doesn't need to be, you know, we're not expecting every single to be to be the biggest and brightest where we win five games, but just enough where you are, you are positioning yourself to succeed with or without Messi. Yeah, yeah, 100%. Everyone watch Moneyball and then let me know what you think. You can write to me on Twitter at AshSilvers13. Let me know if you watch it and if you if you like it. So right now, Ashley, as it stands for the standings, we remain in 14th place. We have 33 points. And last place, the ninth spot for the last MLS playoff wildcard spot is held by Montreal, who has 38 points. They have two games left. So means that they can, yeah, no, isn't it? No, no, that's my answer to your inevitable question. So Montreal has two more games left, which would be six points if they win both, which gets them to 44 points. The max that Miami can get to with her three games left is 33 plus nine is 42. So they need Montreal to lose at least one of their games. They need New York, who also has 38 and two games to play, to also lose one. This is assuming that Miami wins out. They need D.C. United, who has 37 points and one game left that they don't. That doesn't matter because they get to 40 if Inter Miami wins out. So basically, right now, Inter Miami mathematically still has an opportunity to make the playoffs. They're dependent on Montreal losing at least one of their last two, as well as New York City losing at least one of the last two. The tough part is, obviously, we've seen how they've been playing. They're playing against Cincinnati next game, which Cincinnati is the first place team in the East. So, man, don't worry, he's back. He's coming back next game. Haven't you? Well, yeah, no, I don't. I don't have any confidence right now that Messi is playing ever again. Like, I don't have any confidence. I have three weeks. What have we all said? Don't worry, he's coming back the next game. We'll get a video of him. We'll get a video of him training for five minutes that will bring speculation up again, and then we won't see him. But so that's basically where Miami's playoff push stands, not to mention 12 players were called by their international teams that will most likely be unavailable for the Miami Charlotte game on Wednesday, October 18th. So while mathematically, there's an opportunity, realistically, it looks almost impossible. Almost impossible. So and you're not going to want to risk injury at this point. No, that's the point. That was the point that I was getting to is if there were any doubts, if Messi was going to play before, I think this should settle all doubts with it being nearly impossible to make the playoffs realistically looking at it. I don't think Messi gets is they're not going to risk Messi at all. But at the same time, is Messi going to risk himself playing for Argentina after missing all of these games? Yes, you think so? And that's in. Yeah. I mean, it's yeah. Argentina is the number one priority, and it will continue to be so. And I think at this point, though, the message given to the game, it doesn't it's not really a surprise. And you can't exactly blame him. You know, he's finally getting the international trophies. And yeah, I think it's the priority. I just yeah, it wouldn't be. I think it would be playing right. But actually, that points back to all the all the confusing information that into Miami releases because which I think that leads to all of this frustration with fans and people that want to see Messi because it's frustrating because not only do we have all of this stuff surrounding the injury, is it an injury? It's not an injury. He felt this. He didn't feel this. Oh, it's just fatigue. Oh, it's not fatigue. He actually has scar tissue or and there's never a straight answer. And now this week we hear from that the Martino that Messi that that a player going to an international team for World Cup qualifiers first depends on how he is with his club. And if he's doing well at his club, then he's going to go play for his country. If he's not doing well at the club, meaning he's injured, then there is no discussion about Messi going to play for Argentina that that literally said that he said. Are you going to believe what he has said about Messi? Yeah, no, I don't believe I don't believe anything. I'm just saying that that is what's frustrating is the the information that is given now is never consistent. And it sounds like I don't know what to believe anymore. Again, that said, basically, that Messi going to Argentina is not for discussion. It's not going to happen is what he insinuated. So if he goes to play man like that, what do you believe anymore? Which at this point we already are at that point, I think, but it's going to further make things look even worse. And look, we put out we put out a not a questionnaire or a poll. We put out a poll on our Twitter this last week or this week, actually, a couple of days ago, because we wanted to see how everybody would feel. And the question posed was, if Messi misses the next two games, meaning today and the against Cincinnati and obviously taking into consideration these past games that he's missed, but he still proceeds to go play for Argentina while missing all of these games that were very important for Inter Miami in the playoff, which would that bother you? That was the question that was polled. And over 50 percent of those who were polled, we had we had a lot of people that answered over 50 percent said it would bother them. I fall into that category. It would bother me. It would bother me very much. And I know I know a lot of people are going to comment on this, but it bothers me that you would say that we would hear all about how you're fatigued, you're injured, you're I don't know what else you stubbed your toe. You sneezed too hard and your throat hurts. I don't know. But all of this during a pivotal time for Inter Miami where they need him and to a point that you made, you made a great point, actually, where this is only the third and fourth game of a long qualifier where Argentina does not necessarily need him to win and for him to show up and play. That would bother me. What do you feel? I'll tell you, I'll say a good thing that's happened with all the the complete mishandling of the news of Messi and his injury from the club and from MLS. There was a great atmosphere at Soho Field tonight. And shout out to the people of Chicago for showing up, even though it was pretty clear Messi wasn't going to be there or play. It was a great atmosphere. And I hope it continues because that that has improved the game a lot. And the one good thing about Messi is that he's brought such great atmosphere to a lot of states. And I hope it continues. I think at this point in his career, Argentina is the clear priority by a mile, by miles and miles and miles. And while it will it will bother me, like in my heart, because we're putting all the money and time and energy and love to him and this team, he's going to go and he's going to play. It's going to reflect poorly on him, but it really the most of the blame should really be on the club and on MLS. And I actually I think you froze. I froze. Really? I think I'm good. OK, no, OK, I'm going to keep talking. So I think it's going to more so be that Inter Miami needs to make big or the MLS is going to have to make really big changes. They lost a lot of trust in hundreds of thousands of fans who have, you know, across the country and in Miami paid good, good money in. OK, so I think we lost. Yeah, not we didn't lose me. OK, so I'll keep talking, have paid their hard earned money to go see Messi or have paid for these subscriptions. And while it is not his job to just play and he shouldn't play the communication and lack thereof from both the club and the league is going to just paint a really, really bad look and you're going to see next season. I think that there's going to be there's going to have to be a lot of changes because if I now it's going to be a it's going to be a problem. But look, the kind of sum this all up. There's been huge changes that happened for Inter Miami and for MLS over the last couple of months and what Messi has brought to our team, to our city and to the league already immeasurable. And it's been fantastic and it's going to continue to be fantastic. But there's growing pains with it. And what we've seen, you know, the tactics from the personnel and from the kind of decline of this team is that they're going to have to play around with a couple of things in order to find a formula where when Messi is on the pitch, you get this high, high level performance. But when he's off the pitch, it doesn't as they're going to have to work on figuring that out in terms of their personnel. And I think they will work towards it because we got Messi, we got Busquets, we got Alba and that shows that we clearly head and shoulders above a lot of other teams and will continue to grow. And as MLS, you know, as for MLS, they're going to have to they're going to have to But we have a game on Saturday against F.C. Cincinnati. We're going to have to wait and see in terms of how the others, you know, the other results go out across the league in the Eastern Conference. We'll see who's on the injury report. Maybe we'll see Messi come back. Who knows? But thank you all so much for watching. 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