tom_bogert

i've enjoyed it, truly! super encouraging for year one

hahaha i mean you don't hire someone and immediately start thinking of how to get out of the contract so i doubt that very much

figure out how to guarantee alan pulido's health!!!

no. 6 is always super important for this team. they went down hard after losing ilie and failing to replace him. radoja has been good this year. but they need to have a plan B.

another high-level attacker this winter would be good too.

hopefully closer to being the best non-top-5 league in the world. gotta keep inching that way.

i don't see it anytime soon with $500m expansion fees and all the infrastructure investment from teams. owners would have to agree to it. don't see a world where they agree anytime soon

good character, really good interview. i genuinely believe he'll be successful in portland but, if he's not, might be tough to find a 3rd job here. but i will say portland absolutely were not the only MLS team who wanted him.

with the revs eliminated, the sporting director search will accelerate and im sure they want to wrap that up soon.

they have a good base. any team with carles gil is always gonna have a chance. but a potential attacking midfield group of borrero-gil-chancalay next year is tasty.

thanks for caring enough to ask a question!

round one has been better than i thought it would be. but im looking forward to the single-elimination games in the upcoming rounds. what i love in mls is that the better seed hosts these games rather than a pre-deetermined neutral field for the final. i hope that never ever changes.

i think the first big one was when i broke the brenden aaronson to rb salzburg transfer. i had broke news before that so people recognized my name a little as ok this is a real person, but that one was like oh wow okay this is someone to pay attention to.

how did i get that scoop? you think im gonna reveal my sources? cmon now! 😂

i try to do that as much as i can. what's the point of getting to where you want to be without gratitude? particularly when i feel tired or feel like ah man i really wish there wasn't a game on tonight that i have to watch cus i just wanna do nothing. like ... this is nuts. i am so incredibly lucky. like, people have decided to let my ugly face on apple tv! that's nuts! to steal a joke from jim jefferies, i have gone further than a man of my intellect or looks should ever have gone!

that's extremely kind. thank you so much i really appreciate it. yeah it's been fast. got lucky with the timing of MLS growing too. definitely a ton of work, i feel like i'm never actually off because of all the time i spend talking to sources and monitoring news, but that's part of the game man.

thank you again!

arena

realistic is quarterfinals at least in 2026. disappointment if not. why can't they make semis? but anything less than quarterfinals is a disappointment.

if richards progresses, that position will be fine. i see your point where there's not an elite talent to look at for that position unlike several others (LW with pulisic, ST balogun, CAM reyna, DM adams, etc)

hahaha i absolutely love london but that's not very compatible with being an MLS insider.

my lovely fiance is a small business owner near where we live so i'll be in NJ for the long-term!