Puty's World Cup Podcast

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy ROUND THE WORLD: What did we learn from USMNT's 1-1 draw with Ecuador and 2-1 win over Australia? Whose stock is up/down? Grade for Poch? Do we have a striker controversy brewing? HALFTIME: Mikey's incredible promo suddenly goes off the rails and Tyler has thots on "halftime" occurring more than halfway through the program PREMIER LEAGUE: what games are must-watch this weekend f/t a hot take prediction about how Liverpool vs United is about to go down STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: What we learned from Chelsea's win over suddenly-luckless Liverpool and what Arne Slot needs to do to get the train back on the tracks. Thomas Frank is just what Doctor Tottenham needed. Never mind Christmas, Ange may not make it to Halloween. Drama-free United?!? HALFTIME: Hot Topic - what we can and should take issue with most about FIFA's World Cup 2026 ticket sales strategy, which (hint) isn't necessarily the astronomically high prices ROUND THE WORLD: MLS Hit-It-N-Quit-It MLS Minute plus thots on Poch's "most serious" USMNT roster yet for this month's friendlies vs Ecuador and Australia STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: Late goals for Palace (vs Liverpool) and Arsenal (vs Newcastle) reshape title race. Sam angers the Tweedles and chat with a hot take on Arsenal and Liverpool. Legit-O-Meter: Palace, Bournemouth and Sunderland. The freak injury that may have just saved Aston Villa's season. HALFTIME: FIFA's Gianni Infantino is up to his old tricks again teasing a 64-team World Cup 2030 despite the fact we have yet to see of/how an expanded 48-team tournament is going to work ROUND THE WORLD: must-watch games in Champions League this week plus a special Hit-It-N-Quit-It MLS Moment (shorter and less pleasurable than our usual MLS Minute) STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: people are saying Pep tacitly admitted City don't got the juice this year with his approach to Arsenal match. Amorin receives a red-carded aided stay of execution. Unai Emery may not be so lucky. Another tough matchup (in an underwhelming weekend) coming up for Arteta's lads on Sunday. HALFTIME: Mykhailo Mudryk-related Weekly What If ROUND THE WORLD: Thoughts on Ballon d'Or jumping the shark and MLS Hit-It-N-Quit-it Minute STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: Manchester Daerby postmortem, is Liverpool good or nah, Ange's first test at Forest does not go well, which club is mashing the "Panic" button hardest, what 4 managers may be gone by Christmas, Arsenal/City and Merseyside previews plus why this weekend's Chelsea game may be do-or-die for Ruben Amorim HALFTIME: MLS Cup 2025 pop quiz ROUND THE WORLD: MLS Hit-It-N-Quit-it Minute and what Champions League games are must-watch this week STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: grading Daniel Levy's performance at Tottenham; Ange replaces Nuno after the latter fell out with Forest owner Marinakis and weekend preview f/t Manchester Daerby (with bonus LOCK prediction on the result) HALFTIME: World Cup 2026 pop quiz ROUND THE WORLD: News and notes from World Cup qualifying in Europe, South America and Africa STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs    

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy USMNT: Instant reaction to "big" win over Japan (B), thoughts on the shambolic 0-2 loss to Good Korea, and where the program goes from here (starting with what to watch for from next month's far-more-important international window with games vs Ecuador and Australia)

PREMIER LEAGUE: Szoboszlai's worldie flips narrative on Arsenal's performance and forces Arteta to admit Anfield owns beachfront property in his brain; Dan Rapaport hops back on to discuss United's Grimsby Town debacle; Bournemouth out-Franks Thomas Frank and Jack Grealish is the best PL storyline going HALFTIME: What If you could pick which club newly-unemployed Dear Leader Jozay goes to next - where you choosing? ROUND THE WORLD: reaction to Pochettino's USMNT roster for this week's Good Korea/Japan friendlies and his decision not to call in so many first choice players plus MLS hit-it-n-quit-it minute STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: instant reaction to Newcastle/Liverpool's game of the season candidate. Thomas Frank walks Pep's dog (again). Dan Rapoport frustrated by same old problems coming back to bite United. Burnley and Brentford bounce back. United, Villa and Brighton on Panic Button watch. Preview of Sunday's massive Liverpool vs Arsenal battle. HALFTIME ROUND THE WORLD: MLS hit-it-n-quit-it minute; Leagues Cup nightmare and Gio Reyna finally gets his move STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community, including discord chat, tactical blogs and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: better result for Arsenal but better performance from United at Old Trafford. Is Liverpool offense good enough to compensate for their defense? Chelsea look leggy. Sunderland and Leeds get started with a bang. HALFTIME: What If you got to choose a walkout song? ROUND THE WORLD: Leagues Cup quarterfinals preview STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

PREMIER LEAGUE: Who is finishing top 4 and in what order? Which non-Big 6 club could grab a Champions League spot? Will any newly-promoteds survive? Golden Boot and POTY winners? First manager sacked? HALFTIME: pop quiz on players with most goals +from assists in Europe's top five leagues ROUND THE WORLD: MLS hit-it-n-quit-it minute STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

ROUND THE WORLD: honest assessment of the new version of Leagues Cup; thoughts on Heung-Min Son to LAFC and Matt Turner to NE Revs HALFTIME: What If you played on Inter Miami, how many goals would you score simply being fed by Leo Messi? TRANSFER TALK: Tottenham may have taken the lead over Newcastle in battle for league's worst summer plus which Big 7 suitor Ben Sesko should choose this window STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

PREMIER LEAGUE: are Tottenham or Newcastle having a worse summer; the one position Manchester United need to upgrade most; Xhaka to Sunderland; updated transfer grade for Arsenal (post-Gyokeres) and way-too-early predictions for 2025/26 PL Handicap Champs HALFTIME: Tyler Terens-related Weekly What If ROUND THE WORLD: thoughts on preseason North London Daerby in... Hong Kong plus MLS hit-it-n-quit-it minute STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

PREMIER LEAGUE: *preliminary* winners and losers of the 2025 summer transfer window plus best and worst individual deals thus far, and whether Liverpool is bowing to pressure to become a big spender (like City or Chelsea) HALFTIME: What If you were a player on a Big 6 club, where would you want to go on summer tour? ROUND THE WORLD: which USMNT transfers do we like and dislike, notably those involving Matt Turner and Gio Reyna, along with the MLS hit-it-n-quit-it minute STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

CLUB WORLD CUP: what Chelsea's shocking win in the CWC final says about their title chances, making sense of PSG's ridiculous reaction to losing and  the trophy lift heard round the world featuring Cole Palmer vs Donald Trump HALFTIME: What If you could choose where Gio Reyna goes when he leaves Dortmund this summer... where's he landing (and impact on his chance of making WC26)? ROUND THE WORLD: transfer talk f/t "Not My Tottenham Hotspur" (in a good way) plus Liverpool and Newcastle tet-a-tet over Isak and Ekitike STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

USMNT: Takeaways from the 1-2 "home" loss to Mexico in the Gold Cup final, and thoughts on the team and Poch's performance at the tournament more generally. Who is pushing for starting roles at WC26? Who helped their case to make the roster? Who did not? And where the team goes from here (starting with September friendlies). STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

Rapid reaction to the USMNT's (unnecessarily?) hard fought 2-1 win over Guatemala in front of a hostile crowd in... St Louis?!?!?! Diego Luna and Malik Tillman continue to make a case for punching their tickets to World Cup 2026, and not just to round out the roster. Also, chatter about Pochettino having no choice in how to handle the Pulisic situation.

USMNT: Rapid reaction to nervy win on penalties over Costa Rica in the Gold Cup quarterfinal. Some individual shoutouts, thoughts on Max Arfsten's highly "eventful" performance and a preview of what to expect from Guatemala. STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

INTERVIEW: San Diego FC's 4-goal hero Milan Iloski chatted with teammate/roommate Tommy McGunner and Sam in 2023 about his path to Orange County, his cooking "skills", some truly impressive pranks and big plans for the future in Denmark (now MLS)

USMNT: what we have learned about this team and individual players so far this tournament plus what to expect from Costa Rica and (unbiased) predictions GOLD CUP: the pluses and minuses of Jesse Marsch proactively painting himself as the bad boy of CONCACAF as well as whether Saudi Arabia give Mexico problems in other quarterfinal ROUND THE WORLD: thoughts on the Club World Cup so far, games to watch from the last matchday of group stage games and power rankings of both teams and fanbases STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets (#OverTrain is NOT cooking) and GOAWs