Claire Hutton
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Sep 11, 2026
Sam MewisHOST
Sure, there are gonna be some players who need less coaching, who know what they wanna do, and they are good at their thing, and they're gonna keep doing that, but there are young players.
Sam MewisHOST
Like, why did Claire Hutton, who was 18 years old at the time, move to Kansas City and play for him? He's such a good teacher.
Sam MewisHOST
There was...
Sam MewisHOST
Then there's also players in the middle of their careers, like we were, who know some things and know some things that they're good at, but need to... need those little details to be, like, tuned up and then need to be reinforced.
Tamerra GriffinHOST
I'm a Bay Area native, um, and it seems like there has been, in different ways, this sort of wave of English influence, beginning of course with Emma Coates, but also Kate Cosington, um, and some of your teammates also coming over from England.
Tamerra GriffinHOST
But I also have spoken with, um, Claire Hutton.
Tamerra GriffinHOST
Certainly Kennedy, Kennedy Fuller has been a guest on the show, and they've both talked about how much of a soccer nerd Emma Coates is.
Tamerra GriffinHOST
Um, I'm wondering if you have sort of experienced her soccer nerdiness, um, whether it comes to data and analysis or if that's something that you're into.
Grant EngleHOST
I think it's the trajectory of how football teams get better when you have a bunch of young players and you're kind of building around said young players like Kennedy Fuller, who, you know, you and I are super high on.
Grant EngleHOST
I think most people who watch the league are super high on Claire Hutton and kind of them kind of getting their chemistry and, and working together.
Grant EngleHOST
So you have the classic sports conundrum of how happy can I be when my team is a year away from being contenders? Or could you be in that other really fun spot, which I really love about some sports teams, like when you think about the journey of rooting for teams, are you a year away from being a year away? And then you just kind of be like, OK, these are young players and they're going to be really good.
Grant EngleHOST
And you look at Seattle Rain, you talked about that 2024 loss.
Evan DavisHOST
Unambiguously a great signing, but Chris and Angie Long clearly wanted that to happen.
Evan DavisHOST
And the only way for it to happen was to ship Claire Hutton to Bay FC to make financial room.
Evan DavisHOST
I did not get the impression at the time, especially when Vlako Inonovsky talked about it, that that was something that he would have done.
Evan DavisHOST
And I'm not sure that it's something that Ryan Dell would have done.
Jen BeattieHOST
I think it's always so telling.
Jen BeattieHOST
When players come out, and this is Kayla Sharples here, Claire Hutton, multiple amazing messages, pictures included.
Jen BeattieHOST
How many teams have you even played in where you celebrate with your coach? I'll be honest, I haven't done that many times.
Jen BeattieHOST
And it's something that when you do see, you're like, wow, there must have been something big that happened.
Kristian GummingerHOST
It's like, what control did he have? We know he wasn't a part of the coaching hire of Chris Armas.
Kristian GummingerHOST
We know that if he was building the roster out, he would have held on to Claire Hutton because that was the spine of the team with a – you know, someone who is really, really strong and powerful and like in that area, they haven't replaced that position.
Kristian GummingerHOST
So what, what part of it wasn't the right fit? And it just seems like we keep going back to the current, having this power struggle of who's making the calls, who's building the roster.
Kristian GummingerHOST
What are we building the roster for? And what do we do? Because who's in charge of roster construction? Is it the general manager? Is it, the coaching staff? Is it the sporting director? Is it ownership? We don't know.
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Coleman ChildersHOST
I know it makes me just wonder what the like leadership style is of the folks making these final decisions.
Coleman ChildersHOST
The ones, you know, on the other side of that mutual resignation or whatever the verbiage was that they used.
Coleman ChildersHOST
Like, what is it a butting of heads between Vlatko's vision and And what he is allowed to do is it does he feel like his hands are tied between doing what he thinks is his vision, what how he would execute something, how he can see something and rebuild a team and get players like Claire Hutton and like build them up to be core members of the team versus what he was maybe being told to put into games in certain amount of situations.
Coleman ChildersHOST
or in front of certain visitors at the stadium to put on a show.
Thad BellHOST
But they were giving her credit for bringing in Timwa.
Thad BellHOST
No, Vako went and met with... them in europe to to get her to come to the current they're not the ones that picked out claire hutton you know the one of the brightest young players in u.s soccer uh you know yes michelle cooper was there before dabini was there before but they also had great turnarounds or michelle cooper became a u.s national team regular under him
Daniel SperryHOST
yeah there i think there's a there's a lot of yeah Even to look at the acquisitions of Alana Cook and Kayla Sharples.
Daniel SperryHOST
I remember having a conversation about the defensive woes with him.
Carrie RobinsonHOST
She still came because she wanted to.
Carrie RobinsonHOST
And I think even on her Instagram post, she said, I came to Kansas City because I still want to play under you.
Carrie RobinsonHOST
Same thing with Sharples, same thing with Claire Hutton saying, I picked Kansas City because of you.
Thad BellHOST
Yeah.
Angela MoralesHOST
Basically that his vision wasn't what the team wanted and I'm like, isn't that his role? To be the decisio-...
Angela MoralesHOST
But if you go back to the Ally Zentner trade, the Claire Hutton trade, he was not exactly advised in that or part of that decision-making.
Mario SalazarHOST
Yeah.
Angela MoralesHOST
And that's weird.
Jordan AngeliHOST
You mentioned the players outpouring.
Jordan AngeliHOST
Claire Hutton said, Vlaco, you deserve all the flowers.
Jordan AngeliHOST
For Michelle Cooper, she basically listed every single accolade that he helped them set.
Jordan AngeliHOST
And for Lo Labonta, she said, you set a standard for staff and players.
Dan LaulettaHOST
I thought that was an over, whether it was his overreaction or their overreaction, but I thought it was an overreaction to possibly, you can make an argument that's the most crushing single game loss in league history.
Michael MinnichHOST
Well, and I think the Vlatko part of it, and you know, if they make a semifinal or a championship game, are they trading Claire Hutton? Are they trading for Corey Bethune? Are they making all these changes kind of the way that this team set up? I don't I don't think so.
Michael MinnichHOST
So I think they kind of said, well, we've you know, we've won our little, you know, summer tournaments and we've won a summer cup and we've won a shield and something's wrong because we're not winning a championship.
Michael MinnichHOST
And we're going to we're going to hurry this process, make a radical move and see if that fixes things for next year.
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