Matt Miazga

They fully had this game and this type of game with the guy they cut to.

So like there is functionally no difference between what we are watching here and what we watched with this team at the start of the year, which is part of the point, you know, said this before is it's like you get rid of matt miazga what are you gonna do fall out of last place in terms of having one of the worst defenses in mls like i think they might have the worst goals against defense and mls they fully had that with him on the team too it doesn't matter this is a bad defense this is a badly coached defensive squad and there is every combination of players that they could play on this back line is with or without Matt Miasga is completely capable of producing this result.

They are all interchangeable parts.

You just you can just go back.

Nashville beat us, beat us for nothing.

So I think, you know, you're you're right in the sense that like.

You know, Matt Miazga starting.

Probably doesn't have a big

Like can we come up with something a little bit better than that? Like that was just really – I appreciate Sonny and Leo and all those guys participating in that commercial.

And for some reason, I think Matt Miazga is in that commercial and he no longer plays for Cincinnati, which is also really funny.

But for real, like just don't be so weird, MLS.

Yeah.

No, we got to talk about this.

We got to talk about Matt Miazga.

The reporting via Laurel Thaler.

Confirmed by Tom Bogert.

And then kind of sort of confirmed by one Matt Miazga himself, FC Cincinnati, after, of course, after we finished recording on decision day, appears set, and I'm going to try to phrase this correctly, to relieve Matt Miazga of his FC Cincinnati duties.

Now, my assumption is that this is, for all intents and purposes, a buyout.

According to Laurel Thaler, both in her written reporting and on her podcast, said that Matt Miazga was informed of this decision a few hours before the decision day deadline.

which as I understand it is well within the team's rights to do.

Yeah, I agree.

I think the funny post to me was like, this is Miazga's last revenge, you know, just for being left off the team or, you know, whatever.

We'll talk about it here in a bit.

But yeah, I thought that was interesting because we get to the match and the storm hits, you know, right as everyone's walking in.

But we were wondering about outbound moves, Sam.

Obviously, timeline-wise and what happened last week, you have the Chris Albright presser.

The exact next day, Friday, Matt Miazga, per Laurel Farreller, is departing FC Cincinnati.

Very crazy here.

We saw big things out of our 17-year-old center back.

We were hoping to see him start in place of Matt Miazga.

The drama is going to unfold pretty soon in terms of his departure.

Fahler here in town has already mentioned that he's had his departure interviews and says goodbyes to the team.

They'd been able to go in and they knew how to take down players, teams.

I think sometimes, and I think this year is sort of like, it's odd, they just don't have the defensive mentality that they've had in the past.

I don't want to say that that's, you know, Matt Miazga being present or not, because there have been games where they've won on the road without Miazga.

But I think that there has always been this sort of missing link over on the left.