The GREATEST USMNT Abroad Season of All Time! | USMNT Abroad Player RATINGS 

Chris Richards should be a 9\10 minimum. I wrote him off and he proved me wrong by becoming a starter at a mid table premier league side.

Best 3 players this season: 1. Pulisic 2. Mckennie 3. Robinson Worst 3 players this season: 1. Reyna 2. Turner 3. Balogun

"If we just covered the Mexicans abroad, it would've taken us like 3 minutes" 😂 Yo as a Mexican, fair play.

I want Timothy Weah to stay in Serie A & play for a team like idk Fiorentina or something similar, I think Italy is perfect for him but definitely needs to play consistently as a winger and be done with that wingback role

A little harsh for Ream. He's doing great for his age; he's just nearing the end of his career. I think a 4 is fair. Also, I think Jedi is chronically underrated. He's not only a solid EPL starter at his position, but by the metrics, is a top EPL player for his position which is less than can be said for the rest of our squad. He doesn't rack up the goal-contribution numbers like our forwards/midfielders, but if you look at the numbers for his position, he is excelling. I give him an 8.5-9 for the season. He could potentially be sold to one of the big 6. I'd hate to see that happen, but he's that good. No player other than Pulisic has their position in our squad locked down like Jedi. He will end up being one of our all-time most capped players. I absolutely love that he chose to play for us; he's a giant on our team.

Nah the Tillman news is crazy 😭

I think Musah deserves at least a 6 out of 10. He honestly exceeded my expectations in terms of playing time. I thought that he would struggle to get any time at all given his competition at Milan. He was also asked to play several different positions that didn’t really suit his skill base, but he performed admirably. He had a decent season for a 21 year old.

MOLTO OBRIGADO! Thanx Tac for this year of insight comment and analysis. For an US ex-pat living in Poland for the last decade plus , You have kept me linked up the info I need to be up to date with the Yanks playing in my time zone! CHEERS! ⚽⚽⚽🏆🥇

The stats on Turner are interesting, and I think expose some further mismanagement at Forest: Turner - 17 Apps, 84 Shots Against (4.94 SA per game), 28 Goals Against (1.65 GA per game), 66.7% Save Percentage Sels - 16 Apps, 63 Shots Against (3.94 SA per game), 25 Goals Against (1.56 GA per game), 60.3% Save Percentage Vlachodimos - 5 Apps, 22 Shots Against (4.40 SA per game), 12 Goals Against 2.40 GA per game), 45.5% Save Percentage I really think this shows that Turner was the better GK among all 3, and even under circumstances where he was facing more shots against per game. Given their Save Percentage differences, If Turner would have faced the same SA per game as Sels, his GA per game would have been 1.43 versus Sels' 1.54 GA). Maybe you could argue that Sels was offering something else such as defensive communication/organization that helped Forest limit shots against versus when Turner was in, but I think that would be a stretch to argue. It's more likely that the performance from the field players improved during the second half of the season versus when Turner was initially the starter.

Hey Tac, and Dustin, just want to say thank you for your work and dedication doing the weekend re-caps this season. Started following the channel since dang near the beginning, and appreciate what yall do!

I am very excited abt Johnny and Malik Tilliman, really hoping both of them continue to improve and play at higher levels

UPDATE: Since writing this, Pulisic has won his first player of the season award from Opta as one of Serie A's best XI (picked as the best right wing in the league). That was the requirement I set to give him a 9 on the season, and I've updated accordingly. UPDATE #2: Since writing this, Busio and Tessman have led Venezia back to the top flight. As I indicated, this means I rate the a '9' on the season, tying them with Pulisic and Hurzeler for the best performances by Americans. We ended up finishing 20th among nations of the world in terms of minutes earned in the big 5 of Europe. That compares with 18th in the 2006/2007 season. However, back then the European leagues were less diverse, so the 20th place finish was actually more minutes than the 06/07 season. So yes, this was the greatest USMNT abroad season of all time and finally, after all the years of hype, the players are finally starting to live up to some of the early promise and doing the things that we need US players to do in Europe if we are going to take it up to the next level. The thing I'm really looking for is whether Venezia wins promotion back to Serie A. The reason that's so important is that Tessman and Busio have actually blossomed into real leaders and stars on that team and bringing a team to promotion back to a top 5 league would be one of the biggest accomplishments by American players in a very long time. If they play into the Serie A, they earn 9's on the season. Otherwise, give them a 6. Turner: 2 Reyna: 1 Richards: 7 Trusty: 3 Jedi: 8 (He's playing his way into consideration as one of the best FB's in the EPL.) Ream: 4 Adams: 4 Pulisic: 9 (I'd go to 9 if he wins a player of the year award.) Musah: 4 McKinney: 6 Weah: 5 B. Aaronson: 3 Brooks: 1 Matarazzo: 8 Scally: 5 Pefok: 3 Paredes: 5 Maloney: 8 Hürzeler: 9 (Breakout coach of the year, possibly not just for the USA, but in Europe.) LDT: 3 Cardosa: 8 (Breakout USMNT player of the year.) Balogun: 5 Dest: 6 Tillman: 7 (Great year, but lower league) Pepi: 3 Booth: 3 P. Aaronson: 5 Sargent: 7 (This would be a 9 but he's starting to earn injury prone as a label.) Wright: 8 (Sargent is maybe the better player, but Wright has a better year.) Dike: 1 Horvath: 2 CCV: 4 Busio: 9 Tessman: 9

The only upside for Gio is that he has had a looong time to recover from injury and strengthen himself. I hope that next year he can find somewhere to actually play and improve his game.

Thanks!

16:00 “Ben Macklemore, the rapper” incredible

Balogun needs score 20+ goals next season

THumbs up for the Cosmos jersey. Was just at the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame a week or so ago and the NY Cosmos stuff they had was the best part!

Haji wright should of had at least a 9 he made himself relevant this season and also turned himself into a usmnt roster lock

Solid report sir 🫡

Hey Tac been watching for a few years and really enjoyed your channel. It might be cool to look back through your usmnt abroad series and track the player ratings in a spreadsheet week to week. Could give some stats that show player performance progression or if a player is truly struggling against big teams.

--> Thanks for a great season, Tac. BUT, let's also give a huuuge shout-out to Dustin, who keeps TMTV flowing smoothly. --> I get what you're saying about CCV. I'd have given him a 7.5/10. He's probably Celtic's most important player, and I want him to stay. But, if Celtic don't advance in the new Champions League format, I wouldn't be surprised to see him leave at the winter break.

Great video Tac!!! ⚽️🇺🇸🙂👍🏼

Thanks, Filippo!

Sounds like Palace is shopping for a CB, hopefully just to supplement a 3 in the back and not to get someone in front of Chris.

Tillman got that DAWG in him 😆

pepi needs to play full 90 min next season

24 seconds and no views? Tac fell off

Matt turner should play in the Scottish league or Dutch

The ratings are in dire need of a convergence between ratings from aesthetics (seemingly your lone method) of individual performance and statistical analysis of individual performance. As a result, some of the ratings were far too cut-and-dry due to lack of nuance. Put this way, the modern GOAT debate between Messi and Ronaldo is settled when putting both into perspective in that it's close when considering the latter but it gets put-away (by Messi) when taking both methods into consideration. Just my $.02 on this matter. By the way, I respect you and your channel immensely. I played the game later in life and took it seriously even later, so I consider this channel as one of but a few of my continued education on it. I also happen to be a research nerd (professional of a few years in different facets), so that's my contribution to the channel as an observer/fan.

Reyna is expected to be this great player and I’ve not seen this any time he’s been on the field. He may need to join the American contingent at PSV or elsewhere in the Netherlands to get to show he’s the star talent so many American pundits seem to think he is. Turner has time to turn things around. Hopefully he can get back in the net for Forest over the summer or early in the preseason. A good showing in the Copa America will be a huge step in the right direction. McKinney was a major disappointment in 23 with Leeds, especially coming from a Leeds fan who hoped he was going to make a major impact. He turned it around this year and hopefully will continue to play at the top tier. Brenden Aronson was almost worse this year. He was a disappointment at Leeds and this season at Union Berlin was almost a bigger disappointment. As much as he should probably expect to be sold in the summer, Leeds needs him to play up if he wants to make himself valuable to anyone outside of MLS going forward.

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I love You so much Dear Filippo I hope USA and Brazil can play in final in COPA America.🥰😍🤗🙏

Tim Ream is a 10 he’s 36 and still held his own when he was on the field gonna miss him for the usmnt soon 😢

For the CBs in the EPL, I agree with your ratings 100%, but do have a couple comments: On Ream, I could see him trying to stay in Europe through 2026 to help his odds of a WC 2026 spot. I think the odds are against him at his age, but maybe he could move back to a Championship level team that would be expected to perform near the top of that table. On Trusty, I think it's extremely hard to rate him based on Sheffield's performances. Anyone who has played as a defender on a very bad team knows this pain. When your midfield is entirely outmatched every single game, it's almost impossible to both generate possession and scoring chances, as well as contain the onslaught from the opponent. I'd venture to say you could take an average EPL CB and just swap that person with either of Sheffield's normal CB starters, and they'd probably give up right around the same number of goals. Similarly, you could put a guy like Haaland on the team as their striker and I bet he wouldn't eclipse 12 goals (they had joint top scorers this year, both at 6 goals) because he'd have almost no service coming from his teammates.

Pulisic and Jedi both had 10/10 seasons bro 🤦‍♂️

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Pepi is an D, he got no minutes but he did well when he did play so that’s why it’s not an F

Karma bites for Giovani Reyna.

tillman did great by heading to psv

Your Weah, Musah and Pepi ratings are pretty generous imo

rip usmnt abroad series

I wonder if Antonee will get a move from Fulham. Fulham will be happy to keep him but some team might come knocking with an offer too lucrative to refuse

I'm not holding Turner getting benched against him. Seems to me that NF's just wanted to blame the keepers for everything going wrong in front of them (hence why they started the season with one too many keepers, and why they added to that in January), and you'd need an ELITE keeper to save that team from itself. Turner definitely showed his limitations in handling the ball (he's no sweeper keeper, to be sure), but he would've had to be Pickford Keeping Everton From Being Relegated to get a different result.

Looking forward to Gio finding a good club to thrive in. Far too many people are writing him off.

so question, what is the average pay for these American players overseas?..

Balogun surprised me. Not sure how he goes to a better situation and gets 10x worse. Hopefully it's just a one season thing

Yes, because US and Brazilian food has conquered the world lol

Will you be doing a euros prediction?

I don’t think he fell off it’s a new channel since his channel got deleted

Reyna should play in betis or benfica

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Tac for Mayor of Flavortown!

what would you give sabbi?

We need more wingers

A+ for Johnny Cardoso playing for Real Betis as a defensive midfielder, but Christian Pulisic playing better for a better team in AC Milan gets an A? So biased.

How many Americans do you think would excel in the SPL? Cameron Carter Vickers was injured for a good portion of the season. He actually wore the armband in the absence of Callum Mac. I’d bet the farm you never watched a single Celtic match this season yet have these strong opinions about the level of the SPL. There aren’t many Americans that would get into the Celtic team. Cameron has done very well at Celtic.

Musah has been disappointing. It seems like he could be much better. Its frustrating. Hope next year he can do better.

Gio Reyna D+

Gio 1.5 but adams 1

anyone? saurez or cryuff?

Assume it's fake...more like assume the affair happened.

Goalies had terrible seasons. Hopefully Patrick Schulte moves over to a European team next season and can take a starting job.

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Ben Maclemore is a Nba player. Lol, a black guy at that

glad you mentioned how Puli didnt' preform well against tougher opposition and in must win games. Puli fans never say anything bad about him but hype him up scoring against minnows.

U.S getting grouped in the Copa America

awful takes

The Mexico diss never ends 😂 , they naive done some dirty to you lol

Musah didn’t look good..maybe 3,5 or 4

Thanks for the vid

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Feel like we have a lot of players that could be better but never the less glad USMNT is growing in talent and thank you so much filipo for all the time you took for these videos and hope we can grow from here although CONCACAF doesn’t help the growth. You #1🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼