Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast · FOX Sports

🇺🇸 USMNT Roster Stock Watch: Gio Reyna, Matt Turner, Brenden Aaronson & More

October 30, 2025·58 min·5 clips

Alexi Lalas reveals why Haji Wright's recent performance might be the perfect version of the striker the USMNT needs.

October 29th sets the table. The show starts in full red, white, and blue mode, then gets into a crowded U.S. men's national team stock watch. Haji Wright gets talked up as maybe the best version of what he is. Jedi is judged against his own high bar, which makes even a small concern feel louder. Johnny lands in a softer spot: useful, but not essential. Christian Roldan gets a bump for a different reason. The hosts are not selling him as pure talent alone. They see the scrappy, versatile MLS midfielder role, and he fits that lane. Yunus Musa takes the clearest hit. Mossie brings up the Atalanta move, the lack of Serie A starts, about 60 league minutes, and the rough Champions League start against PSG. That is not the kind of club story that helps a national-team case. The move gets treated as bad timing, the sort of stumble that can push a player off the radar right when the roster picture is tightening. Gio becomes the comparison. The hosts want the same kind of plain explanation around Musa that Gio gave through the AP, because both club and country situations now feel tangled. Sean Sullivan's segue gets cut off, and Sebastian Berhalter enters as a wild-card stock-down name after where he seemed to stand during the summer. Diego Luna comes up in that same neighborhood. The soccer talk keeps bumping into the show's regular side traffic: MLS responsibility, the rebrand, John Candy, McKennie's new coach, MLS playoffs, Halloween movies, and a teased book review. The close stays loose, with thanks to listeners, the YouTube, Spotify, and Apple pushes, and the standard size-the-day signoff.

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A brisk USMNT check-in that turns club form and roster noise into next-summer questions.

This USMNT stock watch keeps club form tied to national-team relevance instead of treating the pool like a fixed depth chart. Its sharpest stretch is the direct back-and-forth on who is rising, who is slipping, and how to read moves that have not gone cleanly.

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A blunt USMNT stock check with a few side quests.

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