Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros of The Cooligans react to the American’s performance in the UEFA Champions League knockout round and if it is time to leave Serie A and return to a higher level club. Check out the full conversation on the “The Cooligans” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.
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Video Transcript
Yo, Weston McKennie might be the most disrespected American in all of Europe He was one of the only players actually balling out for Juve in Champions League, and yet they still found a way to fail around him Come on, US men’s national team fans, be honest.
How many times have you seen Wes absolutely cooking and you thought to yourself, “Yo, this might not be the best place for Wes.
Maybe he should leave.
Maybe Juventus doesn’t deserve him.”
Weston McKennie, he might be their best player right now It’s not- At the very least, at le- the most clutch It is not I, I, I, I’m kinda fine with the first statement Well, okay.
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Thuram, Khephren Thuram, and Yildiz are players that I feel like have a higher ceiling.
McKennie’s 27 already.
This is his peak.
But this is He’s clearly someone you can depend on He played in the fir- look, they ended up losing to Galatasaray, which they shouldn’t have.
I, you know, they w- I, I- They had a red card I think they were be- the better team.
The red card in the first game, the, so much Red card in the second game Second game, yeah There was so, so much against them, but the fact that they were able to t- tie the game with down a man s- says a lot.
But what, who tied that game?
Right, Weston Weston McKennie.
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Weston McKennie played false nine in the first leg, left back in the second leg Yeah, I mean, really anywhere Why?
In fact, look at this stat, which is crazy.
Thank you, Opta.
It changes the name for every country.
Mm-hmm And then one with Opta Paolo for the Italians Weston McKennie is the third Juventus midfielder to score at least 10 goals in Champions League/European Cup.
Weston McKennie is the type of Like, that proves it Yeah This is the level of player you would hope to have on an AC Milan, you would hope to have on, Atalanta, you would hope to have on, you know, Inter.
Like, this is huge.
Napoli.
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Like, these, these are, this is a top-level player.
W- I’m not gonna sit here and say he’s elite.
I’m not gonna sit here and say he’s one of the best players in Europe, but he’s very clearly in that level of a player that any team would need to have.
And that’s why I wanna go back to w- there’s all these rumors that are very kind of substantiated about linking him with MLS.
I do think he should leave Juventus, but not for MLS.
I think he deserves to go to an even higher level, and I know Juve dinos are like, “Well, it’s a higher level than Juventus.”
I think we can see him back in the Premier League
