USMNT Transfer Watch - Movers and Shakers

Some people are religious.

The whole "ring before spring" means people are getting engaged/married at 21/22. Some before.

It's not uncommon to see people get married that young in that setting or context. Especially when they are already secure in their finances and profession.

 

Southern thing like with Tessmann

 

It's pretty common with athletes from everywhere. LeBron married his high school sweetheart. Steph and Ayesha met at 15/14.

Sure, religion, family, culture all matter ... but there is something to knowing that someone liked you for you.

"She likes me for me! / Not because I look like Tyson Beckford / with the charm of Robert Redford / oozing out my ears"

 

None of us know anything. It may well be that his young life has been full of pressures, some (but not all) self-imposed, amplified by personal tragedy. I infer that their method of dealing with difficulty was faith-centered rather than professional therapist centered. If so, we each will draw our own inferences from that. If his dad has been controlling or overbearing, perhaps this relationship is an attempt to carve out some independent space.

That speculation may not be right, but it is my best guess. But none of us know anything.

 

Liverpool just bought Leoni from Parma for €35m.

If they don’t use that spending money on Gio now…

 

True enough, but there's no escaping that fundamental reality, it's part of the gig, and you have to be smart enough to understand that whole males develop slower, brain deal at the very least, and also understand just how much men and women evolve and change, at bare minimum, between their late teen years and their late 20's. Before you even add in the money and whatever scale of fame may be involved, you are going to be evolving, and changing a great deal age 17, 18, 19, 20 and beyond into your later 20's, that guys like Gio and Sargent got engaged/married this young to me is just flat out insane, no matter if the woman was there since the beginning or not. It's crazy, and now its directly impacting his ability to pursue his dream, maybe.....and I didn't even include that in the discussion (and who knows if its involved). Just crazy.

I have no idea how guys like Sargent, and yeah, my guy Luna, can pull fatherhood off as 20somethings while playing a career like this? There's no way in hell you have enough time for your kid, that's for sure . All the things you inevitably miss, just brutal, and you being still a kid yourself?

It's not my place to judge obviously, but it's not difficult to realize that these decisions and choices inevitably close out paths and opportunities and make a career much more difficult too when they take place at such a young age.

 

And he's from Missouri and so that's possible, but that's the trade off they talk about in comparing abortion rates, and divorce rates the past 25 years between South/Midwest, and North and West. Divorce rates have historically/in recent decades been significantly higher in the South/Midwest, than places where you are less likely to be locked out of options/choices like that.

I know I'm off topic so I'll wrap it up here, but it's just so so so very self-defeating to me for someone who literally put everything into soccer age 5 or whatever to 20, and then to just drive off into a ditch on the side of the road w/decisions like this? Crazy to me. Sometimes it works out anyway, but those are exceptions to the rule from what I've seen/read.

 

Back when I was getting married someone said to me that people in happy marriages will just tell you, “Congratulations!” whereas people in bad marriages or who have had bad experiences will have all kinds of unsolicited advice for you. Over the years I have found that to be true.

 

Has till August 21 cause the MLS window closes before the European one.

 

Generally true but I do think in a World Cup year people definitely keep that in mind when thinking through moves. Playing in a World Cup is a big deal and guys tend to want to not do something to miss out on that.

 

Interesting point.

 

Gio coming home, Gio coming home
Tell the world Gio coming home

 

St Louis never seemed very southern to me. Maybe that's because the people I worked with there were imports.

Cross the border into Tennessee or Arkansas and it's a different world.

In saying that I had a direct report who moved there from a nice Chicago suburb. He met with a real estate agent who told him where his family could live.

He left the company soon after.

 

I don’t know about St Louis specifically but parts of Missouri are very southern (though other parts are more midwestern in feel).

 

The mindset can be found anywhere. Just because it's more statistically likely in some areas over others isn't really germane to the conversation.

 

Dortmund treats Gio with so much disrespect (after not necessarily treating Pulisic well). I'd quiet quit on them, too.

 

Breaking: Gio Reyna is in Parma as deal is nearing a close between Dortmund and Parma Calcio. pic.twitter.com/zjzUTwYkJl

— MLS Transfers (@MLSTransfers) August 13, 2025

Breaking: Gio Reyna is in Parma as deal is nearing a close between Dortmund and Parma Calcio.

 

dude needs to start at Parma and do well at Parma to book his 2026 ticket. spot substitutions arent going to do it. He needs to be a critical node for this team if this gets sealed.

 

Messi as well.

 

Hell yea Gio. Stunt on these hoes. So many haters and losers have dunked on him for years.

 

For young married guys like Gio, Luna, or Sargent, you played the games and you trained, then you go home with wife or even with kids. Pretty healthy life.
For single guys, you chased the girls and got drunk in the bars and light clubs, and your coach kicks you out of the lineup.

 

The Liverpool check hit the account.

 

Gio Reyna touted for Rangers transfer as Borussia Dortmund star told Ibrox switch can fuel World Cup dreamhttps://t.co/5G4b5w0Ekh pic.twitter.com/ZEtPg4uTQ4

— Daily Record Sport (@Record_Sport) August 12, 2025

I don’t think I saw anybody post this. Gio to Rangers rumor.

 

Not saying it won't happen, but that account makes a lot of stuff up