Listen, I'm just gonna say it, I'll be real pissed if the Thorns fuck up a perfectly good team to try to get Mal Pugh.
Don't get me wrong. If last year had worked out, I'd have been delighted. I was as excited as the next person about the idea of snagging her.
But, now, what would we be giving up? The rumor said two federation players. So, Heath, Long, Kling, Horan, Sonnet, and maybe Sinc. Those are the potential options.
It's not going to be Heath or Sinc. If it's Long, that's a shitty fucking way to repay her for all her loyalty. She wants to finish her career in Portland, and I for one would really like to see that.
So that leaves Kling, Horan, and Sonnet. Two of the three, heading out, for Mal Pugh coming in. I think that'd fuck up the balance of our team.
Plus, they just did a bunch of team-building stuff, so fucking over the team to get your hands on a single individual player could be a real locker-room killer.
And at the end of the day, the player we'd get would really be an untested kid. I mean, over the last year, she's made her debut with the USWNT, talked about going straight pro (leading Portland to trade away stuff to get to the top of a then meaningless, previously non-existent allocation order), decided to commit to UCLA, delayed actually playing for UCLA for other soccer commitments, and decided to leave UCLA without ever playing a game to go pro after all. I don't blame her for any of that. She's 18. Being 18 is all about figuring out where you want to go and what you want to be doing. She should 100% get to do that.
But as far as my team goes, I'd rather they focus on being a great team. I know it'd be good for the NWSL to have her in the league, but, for my team I think it's better to let her go play in Europe for a while.
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