USMNT players with most to gain after transfers: Make or break season for Gio Reyna, Matt Turner

For the many members of the broad player pool of the American gentlemen, in the coming months offer the opportunity to make a mandatory matter to be appointed as the World Cup selection of 2026, the basis of their arguments based on their play at club level. This summer it made all the more important for different players who are stuck in imperfect club situations, some of whom desperately needed a move and eventually got before the transfer window closed.

The group of players who have come to new teams this summer can in principle be placed in three categories – those who have earned an upgrade with the hope to challenge a starting place at the World Cup, the supporting pillars looking for playing time and the players on the CUSP with a point to prove. None of these players participates in the friendly matches of the USMNT against South Korea and JapanWith head coach Mauricio Pochettino who uses the matches as a last chance to expand the player pool, although it re -confirms that club form is the access point for the national team with a world cup on a home floor in less than a year.

How well suited they will be in their new environment is in the air, some movements are more clearly checking to check the required boxes than others. However, everyone offers the opportunity for these players to show their true potential – and not to miss a world cup place about the technical way of a lack of matchfitness.

Here is a look at the USMNT players with the most to win after their summer movements.

Malik Tillman, Bayer Leverkusen

After years of driving on the bank of the USMNT, Malik Tillman seamlessly threw the line-up during the Concacaf Gold Cup and proved itself a compelling option in a new-look midfield, with three goals and three assists in eight games in the summer. In accordance, he earned himself a switch from PSV to Bayer Leverkusen, the German club that held him as their replacement Florian Wirtz. He may be incredible shoes to fill, but with the most key figures from the historic 2023-24 season of Leverkusen now elsewhere, the pressure on Tillman will be different. He still has to make his debut for the team while fighting a calf injury, but on his return to fitness a new-look Leverkusen can be a perfect platform for his evolution after a promising summer.

Gio Reyna, Borussia Monchengladbach

The rise of Tillman is almost at the expense of Gio Reyna’s Standing with the USMNT, the player who looks at someone on the outside from an almost lock at the World Cup, looks in a few short months. The main reason for his slide in the ranks is his club situation – since his professional debut in 2020 for Borussia DortmundReyna has only made double digits once in a season, which stagnates his growth. His injury history did not help, but at the age of 22 the full potential of Reyna is still unknown, but he has the chance to change that after he came to Borussia Monchengladbach this summer. The effort is probably as clear to him as this is undoubtedly a make-or-break campaign for the midfielder, who now has real competition to play a role on the USMNT with Tillman and Diego Luna in the photo.

Johnny Cardoso” Atletico Madrid

Johnny Cardoso has a similar opportunity for him with Atletico Madrid on the subject of the midfield of the USMNT, although this transfer is more about extremes. Cardoso has often been unable to make a place in the American line -up because of an injury, but at one of Europe’s top clubs he gets the chance to make the difference. The expectations will be pretty good in Atletico, a team that fights for the top spots in LaLiga and has the habit of having deep runs in the UEFA Champions League, especially after winning two games to start the season. Also, just like Tillman’s relocation, the transfer of Cardoso has a classic double-edged sword quality-as he impresses, he may have a reasonable chance of starting a world cup, but an inability to adjust can be expensive. A starting role for the USMNT may have been a tough battle since then Tyler AdamsSomeone who almost drew Pochettino when he was in charge ChelseaUsually anchors midfield, but the Gold Cup version of the team was able to reconsider the head coach after a number of strong trips from different players.

Patrick Agiemang, Derby County

Patrick Agyemang has hired him almost every chance this season and goes from relative darkness in MLS to a player with 12 USMNT caps and a performance in the championship with Derby County in almost record time. The 24-year-old, who is currently being sidelined after undergoing a hernia operation, is impressed by five international goals this year and has a reasonable shot to make the World Cup rast, but it will be a complicated race to the finish line for him and his fellow teammates. AGYEMANG was not a striking one at the Gold Cup, scored only twice in six games and is confronted with fierce competition – Ricardo Pepi and Disoting captain Return to fitness while Josh Sargent is back in Pochettin’s good graces after a strong start of the champion season with Norwich City. As a result, a jump from MLS to the championship is a risky – a long adjustment period can mean that the World Cup 2026 might be just too early for AGYEMANG. However, it is an ambitious risk that this summer has his similarities with the movements of Tillman and Cardoso.

Matt Turner, New England Revolution

Just like Reyna, Turner’s club career has had a beating in recent years, even if his status as a starter of the USMNT has not changed much. Since the switch to the Premier League before the World Cup 2022, the goalkeeper has made once 10-plus competition and it may not be suitable for the speed of the game at the top level. A return to his old pounding terrain, in that case, fits well with Turner, especially since Pochettino has no intentions to count MLS movements against players. Playing time is essential for him to stay in the mix for a starting point, but it is difficult to read where Pochettino is going from here – New York City FC shotstopper Matt Freese made an argument for himself after a few criminal heroes at the Gold Cup, while the Columbus CrewS Patrick Schulte Still feels like the heir for some.