Sucks for Dest. For USMNT it will hurt a little but that R FB spot is probably one of the deeper spots the US has right now.
USMNT Player Pool Discussion
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That back ain’t gonna get him on the field soon and he probably shouldn’t play without at least a month of regular season fitness after that kind of injury. Which he won’t get.
And that’s a shame. When they were playing him as the regista, he shined last time out.
I'll bet he gets minutes, maybe starts, for the last 3-4 games in the EPL season. Add in friendlies vs Brazil (yipes!) and Bolivia and he just might be in full game shape for the big tourney. That assumes, as Huffy implied, that his Bournemouth coach and medical staff (not to mention Burrhalter) know what they're doing with Adams' minutes. Tyler has been known to come back from injury too soon and re-injure whatever.
Don't know if Tyler Adams was "coasting" or re-injured or what but not named to squad today.
Several Americans yesterday but no goals, as Juventus played Milan in a goal-less draw. I thought Musah had one of his better games and so did Weah. McKennie came off the 2nd half bench and Pulisic has been in a 4 or 5 game slump and didn't do much.
Gio's loan to Forest has been a real nothing-burger. Dortmund will likely sell him if anyone's interested. Would be cool to have Milan or Juve show some interest.
On Saturday, Norwich City & Josh Sargent were a lock for the EFL playoff and played a relegated team...and lost. That means a 4 seed vs Leeds this week and could have avoided them with a win. I blame the coach-David Wagner, who did not have his troops ready. No energy, no nothing. Sarge got very little service. Leeds likely beats beats them, season over & Sargent stays in the Championship, unless another team in a different league has taken notice of his 16 goals in 29 games. He's tied with Haji W. (19 in all comps) for EFL goals
Pulisic gets his 9th assist and gets off a 5-game scoring slump. Has 13 & 9 so far.....not a bad season for his new team.
Pulisic gets his 9th assist and gets off a 5-game scoring slump. Has 13 & 9 so far.....not a bad season for his new team.
Is this a standard clause written into Championship sides' contracts or players who play for a championship side contract which allows the club to buy it out upon promotion understanding they're going to have some more $$$ for the player pool and wanting to upgrade players as clubs know they only fully start to feel the impact of the added $$$ from EPL promotion in year 2? It's terrible to think that all the players that got teams to promotion all of a sudden are cast aside. Look at NFO and Luton (although Luton didn't go on the spending spree many thought they would).
Most of them receive bonuses at or above $1 million for going up, which is typically a years wage or more.
There are standard clauses written into every contract at every level. Up or down, you lose your job. Though that is changing. Basically players can agree to multi year deals with mandatory wage decreases, but these are basically mutual option arrangements, other clauses all the team or the player to walk away in reality. Other multi year clauses say they have a right to a free transfer if the team is relegated another EPL team offers a ridiculously low wage.
Sunderland made a mess of it not long ago. They signed multi year deals then waived the relegation wage drop clause to entice players who would otherwise not consider them. They thought they would be safe with the added talent. They weren’t. So when they went down half the team wasn’t locked into a contract at a reduced pre set wage. Then the players triggered their relegation release clauses, leaving a bunch of players nobody wanted at an inflated wage.
Most clubs do the right thing and retain people, Those moving on usually go to lateral clubs at increase pay or a team moving down with cash to spend.
What really stinks is when there is a fan favorite striker but the club knows they need help to stay up the following year. So they move out two or three defensive starters to free up cash to go sign a big name scorer on the open market.
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Josh Sargent?? BTW, it is estimated that promotion to the Prem. is worth about $300 million to the club.
Which makes the play in final the greatest game in the history of sports.
Not to mention over 80k fans crowd into Wembley Stadium in London for the final.
Too true. If it happens, let's hope it's to a bigger club.
I watched the Luton final last year, and there was easily 8-10x more people than what Luton can fit in Kenilworth Road. Remember, their schedule had to be configured the first few weeks of the EPL because the required tech upgrades and camera berths were not completed in time for their 1st originally scheduled home match. The tech upgrades were required for the advanced VAR used in EPL.
Since Bla mentions Luton Town as winner of that EFL playoff last season, they are a prime example of Huffy's comment. Ethan Horvath, as their starting goalie, helps lead Luton Town to promotion to the Prem and they promptly sell him. I'm not saying Horvath is a quality enough goalie to hack it in the EPL, but he could have been better than the guy they bought. Luton has a couple games left in the season and they are 3 points deep in the bottom three. They might pull it out & survive but will likely go straight back down to the EFL . If so, at least they have all those tech upgrades to play with in their dinky little stadium.
The team above them is Nottingham Forest with Gio Reyna. They're a train wreck also, although they'll probably stay up & send Luton down.
Forest is a wreck because they kept blaming the GKs and bringing in new guys and didn't look hard enough at the defense. Same with Luton. Luton has scored only 3 fewer goals than ManU, yet they're languishing at the bottom of the table because they can't stop anyone from scoring. Right now, between Forest and Luton, you could have Courtouis, Oblak, Donnarumma, or Neuer back there for any of them and they likely would not have improved their placement. Forest blamed Turner so they brought in the Ukranian guy...who couldn't stop anything so they brought in Sels, who can't stop anything. Well they do stop shots, they can't prevent all the shots from happening which is on the defense.
CP waits till the tail-end of the season but finally gets his first brace in Milan's 5-1 win over Cagliari. That's 15 & 9 for Pulisic in all comps. Pioli is very close to getting sacked & one hopes the new Milan coach will keep him starting either on the right or as a 10. Would be a fool not to.
On the other hand, Milan is asking a ridiculous 150 million euros for Rafael Leao who is their starting left wing. Drop about 70 mill. off that price & sell him. CP then moves to the left side and Milan has enough $ to shore up their back line which is desparately needed, not to mention a quality striker with the loss of Giroud to LAFC in MLS.
It was Norwich & Sarge at 6:00 this morning vs Leeds in the 1st leg of the EFL playoffs. It ended 0-0 but the 2nd leg is at Ellend Road & Leeds will have the big advantage there. David Wagner is getting praise for "leading" Norwich to the playoffs. HA! It was Josh Sargent primarily when Norwich gets him back after missing 20 games. They were in 13th place in the EFL and going nowhere. Sargent scores 14, with most of those game winners to get them to 6th place at the end.
Today was a carbon copy of their last game. No service to Sarge, pathetic passes-long & intermediate, midfielders who think they can dribble into the opponents half while continuosly losing possesion, rarely winning 50-50 balls. Norwich got outplayed & was lucky to escape with a tie. They'll need more luck next week in the 2nd leg.
It was Norwich & Sarge at 6:00 this morning vs Leeds in the 1st leg of the EFL playoffs. It ended 0-0 but the 2nd leg is at Ellend Road & Leeds will have the big advantage there. David Wagner is getting praise for "leading" Norwich to the playoffs. HA! It was Josh Sargent primarily when Norwich gets him back after missing 20 games. They were in 13th place in the EFL and going nowhere. Sargent scores 14, with most of those game winners to get them to 6th place at the end.
Today was a carbon copy of their last game. No service to Sarge, pathetic passes-long & intermediate, midfielders who think they can dribble into the opponents half while continuosly losing possesion, rarely winning 50-50 balls. Norwich got outplayed & was lucky to escape with a tie. They'll need more luck next week in the 2nd leg.
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Sargent was seen sitting on the center line in the 85th minute rubbing his ankle. Today, the verdict is unknown but he thinks he'll be able to play in the 2nd leg vs Leeds on Thursday. If it's the same ankle that kept him out for 4 months........Uh Oh!
They might be dangerous if they could ever ID a decent GK and some CBs. They've got some of the most dangerous forwards in the world in Jonathan David (Lille) and Tajon Buchanan (Inter Milan) to go along with Alphonso Davies who acts like a forward but slots in at left fullback. They are a capable side that is pretty young overall but also have glaring deficiencies in their 6 and 2 CB spots.
Marsch's style will play well with the 3 listed above.
A couple of Yanks lift a trophy today as Juve beat Atalanta, 1-0 in the Coppa Italia final. Wes McKinnie started and helped set up the game winner in the 4th minute and Juve held them off for the rest of the way. Tim Weah came off the bench in the 80th and helped them see it out. I imagine they get some extra cash, too. Atalanta has been the hottest team in Serie A the last couple months and also have a final next week in the Europa League vs Leverkusen.
Juve needs to win their last game or two or no Champions League next season.
Juve needs to win their last game or two or no Champions League next season.
Lake Como is just so beautiful. Ferries run all day pretty much the length of that huge lake. The farther you go, the Italian Alps come closer into view. If you plan on spending the night along the lake front, bring plenty of plastic.
Sarge & Norwich play Leeds in the 2nd leg of the EFL semis today @ 2pm on Espn+ & Hulu. Sargent expected to play & will advise on result.
Sarge & Norwich play Leeds in the 2nd leg of the EFL semis today @ 2pm on Espn+ & Hulu. Sargent expected to play & will advise on result.
No sense in reporting on this turkey. It's 3-0 before halftime & the Norwich goose is cooked. Unless Norwich starting goalie is hurt or ill, the guy replacing him in goal has gone to sleep twice with a 2-0 result. Sargent steals the ball about 20 yards out & is one on one with the goalie & tries to dink it over him to no avail. He should have scored. Pitiful!
Born in Germany, became US citizen & played a few games for the USMNT, now looking for a job. David Wagner sacked after the pathetic Norwich performance in the EFL playoffs. Maybe Sargent will get some interest from another league. Norwich also needs to fill some holes in defense and midfield. BTW, Milan is now looking for a striker.....hmm. Maybe Pulisic and Musah can put a bug in someone's ear.
More Yanks without a coach. Just a couple days after winning the Coppa Italia, M. Allegri gets the boot at Juve for going kind of crazy on the sideline. Who knows what will happen with McKennie & Weah.
More Yanks without a coach. Just a couple days after winning the Coppa Italia, M. Allegri gets the boot at Juve for going kind of crazy on the sideline. Who knows what will happen with McKennie & Weah.
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Antonee (Jedi) Robinson gets some major love from some English (stat only) geeks. He's the top fullback by far in the Premier League for tackles and interceptions this past season. I've watched some Fulham matches and even his crosses have improved with several assists & a couple goals. Not really news to MNT fans but based on this, you have to put him in the Pulisic-McKinnie group for best Yank playing in Europe/GB.
Speaking of CP, he's one of three finalists for "Midfielder of the Season" in Serie A. Winner will be announced after Milan's last match this Saturday
Speaking of CP, he's one of three finalists for "Midfielder of the Season" in Serie A. Winner will be announced after Milan's last match this Saturday
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US just released it's training camp invitees for the U23 Olympic team. As always there are 3 allowances for non U23 players. US has used on of them on Walker Zimmerman. Good choice. Others on the squad, Gaga Slonina who I presume will be the #1 choice in goal. Aidan Morris, Cremaschi, Paxton Aaronsen, and Busio. Looks like the US can go into the Olympics with a pretty damn good squad
It might be the best U23 squad in the world, top to bottom on the two deep. Best we’ve looked on paper since 1999.
They are using him well. He’s got coverage for his deficiencies that don’t really translate well over to the national team duties.
You know you are doing something right when Southgate admits they made a mistake not capping him when they might have had a chance to do so when he was a teenager.
And now rumor is Miles Robinson is going to be added to the Olympic squad as one of the exemptions. Will give the US a pretty experienced and formidable CB duo for this competition.
Didn't Robinson also have a potential to be capped with the Dutch as well or am I thinking another player. One of our guys had like 2-3 options in terms of who to be capped with.
And remember that time when Klinsmann left Landon Donovan off the WC squad to cap Julian Green...is Green even playing soccer any longer?
He made appearances for England’s youth. They would not cap him but capped others in his group. He went to camp with the USA and hit it off socially with McKennie and Weah. He never looked back.
He was asked to camp with Italy in his teens but he turned them down. Ghana told him he could have a spot if he wanted it.
I don’t think the Dutch were part of it. I could be wrong.
His Cockney accent is kind of weird, but I'm really glad it's the USA & not England he's with.
