Freddy to Chelsea could be very bad, and not just because I hate them. I doubt it is good for a young star to be at a club of so many people with so many egos and no one really in charge, eventually things will probably begin to get ugly.
Email MLS (quick!) That's all you can do. Perhaps if they get enough upset people they'll up the ante a bit but Chelsea has a lot of pounds and could care less about soccer in the US or MLS.
No shit, but you've got a kid with an overprotective mother who doesn't want her baby straying too far from home. And it just so happens he lives in one of your markets and has regularly trained with the club. How could you screw this up?
Looks like some "source" at Chelski leaked some news to the Mirror that 1) they want Freedy, 2) they have made an offer to him for 3 mil, and 3) their hand is improved due to Keyon's move to Chelski. The rest is creative reporting. Just what I think. We could wake up in the morning with Adu at Stanford Bridge, or we could just as well write it off as Freddy hype.
If this was a work permit issue then it would be an automatic turn down followed by a successful appeal.
Well obviously the "overprotective" mother doesn't really care if he "strays" too far from home, does she?
That's why it's not a good idea to start his career overseas. From Ghana to Michigan after 5 years then to London?!
With the national team you mean? That's a whole other animal. He's getting an education and would come home. Going to Europe and staying there is totally different.
Right. Maybe she isn't that protective, and maybe she doesn't care. Perhaps the "stay at home" was just a ploy to bilk a big European club out of more money. Afterall, Freddy is gifted academically, too. I'm guess his smarts came from Mom. It's just business. MLS was never in the game. MLS can't pay the ante.
DC it is. Prabably the best team for his development, not Chelsea. It's all about geographical differences and away from home.
Nope. Totally different. In this case he obviously wouldn't have the caps so he gets rejected but Chelsea would be able to argue that his talent would be an addition to the quality of football in England in the (near) future. That his skills of a level that warrants signing him. They would not likely argue with Chelsea on the point of his being a quality player. BTW: I posted before Convey's rejection that I thought he would lose the appeal.
If any part of this is true, this is a HUGE failure for domestic soccer in the US, and soccer in the US in general. There is just no other way to spin it otherwise, MLS would've found a way to capitalize, and it didn't.
I wasn't born on the turnip truck. MLS and its investors would have found a way. I don't know what it is, I don't control the money, but an endeavor is always impossible until it isn't. Simple or complicated, there is always a solution.
Yeah, but at what cost? Seriously, there are ramifications of writing a big check for a 14 year old that go way beyond that check. If Lamar, Phil, and Robert don't write that check, I assume there's very good reasoning. Trust me, they know who Freddy is. Freddy came up in my April interview with Lamar. If Freddy really wanted to play in MLS, there would've been a solution. Chelse, ManU, Real Madrid, can all write bigger checks than MLS can.
It never hurts to email MLS.. They actually read them. http://www.mlsnet.com/about/league/contact_thanks.html
If this is true, we still don't know that MLS is not involved in some way such as his agent and Freddy asking for a load deal to MLS for a period. That is still something that was perhaps part of the deal to make everyone, including Freddy's mom happy. Not saying it's the case, of course, but if a deal is signed we still need to wait and see what happens.
And that's oversimplification. Just because MLS can't write a bigger check today doesn't mean that 10 years from now they can't. If Freddy Adu wanted to play in MLS, he would have. Last time I checked, you can't make someone do what they don't want to.