Goff: D.C. United selling Andy Najar to Anderlecht

Andy Najar is the kind of talent MLS needs to keep to make MLS the "better stage" to change attitudes such as yours.

Thx,

Jay!

 

Nothing wrong with being a feeder league. We just need to have enough good players like Najar so they won't missed as much when they leave. That day is slowly coming.

 

Every club in the world is a feeder club except maybe a couple dozen super clubs at the top of the food chain.

If there's no clubs above you coveting your players then you have a problem

Look at all the great Spanish players playing abroad (Mata, Silva, Arteta, Azpilicueta, Monreal, Reina etc ...). Does this mean that La Liga sucks too?

 

Not exactly, saying that Flemish is a Dutch dialect is like saying American is an English one; Flemish IS Dutch, the pronunciation is slightly different and a few words change here and there but it's exactly the same language, grammar etc. Just like American English and British English. Walloon is the same way with French, probably some small difference here and there, like in other French speaking countries (to say 70 for example in France you say "soixante-dix" but in Switzerland you say "septante")

 

In Belgium, you have both Belgian French and Walloon. I think the original poster may have confused Belgian French with Walloon; many in Belgium speak Belgian French, but Walloon is dying. Belgian French is like you say -- small differences between the language and standard French (e.g. as envisioned by L'Academie Francaise) but Walloon is significantly more different than that. It is not simply "French + small differences."

 

Yes, and Belgian French speakers consider their French to be superior to what is spoken in France itself. Back in the day, if you were studying French at the Foreign Service Institute one was given several weeks with a speaker of Belgian French just before taking the fluency exam.

 

Thanks, I was unaware of the Walloon language itself! It sounds like it's in a similar position to Gaelic in Ireland and Scotland or the Romansh language in Switzerland, small languages spoken by few that are gradually disappearing although their respective governments are trying to save them (for example making them official languages of the country, with others)

 

$2 million.

Not worth it. Not even close to being worth it. Not even close to being close to being worth it.

 

Sorry, I was out of town all week; just got back last night. Was it reported this week that that was the amount?

 

No, that's the same number that was bandied about when it happened.

I was commenting on how very much it cost DCU.