Head back to Belgium. Or find some relegation fodder club in France/Germany willing to take a chance on him. Or maybe just retire and work on his autobiography.
Umm, I think that ship has sailed. He's really just looking for another country to try out. Let's see, he's lived in England, Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal and Holland (I think, correct me if I'm wrong). Munich is an option, as is Barcelona (oops, he's been to Spain), and Glasgow. Hopefully, wherever he lands we'll see an awful lot of large half-American defenders coming up through the ranks of the various European youth teams in 10-15 years. Sew those oats Gooch (my apologies if he is married)!
it's a shame about the injuries because he was once a really good player. I don't think he's even Championship level anymore. He'd probably be better off coming back to MLS.
Maybe, remember that QPR has the best defense in the championship, Gooch was really just signed as short term cover as QPR only had 3 center backs. Perhaps if he stays he'd eventually work his way into the linep,perhaps not. Its tempting to blame it on the kneee but you dont know that.
QPR has a fully fledged Premiership squad that's competing a level down. I have no idea how they're making the finances work.
I think the payment you get when you go down will see through if they bounce. Although all I have on that is baseless speculation since I reallt know little about QPR.
LOL. I'm looking forward to when he drops that autobiography. 1 of the most well traveled Americans of the 21st century. Dude speaks like 4/5 languages.
Wasn't it a few years ago there was a League 2 squad that was paying some players like 30-40 K a week on wages to help them be quickly promoted. I think Ericsson was the manager.
Correct, he came in as cover when Onouha got injured, and is now 4th choice centre back. If he wants to move on and play everyweek then that's fair enough. We're not.
thats down to the rich guys of which QPR has some of the richest around. Thats also why QPR is planning to build a 40000 seat stadium, lots of room for the tourist fan which is one of the reasons Fulham survives. Hell I'll go, would be a great trip. Its interesting how this is going down in QPR land, even though he never played for them it seems like a lot of QPR fans are sorry to see him go, one because they again have no real cover for that position, two because he never got on the field to prove what he could do. Combined with HR's words that he wanted gooch to stay (which you have to take with a grain of salt with Redknapp), and this does seem like it's not about Gooch being let go, but rather Gooch deciding to move on in search of playing time.
I'm not sure which qpr forums you've been on, but on loftforwords, the overwhelming majority would far rather see our own youngster Max Ehmer warming the bench than Onyewu, not as any reflection on Onyewu as to be honest we haven't seen any of him, we'd just rather have our own young pros given a chance rather than stop gap signings like Benayoun, Onyewu & Chevanton.
Ive seen that and I agree I'm just saying there are many QPR fans who think Gooch should have got a game at some point, and like the Chevanton transfer, view this as evidence of HR's odd transfer policy; bring someone in, dont play him, let him go; why bring them in at all. Mostly im trying to point out to those who think this is another onyewu failure, that's not exactly it. Just not a great situation for him. And BTW ive been a QPR fan since the early 90's so Im aware of the sentiments.
I wonder if the Bradley to MLS move will make Gooch think seriously about returning to the league, if someone offers him good value.
He's not going to play for $150k. And the MLS salary cap is $3 million. Most teams after DP's have $2.2 mil left. That makes it very difficult to offer mid-range salaries.