Sebastian Lletget at West Ham

It's still early days. Rahim Sterling showed that younger players can get burned up quickly. The trend to getting first team football early sometimes backfires. Sebastian is knocking on the door, so he should stay at least till 21.

 

Sterling has plenty going on off the field that can account for a loss of form.

 

True, but he was being overplayed before the "incident"

 

Apparently he was out injured for about a month, but he's back playing with the U21 team .

http://www.whufc.com/articles/20130411/sebby-heeding-haycocks-advice_2236884_3139538

 

Just scored for the U21 team

 

I don't think I've ever read as much about a particular player without ever seeing him actually play.

 

Does Vincenzo Bernardo count?

 

Have you read the 'Yank Kid at Torino' thread?

 

I get mixed feelings. I generally feel like he is never going to break through but everyone once in awhile I'll read an article that makes it seem like he is one of their higher regarded prospects.

I watched him play in the U-20 loss to Guatemala but that is it. ( Ironically I thought that team was better than this team)

 

neither have I. I think I only saw him play once and I thought he was just average.

 

Freddy Adu??

 

West Ham are about safe...so I expect for him to maybe get some chances at the end of this season?

 

is that a statement, a question, or a clevr grammar troll

 

Page 48 on Lletget at West Ham. Still on page 1 for Jose Francisco Torres @UANL, who is 25 & already started a World Cup match. Granted he's been there less than a year, but there's about 10 pages here since the new JFT thread started up.

Lletget is a perfect storm to draw BS YA attention: came up through the US YNT system & joined the academy of an EPL club. He could only get more hype if he were at a top club in England. Mexico is a black hole for YA hype.

 

Some of those Mexican-American kids at Tigres were getting a lot of hype. Not one of them has come up to the first team yet and they seem to have dropped off.

 

Everybody loves new pussy.

 

But isn't Lletget more like pussy we've been chasing for years and never gotten any?

 

I wouldn't know about that.

 

48 pages for a guy who has never played a 1st team match as a professional? Pretty sure there's no uncapped Tigres kid touching that. Particularly when you consider that a 25yo USMNT WC veteran w/Tigres is getting an order of magnitude less YA love than Lletget.

 

The uncapped players with longer threads than Lletget are the Yank kid at Torino and Bobby Wood.

 

I don't think Big Sam rates him.

 

I meant in the sense of uncapped by the club. Wood has been, at the first team level.

 

Mexico is a black hole for American YAs- most of us here don't speak or read Spanish. That's a bar. Also, successful Americans in Mexico who would actually play for the USA . . . well that's a relatively recent phenomena.

 

Yeah. It's weird. Torres is a damn good soccer player, and Tigres are rolling with him at CM. They remind me of his Pachuca team at their peak.

His sin is that he's small - and thus incorrectly labelled as incapable of physical play (he's actually excellent at holding off players) - and that he's fighting for air in our deepest position.

Torres would be on my roster for any US match that mattered. And the first sub off the bench when we need more possession.

 

That's actually a compliment to lletget.