View Full Version : JOB is out of contract
Soccerprep
01 Jan 2007, 12:22 PM
Source Wikipedia
He was released by C.D. Chivas USA of Major League Soccer following the 2006 season, making him eligible to play overseas without a transfer fee. O'Brien has been invited to Chivas training camp for the 2007 season, but cannot sign with any other MLS club unless his rights are acquired via trade.
Does anyone know if he is healthy? Lokking for another club? Accepting the Chivas invitation? Is the cited source accurate?
Any information would be appreciated.
Sorry if this has been already been discussed.
FCmagic01
01 Jan 2007, 12:30 PM
if he doesnt play for Chivas im sure Bruce Arena will come calling his name.
ChelseaMatt
01 Jan 2007, 12:56 PM
This is old news. It was announced that he was released a few days after the MLS season was over.
My personal opinion is he's done. He played only a few minutes for Chivas last year. He's been saddled with injuries for the last 3 years, and when he did play some for the national team, he was a shadow of his former self. He won't be called up again, as it's all about the future now, and his best days are definitely behind him.
sidefootsitter
01 Jan 2007, 12:56 PM
... Does anyone know if he is healthy? .
A mere mortal person is not to know.
dcole
01 Jan 2007, 03:12 PM
Source Wikipedia
That was me. Got it from here: http://www.lasoccernews.com/article.php?article_id=787
I'm not aware of any more recent information.
RevsRule
01 Jan 2007, 04:33 PM
if he doesnt play for Chivas im sure Bruce Arena will come calling his name.
That would not surprise me at all but first he must sign Tab Ramos.
Red Card
01 Jan 2007, 04:37 PM
I hope he joins the BB+PN coaching team.
Soccerprep
01 Jan 2007, 05:35 PM
That would not surprise me at all but first he must sign Tab Ramos.
I think the Bruce is attempting to get Reyna. It may be a good team with Reyna and JOB playing a "wheel chair" game in the middle.
sidefootsitter
01 Jan 2007, 11:58 PM
I think the Bruce is attempting to get Reyna. It may be a good team with Reyna and JOB playing a "wheel chair" game in the middle. Reyna said recently that people should stop making assumptions about him coming to MLS in the near future.
Eleven Bravo
02 Jan 2007, 12:27 AM
guess he needs a JOB.
Dirt McGirt
02 Jan 2007, 12:32 AM
Reyna said recently that people should stop making assumptions about him coming to MLS in the near future.Reyna should stop making assumptions he'll actually see the pitch for Citeh.
IndividualEleven
02 Jan 2007, 01:23 AM
Why the hell an MLS team would want to drop +$400K on an oft injured, aging player who isn't a global star is beyond me. I don't see Reyna doing much for the Red Bulls if they get him.
IndividualEleven
02 Jan 2007, 01:30 AM
On the subject of JOB I've read stories where an oft-injured athlete is out of the sport for a year or more and then comes back. There was that story about the baseball player that was made into a movie by Disney. Remember the New Englands Patriots running back who got injured playing beach football at the Pro Bowl, suffering nerve damage in his knee? He came back as well.
Just sayin. Maybe a year out of sport and the extreme stresses it places on the body can help him completely heal. He's still only 27/28.
UxSxAxfooty
02 Jan 2007, 01:36 AM
On the subject of JOB I've read stories where an oft-injured athlete is out of the sport for a year or more and then comes back. There was that story about the baseball player that was made into a movie by Disney. Remember the New Englands Patriots running back who got injured playing beach football at the Pro Bowl, suffering nerve damage in his knee? He came back as well.
Just sayin. Maybe a year out of sport and the extreme stresses it places on the body can help him completely heal. He's still only 27/28.
By this logic, JOB should come back the greatest player to have ever played the game for how long he's been out.
former baller
02 Jan 2007, 01:39 AM
This is old news. It was announced that he was released a few days after the MLS season was over.
My personal opinion is he's done. days are definitely behind him.
I wrote an opinion at the end of 2005 that this guy was done then and that only an MLS team would be stupid enough to sign him. Shortly it was confirmed Chivas would step in and prove to have been the ignorant wallet. This was not rocket science it was clearly a dumb move before they even did it.
Anyhow a bunch of pricks here on bigsoccer ridiculed me, rediculed my thread and basically proved to be the short sighted idiots with their behavior. John Obrien never played perhaps 4 hours of competitive soccer since 2005. yeah I am still bothered by those bone heads. But I guess ignorance sometimes has loud mouths.
IndividualEleven
02 Jan 2007, 01:39 AM
By this logic, JOB should come back the greatest player to have ever played the game for how long he's been out.
I'm not sure what 'logic' you're inferring here. I'm suggesting time completely out of sport may help him fully recover.
voros
02 Jan 2007, 01:56 AM
I'm not sure what 'logic' you're inferring here. I'm suggesting time completely out of sport may help him fully recover.
But he's had that and it hasn't seemed to help either.
It's a physically demanding sport and something just seems not right. If he was 24 it might be different, but the best you can hope for now is the decline phase of his career anyway.
O'Brien was a great player for us, the kind of incisive passer we tend to lack outside of Donovan (and he's a little better than Donovan on that score). But whereas someone like donovan never seems to get more than a minor strain or pull here and there, O'Brien misses games in stretches of months and sometimes years. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything like it in sports that didn't involve a pitching arm.
He's like Pete Reiser without the excuse that Reiser wrecked himself crashing into the centerfield wall over and over again. Oh and Reiser was one of the most talented players ever to play his sport while O'Brien is merely a very good talent.
Maybe O'Brien can come out of it and play a nice role for four or five years at the tail end of his career, but man alive you can't blame people for being skeptical at this point...
UxSxAxfooty
02 Jan 2007, 02:05 AM
I'm not sure what 'logic' you're inferring here. I'm suggesting time completely out of sport may help him fully recover.
And I tried to make a joke.
IndividualEleven
02 Jan 2007, 02:05 AM
When has O'brien been completely out of sport for over a year? He's usually been rehabbing and practicing when injured from the news that I've read.
IndividualEleven
02 Jan 2007, 02:06 AM
And I tried to make a joke.
Sorry about that. :)