Clint Dempsey to Arsenal Next Season? Good Move?
Posted on April 12, 2012 4:39 am
Brett and Derek discuss whether it’s time for Clint Dempsey to move to a bigger club. And how about playing Donovan up top with Dempsey on the Nats as well? How about Chandler at right midfield instead of left back? Does anyone really want to talk about the CONCACAF Champions League anymore?
Also Gary Lineker, Fernando Torres and Chelsea, Andrew Wooten are discussed along with Leonardo da Vinci. On the Straight Red Card.
Dempsey to Arsenal could really be a stinker. He is 29. But then again, could he be worse than Gervinho?
“Altidore is getting so good at holding the ball.”
Compared with how much he sucked at it before, or compared with McBride, or, for that matter, Ching, Casey, or, in The Next Generation, Boyd?
There was this good combination developed at San Jose between Ching and Donovan. It should have been moved to the national level and never was, for no good reason. In the last World Cup, it wasn’t, it was because Robbie Findlay was just so awesomely good.
Let us accept for argument that Jozy, a very good second striker who happens to also be huge, is suddenly McBride, Jr. If that is true, you don’t sit him down to put two skinny guys who like to run at people at striker. Donovan’s best, ultimate, highest calling is to be the guy who plays off of Brian McChing. The same could be said for Deuce. You stick one in that spot, and the other goes out to the wing, because you can’t have two withdrawn strikers.
If you want to play with two skinny guys who are best running at people at striker, you are reinventing the game, and not necessarily in a way that is to our best advantage. But, hell, we seem not to lack for guys who are good at running at people (throw Herc into that mix), and our great target forwards fall into the categories of retired, over-the-hill, and miscast (Jozy).
Altidore is probabably better than McBride or Ching. . . were at the same age. A question mark following Boyd is appropriate.
All the Americans are doing so so well.
Well everyone except for Robbie Rogers…
Kaiserslautern’s problem is the midfield. The players up top are not getting service. Wooten was also starting to get playing time under Kurz before he was fired. You could argue, and most people are, that Kurz waited to long to give Wooten a chance. Balakov is continuing to use Wooten the same way that Kurz was.
Interesting comments from Ex Fulham boss Chris Coleman http://bit.ly/IKgoZS
Its like show # 19 or 20. You have to keep flicking through. But in so many terms, Coleman says that if Clint goes to a top 4 club he’ll have to get use to playing less.
the best part of that ancient aliens episode is when they talk about da vinci’s “robots”, completing ignoring the work of heron of alexandria and his contemporaries, to claim that a lion shaped automata was completely unprecedented.
I think it’s a disservice to Fulham to say Liverpool would be a better option for Clint. Is Liverpool a bigger club historically? Absolutely. Are they a better team than Fulham? I’d say no, not right now. Likewise, it seems like Fulham is on the up and Liverpool is on a slide.
If Lukas Podolski is truly going to Arsenal, and most believe that deal is done, then no, an Arsenal move would not be good for Deuce.
Zak, I beg to differ on Kaiserslautern. FCK’s problem is overall lack of quality period. That squad just isn’t 1st Bundesliga caliber. No coach could save that motley crew. You could put Messi or Ronaldo on that team and they’d still be fighting relegation.
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