Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: general discussion thread

Re: Freddy Adu: general discussion

"Freddy Adun't know where I'm playing this year!^$#!"

 

Re: Freddy Adu: general discussion

first page

 

Re: Freddy Adu: general discussion

I demand a "Freddy Adu: Puns" thread.

 

Re: Freddy Adu: general discussion

Does anyone have any details on what went wrong with the Sion trial? Things clearly blew up. From what I understand, Freddy is sort of in limbo right now with his high wages at Benfica since nobody else is willing to pay them, correct?

 

Re: Freddy Adu: general discussion

He did Tweet he had a bad toe during the Sion trial.

How bad it really was or whether it made any difference, no one knows.

All we know is that he won't be a Sionist.

PS. Are bad puns against TOS?

 

Re: Freddy Adu: general discussion

Adu-de, where's my team?





Oh yeah...first page. That's all.

#1

 

Re: Freddy Adu: general discussion

1st page biyatch!

 

Re: Freddy Adu: general discussion

If you SOBs are going to brag about first page then I'm going to brag about...


FIRST! (look up 8 posts)

 

Re: Freddy Adu: general discussion

Here's a bit of a recap of the previous thread.
It was started on July 19th and had reached 1,000 posts yesterday, August 1st.

1. The highlight was the news and apparent interest by the Swiss side Sion (many puns were offered). Freddy tweeted that a big toe had swollen up. The general agreement was that it would be a good move for Freddy, if he could receive playing time. Sion ended up saying they were not interested There was some discussion that they may have been interested in a #9, support type striker, and that Freddy did not appear to be a good fit.

2. There was a lot of discussion regarding curtailing the individual poster's posting to a maximum of 25 posts on Adu threads. Three posters, Bolivian Fuego, Kyonn, and Dripping Milk each surpassed the suggested post cap and it was either pointed out by the mods or they agreed to stop posting. There were some posters offering to sell or assign their remaining posts (10-12 posts).

3. Voros expressed frustration at coming to Freddy Adu threads to look for news (yikes) and not being able to wade through the comedy/hyperbole to find what he was looking for. DK suggested he handle his frustration in a PM or be more gracious in his posting request, which appeared to irritate Voros even more. He has said that he is done with Big Soccer. More may be revealed.

4. Very few Freddy U-tube highlights were posted (a breakthrough)

5.There were the usual jabs at some of Freddy's purported deficiencies, tactics and size etc.

6. The Greek posters, other than Imperador who posted a lot early in the thread, appear to have quit following/posting about Adu.

7. Returning to MLS was mentioned in approximately 40 posts, the word "hater" in around 5.

8. There is a bit of anxious anticipation as to what might actually happen to Adu, will he emerge clubless for the season, drawing only a salary from Benfica/Aris without actually playing?

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

Oh this young man has had a very trying European experience, with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Portugal, France, Greece and Switzerland and those country's refusal to accept him, well, I guess that's more than most 21-year-olds can handle... Freddy Adu!

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

The most fitting pun for Adu('s situation), though it has been heard before, will always be:

MUCH ADU ABOUT NOTHING

(Shakespeare got it right all those years ago, no need to improve on it)

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

You're new here, so I'll go easy -- that's hackneyed. We need new and worse puns.

And I'm glad to have contributed to this thread's title

 

Re: Freddy Adu: general discussion

Well technically. . .

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

Well you just reiterated what I said myself in my post: it has been heard before, but IMO you can't improve on it. So your post is a bit redundant (but I'll go easy on you as well...; I'm only joking)

Seriously: I think it would be best for Adu if US soccer fans just ignored him until by some stroke of luck/fate he really does something to demand their attention.
You guys keep on giving so much attention to a player whose biggest problem is that he has always received too much attention. He never learned a link between getting praise and actually doing something right. No good can come from that: he will keep on twittering on his own sense of self-importance. That's a real shame.

I'll leave this topic now to illustrate my argument, and to avoid wasting my time. If anything I said should offend anyone: I didn't mean to.

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

watching his Aris videos, I wonder if he will forever be a youtube soccer player...There are some nice tricks in there, and they actually contribute to goals. The best thing for him is to come to MLS, take players on, draw fouls, score goals, and remind the next national team coach that he brings something different.

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

Google Search: Nii Lamptey

a cautionary tale for all young soccer players who think they're gonna make it.

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...a-golden-boy-is-lucky-to-be-alive-777432.html

The situations are different, but the message is clear. I think with the amount of attention young players who have even a little bit of success get, it's an achievement if 10% of those guys go on to become "good" soccer player. I mean, all these kids that are hyped up to be the next Pele or Maradona has their star fall, but that doesn't mean they can't be very good soccer players who contribute to their national team.

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

I actually just found a 2004 article from modernghana.com where they already compare Freddy Adu to Lamptey:
http://www.modernghana.com/news2/52862/2/the-next-pele-or-the-next-nii-lamptey.html

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

Shakespeare was such a genius that he foresaw the rise of soccer in England all those years ago, figured that it would sweep the world (with the exception of the North American colonies), ruminated that said colonies would need an "American superstar", guessed that said superstar would be a Ghanaian immigrant with a name something like "Ado", and wrote the play accordingly...

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

2 post by yourself later....obvious troll is obvious. that's a real shame.

maybe you should ignore adu if the attention he is getting is bothering you?

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

Huh, they were both born in Tema. Lamptey actually achieved more in Europe than Freddy has so far. Leading scorer for PSV Eindhoven, but then all downhill from there. Difference is, Freddy's rich.

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

This post might be intresting if you could not google 50 articles with the same title.

You've got to come better than that ...come on

Next you will be telling us how he needs to give 110% right?

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

Now you're complicit for making me respond once more (but one more won't hurt...) I was actually thinking the exact same thing. I forgot to mention Lamptey in my post, and then later someone responded; that's how it happened.
Anyway, like I said: I don't mean to offend. And I'm not bothered by the attention Adu gets; I just fear that it just keeps on destroying his career.

Take it easy, there's no need to get all emotional: I'll take your advice and go right back to ignoring Adu completely, until (yeah right) he actually starts to deliver. Farewell Freddy

 

Re: Adude! Where's my car-eer?!: Freddy Adu: general discussion

"
Seriously: I think it would be best for Adu if US soccer fans just ignored him until by some stroke of luck/fate he really does something to demand their attention.
You guys keep on giving so much attention to a player whose biggest problem is that he has always received too much attention. He never learned a link between getting praise and actually doing something right. No good can come from that: he will keep on twittering on his own sense of self-importance. That's a real shame.

I'll leave this topic now to illustrate my argument, and to avoid wasting my time. If anything I said should offend anyone: I didn't mean to."

I actually think everything you said is completely 100% dead on. I'm going to leave this thread and not post anymore as well until there is something hard. This guy has to get it together. None of us hyped him for no reason, he has the ball skills, but his head ain't right...