According to Kicker, Hertha BSC Berlin will terminate Brian's contract with his agreement to the end of this year. So he is free to sign for a new club in the winter break. Link (german): http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/...rtikel_Fix-Gekas-stuermt-fuer-die-Hertha.html
agreed, his U20's performance should gather some interest. Hopefully he is wise and picks a place where he can fight for PT.
Players like Holden and Cooper who came from similar situations to MLS were much more finished players than if they had come to the league as first time pros. The Union in particular still need almost an entire midfield.
If I remember correctly, he was on trial at Charleroi in Belgium last off-season. I believe that they liked him, but couldn't work out a deal with Hertha. (Memory may not be right). If he wants to stay in Europe, Charleroi would be as good of a place as any.
Yep, here's an English-language version of the story: http://overthere.american-soccer-news.com/?p=390
It's about damn time. Arguez has been on the outs with Hertha since about two months after he joined the club. He's not even playing for the U-23s -- he needs PT. He has one career appearance with two clubs. It wouldn't be a bad idea, but Arguez may jump at a decent Euro offer if it comes.
No. They sold him and got allocation money, which means if he comes back to MLS it'll take an allocation to get him. Whether any MLS team is willing to spend allocation cash on a guy who appears to have had one good game in two years remains to be seen. DC in particular, with two youngish, competent d-mids already, seem an unlikely destination.
Sounds like Arguez always already has a suitor. Most 20 year olds will settle in the basement of a club before going out into the big bad Euro wilderness without any interest. I bet Bryan gets scooped up in the first few days by a BL2 side needing a midfielder.
I could see a BLII club as a destination. His situation is kinda quirky. Hertha dangled him to other clubs., let him trial, and has given the impression that he could leave on a free. But then when a said club has had interested Hertha have asked for a fee or said they would only loan him. That's not be in the new clubs interests and it's killed a deal. It's just kinda strange-----like they value him but not enough to play him. I'm glad Bryan is finally getting a release. THis will allow him to take pick and chose his club assuming he has suitors. But suitors have never been the problem. He impressed me in the U-20 WC, one of a few who did, and I could easily see a BLII, Belgium, Dutch, or Danish club take a flyer on him.
Ives reported that they couldn't agree on terms. However, an article I posted in the other Arguez thread back in August claimed that Charleroi thought he had great potential but wasn't ready to contribute to their team. Thus they didn't want to pay a lot for a guy who would be a spot sub at best. (Unlike Belenenses obviously ) https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=636001&highlight=charleroi&page=33
The German perspective is very different from the US perspective. Nobody cares about his U20 games. He was part of a really crappy team, which got butchered by a Germany C team; maybe from your point of view he was the one-eyed among the blind, from the German point of view it was nothing worth mentioning. He wasn't as disastrous and embarrassing as others, but far from impressing. BL2 sides could easily sign a young German. Arguez was measured relatively to other players here at Hertha, considered a failure, and didn't see the field in the 4th-tier Regionalliga; why should any BL2 side get exited about him, when there's a few dozen players of the same age with a much, much better pedigree in German club football? Considered not good enough for Regionalliga, and no future at a future BL2 side Hertha, but other BL2 sides should get exited about him? I really, really doubt that. Maybe there will be an almost relegated small club with no money, who gives him a shot as a fringe player without any risks, but he won't get offers from better BL2 sides looking for a starter.
Where in my post did I ever talk about his U20 games? I simply said that a 20 year old doesn't go out on his own into the transfer window without some type of suitor if he's already with a club. I think you added a bit of someone elses opinion there...
There's just no any other reason to believe there could be a suitor for him. There are maybe 10.000 more or less serious 20 year old football players in Germany; why should Arguez get an offer, except of his NT history? Most of the players with his CV get an offer from a 5th or 6th tier club to get enough money to pay their way through university, and have a nice car. That's it. Hertha produces 20 players a year; there aren't many reasons to believe that Arguez is among the 0-5 to make it in BL1 or BL2. A 20 year old with his CV, who's released by his club in winter like Arguez, is usually called a jobless in Germany, not a prospect.
Your implying teams interested are from Germany alone... I'm not sure why your arguing over something that so meaningless. You seem to have completely ignored your first post in which you added some random non-sense opinion that I in no way had. All I had stated was that Bryan probably had interest from other areas therefore he thought it was time to take break with Hertha. Most of the tie these clubs will try to negotiate lower contracts, because its in their best interest to retain any young player. If you knew Bryan's history with Hertha you'd understand that they have in the past blocked transfers for him to other clubs. So he meant something to them. You keep bringing up his NT experience like I'm the one perpetuating the argument. And I'm not. Your the one doing so. Have fun having an argument with yourself.