Brooks Lennon @ Liverpool

He is Being moved aside to give just gone 17 Rhian Brewster game time.

Has a youth player ever gone from a premier league club to the MLS?

 

Yes

 

Had Angelino at NYC last year. Facey, too. But he'll not see a PL game ever.

 

RSL and Liverpool have agreed to a year-long loan for US U-20 Brooks Lennon. Announcement could come today: https://t.co/CajNdHaiP4

— Sam Stejskal (@samstejskal) February 2, 2017

 

Does the loan make sense for Liverpool and Lennon because it allows him to stay in the US and train while playing with the U20s?

 

I don't know about Lennon's perspective, but I doubt Liverpool care about whether Lennon plays for US U20 or not. If they'd got a loan offer they adjudged to be better from a club in Europe they would have taken it.

 

It's good for Lennon because MLS is a higher level than the U23 PL. It's good for Liverpool because they know Lennon is a real long-shot to ever make it to the first team, so this move puts him a place where someone else will pay some of his salary. If he takes off to the point where he becomes interesting to Klopp, then all the better, even if it's quite unlikely.

 

Now that he has played and scored in MLS, he has met the criteria for graduation to YA:

https://tribuna.com/liverpoolfc/en/news/1831553/

@bungadiri @Friedel'sAccent

 

Doesn't the criteria also require that he be playing abroad?

 

Made the U20s bench:

Scouted's U20 World Cup Team of the Tournament 2017. 🙌

3 players per team allowed — this was almost impossible. 😫

Talent everywhere. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/DUMA1xuq0R

— SCOUTED (@scoutedftbl) June 12, 2017

 

Tied with Penaranda as most goals involved in the tournament (2g, 3a).

 

Has had a successful loan:

Honored to be selected for the 2017 MLS Homegrown Game representing @RealSaltLake #MLSHomegrown https://t.co/BZZkQC4Wx2

— Brooks Lennon (@brookslennon) July 12, 2017

 

@bungadiri -- Let's move to YA section. He's got his 1st team football now. Thanks.

 

At RSL?

 

Yes.

 

It's a domestic league. He might not qualify as the YA requirements currently stand.

 

Once a player has played in a first tier league, he should move to the YA section. An MLS player who goes overseas to a 2nd division is still listed as YA, not YAA. It's not specifically listed in the rules, but it seems silly that the only 1st tier league that doesn't qualify is MLS. Even the Faroe Islands Premier League qualifies as first tier.

@bungadiri -- ruling please.

 

Assume he goes back to 'Pool in jan?

 

I'd hope not. Better to be bought out by RSL or someone else where he can play.

 

An interview with a Liverpool fan publication about life at RSL:

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2017/...ims-dent-man-uniteds-pre-season-preparations/

 

This is madness.

 

So who's getting kicked down the pit