Amon amongst boys: Jonathan at Lynbgy BK (Denmark)Nordsjælland (Denmark)

Maybe the 3 mil doesn't include the team's money loans.

 

Amon on wing and Pulisic on the opposite and we got speed and skill for days Hope Jonathon gets called up for march

 

The juxtaposition between $3 million for an existing team in a decent and comparable or better than MLS league in Denmark and new expansion sides going for $150 in MLS is striking. Lots of money guys betting on the future for soccer in the US.

 

I mean, it's a revenue projection thing, right? Like, there's still a big opening to put an MLS team in Phoenix and its 4.6 million-strong metropolitan area. The opportunity to make money from attendance, merchandise, sponsorships, and television is a lot greater there than it is in Lyngby, with its 50,000 people and its status as one of five first-division clubs in the Copenhagen area.

 

Right, Denmark has only like 6 MM people in the entire country. USA has more than 50x that amount. Coincidence or not, $3 MM x 50 = $150 MM, or the expansion price.

 

The Danish Superliga produce much more talent for export than MLS could ever dream of doing, so calling it a worse league makes no sense ... Hamid's FC Midtjylland just sold players for more than $ 20 million in what was suppose to be an eventless winter transfer window for them ...and I actually don't really think these sales have made it much less likely that they are going to win the Danish championship this year ... you just try to drain an MLS team of $20 million worth of talent and then see if they would still be fighting to win the league ?

 

The $ 3 million will cover their debt and loans ... the main problem for Lyngby is that they are a club in the Copenhagen area fighting with FC København, Brøndby and also FC Nordsjælland for support and media attention ... and up until now they have been badly run and so losing their talents way too cheaply to the clubs just mentioned ...so long as they are in financial trouble other Danish top clubs are going to make use of this to steal their most talented players who they are forced to sell for peanuts, not to go bankrupt ...

 

Lol cool?

Mls is still a better league overall. Appreciate your insights to Amon ITT!

 

Can you back this up with anything?

 

https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/the-containment-unit-the-ya-league-comparison-discussion.2011515/

 

There are several ways to judge the quality of a league ... first would be looking at what kind of talent it's able to attract and/or what kind of talent it's able to export and how fast these players are able to adapt in the top leagues and how well they do at NT level .

.. and then at least in Europe there is also the country ranking based on Europa cup results ... but this ranking is a bit tricky, because it's a 5-year ranking that greatly favor the few best leagues and so the smaller leagues may look worse than they are also due to a major loss of talent in a specific year ... like Denmark could suffer when you look at the results next season, if the clubs keep selling as much as they have done so far this season ...if you look at the last 3 years results, the Danish Superliga is the 11th best league in Europe just below Belgium and Ukraine, but above Austria, the Netherlands, Czech Rep. Greece and Switzerland :
https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method5/crank2020.html

If you only look at the last two years results, the picture will be about the same, but now with Ukraine dropping below Denmark, while Austria move up ... the most interesting is how the Netherlands are on their way down the ranking, which also reflect in the results of their NT and U21 NT the past years .. and actually also reflect in higher transfer fees in the Danish league of lately, due to less talent to be found in the Dutch league at the moment ...
https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method5/crank2021.html

 

Well ... a Superliga license you get for free by the Danish FA, if you are promoted to the Superliga and your financial situation is in order and you are able to comply with certain requirements ... one of these requirements is that you, besides the Superliga team, also are able to field at least two youth teams in the Danish FA youth leagues, in the age group of 15 to 21 ... and at least one team in the age group of 10 to 14 and one team with players below the age of 10 ...

 

One reason why it's this "cheap" is the fact that in principle all their players were free to tear up their contracts when they did not recieve their montly wages, and so their Superliga license would be as good as lost when they surely would face relegation with no preparation and few players left to finish the season... but only 4 of their players have left during this week ... Mikkel Rygaard (who has plenty of offers from top clubs in Denmark and also from abroad), Casper Højer Nielsen (who had alreedy signed with AGF Aarhus, starting in the summer when his Lyngby contract was to expire, so he just moved to AGF a bit earlier than expected), Bror Blume and their newly signed Swedish player Simon Strand who has returned to Sweden..

The rest of their players (including Mohammed Saeid who just arrived from Colorado Rapids) gave Lyngby until today friday to pay up, which it now seem they have been able to do ... but last week the club did not even have money for the bus that was suppose to take them to their last friendly and so it was canceled, but they now report that they will play against Brøndby on Sunday... it seems that it's money from local investors that has saved the club from bankruptzy, but that the club will be sold at the end of this season, probably to the owner of Aston Villa, if they do not suffer relegation.

 

They're betting on the stability and low risk nature of their investment. In a closed system you don't have to worry about being cannibalized by the competition.

 

I don't get y'all.

Post after post about this kid for months during the off-season then he actually plays a regular season game and... crickets.

Makes no ********in' sense.

Anyway, our boy came on in the 62nd minute of a game his team lost 2-1. Game was 1-1 when Amon entered.

 

Amon replaced the19-yo right back/winger Emil Damgaard to play the last 28 minutes

http://www.superliga.dk/kamp/2017-2018/februar/sonderjyske-fc-nordsjaelland?sub=lineup

(In the link above, click: Se Bænk v = see bench)

I'm not sure about the tactical move, but the Norwegian U-21 NT winger/forward Mathias Rasmussen was the one playing from start (for the very first time this season), instead of Amon :
https://www.transfermarkt.com/mathi...ga/0/wettbewerb/DK1/pos/0/trainer_id/0/plus/1

 

As mentioned earlier, then Lyngby were on the brink a bankruptzy and the most wanted of the 5 players who left them last week after not having recieved their monthly pay, the 27-yo winger/striker Mikkel Rygaard, has now signed with FCN.

https://www.transfermarkt.com/mikkel-rygaard-jensen/profil/spieler/51349

... perhaps not the best of news for Amon, though it could be that they see him as a kind of replacement for their top-scorer Emiliano Marcondes who moved to Brentford this winter.

 

Not to mention, the population of the entire country is only 5.7 million.

 

Population size is a pretty useless number ... it all comes down to the populariy of the sport and how much attention and money it attract ... if you go look at the 'market pool' value of the different countries in Champions League, you will quickly notice that a Danish team is worth much more than a team from Russia that has a population of more than 144 million :
http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/competitions/General/02/51/12/21/2511221_DOWNLOAD.pdf

 

Amon not even in the squad today. Is he injured?

 

FCN report that Amon is injured, which is why he was not in the squad for the game ... there is nothing about what kind of injury or how long it will be ..

 

FCN report that Amon is still injured, which is why he was not in the squad for the away game against AaB Aalborg that finished with a 1-1 draw ...

 

Bone inflammation
Return expected on Mar 31, 2018
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jonathan-amon/profil/spieler/542776

 

He'll be out for another month https://www.tipsbladet.dk/nyhed/superliga/amon-og-donyoh-stadig-et-stykke-fra-comeback

 

This has been so dissapointing