Josh is on a good pace. He’ll appear in the Bundesliga this year. The team is being patient and seem to have a plan that prioritizes his development. I’m astonished people are already up in arms about this.
Um no. What he's going thru right now is fairly normal. Getting coached up and trained for a 1st team debut. He hasn't earned shit yet.
Josh made the decision to stay behind so he could advance his club career. That happened. I don't know how you think running around like a chicken with his head cut off against Brazil would have helped Josh progress more than scoring in front of his club manager for the next few years. That point about Josh not making the team this year is pretty ridiculous. He's 1 month in, and Bremen are 2nd in the Bundesliga. Kohfeldt likely feels it would hurt more than help to integrate him right now, for obvious reasons. The point with Arp is that he's scoring goals for Hamburg II in the Bundesliga, is the highest rated youth German striker, and yet he still has barely played for the first team in the 2. Bundesliga. It's really !@#$ing hard to jump from youth football to the pros. People think it's easy to make the jump in Germany because it's comparably easier than England/Spain/Italy, but it's really only marginal. No one does it as fast as you're expecting Josh to. Lastly, possibly the main reason Josh hasn't debuted yet is that Kohfeldt has no reason to even change what cereal he eats in the morning right now with how well Bremen is playing. He'll wait until the team needs a little kick to bring up Josh.
Would England supporters be sitting around saying "it takes time" if Sancho was tearing up regionalliga yet still buried on the Dortmund depth chart with zero Bundesliga appearances? Of course not. This "it takes time" is the stuff of minnow soccer nations. Sargent is not a trailblazer here. Pulisic has shown an American can succeed at a young age in that league and will soon leave on a transfer north of $50 million. Josh has checked all the boxes and done the hardest thing in the sport: score goals. He has earned first team time. Now. He has been there long enough for the them to know what they have. He has shown loyalty to Werder spurning other offers and declining a full international against Brazil. In return he's gotten basically nothing as far as I can tell. I won't give Werder a pass on that. Sorry.
Some of the stuff you read on here. 18 year old kid who has never played a minute of professional football is 6 matches into his first season and hasn't played, while his team is doing great no less, and you're ready to burn the club to the ground. Good Grief.
Sancho joined before the 2017-2018 season. He didn’t start a game until after the winter break. He didn’t even make a cameo appearance until late October (6 minutes).
I'd say that I can't believe that someone is bitching about Sargent's progression already, except that I would be lying if I did so.
Based on how I rate Josh and Bremen's current striker core he should have no issues making an 18, imo.
Milot Rashica, the guy who scored the game winning goal against Frankfurt, didn't make the 18 last game. Right now the pecking order is Kruse, Osako, Harnik, Kainz, Pizarro, Rashica, J Eggestein, Sargent, Osabutey. Bartels will be in 2nd or 3rd spot of that ranking when he returns from injury.
I had a dream last night that I saw Sargent play against Fulham at Craven Cottage. He had a chance right at the start of the game and completely whiffed and fell over. Josh Sargent can't even succeed in my dreams.
Pulisic didn't start at Dortmund right away either. He went at 16 I believe and became a standout on their U19 team. Josh had to wait until he was 18 to be able to sign in Germany since he didn't have a grandfather from a Euro country and is moving up about as fast as any 18 year old could. You want players to earn it. For themselves and also for the teammates they will be playing with who also had to earn it.
Started & scored for the reserves: Unsere Start-1️⃣1️⃣ steht für #H96SVW Auf der Bank: Duffner - Karbstein, Schumacher, Dietz, Plautz, Bünning, YoungHolt euch den nächsten Auswärtssieg! 💪🏻#WerderU23 pic.twitter.com/A9C9ptHVRy— Werder Bremen Frauenfußball (@werderfrauen) September 29, 2018 ⏱ 64. MinDer Anschluss!!! Nach einer Flanke von #Beste legt @joshsargent quer auf #Osabutey, der mit einem Seitfallzieher scheitert. Doch Josh lauert auf den zweiten Ball und drückt ihn über die Linie. Es geht doch!!!⚽️ 2:1 #H96SVW | #WerderU23 pic.twitter.com/E8PsmiD0Ux— Werder Bremen Frauenfußball (@werderfrauen) September 29, 2018