You thought that your contribution was so overwhelmingly important that you created a new account and only posted in the Chicago Fire forum. Glad to know that and we are ever so glad to have you valuable, prescient pronouncements. We are forever in your debt. Now go away. I am not likely to be inferior to you, but whatever. Your opinion is NOT unpopular. Your opinion is the prevailing opinion. It is not that your opinion is "unpopular," it is that your opinion is not warranted, not required and not desired. 1) We all know that MLS is an inferior league to most of the leagues in Europe. That is not a surprise to any of us. We have all watched other leagues for friggin' decades, even if the "EPL sucks" (obligatory for @bunge). 2) We all know that there is a long standing bias against picking players from MLS for various national teams, especially in Europe. There are two reasons for this a) MLS is perceived as an inferior league and b) many national team coaches have complained about the "travel" requirements. That is extremely common knowledge. We did not need a condescending dick like you to inform us of this. Hence, our animosity towards you.
Not only that its pretty god damn annoying when a Manchester United bandwagon fan has jumped on the Fire forums and shit talks "The MLS" and ttys to sound smarter than you are. Your a Man U fan and a England supporter where the ******** did your national team and club team go mate? Go to the Man u drums and bitch about why your National and club team sucks mod balls and rubber dicks.
Just remember that a majority of the really good players in the EPL aren't English, that's where his national team went.
And as someone who is a Manchester United fan and watches every game, your description of Schweinsteiger's play, when he did play for United, was utterly false. Jose himself admitted his treatment of Bastian was wrong.
There is a bias. Italy did NOT have a strong set of strikers. Eder is half the player Giovinco is whether you are looking at Giovinco's goal scoring in Italy or in MLS. MLS players have done just fine in the World Cup in the past. The 2002 team had 13 current MLS players and 17 total with MLS experience and went to the quarterfinals where we got screwed on a hand ball against Germany. There were 22 MLS current MLS players that played in Brazil with 11 on the US team and 11 on other national teams. Your argument seems to be that the level of play in MLS is not good enough to support a WC quality player or that a player that is WC quality when he gets here will deteriorate. Then, explain how MLS regular makes this happen: Two incredibly successful loan spells (including an Everton Player of the Month award) stepping right off the MLS boat and into the Premier League. Brian McBride, Clint Dempsey, Brad Friedel, Tim Howard and others have transferred to England and had immediate, positive impacts after having virtually no development except MLS. No one has any illusions about what MLS is, but we at least KNOW what MLS is, but I'm not sure you really do. To try to compare it to the Championship or League 1 is simply ignorant. Not based on quality, but based on what the league is. Apples to Oranges. Championship sides don't have the mix of stars, young players and foreign players that MLS has. Those teams all have far more depth than MLS teams because they don't deal with artificial salary caps. I'm not claiming MLS is better than those leagues, but it is so different that you can't compare. However, history in both international tournaments and international transfers of players from MLS to Euro leagues has proven that good players are good players and that they can step off the boat and compete immediately. Giovinco should have been on the Italy team. Based on his current form last summer, he was every bit the player when compared to other Italian strikers.
I'm telling you. 12 years old. Kenilworth. Dad's an executive at AON and gave him a ManU shirt when he was 8.
I was thinking that during the game. The way he played yesterday would fit perfectly with the way the Fire have been playing.
x1000 Hopefully it's a new owner that signs him, because somehow I think Andi thinks this is all NONSENSE.
Pure smoke. They throw out this rumor to get people excited to buy season tickets and to soften the blow of losing Schweinie.