Pulisic's grandfather was Croatian-born but emigrated as a kid after the war, when communications with homelands were difficult and expensive and Tito's security services (a particularly nasty lot) were heavy on Croatian nationalism, esp of the emigre variety. Soto's father is Chilean-born and raised. If Soto's dad is on decent terms with his family back home, Seba will have had plenty of contact with Chile/Chileans growing up. Comparing the two is ridiculous, IMO.
Fault kinda implies he's doing something wrong, right? He may well be going to a better situation, if it's actually one of the good Eredivise clubs mentioned and he can get some run there it could easily be a better situation
I was comparing the two in terms of likelihood of each kid to play for a non-USMNT national team. Both of those are/were 0%. I wasn't comparing the actual lineage.
Naw, "fault" means he's driving this. It appears Hannover want him. Just not a 2 year contract. So indeed, if he moves, it is because he is forcing it to happen. Whether it's a better move or not is a different question. But he's not being forced out for any football reason - only the financials of the contract length.
Not included in the squad for the away game at Hamburg on Sunday. Instead he’ll be training at Hannover. It’s said that the interested club is from Spain however nothing is official yet. Hannover have released one of their strikers today in Jonathas. They currently have 3 strikers and their options are limited. The disagreement on the contract length is hampering both parties but more especially Soto who either leave now (too late in transfer window for a player who has to prove himself) or risk a season of little playing time and have less options next summer. It shouldn’t have come this way. I think committing himself to Hannover was the best options he had.
ESPN is reporting that it's unlikely anything materializes before the window closes. Hannover is asking for too much money, it would seem.
Why will he have little playing time if he stays? Hannover got shut out today. Only Darmstadt have scored less goals. If Soto stays, Hannover continue to languish bottom half and they think he can get them points, he'll get some game. They may not "promote" him, and if one of their other strikers gets it done he'll be stuck. But so far, it does not look like the 96 are on their way to being able to ignore goal scorers.
Just for info. The transfer window for Portugals Liga NOS closes on September 22. https://www.fifatms.com/es/itms/worldwide-transfer-windows-calendar/
Keep training, working on improving his game, get his agent to hire Spector's mom so that they're forced to play him and then show what he's capable of when he does see the pitch. If things continue like this, the coach will be on his way and replaced by a temporary hire who'll be determined to get the job on a full-time basis and will play Soto - hell, play Ted Bundy - if it gets him a full-time deal. In that scenario, the sporting director will eat crow and let it happen because HIS ass will be in danger if they don't turn the season around
Nice. Expect this story to keep percolating for another 3 weeks. And then go silent. And then come back by mid-November, just in time for the winter transfer window.
Not sure exactly what this means... The transfer is off, or he's not in this week's squad? 💬 #Slomka zur Personallage: "Linton #Maina, Sebastian #Jung und Sebastian #Soto fallen aus." #H96DSC #H96 #NiemalsAllein ⚫⚪💚— Hannover 96 (@Hannover96) September 13, 2019 (edit: figured it out - he's injured. From a press conference today or yesterday: "Sebastian continues to have an adductor irritation, and Sebastian Soto has pulled back on the adductor and Sebastian Soto has unfortunately come back ill from the national team, having tonsillitis that he noticed on the flight,")