Tea Light in the Dark Universe: Bobby Wood at Hamburg

I wouldn't blame him nor the club. I mean it def shows how much the club value him. And he could be making a big move in the coming months. Nothing can derail that for him.

Then again we need him big time for the NT. And he knows he wants to be playing in a WC.

Again not blaming him. If he isn't 100% better to remain with his country. So he's ready to go when the season resumes in a week

 

Klinsmann believed in Bobby when few did. Bobby had only good words for Jurgi when he left. I think he may have been the one most closely attached to him, even now Klinsmann gives him advice ("don't just leave HSV!"), something he doesn't do with others.

 

Why is anyone putting any suspicion on Bobby Wood? He's the most warrior-minded of all our players. If he says he's injured, he's injured.

 

Well said. Honduras are usually "the best of the rest" in CONCACAF, and their first-choices include a few MLS-quality and better players (Andy Najar, Boniek Garcia, Maynor Figueroa), so they should be able to give the U.S. a game, but the U.S. second and third choices - hell, the U.S. third and fourth choices - would walk into the Honduras squad.

Barring freak circumstances - the Americans hit the woodwork 5 times and the goalie turn in a Tim-Howard against Belgium performance, or the referee is nobbled - a given U.S. side should win comfortably enough.

 

Klinsmann being quoted in German rags on par with the Daily Mail is not giving advice to Bobby. That would be done in private.

 

The Hamburger Morgenpost is not a rag like Bild.

http://www.mopo.de/sport/hsv/juergen-klinsmann-exklusiv-was-ich-bobby-wood-jetzt-rate-26196244

JK: On Fox, which is similar to Sky, I follow on TV almost every HSV game and keep my fingers crossed. We still have good contact. Even after his goal on the weekend I wrote him an SMS. Bobby is very close to my heart. He belongs to a generation that needs much encouragement. [...]

HM: Good performances give rise to interest. In Hamburg they're already worried that Wood, who has just changed his agent, could be going away after the season.

JK:I would not advise him to transfer right away. HSV is a big club, it has a wonderful stadium and great fans. People love their HSV - and now they love Bobby. For him, HSV should not be just a stepping stone! Even if Bobby is doing well at the moment, entering the Bundesliga - and also in a large city like Hamburg - is a huge one for him. Bobby should not take the second step before the first. He must now show constancy for a few years and then he can look. In HSV he's doing just fine. He needs the nurturing environment. [...]


Also, the cynic could note such words are expected, since he's talking to a newspaper from Hamburg.

 

Mad Respect for JK for continuing to look out for Bobby

 

Eh, most likely JK is telling the papers the same advice he gave Bobby. It was the same deal back when he put the brakes on a Stuttgart deal - and remember Jürgen is a local legend there. I don't think it's a case of kissing up to the club.

 

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HSV keeping Wood out to save him for their regulation battle

 

It is, actually.

 

Evidence?

 

Erm, 1) he lives/has lived in Germany and did/has done so for some time, 2) speaks the language and 3) knows German football quite well. He certainly knows it better than either of us.

On the last point, having been challenged on factual details a few times by him, and been proved (rather badly) wrong I'd suggest that you take his word for it.

 

Well, how many quality newspapers you know have a column like this on their homepage?
http://www.mopo.de/erotik-girls
NSFW and all that, seriously.

It's a tabloid (formerly owned by ex-Daily Mirror guy David Montgomery, btw), somewhat more liberal than Bild (due to being a regional tabloid from Hamburg, probably). Looking at their covers should be enough to establish it's a tabloid, I suppose:
https://www.google.de/search?q="hamburger+morgenpost"+tabloid&hl=de&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIytKLjerSAhVBXhoKHRC3DHYQ_AUIBygC&biw=1920&bih=916

 

Well we have some details now from SportBILD so make of it what you will:

http://sportbild.bild.de/bundesliga...bby-wood-hsv-schnaeppchen-50944704.sport.html

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May also be due to its origins as the newspaper of the Social Democrats in Hamburg (they sold it in the 1970s, so the ties would be faint by now). The fact that Hamburg is a port city with a strong counter-cultural current - think St. Pauli - would feed into that as well.

 

Would be sweet to see him at Everton (and I say that as a Liverpool fan)

A nice modest mid-tier club with lots of devoted supporters and he could easily be their starting striker. Especially as Lukaku is for sure leaving this summer.

Though the best thing is Hamburg beat relegation and he stays another year.

 

perhaps if we implemented that, more folks might read newspapers

 

I would be just fine having him as an option and regular at the other team in Liverpool. He would kill it under Klopp's system. Firmino is great playing his false nine-ish role against top teams, as he stitches it all together. But LFC need a Burnley killer, too.

 

I've lived in Europe. Over there, it's rare the paper that does not have such page. They're not half as puritan about naked women as we are over here.

"Tabloid" is just a format. The most respectable papers (Le Monde, El Pais, La Repubblica) have kept their big old format, but still have been sued for publishing wrong news, or for libel, on occasion. It's part of the journalistic profession.

Tabloids, on the other hand, are known to focus on sports and entertainment. Like ALL newspapers, from time to time they'll make mistakes, but it has nothing to do with the fact that they're 17 by 11.

Also, it's an interview. Were they to put words in Klinsmann's mouth, JK would take them to task. He hasn't.

 

Yep, been saying it for a while: his style fits the EPL as a glove.

On the other hand, the soccer in Germany is superior, so I hope he stays there.

 

Actual newspapers don't feature softcore porn. That's exclusively a tabloid thing. There might be some countries in Europe where that's different, but certainly not Germany.

Tabloid journalism focuses on sex, crime, scandals, sports, cute animals, gossip, and uses short and simple texts and big pictures. It's a genre, and does not refer to the size of the paper (although that were the name originally comes from). Maybe the term isn't used as often in the US.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/tabloid-journalism

Either way, the Hamburg Morgenpost is a tabloid by content too.

I'm pretty sure nobody actually implied this was a made-up interview. I think the original poster's point was simply, that talking to a tabloid doesn't make Klinsmann some kind of Yoda-like mentor. Well, and the Hamburger Morgenpost is kind of a rag. That's all I commented on, the Klinsmann-Wood relationship on the other isn't really something I know or care about (for all I know, he could call him once a day to give sage advice).

 

Then why are we having this discussion?

I couldn't care less what media folks here think is acceptable or not acceptable.

 

There's a report Wood might have a herniated disc. I hope that's not true. Either way, screw all the people speculating he was faking.

 

Nope, the Twitter account "Nats Abroad" had flunked the translation. A herniated disk was discarded by the medial team of HSV, he's ok.