Our Lips are Tealed!: Let's unbury the Bunbury conversation and talk Teal

nepotism!!

 

LOL, good one.

 

I wonder if he will train with some EPL team. Didn't he trial with Stoke last year?

 

train, yes. trial, no.

 

Bunbury's best bet is to train with a team in Germany, if possible.

 

So he can add an umlaut and live up to Mark Rogondino's ridiculous pronunciation of his name as "Bünbury"?

 

KC's Bunbury leaves sophomore jinx behind

http://www.socceramerica.com/article/44466/kcs-bunbury-leaves-sophomore-jinx-behind.html

 

I will pay the mods real money to change the name of this thread.

 

Pay no mind to what they say. Doesn't matter anyway.

 

I can feel it, they're talking about us.

 

I'm sorry but I just don't get all the Teal hype. I've watched him play several times and see nothing any better or worse than what you get with Altadore and neither one is going to score many goals.

 

His Dad is annoyed Cdn national team supporters have the gall to call Teal names.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sp...over-unwarranted-shots-at-teal-133057928.html

 

Don't necessarily agree with this, but the team could do worse than having two Altidore types.

 

Have any of Bunbury's goals come from headers this season?

 

The juicy irony being that Alex was born in Guyana, but played for Canada. The Canadian fans have no trouble embracing him. Yet Teal, born in Canada but mostly raised in Portugal and the United States should only play for the country of his birth.

 

To be fair, they claim it's because he was quoted as saying only a few months before that he couldn't imagine playing for the US/not playing for Canada.

 

Canada had a chance to integrate him from an early age. He only got 3 youth caps. That is a clear sign that he wasn't wanted. He was atop college player at Akron and somehow wasn't good enough for their U20 team? Give me a break.

We fans are biased and our double standards are incoherent. It is not logical to criticize Ponce playing for Mexico while clamoring for Parker to give up on Germany or for Nagbe to get his citizenship sooner. We should fight for every dual-national. We will lose some along the way, but it's in poor taste to constantly criticize Rossi or Subotic for not choosing us. It hurts but we need to move on.

 

Training is always a trial, or it can become one real fast.

 

Bump.

I'm cross-posting this via a thread from last year. In short: Bunbury has only one thing going for him - the ability to outrun a defense and get onto the end of a throughball. He doesn't pass well, doesn't hold the ball up in traffic, doesn't get "garbage" goals, and in two years as a pro, has NEVER scored off a cross.

He's also scored just one header despite being 6-foot-2, and his runs in the final third are simply abysmal.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8O15HIOMQs"]Teal Bunbury: Sporting Kansas City | More than a soccer player; a role model - YouTube[/ame]

• Goal 1: Throughball where he gets behind a static Chivas USA defense
• Goal 2: Throughball where he gets behind a static Houston defense
• Goal 3: Throughball where he gets behind a static Columbus defense
• Goal 4: Misplayed defensive clearance that puts him behind the TFC defense - he headed it over the onrushing keeper, his only headed goal as a pro
• Goal 5: Throughball where he gets behind a static Chicago defense
• Goal 6: Misplayed backpass that puts him behind a static Chicago defense
• Goal 7: Wonderful long-range curler to the far post vs. Vancouver
• Goal 8: Clever throughball and cut-back vs. Vancouver
• Goal 9: Slams home a loose ball against New England
• Goal 10: Slams home a rebound against RSL
• Goal 11: Throughball where he gets behind a static Houston defense
• Goal 12: Throughball where he gets behind a static Houston defense

There are a few goals from the end of the season that need to be added, but they all fall into the "run onto a throughball" group.

I'm tired of watching him with the senior nats.

 

Sapong will be better for the national team. Been saying this a long time. He can play back to goal, combines better and is fearless

It would br one thing if teal could consistently finish. But he does not

 

Can we bury it now?

 

Could not agree more with both the previous two posters (thanks for all the great data, Matrim) and I am dreading watching him in Olympic qualifying or even, god forbid, the Olympics.

He's got promise, but he is nowhere near ready for the senior national team. A black hole where the ball goes to die, or to get shot over or around the goal.

 

The majority of you guys didn't watch many SKC games this year. He was just as frustrating during the MLS season. He has shown glimpses, but as of now, he needs to get the ball to his feet with space, or else he struggles. He cannot lead a line all that well.

 

I watched him plenty... I brought this up in another thread and was told "he was injured."

 

This. From a KC fan, I don't get the Teal hype. Watch his goals from last season. All but the cutback Vancouver goal were running on to the ball or putting away a lucky bounce. He's not unlike many of the many prior U.S. forwards who use quickness/size to make up for subpar skills. Technically, he's an upgrade to Eddie Johnson - but not by much.