Jozy and the Footycats: Altidore at Sunderland

The death of a dynasty. Thank God for Tim Howard and Brad Guzan.

 

Is that humor or
It's a shame he's stuck on the bench. Dude should def try a move. Not like he has much time left. Just about 30. Multiple years in Belgium can't be great for the sanity

 

If I was a billionaire I would buy an MLS team just to transfer FJ in and watch JK's reaction.

 

Now you get to watch TFC's garbage.

I'm all for Mix to NYCFC, but Jozy to TFC is a shit move. Trading one shit situation for another. One ugly, direct, lob the ball at his face system for another.

You'd have thought he learned from his time at Sunderland. Apparently not.

 

I don't think Sacha is going mad... I don't... do you?

 

Good, now I can go back to giving zero f*cks about the BPL as opposed to the 1/16th of a f*ck I had been giving.

 

i look at it as a swap for yedlin and altidore. i much rather watch yedlin in the premier league.

 

Bradley, Adu, Jozy Altidore.

Watch out Brazil U-20's, we're coming for you.

 

dun dun dun another one bites the dust

 

Oh, Adu. How come no team in the MLS has the heart to rescue him?

 

Sacha has been starting for Toronto FC for two years, but no one noticed.

 

So will we blame Toronto's midfielders for not giving Jozy perfect service. I need to quickly find a new scapegoat and set Larsson and Johnson free.

 

We'll have to blame Bradley then.

 

but then we can just say bradley was played out of position.

*Defoe has to be the smartest/luckiest player of all time. He starts max 15 games per year, scores 10 goals, gets injured, then sent to the bench, then he generates drama with the coach, the press get a hold of it, then he's off to another club or another managers problem.

 

Will you show be showing your face around Jozy threads/discussions if he scores a lot of goals?

 

you mean leave the YA forum? as long as we have one 3rd string player in league one, I wont leave!

 

The YA forum's name is going to go from plural to singular before we know it.

 

I think the Villarreal debut was his Euro highlight.

 

We were all wondering how many you gave. Now we all know. Thanks.

 

* phone rings *

"Hallo..." {Jürgen goes pale} *click*
"Who was that?"
"Gar... Garber..."
"What's wrong?"
"He's told me he's going for Cameron and Bedoya now..."
"That bastard!"

 

There's a reason I've watched every second of Jozy at Sunderland... It is to see the dude score and be successful. I'm a big fan of Jozy, just not a fan of excuses.

MB90 slotting thru balls to Jozy.... I'll watch that regardless of what league it is in.

 

Oh well if he goes to Toronto, he's still technically a yank abroad ;-)

 

I want Jozy to officially come back to MLS so we can take this thread behind the barn and shoot it.

 

My 10 cents worth is that

for Jozy it's ugh:
swapping one badly-owned, badly managed club that sacks managers like Jay-LO dumps toyboys - and has the history of underachievement that goes with it - is not going to improve him at all psychologically, never mind technically/ tactically.

for Toronto it's good:
Jozy has had better fitness down the years, is less of a flash git, has the body to do hold-up play (it's not his game but at MLS level he'll be OK at it) and is a hard worker, which is exactly what they need now.

My guess is that the trade element of this deal nixed other teams' interest, with the holdup being the haggling over personal terms, but I'd have preferred another team*.


*Wasn't Portland linked to him, or was that just speculation?

 

That was under O'neal as a manager, who is known for using wingers crossing to a poacher in the box. They weren't a good team, and he was fired, but he had an offensive identity.