that's not just some english announcer guy, that's Alan Smith! he's like the most classic EPL commentating voice
I'll bet on Bobby in terms of overall goals in the Bundesliga. Would love for both of them to hit double digits too.
Kitchen kinda is part of the NT picture. Boss seems to be the only one who has really failed. Some of the injured guys might end up being failures too. Many of them are solid squad players in MLS or other leagues.
Fabian Johnson starts for BMG, Green on the bench for Bayern in the champions league today. Still not sure why these monchengladbach fellows insist on playing a left back as an attacker...
Yup. as I posted I got a nice shot the empty stadium being drowned. If anyone could afford a retractable roof it should be Citeh.
Opportunity for Green to get into a game and demonstrate he deserves more playing time. Fingers crossed.....................
Never understood Boss's move to Portugal. He had been there and had not impressed anyone, to the point that he didn't play a single minute. Then, another Portuguese club offered him a contract, to once again never play him. I don't think he ever even trained with their first team, he got shipped to Sweden right away. The whole thing was a bit weird.
Daniel Williams 90 for Reading * Yedlin subbed IN at the 74th min but for a Forward. dont know what the formation looked like. NewC. was up 5-0 at that point. maybe they had him somewhere other than RFB.
No, Klinsi mentions a class of long term injured people that he says he is waiting for even as they have not played in a long time. “We have players that are injured a bit longer than we thought. We feel for them, but we are also waiting for them, players like Terrence Boyd, like Joe Gyau, like Josh Gatt, or even Aron Johannsson out for a couple months. These players are not forgotten. They play a wider role in building our group, our core, for 2018 in Russia. So hopefully they get back on track as quickly as possible.
It's an underwhelming list, but you're kind of employing circular logic here. You're ajudging them all to not be NT material, in part because Klinsmann didn't try to integrate some at the appropriate times. That is the case w/ Lletget and Kitchen. It's arguably been with Rowe. It was the case w/ Agudelo leading up to the WC and during, when he was in the Netherlands. Okugo could have been tried in the couple years in MLS when he was a rising star, before it faded. The perception and/or reality of their careers could be different if better decisions had been made by the nt manager, Klinsmann. He certainly likes to take credit for Wood's career, and how it would have turned out differently if he didn't give him the nt boost, even though he had upward mobility in the system he was in. What's he trying to do with Stanko, the same thing? Is he nt material, just because he was called up to the nt out of the blue, while players standing out more arguably in better leagues remained out in the cold? Regardless if he's a useful USNT'er w/in the next couple of years of Jurgen's tenure, and they're not, I don't think that's the case. Jurgen controls almost all of perception and some of reality in this situation. Then you can branch out to players on that '12 u-23 Olympic qualifying squad such as Hamid and Villafana. Clearly they've warranted a ton more call-ups then they've received. But they didn't get them because they went through MLS and were part of said lost generation, scapegoated for the team's overall performance, because Klinsmann likes to look at players as groups rather than individual, and in many cases even has an inexplicable idea of which group he believes to be better. It's a lost generation of management just as much as it's a lost generation of players.
And right after that it goes on to say, "But in the short run, like a hamstring with Jozy, we will manage it, we will make the best out of it, but it has an effect on the roster. There’s no doubt about it.”
He says Boyd, Gyau, Gatt and Johannsson are his core for Russia 2018. Jozy is brought up as a contrast because he is only short term injured and therefore he can "manage", he says.
O come on. Your reaching. He says play a wider part first. He's not saying their a lock to be part of the core. And you if you don't think Jozy will be part of the core your crazy. JK made him one of his captains. You can dislike JK all you want, God knows I do but come on your reaching big time on this one. Helping coordinate 4 players who are in or close to Germany meet up to rehab together is a nice thing to do. Rehabbing is tough enough as is. Having people there with you to help you is important. Adding the fact that they're not only trying to get back on for club but would all like to make their way back to the national team is a good common goal to help them push eachother.
He's been fairly indifferent for the Nats sadly. I like him as a player though, his role with Reading is pretty much what JJ has done for us... I just wish he could replicate it in a US shirt. Same deal with Morales.
He's not used as a 6. Which he has the qualities for and little depth there. He's used as an 8 and we have a lot of 8's.
When Williams played as a 6 for the USMNT, he was very strong when he got into a tackle but he would get lost positionally. He passing was also was good as a 6. But, the positioning was a big problem and is probably why he is playing as an 8, imo.
Agreed both have been severally average, although I think Williams has been better than Morales. Klinsmann just doesn't rate them. "But they are German Americans and taking all the callups!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Should we get a MOD to update the title of this thread. We should of created a new 16-17 one for this "season".
Yo, someone tell Jurgen we had two wingers starting in away UCL matches today yet he's never started them together on the wings for the NT. One of my biggest criticisms of Jurgen is his failure to start Fabulous and Hershey's Finest across one another in the attack.