He should stay in Germany, might get another 20 mins before the end of the season. Also better be kept away from the NT as he gets air sick, and then it takes him a month to heal. He can play online tick tack toe with MB.
EVERYTHING what this program now stands for , what it should stand for, Will be thrown in the garbage. Equality my ass.
He Bullied a reporter into "slowing his roll on Pulisic". He also stood over Pulisic when he was being hacked to injury and did nothing. Now, Bradley all of sudden cares about this young exciting team? Our fanbase really are sheep and he was the lion.
Yes,about him bullying the reporter.I missed earlier. Sidenote:I Googled and the top links were to the Lion comment. Poor guy'll never live that down.
He is a solid MLS player who is coming down from his ceiling.. I think the bar is higher for the NT now.
Poor Guy? -Drafted by his father at 16 - Put on WC Send off camp roster by his God father Arena at 18 - handed keys to USMNT by father at 20, the entire USMNT program was built around him for over a decade. -Remained captain after he jogged and then jogged again. -Dident like up and comers in his spotlight territory -former players confronted him on his special treatment -former players urged him for the morality of the team to step aside and thanked him for his service, Bradley and his father harrassed in response - called out the fan base. -ESPN Analyst/former player revealed the Bradley's are extremely cut-throat. P.S. it was tweet by a reporter that was posted on here multiple times.
With his leadership qualities, I wouldn't mind seeing him with the US again, at least to guide the next generation of players. We could use the experience.
So,you can't find the tweet?Just say so. I mean,I know Mike's a hothead. So I can see it happening. BTW,For someone who has a documented vendetta,you should be embarrassed about not mentioning all the stupid cards he's gotten.
Bradley has always needed defensive support behind or alongside him and he has always seen himself as much more defensively sound than he actually is. This goes back to his early days in Germany when he wanted to play the 6 but his coach didn't see him as a safe enough player for the role and preferred what he brought as a more attacking midfield option in Holland where he score an amazing number of goals for a midfielder. Coaches who ignore his opinion and just provide the support he needs get a lot more out of him. I really think his career could have been even better than it was if not for this tension between what he felt he could provide and what he really provided. Mostly this showed up on the defensive side of the ball. For a two-way midfielder, he produced plenty in the attack, worked very hard and was a strong ball winner. He just always lacked positional discipline and athleticism to be a dominating defensive presence and as he's aged the athleticism issue has become untenable. I can't say he wouldn't actually do well playing one of the 8s in midfield for this team in front of Adams but I am not at all sure he wouldn't keep dropping deep to get the ball and want to take up deeper positions where he likes to find space. Klinsman often tried to get him to try to receive the ball further forward and it never really took hold. Probably not worth trying to teach an old dog new tricks at this point for the national team, but he could probably still do a job, just not the one he seems to want to do. And that's always been an issue with him as a player.
I can't find it either, but I'm sure it's somewhere in this thread from less than a year ago. One of the more well-known US soccer journalists wrote a piece back in 2016 saying that Pulisic should be a starter for the USMNT, after Pulisic had just gotten his first handful of professional appearances for Dortmund. 4-5 years later the journalist recalled that Michael Bradley had spoke to him at the time about that piece and said something like he's as big a fan of the kid as anyone but let's tone down the hype machine until he's actually had a chance to get some real playing time, or something like that. It was a little hard to gauge the context based on a conversation someone was recalling from that long ago, especially without knowing whether Bradley and the reporter were on friendly terms and frequently discussed things like this off the record, or whether Bradley was trying to prevent Pulisic from being buried under the unreasonable expectations that had consumed some of his friends and contemporaries from when he was younger. On the other hand, who knows, I wouldn't be surprised if he was just being a dick either. But people on here tend to read a lot into very small tidbits of information when it comes to Bradley.
“The knife stays between our teeth. We keep going, there’s more for us.”Keep It Going | All For One: Moment presented by @Bell pic.twitter.com/hmqt5hcOD8— Toronto FC (@TorontoFC) April 15, 2021 He may be done for the USMNT and probably should be but I can see why he doesn't think so. He just lead a team starting 4 academy kids to a win over a good Liga MX team over 2 legs.
Ok Not sure how this follows that? Being "Adams backup" is not being a BTB midfielder. It is the job Bradley seems to have been moved from at TFC because he is not the best option there anymore (to be kindest).
Remarkably, poor old Tim Chandler has only represented the USA at a World Cup one fewer time than Michael Bradley. Which seems criminal, considering he did nothing to earn that opportunity and did nothing with it, but cashed a World Cup bonus check and can put it on his resume nonetheless. Well, at least he did redeem himself by being the worst player in the two worst games of the Hex, giving up 6 goals in just two games, and getting his benefactor fired. Really, the projection is here is amazing and totally obvious. Like Tim Chandler is obviously everything people weirdly accuse Bradley of: selected for WC due to nepotism, "lazy" performances / doesn't care about the NT, worst player in the Hex. It's like weird gaslighting.
Who the heck is bringing up Tim Chandler?! Talk about someone with even less relevance to the national team than Michael Bradley...
More pathetic segment of twitter this morning:Liga MX fans claiming that Leon are trash even tho they’re the reigning champs, are 7th in the table & are unbeaten in 5~or~USMNT “fans” rooting against Toronto because they irrationally hate Bradley & Jozy so much.— Matthew Doyle (@MattDoyle76) April 15, 2021 if we'd qualified that would be remembered as the second-best non-World Cup goal in USMNT history. Sigh.— Matthew Doyle (@MattDoyle76) April 15, 2021 Are people really this upset that Michael Bradley played well in 2 games against the 2020 LigaMX Guard1anes champions?— Daniel (@DanielSmith1022) April 15, 2021 [emoji23]
And people say that there isn't an irrational hatred of Bradley. There's a literal example of mental imbalance right in this thread.
3 tweets about people rooting against Bradley and Altidore, but no tweets rooting against Bradley and Altidore? This sounds like one of them times, so frequent now with social media, where you see an overreaction to basically no reaction. I'm sure there's gotta be one guy somewhere (maybe feilheiber here) rooting against them for said reasons, but making it sound like it's some cohort is a bit of a stretch, methinks.
[/QUOTE]This sounds like one of them times, so frequent now with social media, where you see an overreaction to basically no reaction. I'm sure there's gotta be one guy somewhere (maybe feilheiber here) rooting against them for said reasons, but making it sound like it's some cohort is a bit of a stretch, methinks.[/QUOTE] Now they play Fake victim.
You can believe two things at the same time: Bradley had a good game last night. Bradley's totally irrelevant to the national team going forward. He was falling off in '14, he was outright bad in '17, he was flat out horrible in '19. Why should anyone give half a <censored> that he had a good run out in a CCL game at the beginning of his season (or just before kick off?). I've got dozens and dozens and dozens of horrible showings in MLS mixed with even worse performances with the USMNT in '19. Unless he puts together a year long stretch of excellent play, he's 1000% irrelevant. Additionally the fact that he basically swallows up the room when he's around would completely demolish the whole "Board Room" approach Egg has had for the captaincy that has recently been brought up. I get that MLS hired hands have to promote the living ---- out of their guys, but we don't have to fall for the stupidity, do we? Their marketing. Good for them. His days as a truly relevant USMNT were 2007-2014, and unfortunately 2016-2019 as a totally irrelevant one that kept getting called in anyway (and I'll give him his genius moment at Azteca). It's not hard to approach this properly. Michael had a good game, but the sample size is one random CCL night in April compared to years of horse pucky as my grandfather referred to it. We've moved on, so should all the MLS marketing boys (and Berhalter, if this turned his head, lol, this is classic fodder for that current girl, girl walking by meme that's used so often, just throw Yunus Musah's head on the outraged girlfriend, and Michael Bradley's bald pate on the new girl's head and presto, Berhalter stupidity memed before it even potentially might happen).