Looks like Pogba is irrelevant to McKennie between now and the World Cup... Paul Pogba may return from his injury in 2023 and hence may miss the World Cup. Juventus' plan was for Pogba to undergo surgery in Santa Monica however the recovery time is estimated to take longer than two months. He will see doctors in Turin and France before making a decision.
I hear this a lot but I never hear any examples of why. Guy has had an extremely long pro career for what everyone seems to feel is a fool/tool. Are there any actual examples?
Jozy Altidore is going on loan to Puebla in Liga MX. I’m told Altidore will arrive in Puebla this afternoon, and could see the field this weekend. #NERevs #usmnt https://t.co/zxxi9nMYpS— Jeff Carlisle (@JeffreyCarlisle) July 28, 2022
Pefok worked his tail off defensively against Mexico in the road qualifier. But all that everyone remembers is his missing that golden goal opportunity. I would like him on the 26-man roster as a late game sub.
Word was he was outspoken but again that was all I ever heard and there weren't all these examples given. I'll guess and he was outspoken a few times which offended someone who made it a big deal picked up by others. I mean if the players are cool with McKennie for sort of unwittingly sabotaging a window it seems tame to me. Politics, religions, movies, foods, etc have never made me unfriend someone. Sometimes disagreements make for better conversations.
Most people are more understanding when a player has their girlfriend over to their hotel room than when they support QAnon, who could have imagined such a thing...
Cameron's not on the team now because he's old and not very good. Cameron wasn't playing at the end of the cycle in 2017 because he had a crap game against Costa Rica, then blamed everyone but himself publicly and called out the guy who controlled his PT ... Arena. After that, he was publicly supportive of Trump halting immigration from 7 Muslim countries and was also vocally anti-mask and early on a covid is the flu kind of dude, amongst other things. Apparently, he was at least once good friends with Bedoya who is pretty lefty, FWIW, but he seemed to go down a bunch of farther right rabbit holes. But I don't think his politics had anything to do with playing time with the USMNT. By the time he was doing that kind of thing, his time was over. And his 2018 cycle PT had more to do with him and Arena than anything. EDIT: Looking at google, the other things include a bunch of stop the steal stuff, so yeah...
Where to begin. Public statements: Anti-science/anti-mask, playing in MLS is “wasting your career,” dumped all over Bruce Arena, supported anti-Muslim travel ban. The list goes on. Stupidity and bigotry is always worth calling out, even when one side tried to call it “politics.”
That was my experience. I wanted to play football really badly in high school (if you ever saw me play, you'll know I achieved that goal). So, I worked out like crazy in the weight room. It got me nowhere. When I was a soph in H.S. I weighed 135 and gave it up for cross country. It wasn't until I was in my early 20's that I was able to add much muscle.
Who are you talking about? (I've got an idea, but I don't want to label the guy, if I have the wrong guy)
Fwiw, the guys on a Leeds pcast (The Roaring Peacock) were talking up Aaronson and Adams, individually. By "individually" they weren't grouping them as Yanks. They talked about Aaronson ("reminds me of Lee Bowyer") and later they mentioned Adams ("doesn't do anything great, but does everything right"). So, based on that teeeeeny sample size, at least they're off to a good start with the fans.
My sense is that Cameron never had an issue with any of his teammates over any of his political views. Independent of that there were lots of reports after the failure to qualify about him having attitude issues and not being a good locker room presence. And Arena definitely alluded to that too after Cameron made comments about his views on Arena. Of course there were just chemistry issues overall with that team, not just with him.
Yeah, I don't think the politics had much of anything to do with it, I recall reading that he was a recalcitrant ----- when he was on the bench, a classic example of a guy you could start, but not sit by '17 w/o him being a cancer in the locker room. Multiple sources mentioned this. I'll grant that they also mentioned him being a complete --- about politics to those of us that are the left or centrists, but I think that would have been a bigger problem w/this group, than the older, more done it all, seen it all '16-'17 group. It's also worth noting that the NFL got along just fine the last half decade despite teams being totally riven by locker rooms where a massive racial-political divide was ever present. I think it had far more to do with Cameron being perceived as a world class ----- down the stretch than it had to do with his gutter politics (though to be fair, it might be mildly relevant, especially with the younger players).
The latter point is really relevant, and I'm going out on a mild limb saying it, but I think locker room chemistry started going steadily down hill with Bradley, the quality of the team in '09-'10, kept him going well enough, but over time, I think divisions began to open with Bradley (based on things I've heard Conrad, and Pearce say on their podcast, as well as the soccer soup podcast discussing some of the asinine issues w/the olympic team in '08), got worse with Klinsmann, and broke apart in '16-'17. It wasn't dire on the level of other teams like France a decade ago, where you had a team imploding and firing its coach in '10 and one of their best players black mailing a teammate etc, but there's a lot of relevant detail that suggests things just started to go sour. Bradley was a much better coach that I gave him credit for at the time, but I've also seen enough over the years to fundamentally believe that him during his period, and later his son's, temperament and personality were not of the unifying sort, and Bradley's ability to silence a room could be good in good times, but I think could be a real problem in bad times, left no room for other voices etc. I'm kind of stunned because I never would have argued this take early on, the sense I got was that he was a pain in the --- as a teammate, but it really does seem like Berhalter has done a similar strong job as Arena back in '98-'99 in rebuilding what was a broken locker room, and broken team. Of course, it helps when you get to eject 95% of the pool when you take over so there was/is that.
Jozy official ¡AL PUEBLOTA HAN LLEGADO GRANDES ESTADOUNIDENSES Y NO TENEMOS DUDA QUE SEGUIRÁS EL LEGADO!🔵😎¡Hagamos grandes cosas, @JozyAltidore!🔥 El 🔵y⚪️ se defiende con TODO, demostrémoslo juntos👊🏻RT si #LaFranjaNosUne🎽 y estás bien pinshi ilusionado por verlo en el 🏟Cuauhtémoc🤩 pic.twitter.com/pzePTGZn2E— Club Puebla🎽 (@ClubPueblaMX) July 29, 2022 Después de una llamadita y unas recomendaciones 100% avaladas☝🏻 ¡Ahora sí, es un hecho!😎¡BIENVENIDO AL PUEBLOTA, @JozyAltidore!🔥 ¡YA ERES UN HIJO DE TU ENFRANJADÍSIMA, VAMOS A ROMPERLA!⚽️🔝RT si #LaFranjaNosUne🎽 y ya quieres ver a nuestro Enfranjado defendiendo el 🔵⚪️ pic.twitter.com/6Uz0y2HlLd— Club Puebla🎽 (@ClubPueblaMX) July 29, 2022 Bruce Arena sure loves his over the hill vets, Altidore, Omar Gonzalez... oh well at least this time it can't cost us a World Cup. #NERevs offload Altidore for the rest of the first year of his contract, which given his age should’ve been his most valuable/productive. Still have two more guaranteed years for his age 33 and 34 season and they’re fully on the hook at age 34 without TFC subsidizing. https://t.co/HXcdQJp3tZ— Sean Donahue (@SeanLDonahue) July 28, 2022
Also keep in mind, while a majority of Leeds fans were excited by Aaronson, they were not overly keen on Adams so he had much more of an uphill battle with the fanbase.