The coming boom in multi-eligible player recruitment

I remember something, probably here, which said GB and crew have followed and reached out to him. Everything I know says FB said he was not interested now, and it makes sense from his point of view.
Fans trying to hard.
Same way fans ignore our players issues and blame everything else out there, but certainly not the player!

 

I think he ultimately will switch even if it's not now and I think he'll want to play in the Euro U21 Championships (as Fabian Johnson once did). But the Olympics won't be a consideration as the UK doesn't compete in them except in 2012 when they were hosting. England wanted to field in a team in both 2016 and 2020 but Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales blocked it (they did allow it for the women though).

 

Any predictions?

There’s good dual-nat news coming within the next week for the US program.

No hints. Place your predictions.

— USMNTProspects (@ProspectsUsmnt) August 15, 2022

 

If he plays in the U21 and does well we ain‘t getting him.

 

Well, if he doesn‘t play for them he will have decided a shot at the cup now is important!

 

Jonathan Gomez will be the best news.

Since I'm in the mood for good news, I'll go with that.
Jonathan Gomez will be at September camp.

 

Makes sense. A lot more than FB.

 

I'll change my guess.

That tweeter (who we know ) would be going a lot crazier if it was Balogun or Gomez.
Notice he says US program and not USMNT.

So I'm going to go with a U20. Tony Leone. Tony Leone will be at the next U20 camp.
There's my refined guess.

 

Santiago Munoz

 

Oh you're right. It wouldn't necessarily make sense for him to be at the U20 camp.

Have we found out for sure that guys like Leone will be eligible our Olympic team? After all, the U20 CONCACAF Championships were the qualifiers for the Olympics.

So maybe my refined guess isn't so good.

 

Josh Pynadath rejected India call.

 

I know this is a joke but is it even possible? Afaik India doesn't allow for dual citizens so English-Indian players who expressed interest would have walked straight in their team (Michael Chopra, Danny Baath, Yann Dhanda) never got capped.

 

A few thoughts on Folarin Balogun:

-Should be in the convo for the USMNT but much more work to do to earn a top 3 spot
-USSF has long been in contact
-Can't force a player to switch
-Players can turn down the WC to go with the U21s of another nation. Happened with Giuseppe Rossi

— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) August 18, 2022

 

I don't have the slightest clue how good Balogun is -- I've only ever seen highlights.

But it is worth noting that we are already qualified for the Paris Olympics, if he is thinking U21.

 

And he has already played in the UEFA U21 tourney that qualifies them for the Olympics. That usually means he won't be eligible for the US in that tourney.

 

Though the UK is also extremely unlikely to compete in the Olympics even if England were to qualify through the UEFA U21 tourney. I wonder if there’s some loophole that would allow him to exploit.

 

The dawn of a new kind of multi eligible player recruitment?

MLS homegrown player rules will loosen, with fewer territorial restrictions - The Athletic

 

The thing about this, though, is that it is looser restrictions but the 9 players tagged must feel like chattel.

 

This seems like the first in a 10 step 10 year process to basically get rid of the HGP territories, but this iteration seems to change little.

You can basically lock down every 3-Star and above prospect in your academy and every 4-5 Star prospect that is in you territory but not in your academy.

Next iteration the cap lowers.

 

I don’t know I think it opens things up significantly in bigger markets like say Los Angeles.