#Johnny Cardoso is one step away to #Spezia from #SCInternational. #transfers https://t.co/rUtTGIas6q— Nicolò Schira (@NicoSchira) November 22, 2022
👏 Congratulations to @bschwake1 who has earned a spot in the SPFL #TOTW! https://t.co/UB4OGQ9dum— Greenock Morton (@Morton_FC) November 22, 2022
🔜 Done Deal and confirmed! #Johnny Cardoso to #Spezia from #SCInternacional. 4-years contract. #transfers https://t.co/rUtTGI9UgS— Nicolò Schira (@NicoSchira) November 24, 2022 Inter treats the information that Johnny is being sold to Spezia as a “blatant lie” https://t.co/ZVviFpOUwP— Daniel (@DanielSmith1022) November 24, 2022 Interesting. I heard the clubs were somewhat far apart on the deal and Johnny was listening to other clubs as well. https://t.co/JZCDZtK5Fy— Daniel (@DanielSmith1022) November 24, 2022 The Johnny Cardoso 🇺🇸🇧🇷 transfer report to Spezia is fake, there is no deal done.Johnny is currently at Italy and has offers from Seria A, La Liga and EPL clubs.A move during the winter is likely with a possible loan back to Internacional for 6-12 months.— Tactical Manager (@ManagerTactical) November 24, 2022
Reading Anderlecht and Sampdoria are interested but it’ll depend on how much his club will go in on the wage split.— Daniel (@DanielSmith1022) November 25, 2022
Congrats to Mauricio Cuevas on his first senior friendly start for Club Brugge. Likely will be at the U20 World Cup, and also could be at the Olympics depending on other player releases.Thanks to @BostonRedSoccer for spotting https://t.co/ldy3ZHx0Yn— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) November 26, 2022
Juventus and Inter like USA’s Yunus Musah 🇺🇸Juve had 2 scouts watching the match against England and Inter would want to bring him in this January. Via Gazzetta pic.twitter.com/s4JqMgBs7I— Italian Football TV (@IFTVofficial) November 26, 2022
Lost among American fans amid the WC is a terrible season for the failing Venezia-American experiment. Relegated out of Serie A in 2021/22, they’re now in last in Serie B & visit Palermo today. Tanner Tessmann starts, Gianluca Busio & Andrija Novakovich on the bench. What a mess pic.twitter.com/6ehXTGC184— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) November 27, 2022 Konrad won’t attend Olympiakos’ “midseason” camp in Spain. Coach’s decision.Hopefully he’s somewhere working on his fitness individually. https://t.co/uoZMWTfrhN— Daniel (@DanielSmith1022) November 27, 2022
Roma is reportedly interested in adding Johnny Cardoso this January, per Sky Sports. Bologna is also monitoring the situation, joining Spezia in the growing list of Serie A clubs. Cardoso made 39 of his 91 career Internacional apps this season, scoring 3 goals. #USMNT— Larry Henry Jr (@lhenry019) November 29, 2022
Taylor Booth. Player of the Month in Eredivisie. Well deserved. #USMNT https://t.co/MrT94qy8DE— Larry Henry Jr (@lhenry019) November 30, 2022
Monaco sounds like a great option for him. (🟠) AS Mônaco (🇫🇷) realizou uma abordagem ao Internacional pela transferência de Johnny (21).Ideia do clube era colocar Jean Lucas (24) na negociação para abater parte do valor, algo que não deve acontecer, pelo motivo do Internacional querer valor em dinheiro.[@LucasCollar] pic.twitter.com/rWgYptQWKI— Internacional TimeLine (@InterTimeLine) November 29, 2022
Taylor Booth was in his bag in November pic.twitter.com/uxNDZKbp8R— Sanjiv (@USMNTvideos) December 2, 2022
Not me. A subpar MLS loan and he goes down like a rock. With European benches he will be sliding slowly.
I was thinking that, but if he could have a successful loan somewhere in Europe I think that’d be better. Once you join MLS as a highly regarded player that was playing in another country, I think that hurts your career. It’s usually the opposite with our players. They start in MLS and then leave. I think it hurts the careers of players who have interest in the top leagues to do a stint in MLS.
That may have been the case years ago, and certainly individual situations are all different, but at least at this moment MLS players seem to be evaluated far more charitably than they once were by the global marketplace. (João Moutinho is going to Serie A based pretty much entirely on his play in the league; nobody really blinks anymore.) With Konrad's pedigree, a productive MLS season at 21/22 probably gets his pro career, setting aside his MNT aspirations, right back on track, at least for the next stage. Surely Miami talks to his agent every day (just a guess). Of course if he bombs, maybe you'd rather bomb somewhere where you get paid more? I dunno.
It’s not that there aren’t examples of success or it’s disqualifying, but I still don’t think a stint in MLS compared to a stint in Belgium or Netherlands or Portugal looks good on the CV to clubs, if he was to eventually work his way back up the ladder. I don’t think it’d look good either if he played a season or two in Brazil, Argentina, or Mexico either, so it’s not only an MLS thing. I think once you are already established with interest on the European continent, leaving for the Western Hemisphere doesn’t help to increase your market.
I mean, it might very well not be optimal in a broad theoretical sense. I just don't think it's a career killer generally, and almost certainly not for guys with Barcelona on their resumes. I have no idea what his actual options are but I guess he'll go where he's wanted. He needs a good season somewhere.
Konrad needs to pick a team where he can simultaneous work on his weaknesses but also get playing time because of his strength. The latter is a challenge. His big asset is very narrowly defined -- one on one moves to the endline and crossing in. He's skilled, but his work rate, off ball movement and apparently work ethic are pretty questionable. That last one's a killer, and it's pretty damn meaningless the rest of this unless it changes. MLS seems like exactly the WRONG league for him. We run here, and we run a lot. Gonzalo Higuain got benched for not running and working for a crappy team, how the hell is Konrad getting time? How many teams does Konrad get on the field for? Half the league plays in a way he can't. And a good portion of the remainder are running out far better players. I'm sure we can find some teams that he can play for, but it just doesn't feel like a good fit. I think people will Barca, etc., but I think if he comes to MLS, there's just a really good chance he ends up on a bench somewhere. He's not skilled enough to actually be an offensive focal point on most of these teams and he seems unwilling to do the other parts of the game that role players require. Best case would sticking on a bad team or as a situational guy on a defensive/underspending team. Like a Jonathon Lewis role on Colorado. I think he can be better than Lewis in being Lewis ... round out his game and maybe be a better Diego Fagundez in hopefully not so long a time. (I know people are going to find this insulting, so I'm not saying career, I'm saying numbers ... best case is to revive himself as a high assist winger.) Worst case is he comes in, big times it, won't do any dirty work, gets benched and disappears. I vote Belgium. Still a high level, much slower league. More skill based.
San Jose Earthquakes went hard after Matthew Hoppe on a loan. Not saying Konrad is exactly like Hoppe but San Jose plays a Barcelona style possession game and has a need of creative attacking from the wide positions. With Luchi Gonzalez’s ties to the USSF, I can see Konrad interested if he gets assurances of playing time.
I think you'd be insane to assure him of PT, frankly, but if Luchi is fully going that route, I could see it. That said, I've seen Luchi coach, and if he doesn't defend, he won't play.
1599260767831805953 is not a valid tweet id This is simply not true, there no deal done between Johnny Cardoso 🇺🇸🇧🇷, Spezia and Internacional. https://t.co/Zuypbj69aR— Tactical Manager (@ManagerTactical) December 4, 2022 Direção do #Inter nega que tenha negociado ou que esteja perto de vender Johnny ao Spezia. @vozesdogigante— Lucas Collar (@LucasCollar) December 4, 2022