Pre-match: Mexico Friendly, 4/19

So do the C & C keepers have real upside? There are folks who have shown to be good analysts who really like Callender. What‘s the skinny?

 

I would also bring in Parks and I'd see if Chelsea would let us have Slonina and would start him.

But my projected roster is what I think Hudson will do versus what I would do.

 

Will mls release players?

 

Almost certainly. Part of the reason we only called one MLS player this window (and he will not get released for this game).

 

Yeah I can’t imagine US Soccer would agree to this game without mls confirming that players would be released. I can’t imagine what our squad would look like if we couldn’t take first team players from MLS or Europe.

 

What's to stop an individual club from rejecting the request? We've seen it happen before.

 

They certainly can.

However, I do agree with the poster above.
I'm sure the federation has been chatting with clubs.
We didn't call them up this past window so we could call them up in the next one.

Maybe Atlanta said they wouldn't release Robinson outside of a FIFA date in April, so we called him up to the March camp.

 

Some may reject the callup, but I think in a majority of situations, they will both want to keep the player happy and appreciate the exposure that a callup brings to the player - including a boost to future value. Especially if they're not missing a game, seems hard to justify barring a player nursing injuries.

 

I believe with Robinson it came down to his continuing recovery and not forcing him into multiple games in a short amount of time. That's what I read somewhere.

 

There's one day of training for this camp. I'd start Sands 6 and Keaton 10 with a positionally savvy defensive 8 who can press and pass and cover the 6 position when Sands has to back up the fullback (Hudson will bring Acosta and Morris instead).

There's a temptation to bring two cb's who know each other like Zim and Long but we really need to get going on combing thru the cb pool for 2026 when Long will likely be totally out of it. How about Kessler or a guy of similar age + Zim?

 

el grande toma de efectivo classico!

 

Hudson basically said as much. They didn't want him playing three games in a one week period.

 

Why do you say that?

 

We don't have Chicago players on the team, and Atlanta will certainly release ARob as that's their last chance to sell him rather than loose for free. So we should be fine.

 

Celentano might be a better version of Steffen. Very solid, without visible weaknesses, good, though not great, athletically. Not to become, he might be there already.

 

williamson and pomykal are in the same boat for me- it really is shit or get off the pot time for them. theyve both shown glimpses, even stretches of really promising play over the last half decade and neither has made a case for more than filling out a gc roster.

theyre both used up their "injury at inopportune time" cards and both have wholly overwhelmed when they have gotten a shot.

let me put it this way- roldan is consistently twice the player either of them are in club play and no one argues he deserves actual minutes with the nats. why do eryk or paxton?

ive been a fan of both, and badly wanted both to make a freaking case for themselves already but at some point you move on.

 

I think they both have good potential. The next step for either of them would be to establish themselves as the best goalie in MLS the same way Turner and Tim Howard did. Steffen was also MLS goalie of the year before he left, but there’s lots who argue he didn’t deserve it.

It’s still very early but so far the best goalie in the league in terms of goals prevented is Brad Stuver (who’d deserve a call up if he were younger). Callender is 5th in the league at current.

Celentano is a bit further down (though roughly in a similar spot as Sean Johnson). It’s still very early though so you can’t give these numbers too much weight quite yet.

 

If in the 4-2-3-1 formation:

Goal: Johnson
Defense: Jones-Robinson-Zimmerman-Gressel
Midfield: A. Morris-Tillman
Attacking: Cowell-Sonora-Zendejas
Striker: Vasquez

Or Zendejas as A-mid and J. Morris as right attacker

 

I don't think that because it isn't true. It's widely-believed, maybe, but not fact.