Belenonsense: the further adventures of Freddy Adu

Highlights of Aris' 3-0 win today, and should give you a feel of the style of play you'll mostly see from aris.

I think he is going to be a GREAT fit.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs6JM1boeRY"]YouTube- Atromitos-Aris 0-3 ~5-1-10~[/ame]

I can't wait to see waht the guy Toni Calvo will be able to do with him, as he is the flashy kid with the step overs on the second goal work up play, and the guy who scores the beauty which is their first goal.

The third goal was a nice setup by the bolivian Nacho garcia who i think will also work great with Freddy and EJ.

 

3 goals? Sounds like they don't need EJ or Adu

 

We usually miss chances like that. We were pretty lucky to win 3-0 as Atromitos had some good chances too. They also played with 10 players for like an hour or smth.

 

New tweet:

@FreddyAdu11
"Patience is a virtue..."

Anybody have any idea what's taking so long for this to become official? The reports been around for awhile, and I thought that there was a Greek article talking about how Aris faxed his reps the contract on Sunday.

 

Maybe Freddy's hoping we get to 2,000 posts!

 

Seriously, how would any of us know without knowing his contract? Maybe other teams are interested? It could be a million things. Remember how late the last loan deal was closed?

 

Aris FC has to release a non EU player to make room for Freddy. I think this might be the reason for the delay.

 

Gotcha, thanks.

 

We can't announce Adu before Gracian leaves the team. Perhaps Adu has already signed at Aris but has to wait untill we find a solution with Gracian.

 

Which is Leandro Gracian.

 

What dumbfounds me is that this guy's blog is associated with the New York Times and he is using something News of the World wrote as the basis for the article. Depressing.

 

Why?

The New York Times long ago gave up any claim to integrity or journalism. They fit right in with the likes of News of the World. (for just one example, google Jayson Blair)

 

? I'd love to hear this one explained.

The NY Times is one of the few newspapers in the country that still maintains journalistic standards and actually sends people out to cover the news instead of just downloading wire reports. It is fact checking that actually caught Jayson Blair's lies. A lot of media outlets report stories without checking them and some, like FoxNews, don't even care if there are any facts at all.

 

its not eric wynalda. he's before my time even.

 

Article? It's an obnoxious post. He's just pissed that Adu still has options including turning down a move to the PL. The biggest nonsense in it is this: "I hope he somehow catches on at Aris and succeeds, I really do..."

This about sums up the attitude of all the Freddy snarks: "Nike’s marketing has actually damaged Adu’s career to the point that just the mention of his name brings a chuckle." That chuckle is superficiality pretending to be sophistication. If Nike is part of the foundation of your attitude towards Freddy, you're the advertising-addled doofus, not the people who can tell talent when they see it.

 

I don't think you understood his point....

 

just look at his credentials.............Impressive!


"My managerial experience in the game consists of currently serving as the assistant coach for a local U-17 youth club in Los Angeles, formerly serving as a head coach for a bunch of six year olds, and acting as a camp counselor during the summers at university organizing soccer games for a bunch of middle schoolers at day camp. Oh, and playing countless hours of Football (Championship) Manager".


Its like Hackworth asking Hiddink......"Do you evn know how to coach properly"

 

Up to now, neither Abreu nor Gracian is released. At least, there's no official announcement so far.

However, since Abreu has already signed with Botafogo and Gracian didn't play in today's game, it's pretty much expected to happen tomorrow or in two days.

My information is that until Sunday all our transfer targets will have been completed, including the purchase of a central defender.

And finally, since you found this article http://www.gazzetta.gr/component/k2/item/63569...

It follows the life of Freddy Adu from his birth town Tema, Cameroon to Maryland, from his first MVP trophy in a tournament in Italy in 2002 to his contracts with DC United and Nike and from his Man Utd trials to the Benfica contract. It terminates by comparing Adu to Benjamin Button (of the recent movie): like BB was born old and every 365 days a year was removed from his age, so is Adu who was born a multi-talent and each year an aspect is removed from it.

 

Then again it is fantasy.

I'm going to answer my own question. In my search, I found numerous references to NY Times articles on the blog; but not the other way around. So, if anything, this idiot is associating, or trying to associate, himself with the Times. They probably have no clue that he is a piss ant, fantasy blog poster, who likes to read their stories.

 

Shouldn't we get a new Freddy thread, without mention of Belenonsense at all?

He is gone from there, and was only on loan anyway.

He's now on loan to Aris FC from Benfica.

 

My bad... I was looking at the original blog to see where he came up with Phil Brown wanting Adu and followed the link to the goal.com NYT blog which linked to the News of the World article. The goal.com NYT blogger cites the News of the World crap for Brown and Adu but he wasn't making a case for Brown wanting Adu. Instead, his article was about how Brit Press was using Altidore and Adu's tweets as source for Hull interest - and how players in general are scooping media desperate for information.

So, my apologies to the goal.com NYT blogger, Jeff Marcus, and I am no longer depressed. Now, for the original blog that linked to his, that is another matter.

 

No worries. It sounds like Adu did a bit of Wag the Dog on the media.

 

Wow, lol thats a crazy concept, but actually may ring true! Hopefully he refinds his gifted form with aris.

How long is toni calvo staying/ how long is his contract? I can imagine given his talent, La Liga sides must be wanting him! Hes spectacular!

 

Do Greek people sleep? Vampires?