Donovan Cut - is this the end of Landon?

Show me one Anti-Bob post claiming he was deliberately sabotaging the team or intimating that he was an actual fascist.

 

If we fail to get out of the group, it will absolutely be time to reevaluate Jurgen Klinsmann, but the idea that he dropped a guy who himself has said his body is falling apart and can't make it 12 days in a row without feeling something bad is the wrong decision is just plain silly.

We'll find out in a month. Until then people should relax.

 

I could not disagree with this line of logic more strongly. This is a terrible, terrible way to approach a World Cup.

 

If Dempsey does his usual thing, Zusi plays amazing, Bedoya has a scorching group stage and the attacking supersubs impress, then you (and I) are wrong.

But if not, then we're right about this.

 

They are a team with very little margin for error.

 

Why?

 

Bungadiri or Friedls Accent?

 

in a group that they were not likely to advance out of.

 

I actually called it after watching the first episode of teh documentary thing before the WC on ESPN.

People said I was crazy for bringing it up...but I had a feeling this was coming. Donovan if he wasn't on point in this camp, was going to get cut.

Truthfully, he didn't look into it. I think even with what he did at teh GC, he wasn't fully there.

Whether it's because Donovan didn't buy into JK as much, or whatever, it is what it is. Huge decision. I think Donovan is useful, but at his state of mind, I don't think we would get good results out of him.

 

Couldn't agree more lol….

 

Because why bother to go to the World Cup at all if you think the odds of advancing are so low that it gives you license to play guys who have no business being on the field in 2014?

Our odds of getting out of the group are a hell of a lot better than people have thought, but if we approach it in a clownish way, we're definitely screwed and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If our manager doesn't have enough faith in the team to get the job done, he should quit.

It would be an awfully defeatist way for Mr Believe-In-Yourself to behave. I thought we were supposed to challenge ourselves against the best.

 

Yet that is what we are doing. With four years of security, he just cut the face of US Soccer.

 

Sacrifice 2014 for 2018.

 

I know, but people will still blame JK for not taking LD. It's human nature.

 

By bringing Brad Davis? Um, okay...

 

I never said that Klinsmann wouldn't deserve a ton of credit if we advance, but omitting Donovan was a mistake that will not make the task any easier. It goes without saying that making strategic mistakes and having successful outcomes are not mutually exclusive.

 

So that means you don't bring your best team with you. You are obviously looking at this as a fan and using cliche's as opposed to how a team is actually chosen. Klinsmann isn't experimenting he actually thinks J.Green and B.Davis is better than Landon Donovan. Or he promised one of them. Experimentation has nothing to do with this.

 

It was a false security. LD was done After this one. Dempsey is going to be done in about two years.

 

I've been through a number of these WC's now. Relaxation has nothing to do with it.

 

If he were to say anything remotely like this out loud, he should be fired on the spot. Greece won the Euros, you play for *this* tournament, the future will take care of itself in the future.

 

Fodder

You are thinking emotionally.

 

International soccer isn't baseball; you don't tank a World Cup for the sake of youth development. That's what friendlies and the off-year Gold Cup are for. Julian Green has less than 10 minutes of 1st team club ball. NOBODY knows what he'll become in 4 years. 4 years in soccer is a LONG time. There's way, way too much attrition in a player pool to do that.

If JK or anyone else at USSF actually believe that punting and building for 2018 is a viable strategy they should be fired on the spot. It's shortsighted, foolish, and bullcrap logic that only the stupid buy into.