From Roy Hodgson "I’m very grateful to the US national team coach Bob Bradley, who has agreed that he won’t be calling him back on Sunday night or Monday morning for the friendly match. I’m much happier that he’s now part of our game on Sunday."
ej getting regular time at fulham is more important than beating mexico... if ej form is real good, then i'd be more confident going into the wcq rpocess.. putting your eggs in and 18 year old basket is a ton of pressure for an 18 eyar old...
On the other hand, EJ's UK adventure may be the end of him if he finds out that he really doesn't have all he thought he had. I'm betting that this will be the case and am questioning if he's mentally tough enough to ride the pine and work hs way onto the field? Donovan couldn't and he's much more talented than EJ
donovan was a meer kid... ej is a grown man, GAM, if you prefer... why would fulham want him , if he's as much crap as some think.... perhaps, it's wanting players to be better than they are syndrome.... i don't know if EJ will perform well, or inconsequentially, but getting an answer is nice
well if i am bradley, i would even do fulham a favor by dropping dempsey too from the mexico game. it's better off to have a fresh dempsey and ej for fulham then playing a friendly against mexico. but i call boca since he's not going to start for fulham anyway.
Exactly. It's not like we don't play them twice a year anyway. But then again, it poses the problem of Oswaldo Sanchez having to find another victim to aim his cheap shots at.
The implication seems to be that EJ could actually play for Fulham immediately. Obviously he should be in decent shape after several weeks of USMNT camp and presumably doing some trials/training with Fulham, but I still expected to have a bit of a wait before he was actually playing. The thing that worries me about EJ is that he's such an up and down player. One month he's scoring back to back hat-tricks or averages more than a goal a game for six or seven or eight games, and then he goes two months or longer without scoring at all. At times he's downright amazing, but he hasn't ever been very reliable.
I think he gets bored by MLS competition. The same thing happens to a lot of big time College basketball players. They basically coast through college because they're so talented that's all they need to do, and then turn it on when they get to the League. For the US, he hasn't been bad. He was pretty good in Copa America anyway.
I can't run with you on that one appoo. EJ hasn't done well enough in MLS to warrant getting bored. How many truly big goals has he scored. Playoff goals? He's had a couple of big goals over the course of his MLS career, but I just don't see what you are saying. With that being said, i hope he tears it up at Fulham. I'm rooting for him, bigtime.
I never said he earned it. I personally agree with you that he hasn't done anything to prove he was among the MLS best. I'm just trying to get into his head. I'm hoping he turns into Rudy Gay, who did approx. nothing his freshman year @ UConn, and because of that stayed for his Sophomore year and looked like he was falling asleep on the court half the time - and then got drafted around 8th (when he should have been between 3 - 5) and is now one of the best young players in the NBA.
Like he would do anything other than half ass chase Donovan on a breakway anyway. More the reason to call in and start Jozy.
We will have the Mexicutioner, Bradley, Dempsey on the side too, so its not like ALL THE EGGS are in Jozy's basket. He is one of 11 guys last i checked.
well that means he would have been good for a hattrick against Mexico and btw...there ain't NOTHIN better than beating Mexico. If it's between Fulham winnign promotion and EJ scoring the winnign goal in a match against a full strength Mexico, well have fun the Championship Fulham.
Yes! Yes! and Yes! Not that i'd mind seeing Jozy as a sub at the end, but I also don't think it'd be a bad idea not to see him at all. Its also not just the Johnson situation that is important here... relations with a team with 3 national team players are important. Bradley will have to call on Hodgson at some point and he can call in this favor.
Have you seen Fulham play lately or read the article? He may not get any minutes, but it seems like there is a chance... If there's any situation where a guy could step in and play immediately especially if he's on the same field as Dempsey, this could be it.
ej might get off to a slow minutes start, just like dempsey did... i suspect the training will have much to dictate how quickly ej sees time... as to all the eggs comment, it's more based on the lead forward role... right now, i'd bet on ching in june... ej is and option, given form in fulham... altidore, his day will come, no need to force feed him his game will mature the u-23 route and he'll become a huge factor with the seniors in the autumn...barring injury