With all the talk about Timmy going to Man U, i think everyone has forgotten about Clint. The European transfer window is opening and there is a chance that Clint could be sold. I'm sure a lot of teams still remember him from the World Cup.
Leeds and Charlton are the ones I have seen in the papers as hot on the Mathis trail... there are about five teams that are following Mathis.
I have a really hard time seeing Mathis leave, even if he wants to. MLS will price him out of the transfer window while he's still under contract and then he'll be on his own after the season concludes. He'll be more worried about keeping a steady job - I think - than chasing transfer rumors and half interests.
Yeah, but he's said he wants to go to Europe and he's 26 or something at the moment. His next contract is his last shot at the international market, in all reality. I think he will play out the season, become a free agent, and sign with a team in January when the window opens again for free agents. He will be able to find a mid-table team struggling for scoring help that will pay a good fee for him, which won't have to be as high as the fee they would need to pay MLS for him, and Mathis keeps all the moolah. Just my $. 02.
I think that's a pretty good assessment of the situation. I don't see Clint leaving before the end of the year. But if he continues his domestic goalscoring form and goes off on a tear in France or the Gold Cup and stirs Euro interest again, it would be hard for MLS to turn down a big offer seeing as that he's out of contract after the season. Then again, it would take a LOT of balls for the league to sell off our two best players in mid-season. There's maybe a 5% chance that Clint will leave before the end of the year. But the chances are more like 70% that he'll leave after the end of the year. The guy has ambition and he's not getting any younger.
cmonaco and jamison are spot on, but let me admit the obvious: not one of Clint's five goals have been beautiful or spectacular or (insert your own adjective here) It's obvious he's not back to where he was...yet. He definitely will be, but I think he'll finish out the season to bring the Cup to NY for the first time.
His goal against DC was pretty f-ing good......Nice one against Colorado through traffic as well.....
I'll give you the DC one, but the one against Colorado wasn't a solid rocket blast by any stretch. Point is that he isn't back to where he was before his last knee injury...
1 or both of those boys are likely to leave both due to Leeds' debt and that they're not in Europe. And at I'd say Kewell isn't as direct of compeitition for time as Viduka would be. That said I would think his chances were better for playing time at a club like Charlton.
I'll agree that he isn't back to pre-knee injury form but, I don't think this is evident by the 'beauty' of his goals.....