Pre-match: International Friendly: USA vs Netherlands; March 26th 2020

To be fair, a search of "pick any word" posted by juvechelsea you get a pages long list and the bulk of it consist of throwing it in while it has nothing to do with what you were posting about.

Trust me. He'll be fine. Plenty of other things to post unreadable long slabs of text about.

 

he’s going to report you, dlokteff!!!

 

Oh dear.I'm doomed.

 

Anyway, this weekend a possible confrontation of Dest with Orange players in the march match because Ajax hosts AZ in a battle to keep them at bay.
Both teams came out of the winterstop with meh results (I'm not complaining as it did give my club the chance after a disastrous season start to catch up on both teams and if things go the way I like it we might end march with the top spot) so both have something to prove.
Dest could face a left wing back Wijndal charging down the sideline to support Idrissi, but that also gives Dest the chance to take advantage of his speed to penetrate when Wijndal is out of position.

 

You may be right about Blackmon, but to say Zimmerman was discarded is incorrect. They sold him for $1.25m in mls funny money, which i think is a league record at this point.

 

It was lower than that and could escalate to that, but is over several years.

Being sold for cap space is not the same as being sold for real money. Expansion teams also have a lot of funny money, and they usually are not shy about overspending.

But, like Nagbe with Atlanta, they didn't have to do it. LAFC didn't need the money or cap space and would not have done it if they were going to start Zimmerman. They didn't start him in the playoffs, iirc, preferring Blackmon.

Maybe discarding is the wrong term...Lovitz was discarded, but Zimmerman was just beaten out for the job and worth more in GAM than as a bench player. However you phrase it, LAFC and Bob Bradley are convinced Blackmon is the better player.

Lovitz, Trapp, Zimmerman would all be out of jobs in MLS as starters without expansion. They all have logged multiple starts and many minutes with Gregg. We saw with Arena, that not only did he call in mostly MLS players, but rarely called in the best players at the position based on league play.

Gregg has an ongoing talent ID problem. With all the injuries, the roster for this friendly could include Trapp and Lovitz and Zimmerman. Then there is one more camp and then the Hex. In the Hex, we will see the same three relied upon because, "they know the system and Gregg is comfortable with them." Same mistakes, different coach.

If this roster comes out, and those three are not on it, then maybe we are seeing something different than Arena 2.0.

 

per carlisle berhalter confirmed reyna will be with sr team for the friendlies.

 

McIntyre x2.

#usmnt coach Gregg Berhalter tells me that (no surprise) Giovanni Reyna will be called in for next months friendlies against the Netherlands s Wales.

— Doug McIntyre (@ByDougMcIntyre) February 26, 2020

 

There's a lot of assumptions in here, namely that LAFC doesn't need the allocation money or that LAFC/Bradley are convinced that Blackmon is the better player.

There's almost no transparency to cap situations, so we don't know where LAFC are, what people they feel they will need to re-up contractually, etc.

I haven't seen any commentary regarding Zimmerman and Blackmon from the club, either. And since LAFC just traded back some of the allocation money for first place on the Allocation List, it looks like they may have had someone targeted.

Your assumptions aren't necessarily true, and so the rest doesn't necessarily follow.

 

The amount Zimmerman went for would indicate he was regarded as an elite MLS defender.

Also, he had a head injury late in the season, so missed some time. Blackmon didn't beat him out.

 

why would you not this its this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhonny_Lucas ?

says hes brazilian, play with durkin, maybe hes eligible? look, i dont know anything about either of them, but if berhalter doesnt know his name i cant think hes all that close...whichever one hes talking about. maybe some other jhonny altogether...

 

Any chance Kik Pierie could get a look? I doubt he’s getting called into the Dutch side for this match.

what do people think his ceiling is?

 

Use google translate:
Articles about Kik in his transition period.
https://www.ad.nl/nederlands-voetba...beter-maar-speelt-wel-in-het-b-team~a278263e/
https://www.ajax1.nl/aankoop-op-rapport-kik-pierie/

 

Yep...both of those guys previously mentioned are #6’s, and you know Berhalter has to be ecstatic about having a Brazilian #6. Nice job scouting by the Nats.

 

Thanks for the links. So, Pierie was a first team player at SC Heerenveen and then joined Jong Ajax? Is that common?

the articles didn't mention anything about the Dutch national team but I think it's got to be a long shot. Is he getting called for youth events?

 

Well, he joined with the intention to be first team player, but for some reason they (Ten Hag/Overmars/vderSar decided he should acclimatize in the Young team. i personally think it's stupid, but I've a liking for Kik as a player.

https://www.transfermarkt.nl/kik-pierie/nationalmannschaft/spieler/361207
National team career

# National teamxxxxxxxxxDebutxxxxxCoach at debutxxxxx Age at debut

5 Netherlands U20 Sep 5, 2019 3 - Bert Konterman 19 years 01 month 16 days
14 Netherlands U19 Sep 1, 2017 10 - Maarten Stekelenburg 17 years 01 month 12 days
- Netherlands U17 Sep 9, 2016 14 - Kees van Wonderen 16 years 01 month 20 days
- Netherlands U16 Sep 10, 2015 9 - Edwin Petersen 15 years 01 month 21 days
- Netherlands U15 Feb 12, 2015 3 - Peter van Dort 14 years 06 months 23 days

 

The Orange team is a long shot as Koeman can put on the pitch a complete team composed of just central defenders ranging in age from 17 to 28.
So he has ahead of him competition older than him but in the younger range too.

 

I think you can easily see a parallel with Ike Opara going to Minnesota United. Opara doesn't all of a sudden suck as a player.

Zimmerman's an OK player. I don't think he's going to get any better playing on a worse MLS team, that's for sure.

 

If SKC had traded Opara to let EPB start, what would we think about their views on the players? Was it telling that Dax was traded to make room for Adams?

Zimmerman was traded to make room for a younger CB who is American. The point wasn't that Zimmerman sucks, it is that he was called into January camp and Blackmon was not. Makes little sense.

 

Rumor seems to be that it's more likely Zimmerman was traded to make room for Andy Najar, who seems likely to sign and play at RB fairly soon.

But I like Blackmon as well. It's just that it's much more complex that you are making it. Salary cap space has very real value.

 

I'm putting together a hypothetical 23 right now (wild Friday night), and you know it's bleak with injuries and Olympic call-ups when I have Kellyn Acosta and Joel Sonora on the squad.

In reality, Trapp and Roldan will be there instead, but I could make an argument.

 

Must have been wilder than wild, as we're still waiting. Please have those 23 names to us by first thing Monday morning. Off you go now, and step lively!

 

-No Pulisic, Adams, Weah, Lichaj, Steffen, Servania, Bello, Holmes, Ebobisse, or Antonee Robinson due to injury.
-No Lennon or Robinson for Olympics.
-No first team YA players either: CCV, EPB, Reyna, McKennie, Cappis, Sabbi, Sargent, or Durkin
-Gloster, Mendez, De la Torre, Ledezma, Llanez, Konrad, Vassilev, and Richards are debatable for the Olympics.
-Otasowie, Tessman, Miljevic, Bassett, Johnny, and Pepi not included in preliminary Olympic roster.
-Reyna included on senior roster.

Olympic Roster
GK Marcinkowski, Ochoa, Freese
RB Cannon, Araujo
CB Glad, McKenzie, Trusty, Richards* (Keita)
LB Vines, Gloster (Herrera)
M6 Yuiell, Sands
MF Aaronson, Mendez (Mihailovic > Parks)
MF Pomykal, Ledezma (Mihailovic > Parks)
RW Konrad*, Sabbi*
FW Ferreira, Toye
LW Llanez*, Vassilev*
Order of wing replacements: 1. Saucedo*, 2. Lewis, 3. Fernandez, 4. Michel, 5. Perez

—Llanez——Ferreira——-Konrad—-
———Pomykal—-Aaronson————-
——————-Yuiell————————
Vines——————————(C)Cannon
——McKenzie———Glad—————-
—————Marcinkowski——————

Senior Team
GK Hamid, Turner, Horvath
RB Yedlin, Moore
CB Brooks, Miazga, Alvarado, Ream
LB Dest, Gasper
M6 Morales, Durkin
M8 McKennie, Roldan
10 Lletget, Hyndman
RW Morris, Chandler
FW Sargent, Zardes
LW Reyna, Boyd

—-Reyna——Sargent——Morris——
——————-Lletget———————
——(C)McKennie——Morales———-
Dest————————————-Yedlin
————Brooks——-Alvarado———-
———————Hamid———————-

Bench: Turner, Chandler, Miazga, Durkin, Hyndman, Chandler, Zardes