January 17th he got 21 minutes against the mighty Hamburger, 5' earlier that week and 65' a month prior. In this calendar year he has 26'
Last week, when he wasn't in the squad. If you mean when was his last start, it was 12/19 vs Dortmund, which was the last game before the winter break. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, the chance he would see significant playing time vs Bayern was always slim, which changed to none once BMG got a man sent off; "We're down a man against one of the two best attacking sides in the world, get me Gio Reyna" is not something you're likely to ever hear from a manager.
DNP. Gladbach starts 17 yr old Mohya as an attacking wing and subs on out of favor Neuhaus as an attacking MF late. I wonder if Polanski trusts Gio to play hard before an international window.
I doubt it has anything to do with that and more that their style relies more on quicker, pacier, more direct players and averages ~40% possession. Polanski's style plays away from Reyna's strengths and into his weaknesses. Unfortunately the manager who was there when they signed Gio (and who had the team average more like 55-60% possession) got fired before Gio ever got on the pitch for him.
do you think Bruce wants to handle dealing with Gio and/or Claudio (again)? I don’t there are actually a lot of teams in the league that have bad connections to either Gio or Claudio. Then, once you weed them out, you also have to take out teams that play on artificial turf. If Gio returns to play domestically, my prediction is that it is going to be with a team that plays on real grass and has mostly foreign controlled front office and coaching staff without many connections to the United States national team. It also has to be with a team that Claudio hasn’t PO’d (like Austin, San Jose, SKC, RBNY, or NYCFC). It has to be to a team like DC United or St. Louis
Thank you for the essay, but I literally just picked a random MLS team - it was not a studied prediction. I guess my main point is just the man is cooked, at least in top European leagues
The reason he’s not playing in Europe is because he’s injured a LOT. How would this change in MLS? His career is cooked, if anything is cooked. that being said, if he ever can get healthy and stay healthy, he can play anywhere. He’s not over the hill yet, but the clock is ticking.
The MLS season is a lot shorter in terms of how much space it takes up on the calendar so he’d have more time off. Also, this is less of a concern at Gladbach but MLS teams tend to play fewer games. Plus, they’re mostly at lower intensity because the regular season is so forgiving.
O'Brien was a lot more broken when he came to MLS. Here are the 4 seasons between World Cups for each player. JOB 2002-03: 12 league + 5 CL appearances for Ajax (17 starts). 2003-04: 4 league appearances for Ajax (4 starts). 2004-05: 1 league appearance for Ajax (1 start). 2005-06: 3 league appearances for ADO Den Haag (2 starts) Since JOB started basically anytime he was in the gameday squad, I assume that he was injured the rest of the time. Reyna 2022-23: 22 league + 6 CL appearances for Dortmund (7 starts). 2023-24: 20 league + 2 CL appearances for Dortmund and Nottingham (3 starts) 2024-25: 16 league + 9 CL appearances for Dortmund (5 starts) 2025-26: 13 league appearances for Monchengladbach so far (4 starts). Reyna has started very few club games this cycle, but he's been healthy enough to make an appearance far more often than JOB was in his last cycle. JOB ultimately ended up playing 5 minutes total in MLS, which I think has to be a record low for a USMNT player signed to an MLS club.