"Former France international has reportedly attracted interest from American outfit Los Angeles Galaxy, the club of David Beckham, as well as homeland sides Lyon and Marseille." Link: http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11810_6075280,00.html
Seriously, LAG is not about to outbid Lyon or Marseilles if they are interested. (Unless we are all supposed to be ready for another ticket price increase.)
Nice Rumor! I would love to see a such a talented Argentine suit up for the G's but I'm the other poster. I don't think we can outbid or even out attract a club like Lyon or Marsielle.
Isn't he French? Anyway, he definitely looks like he has fallen off quite a bit in the last two seasons (mostly due to injury) and I find it hard to believe that any capable striker wouldn't simply want to remain and cash in in Europe, but Angel came. He could definitely help us and is only 32. I think that we should dispel any rumor that refers to the Galaxy as "The club of David Beckham". It just means that the agent thinks that we are a "Big Club" and can actualyl pay for transfers.
he is argentine, but has french nationality and decided to play for the french team. as for why he'd leave juve, they are not doing well this year, and will probably retool the team in the offseason. i'm not sure how much time he's getting there and he may be looking to move on. whether he's actually interested in MLS is another question, but it doesn't seem that far-fetched to me.
I love Trez but he is the exact wrong type of striker for MLS. He is about as pure a poacher as they come. No MLS team can provide the kind of service a striker like that requires.
Not sure why MLS is obsessed with signing players in the downfall of their careers. When will this league stop being the retirement home of all this football stars?
I agree that this is NOT the best way to improve the teams. However, I think the explanation is pretty clear. MLS thinks they NEED to do this in order to market the league to non-fans and skeptics. The fact is they need to get a bigger following, not even so much in the stands as on TV. That's where the real money in soccer is, and they are desperate to tap into that.
Trezeguet is French. He was born in France. He probably has dual citizenship but the guy is a native born Frenchman.
Trezequet is career in Argentina in second division with Platenese, he tried his luck in trialing with PSG, but got rejected, then he had luck with Monaco. So far, Trezequet has 7 goals and 4 assists in the Serie A, not bad number, remember Trezguet didn't start most of the games, those numbers could more than double in MLS. Angel only 4 goals with Aston Villa when he came to MLS.
lol, i know he injured....but i think you are forgeting that LAG currently has the best crossing, FK, and long ball specialist in the world, David Beckham oh and Landon Donovan who tends to have nice crosses
I think the focus should be on whether or not the player can help the team at a good value, rather than worrying whether or not the perception is that this is a retirement league. First, lots of teams (even in the EPL) take on older, but experienced and skilled, strikers in the hopes that they'll flourish and provide finishing. (Fowler and Keane are pretty good examples, as well as the fact that Ruud Van Nistelroy can still find a team in just about any league he wants.) We won't be a retirement league just as soon as teams stop overpaying for names, and go on what the player has left in the tank. That said, teams in other leagues overpay all the time. It's just part of sports.
Trez is not an English-style attack-the-crosses, towering-header kind of player. He is an Italian-style poacher who ghosts around the penalty area to find seams in tight defenses for clinical finishes of sophisticated buildup play. You literally could not think of a player less suited to the MLS style of play than Trez. He doesn't hold up the ball, he doesn't press, he doesn't run like a chicken with his head cut off for 90 minutes. At Juventus, in his prime, he didn't have to. No MLS team can carry a player like that. I'm a huge fan of Italian soccer and of Trez-style classic poachers, but they just won't work in MLS.