I strongly believe that Peter Nowak is hurting D.c United financially by driving away potential fans for soccer and is also hurting Freddys development by stupidly limiting his minutes during games.Any take on this
--With all due respect I think you are paranoid. How is Nowak driving fans away? And playing Adu for shorter periods, is well, from what i always understood normal when you have only played 4 matches in a Professional League. (regardless of the possible talent). I think what would be a bigger mistake would be to parade Adu out for a full 90 or even 75 every match and have him do squat or risk getting severly injured and have one expensive benched player. Although I must say it would be nicer to see more than 30 minutes of him. Also, in the past two or three months I have heard people talk more about MLS then I have EVER heard them talk. Stadiums are selling out on the opposite side of the country just to see this kid play and hopefully that will spark people into continually going to matches regardless of Adu's inclusion in the match or not.
What the hell are you going on about? OK, I realize that you are new here...but have you actually read a single one of the 1000s or other debates on this subject to date? Buh-bye.
My take on this is either your somebody's sock puppet or retarded. Have you seen Freddy play? He's not ready yet. The intuition isn't there, he doesn't keep his head up and is easily dispossesed. Thank Zeus he isn't playing more.
Freddy is a big investment in the future. Maybe guys like Kornheiser only understand money in their pocket, wads they can flash around in bars to impress cheap floozies -- but I'll cut the pulp-fiction metaphor at this point. MLS does not owe the media a quick return on the Freddy portfolio, but when the dividends come in, they will be large indeed. Meanwhile, let Nowak coach his team, while the public learns to respect what it takes to play high-level soccer.
PN is probably handing the situation perfectly. Even though PN doesn't have any direct relationship to attendance, it is up significantly over the first 4 games - that's a good thing. Also, you know he's got to be doing it correctly when 1/2 the Internet Nuts are pissed off that Freddy isn't starting and getting more time, and the other half are pissed off that Adu is coming on as a sub and getting too much time.
I woke up in the morning and got out of bed, Said I woke up in the morning and got out of bed, The bumbles bees was bumblin' all around my head Them bumble bees was bumblin' all around my head Said I'm gona take a hammer and close this here thread.