salary cap and roster designations are in place for what puropse then??? all of the mechanisms are there to limit spending (and also in theory to keep teams equally competitive...which is a farce when you look at lafc or atlanta and teams like san jose or vancouver etc) i remember shalrie joseph. i remember other cases of players who had offers but werent allowed to leave. it happened. also during the phase with klinsmann there was a hige push by the league to get all of the usmnt players back in mls (jozy, bradley, etc) and to prevent the current ones from leaving (besler, zusi, etc)(all of this to disastorus effect for the usmnt, btw)....they werent purposefully trying to limit the amount of money that they got for players, at all. but they werent pursuing it or prioritizing it as a strategy. Go back to landon donovan....they wanted american stars IN MLS...not out of it. look at the cases of fabian castillo and sanvezzi...those guys basically had to leave without permission just to get out of MLS.....I guess you dont remember how it was. whenever they did transfer a player of course they wanted as much money as possible, perhaps you misunderstood me. i never said they didnt.
also during the phase with klinsmann there was a hige push by the league to get all of the usmnt players back in mls (jozy, bradley, etc) and to prevent the current ones from leaving (besler, zusi, etc)(all of this to disastorus effect for the usmnt, btw)....they werent purposefully trying to limit the amount of money that they got for players, at all. but they werent pursuing it or prioritizing it as a strategy. ----- That is a hell of a cause/effect argument you're making. Mostly, those players were simply not remotely good enough, and you're mostly talking about a lost generation
Yep. Jozy was inconsistent for club and country throughout his career, and guys like Besler and Zusi were never more than solid CONCACAF players. Our guys just weren’t that good.
He was good enough to help us get out of our World Cup group, but not any more than that. Maybe he could’ve been decent for a lower end Bundesliga team for a couple years, but by the time he was 30 he was washed up. I liked besler a lot, but pointing to him as a really quality player shows how poor our pool was in the 20-teens.
Well, that was one tough WC group to get out of. You can't gloss over that accomplishment flippantly. I mean, Besler didn't really have any hiccups - at least when he was in his 20s. - 2 Gold Cup titles - 1 Hex Winning title - 1 Copa America semifinalist - 1x advancing out of a WC group (which was a remarkably hard group). Yes, that's a bit beyond a USMNT average player. He wasn't even part of things when they started to go south under Klinsmann - which is what you're referring to when the missing years started to hit. He wasn't on the 2015 Gold Cup (due to Ventura Alvarado) and he wasn't part of Klinsmann's final qualifying teams.
He was probably the best of that bunch, of the 2014 cycle generation, that didn't make it to Europe (Jozy, Bradley, Dempsey) along with Fabian Johnson. Assuming you classify Yedlin and Brooks as part of the 2022 generation.
I'm fairly certain that he'll play for Mexico. That comes from reading his quotes from two years ago, from earlier this year, and from seeing the Mexican flag with soccer balls on it on his wall in a video interview he did sometime in the last couple of years. Playing for El Tri is his childhood dream and the dream of his family. Someday soon, he'll make the switch, but it will be after he's transferred to Europe.
Bologna pressing for a move: https://www.gazzetta.it/Calciomerca...15-agosto-tutte-trattative-420459453497.shtml In the meantime, he is interested in Ricci (released from Spezia), there are no reports on Ounas and Farias, Feghir is an almost fading operation while the track that leads to the eighteen-year-old Texan of Mexican origin Ricardo Pepi born in El Paso (Texas) remains alive. and that in the first 17 games with Dallas (in MLS) he scored 8 goals.
Your morning #FCDallas buzzkill...#DTID better have a list of 9s & they better be talking to players/agents... NOW.'Cause the USMNT is a shop window & magnifyer. Anyone interested in Pepi already was but that kind of performance accelerates the timeline. $price⬆️ #ElTren— 3rd Degree (@3rdDegreeNet) September 9, 2021
Steve Cherundolo's take. http://www.americansoccernow.com/ar...-the-usmnt-to-a-big-4-1-win-in-san-pedro-sula
It doesn't make any sense. Tren Valencia was because he was a big, strong dude that once he got going was hard to stop. Pepi needs his own nickname.
There was strong Italian interest: .@FabrizioRomano on Ricardo Pepi 🗣"Last January, I was with a Serie A president ... he told me 'I want to sign Ricardo Pepi on deadline day ... remember this name, because this boy is incredible.' Italian clubs are already looking for him. His future will be in Europe." pic.twitter.com/n9vdXs1Y1d— USMNT Only (@usmntonly) September 13, 2021 15 minute mark: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3pDCt2luWUHaHsR2OfvnPY?si=f7cb565508f0477a&nd=1
More on the Serie A rumors: https://bolavip.com/en/amp/soccer/t...-20210914-0010.html?__twitter_impression=true
is there a deeper reason for the serie a rumors? seems like you hear more about their interest than any other league
Having Pepi training with/learning from Zlatan every day would certainly not be the worst thing ever…