Should the Copa America be Tim Ream’s last hurrah?

Discussion in 'USA Men' started by Eleven Bravo, May 22, 2024.

  1. bsky22

    bsky22 Red Card

    Dec 8, 2003
    Nah, this guys career isn't on the decline. Will be fun to see where he is in two years. It won't be the WC. Another big swing and a miss. Luckily for him, there is no concept of form in MLS.

     
  2. bsky22

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    Dec 8, 2003
    Hmmm.... how could anyone have predicted that a 34 yo CB would fall off?

     
  3. bsky22

    bsky22 Red Card

    Dec 8, 2003
    The infatuation with Ream has been incredibly odd to me. He looks like an MLS lifer at this point.

     
  4. bsky22

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    Dec 8, 2003
  5. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Ya know, there IS an alternative explanation.
     
  6. An Unpaved Road

    An Unpaved Road Member+

    Mar 22, 2006
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    Another hurrah for Ream thanks to one Mauricio Pochettino.
     
  7. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It’s funny how facts continue to crush one poster’s narratives. Dude lives in a total fantasy land.
     
  8. bsky22

    bsky22 Red Card

    Dec 8, 2003
    I say we run Ream into the ground until he is so embarrassed he retires. If his level falls off much more we could get a performance that would make Agoos blush. Id guess at his age, his decline due to coming to MLS will be multiple times worse than what we saw with Bradley and Altidore.
     
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  9. bsky22

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    Dec 8, 2003
    I thought I'd post these again. Your guys selective criticism gets in your way so often. One can only imagine what your response would be if this were Brooks or say Cameron. So as of Sep 2024, anyone paying attention would know that Ream will be a weak link against teams like Canada or better.



     
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  10. bsky22

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    Dec 8, 2003
    This definitely sounds like a guy that is focused on making the WC squad in two years. Different priorities. Nothing is wrong with that.

    “I could have stayed at Fulham, I could have played. But spending Christmas with the kids for the first time in their life [last year when he was injured], it was such a big eye-opener,” Ream said to GOAL.

    “That was the exact point where it was like, ‘You know what? I think we need to start exploring options’.”

    “My wife’s parents are retired. My oldest is 10, and they’ve missed out on a lot with him.”

    “How do we go back without going all the way back? We’ve been away from St. Louis for so long. It’s our hometown and where we grew up but we are different people now.”

    “So St. Louis is not somewhere we thought we would end up long term. We wanted to be somewhere different.”

    “Charlotte came about and it seemed like the perfect place for our family and kids to grow up.”
     
  11. Clint Eastwood

    Clint Eastwood Member+

    Dec 23, 2003
    Somerville, MA
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    We live in a fact-free era.

    We hired an accomplished coach from completely outside of our existing structure.
    He's going to do a complete re-evaluation of the pool.
    And yes, that means taking a look at guys like Ream and Steffen. Maybe he'll decide that they still have something to offer the USMNT. Or he'll decide the opposite.

    What we don't want is the staff to go in with preconceived notions of the pool based on what the previous staff chose to do.
     
  12. bsky22

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    Dec 8, 2003
    we saw what can happen when Berhalter did this.
     

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