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Naw, I know reality man that idiot is in charge and needs sacking/hanging.

They had some legendary Nike kits few years back - their plain Puma one from 12/13 was good and they suffered from spikey stripes like us in 12/13 as well.

Then overhaul the fucking defense - find a commanding CB to pair with MYM (no he's about to be sold too), sell Debuchy and go after that Auier fella who looks a tank, pacy, and can cross. If that means we go Santon or different LB then so be it. I think our defense massively needs overhauled and MYM and Santon are the only viable ones with any future value and upside to be kept if we assume Debuchy is off.

Dortmund are one of Puma's top clubs - atrocious man - makes me at least feel a bit better given how bad it looks and a club like Dortmund actually care about their supporters and all that.

Cabella - CF - Ben Arfa --------De Jong--------- -----Tiote---Sissoko---- Would be fucking ideal man.

If he goes, I want him sold abroad, so I don't have to see him weekly for a team in the PL.

i think beating someone with the ball is considered successful. if you beat another person, is that considered 2 successful dribbles?

No malice - don't feel that - just pure 100% agreeing with you man.

Belgium did deserve it for sure, no mistake about that. We should and could have snatched it in injury time and almost fought our way back to force penalties in the last 15 minutes of extra time. Lukaku changed the match for them and De Bruyne is an excellent player - 2 well taken goals man.

This may be your best post in a long time, by the way. That and you and me on the same page last night

The "expansive" game he wants to play with the technical players is ready. Jozy + Johannson, Brooks + Omar, Mix, Green, etc. Bring it on.

I'm sorry but this is a bunch of nonsense. Do Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina have healthy domestic leagues? Why do the Belgians and Dutch bother with their domestic leagues when a clearly superior product is just across the border? Its not about just about money. Its about having a football culture. We're getting there-- that takes time. My ten year old son plays football every day. When he's not playing football, he's playing futsal. He's all football crazy. And that's true of most of the young athletes in his school. (That was to the case when I was his age--we were all playing baseball and basketball all summer.) The World Cup is a big deal. Every four years it generates new fanatics. I saw something about that fool running around dressed as Teddy Roosevelt. Turns out he wasn't a fan until the 2006 World Cup -- had disdain for the game and US fans before then. I think there are a whole bunch of young athletes who are right now deciding to dedicate themselves to playing football/soccer instead of basketball, American football, baseball or whatever. We've missed a big opportunity by passing on playing in the Copa America in the past few decades. 2016 is going to be huge. And like this World Cup, it's going to create new fans and produce a larger pool of players. Spot on to the above. By the way, I grew up playing baseball and basketball. I didn't start playing football until I was about 11-12 years old. I was pretty casual in my play and dedication, but was vastly superior athletically then others and flourished later and came into my own in high school. Was recruited to play small college ball and chose not to do it for sake of my career ambitions. There are probably thousands of people my generation (28 years old) who had spotty coaching, late starts, terrible youth systems, etc which is now all being changed. My club I played for outside of my high school team had 1 head coach and 1 assistant - now the same club has technical, skills, fitness coaches who work in during practice weeks. The game is changing, the casual fan or casual player as a kid is getting better trained now over here - the whole system is evolving - like the post above - kids are smarter, better coached and all that in the game. Casual fans are now turning into fanatics, annoying to hear at the bars I'm sure, but its ridiculous and exciting. And I've lived in Orlando for some 10 years, Florida my whole life - there has NEVER been a buzz quite like it is now, and sure its a World Cup buzz, but it'll translate into Orlando City (MLS), and the other clubs and the USL teams, and the youth and high school teams etc. Yesterday 10,000+ people were packed into a small area to watch the match and the new local MLS team decided to also unveil Kaka to the masses. Brilliant.

4 years ago there wasn't over 10,000 people crammed into a small "block party" that required overflow into an adjacent park in Orlando. 4 years ago, Dallas Cowboys didn't open their stadium for watch party. 4 years ago, TV markets and viewership was not even close to being this high. It's absolutely growing and it's fantastic.

It's also the fucking summer - it's not like we signed him on last day of summer window or winter window ffs.

I actually grew up here, family still lives here. Moved from Montreal a few days ago, trying to figure out where I'm off to next. Ahhh okay - was wondering that - knew you were from there - but was wondering why you weren't still in Montreal. Glad you are back in the States dude. Move to Orlando?

Why were you in Penn, Deuce?

Not from what i've seen on other forums. Superior athletes + "sound fundamentals" is their mind state. I agree. They need some flair badly. They have nobody to create apart from Bradley who hasn't been great That player is Dempsey, but he was forced to play as a lone striker since the 20th minute of the Ghana game, and that completely neutralizes his ability to create. He needs a big target striker to play off of, which is why he's had such great success with Altidore for the U.S. team and with Martins for Seattle over the past year. Good news is, we've got a few young players coming up through the ranks who play as creative AMs, so I'm not too worried about filling the hole. did my tits in seeing clint up top. The setup needed a hard working grafter type up top with the creative outlet in behind. Dempsey is a terrible #9 iyam, just purely through his body language and lack of desire to constantly keep making runs & jostling with defenders. Plus Bradley did f***ing terribly when he was that high up, god knows why. He did so much better as a deep lying playmaker where he could survey the field. In the #10 role he seemed to just take too many touches, or not react quickly enough. How do you not take a back up target man? + honestly, despite his miss, Wondo was a much better option up there. IMO this was Klinsmann's biggest mistake. Yeah we maybe could've used Donovan for end of game heroics, but one of Terrence Boyd or even Eddie Johnson needed to be in the squad. 100% with this. I think our biggest flaw (and credit to how we still made it this far) was that we had 20 minutes of our 1st choice CF, Dempsey was then placed in that role which he's not suited for, and Bradley ALWAYS has looked better as a deep playmaker or box-to-box. Similar to comments about Cabaye looking better deeper as he's not the control or finesse to dribble around the box or create space to shoot. I think going forward our team has to use its pace in Yedlin, Fab Johnson, Chandler etc - tighten up the CM with Bradley sitting and getting a runner or another battler like Jones, Mix in the #10 playmaker role and have to get Green - Jozy - Johannson into a system that works. But yes, I'm still livid at Wondo, that miss man - could have fluffed the shot to Dempsey too! But we needed another big body target man to get the best out of Dempsey and think that was a miss on Klinsy's part.

Why? Sour grapes? I'd like the South American teams to do well. 50% sour grapes, 50% want Messi to win the World Cup (also have money riding on Argentina winning it )

It's a cultural thing IMO. There is something about our teams recently that have a never fall and die attitude - fight till the end and leave it all out there. You can't ever fault that.

Two top posts Deuce - not a thing I wouldn't disagree with. The sport is taking off in this country to another level. I'm glad and proud of that. Our team has the man leading it and the right type of talent coming through - future is bright. Roll on Copa America in 2 years.

You're surely used to it? I never get used to it.

It's that wake-up loss hangover feeling I have right now that is killing me :/

Nike, Macron - class

Still shocked we signed a player, like, not a loan.