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Let's not get carried away here Quality young squad at the moment, who'll only get better in four years (you'd imagine). That as well as a lot of other youngsters coming out of the woodwork and the MLS increasing in quality. A keeper fit to lace Howard's gloves and some strikers and I really think they're able to challenge. Not saying they'd win, but saying they'd be up among the contenders, yeah. Losing their two best players (Dempsey and Howard), and MLS has a ways to go. (There's no guarantee that the great level of support in this WC leads to more interest/money flowing into the MLS. I know this from firsthand experience.) For me a "contender" is a team that doesn't go into any match set up mainly to stop the opponent from playing. The gap with European teams is still massive and there's no way the US gets that good in four years time. Green, Mix, Johnson, Brooks, Jóhannsson and Yedlin will probably be playing for some top teams in Europe by then. You'll also always have Bradley around. Six players that'll seemingly be quite good in four years. It's a decent base to start from. In the next four years we'll see a lot more Mix, Greens and Jóhanssons come out of the woodwork as well given how much American semen has been spread around the world. I think Bill Hamid might step up as a competent keeper in the next four years as well. I don't think the 2018 US team will have much to be afraid of, as long as they get a proper striker, which is so, so, vital for the team to push on. There's no way of knowing for sure but you're putting a great deal of trust in players that've barely played this tournament.

Let's not get carried away here Quality young squad at the moment, who'll only get better in four years (you'd imagine). That as well as a lot of other youngsters coming out of the woodwork and the MLS increasing in quality. A keeper fit to lace Howard's gloves and some strikers and I really think they're able to challenge. Not saying they'd win, but saying they'd be up among the contenders, yeah. Losing their two best players (Dempsey and Howard), and MLS has a ways to go. (There's no guarantee that the great level of support in this WC leads to more interest/money flowing into the MLS. I know this from firsthand experience.) For me a "contender" is a team that doesn't go into any match set up mainly to stop the opponent from playing. The gap with European teams is still massive and there's no way the US gets that good in four years time.

Let's not get carried away here

Marginally lower chance of relegation. That's good I guess.

Once again, OT support = Doom. I should move to new York and start following all of your teams What are they gonna do, get worse? At least Costa Rica are going to win it all now

Once again, OT support = Doom. I should move to new York and start following all of your teams

Good run USA

I'm standing in gazillion degrees heat outside in DC right now. You guys better fucking win

No please god no! Sorry

Would be a pretty good excuse for forcing a team GB. It would genuinely be amazing if a team GB won the World Cup. England plus Bale you mean. There may be decent Scottish or Welsh players by 2026. You never know

I will make an honest effort to support the USA today.

Would be a pretty good excuse for forcing a team GB.

It's coming. Shit, Mike was right. I'm cursed.

It's a shame that only the "top" clubs seem to get sponsorships from reputable big-name companies anymore while most others have to rely on dodgy loan sharks or gambling sites. You'd hope it would be worth more to be a shirt sponsor for a Newcastle or a Southampton as opposed to being a random sponsor who barely shows up anywhere for Man U or Chelsea, but I guess that's not the case. If the Premier League had any intention of "protecting their brand" they'd put some sort of restriction on what companies could shirt sponsor clubs, but clearly they haven't got the power to do so.

Messi misses the winning penalty and puts Argentina out. The "OMG he's not Maradona!!!" talk goes into overdrive.

If he's any good he won't sign If he signs he will be shit. If he's somehow not shit the King will make him shit. If he's still not shit he'll be sold.

Come on people, stop reminding me that NUFC exists.

I don't care. Might as well fold the club for all it's worth now.

I'm with you. NigeriaShola is the only team I support on any level remaining in the tournament. The longer you deny your adoptive country (and weren't you fucking born here too?!), the longer they will continue to spite you. I was born here. I went to college here. I'm currently interning for the federal government. American big business will be paying my wages for the foreseeable future. Still can't bring myself to wholeheartedly support you for some reason http://stream1.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/1010756_o.gif Motherfucker the fuck is on your mind. Oldtype is 100 percent cursed. Fuck off OT. edit: Hold up. OT was born here? Self hating ass. Meh, I was only here for four years before I moved home. I barely even remember any of it.

I'm with you. NigeriaShola is the only team I support on any level remaining in the tournament. The longer you deny your adoptive country (and weren't you fucking born here too?!), the longer they will continue to spite you. I was born here. I went to college here. I'm currently interning for the federal government. American big business will be paying my wages for the foreseeable future. Still can't bring myself to wholeheartedly support you for some reason

I'm with you. NigeriaShola is the only team I support on any level remaining in the tournament.

I'm so wrong

Lovely place by all accounts. Oldtype's dismissive ass. Sorry, I fully admit to assuming that every Latin American country was shit to live in.

Have you ever been? It's a paradise. Not the richest country, but it's fantastic IMO. No. Also, I just wiki'd it and it turns out it's pretty rich too. Never mind, they're superior in every way

I remember exactly what this feels like. Must be class to be Costa Rican right now. Well, except for the fact that you live in Costa Rica.