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Oh we were very firmly in the third world as far as the World Cup goes this year.

I don't think anybody actually hates the US here. Although I admit I haven't been looking as hard.

Bah fak all of you people who even made it to the elimination rounds. First world problems.

What would you do if your agent just signed you for Newcastle?

Can only play as a #10 The King will LOVE that

He'll go into Shola mode now. Ever year we'll go into the season thinking "meh, not too bad as emergency backup" and then somehow he'll start 30 games.

That makes sense statistically though. In recent years we sell good players a whole lot more often than we buy them.

Why? People wank over the waffles and we had a beat up squad and our number one striker out - so yes we can be something in 4 years bc the majority of our squad are the most exciting big man. Belgium is one of the poorer European teams in the competition and you still had to defend for your lives for the majority of the game. The gap between Europe/South America and the rest of the world is humongous. In my mind there's never been a "contender" from outside of those two regions, at least not in any World Cup I'm old enough to remember. South Korea made the semis in 2002. We most certainly were not contenders though That's not even the best team we ever had. And that(4th) is still the highest an Asian/African/North American team has ever finished. US finished third once. Did not know that

Why? People wank over the waffles and we had a beat up squad and our number one striker out - so yes we can be something in 4 years bc the majority of our squad are the most exciting big man. Belgium is one of the poorer European teams in the competition and you still had to defend for your lives for the majority of the game. The gap between Europe/South America and the rest of the world is humongous. In my mind there's never been a "contender" from outside of those two regions, at least not in any World Cup I'm old enough to remember. South Korea made the semis in 2002. We most certainly were not contenders though That's not even the best team we ever had. And that(4th) is still the highest an Asian/African/North American team has ever finished.

Why? People wank over the waffles and we had a beat up squad and our number one striker out - so yes we can be something in 4 years bc the majority of our squad are the most exciting big man. Belgium is one of the poorer European teams in the competition and you still had to defend for your lives for the majority of the game. The gap between Europe/South America and the rest of the world is humongous. In my mind there's never been a "contender" from outside of those two regions, at least not in any World Cup I'm old enough to remember.

Apparently this was from a Dutch forum

Come on, I think you did alright. Let's just not get carried away with the contender talk. Plus, we all know that Putin will make sure you lot are stuck in Siberia for the group stages in 2018.

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. Mix I've watched play for years, man. But yeah, I do. Of course there's a chance it won't come to pass, but I feel I'm seeing a lot of quality in the youngsters (based on more than just this tournament). I think the US are experiencing a mini-Germany event at the moment, with tons of quality dual nationality players popping up choosing the US. They should certainly try to aggressively recruit diaspora players. You have to imagine that there's a lot of American spawn out there in the world. Hell, I could play for America.

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.