Ameritoon

That's fucking class

I doubt we're in for Gibson, just because it seems every time (lately) we're reportedly looking at someone shit, it's always denied and nothing comes of it.

DeRo is such an annoying player. Can't believe the Red Bulls took a chance on him, it got them McCarty though, so I guess that's good. Red Bulls should be looking at Hahnemann, their keepers are shit.

Michael Hoyos

Hangeland?

IIRC, he wore out his welcome in MLS. DC tired of him and shifted him to some nondescript team, where it really didn't work out for him. It was more his youth-level performances that have salivated the mouths of European clubs. Yeah, he really had no choice but to leave. Had a fallout with the manager at DC, traded off to Real Salt Lake, who were probably the worst team in the league at that point. He played a season or two there as their best player, but it was going nowhere. Staying in the MLS longer would have definitely helped, just didn't work out that way.

Sewelly

Yeah, unfortunately the new guard isn't much better. Cherlundolo was probably our best defender and he's in his 30's. The only young defender I have relative hopes for is Timmy Chandler.

Adu and Dos Santos are similar in that both looked like world beaters at this tournament, but have been failures in every way at club level. Was that the US' strongest team? The lack of anything upfront will hold them back if so. You only need to look at Uruguay to see how imperative top class strikers are in international tournament format. Our strikers are still a few years away from full potential. Altidore looked good at the tournament, it's unfortunate he got hurt. But, you're right, there's a huge problem when him, Agudelo and Wondolowski are playing. Hopefully those first two develop well and Charlie Davies makes it back into the squas, and Teal Bunbury looks like he'll turn out good. We should be decent enough up top by 2014.

Already? Seems rather early.

:lol: What the hell? His European career baffles me, what are Sporting thinking?

I would imagine even when he's talking he refers to himself as "we."

They're clearly better than us, unfortunately. Going to be a few years until any mature talent comes up to match them, too.

Fuck

Adu starting.

Hopefully that article is just shit.

Tyler pisses me the fuck off sometimes. If he keeps his talking to play-by-play he's perfect, but once he speaks outside that realm he just spews shit.

I don't understand it either. They've always just been so boring to me, and since their forced relegation they haven't even been very good. Just don't seem like a club someone really good would be interested in playing at.

Another Threadless shirt.

No

If he's good on the ball and a good enough passer he can easily play in the Modric role. He'll still be a central midfielder, he'll just be getting forward more than Tiote, something I'm sure he can pull off.

I just fainted.

Promising.

By that logic we've got the best player in the world in Nile Ranger. Still confused at why we're looking at spunking £10m+ on a defensive midfielder. Baffling. Nile Ranger is not even close to as awesome as Blaise Matuidi. Just let it roll off your tounge, feels sexy as fuck.