Having Johnson and Cheyrou on the bench is sure a luxury. Remember when it was Jeremy Hall off the bench?
Having Johnson and Cheyrou on the bench is sure a luxury. Remember when it was Jeremy Hall off the bench?
I remember when Bekker was in our starting lineup!
Remember when Ryan Richter was in the starting 11?!? BTW I think he shot the winning PK in the NASL final yesterday...
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
My wager is that Cooper will be gone as a transfer fee would put his cap hit outside of a salary that is useful. Johnson back at a reduced salary. Cheyrou retired
Also, I heard that there is an automatic bonus that has to be paid if the cup is won, that is taken out of next year's cap. If that's true it will be pretty ridiculous to lose out on a player or two because we won something. Typical forced parity
Welp Giampero Ventura just took the league down a few pegs. Much belly-aching heard across the twitterverse.
Mls doesnt do loan deals without a buy option. So Cooper doesnt have to sign anything. BEz has to find the cap room and pay the agreed price
I found that strange when I originally read it, as he had picked Pelle who plays in Chinese super league for the wc qualifier v Macedonia. The only reason he stopped picking him was Pelle refused to shake his hand when he was subbed off in that game.Funny thing Pelle is hardly banging the goals in for his club, whereas Giovinco has for us.
As awesome as this would be, FIFA doesn't let any player play for more than one national team once they got even one cap for a nation.
Exemptions are playing for a country up to the U-23 level then switching to another country's senior team.
OR
If you played for one country, then your ethnic affiliation is granted sovereignty. As was the case say for Valon Berisha, who played for his adoptive Norway but then was allowed to play for Kosovo since their Football Association was granted membership into UEFA.
Contrarily to the case of Bojan Krkic, who came off of the bench for one match for Spain back in 2005 i think. More recently, Serbia put in a request to UEFA to grant him exemption to the rule to play for Serbia but was then denied.
I realize that I nerded out there for a second, my apologies.
different players of course, but when you call the MLS a "league that doesn't count for much" and have previously picked a player who plays in China, it's a bit hypocritical imo.Not sure I buy your Italy has 3-4 Giovinco types already, but if the manager feels that, then fine that's his choice, but no need to be disrespectful to the league the way he was. It's also ironic that Pelle got dropped for being disrespectful, when Ventura isn't showing much respect to mls. If he's going to preach respect then maybe he should practice a bit more himself.
What people don't understand when they use the Giovinco was a fringe player at Juve, and a fringe player for Italy was that Giovinco had 1 bad season, his first at Juventus, and was never given his starter spot again. People forget he put up 15 goals and 13 assists with a middle of the pack Parma team. He was called off the bench a couple of times during Euro 2012. Do you guys remember his last game for Juve, where he started against Hellas Verona in the Coppa Italia? Scored 2 and added an assist, one of the goals being a beautiful free kick. I'm still of the thought that Giovinco would be start for any team in Italy not named Juventus or Napoli. And that's is not a knock. Those are legit Top 16 clubs in the world. This is from a guy who watched the league somewhat religiously for 10 years.
Well what does one expect from the holier than thou arseholes from Europe. I am a bit fed up with this MLS doesn't count for much. There are many, many leagues in Europe and Asia that are far more inferior to MLS.
No disrespect to our Irish and Scottish comrades but Airtricity League and SPL (which I love to watch) other than a few teams in those leagues are at par with MLS. So shut the fuck up. MLS is what we have and what we support, let it fucking develop, Poncy fucking aresholes
Insigne who again because of his size probably the same height as Giovinco is not always starting at Napoli or for the National team is just as talented as Giovinco but a lot younger but in a few years if Insigne is still not getting the playing time he deserves is a guy TFC should target in a few years.
Lorenzo Insigne and Ciro Immobile are two right off the top of my head who would be played in front of Giovinco all day......and the Pelle situation is a bit different.....he only moved to China in the summer, and I think he's only still around as a transition to get Balotelli back in the Azzurri set up (some of the team vets were calling for Ventura to name Balo to the team in this last set of qualifiers which just passed)....if you think about it, its quite similar to the last call ups Giovinco got about a year ago....but as Pelle spends more time there, they will most likely assume his skill is eroding because of lack of competition, just like they're assuming now with Seba.
they fact that he had "1 bad season" doesn't change that he was a fringe player for both club and country.....he had his role on Juve which was to run at tired defenses and he played his role well.....though I agree with the bolded.....but in the end it was HIS choice to come to MLS.....
and to be fair, how many players who play in these "inferior" European leagues star for the big countries in tournaments.....generally, the best players of the big euro teams either play domestically or in Liga/PL/Bundesliga/Serie A
Last edited by TFC Tifoso; 11-18-2016 at 12:17 PM.
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