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I would change the name of the thread to be more generic since I think this is going to be a very active thread tracking US players going forward.Geez I was worried about this thread having legs too.
who do you see starting along side Besler? I know it is hard to predict, just wondering. Note that JK does not like to start two left footed or two right footed CB's if he does not absolutely have to.
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No idea... based on the turnover from the last cycle l just assumed that only our better players plus the guys people rave about would actually be around in four years. Pure guess.who do you see starting along side Besler? I know it is hard to predict, just wondering. Note that JK does not like to start two left footed or two right footed CB's if he does not absolutely have to.
you deleted all the keepers
After Guzan, I am at a loss for which other two keepers will be around. Neither Johnson nor Hamid made the next step in their careers that some of us hoped for.
I think Guzan is one of our better players - not someone who is simply filling space.No idea... based on the turnover from the last cycle l just assumed that only our better players plus the guys people rave about would actually be around in four years. Pure guess.who do you see starting along side Besler? I know it is hard to predict, just wondering. Note that JK does not like to start two left footed or two right footed CB's if he does not absolutely have to.
you deleted all the keepers
After Guzan, I am at a loss for which other two keepers will be around. Neither Johnson nor Hamid made the next step in their careers that some of us hoped for.
If I exed out a starter it just meant I was (pure) guessing he would start in 2018 -- could still be on the squad.I think Guzan is one of our better players - not someone who is simply filling space.No idea... based on the turnover from the last cycle l just assumed that only our better players plus the guys people rave about would actually be around in four years. Pure guess.who do you see starting along side Besler? I know it is hard to predict, just wondering. Note that JK does not like to start two left footed or two right footed CB's if he does not absolutely have to.
you deleted all the keepers
After Guzan, I am at a loss for which other two keepers will be around. Neither Johnson nor Hamid made the next step in their careers that some of us hoped for.
I don't know who is behind him in the pecking order though. I know Cropper was invited to the camp at Stanford to be a camp body while Howard was not there. But beyond that little tidbit, I don't know where he or any other keeper stand.
Normally they might bring him back for a sendoff game or tribute or something like that, but given how things are with JK I'm not 100% sure about that. But he's done as a regular player.
In competitive games? For sure. But I imagine in 2015 he will play one more friendly in front of an adoring USA home crowd to say goodbye.
When your nickname is "whoops" and you are a keeper, that is never a good combo
That'll be buried by next year IMO. LD isn't going to pass up that opportunity just because he holds a grudge against Jurgen.
I have read articles that postulate the problem started all the way back in 2009 when JK signed Landon over the winter at Bayern and Landon had another bout of homesickness making JK look stupid for the signing.
His salary has nothing to do with it per say.
If you're talking just height (ie. they're all too tall), I'll give that to you. But I think when we're talking about a hypothetical Lebron James or Calvin Johnson in soccer you make the assumption that he's not nearly as bulked up. Imagine a ~180lb Adrian Peterson that had spent his whole life wanting to be a world class soccer player. Feel like he'd have to have been a solid striker.Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
Peterson is a perfect height for soccer at 6'1". Even his weight at 215 would be fine with his speed.
I know I'm on the minority side of the argument, but one of these 6'6" weighing in at 210-230 with 4.4 speed and some insane vertical jump would be devastating up top. Seems like winning headers on corner kickers would be much easier if you can get a foot plus above everyone else and you're so big the defenders can't push you around.
Can you please explain this transfer fee deal? How long does a club own the rights to a player? I have other questions but will let you start there.
Hmmm, has anyone actually tried this? I don't see why it wouldn't work, except that maybe the tall guy would be too much of a liability in the other aspects of the game. If you taught Shaq how to direct a header, how is any team going to stop him on corner kicks?
Germany already has this in Mertesacker. Well, except for the 4.4 speed as I think he only ran a 4.48, but close enough.
Peter Crouch is a beanpole, but also a very useful soccer player at 6'8" tall. IIRC his strike rate for England crushes all of his contemporaries.
Clubs own the rights to a player for as long as he's under contract with them.
And to answer his question of how long they control the player, it is similar to other sports.
Not for most fans I don't think. Maybe for a minor few who think that the US failed when being huge underdogs but even those extreme positions probably won't change.
Jan Koller was a pretty good striker, at least against the US. I think he was about 6-7.
Well all I can say is that there are tall people all over the world and if this would have worked to any degree, someone would have tried it by now with a seven footer.
