USMNT 2021

[Captain Ron 12,789]

Well this might not be good. Weston McKinnie went down today with a knee injury. They are saying sprain, but I haven't seen anything more. Picture of him down today.

 

[Zepol87 9,163]

He walked off fine so hopefully nothing major but God damnit. 

I also forgot to share these before. 

[Captain Ron 12,789]

This is some gold. 
 

 

[alincoln 2,364]

Sounds like Weston is fine.

[ztejas 43,244]

Cool for Gio. CP finished 2nd in 2018 - couldn't find the top 10 for 2019. Wasn't awarded last year. 

2021 Kopa Trophy final results (Best U21 player)

Rank	Name	Position	Club	National Team
1.	Pedri	MF	FC Barcelona	Spain
2.	Jude Bellingham	MF	Borussia Dortmund	England
3.	Jamal Musiala	MF	Bayern Munich	Germany
4.	Nuno Mendes	DF	PSG	Portugal
5.	Mason Greenwood	FW	Manchester United	England
6.	Bukayo Saka	FW	Arsenal	England
7.	Florian Wirtz	MF	Bayer Leverkusen	Germany
8.	Ryan Gravenberch	MF	Ajax	Netherlands
9.	Jeremy Doku	FW	Rennes	Belgium
10.	Giovanni Reyna	MF	Borussia Dortmund	USA

[kingkoopa6 8,305]

doku is a beast on fifa 

[Napoleon 8,596]

Perhaps he'll get a few more La Liga minutes.

[kingkoopa6 8,305]

Noice! I’ll be in building 

 

 

[Ted Lange 15,991]

That midfield is garbage.   Hopefully we drop down one of the forwards to play in the MF.  

[kingkoopa6 8,305]

me taking stab at starting 11

turner

bello zimmerman long reynolds 

roldan acosta yueill cardoso

ferreira pepi

[Ted Lange 15,991]

That is awful.  Looks like something Jason Kreiss would run out.

Edited December 3, 2021 by Ted Lange

[Napoleon 8,596]

1 hour ago, Ted Lange said:

That is awful.  Looks like something Jason Kreiss would run out.

What if we don’t even qualify for our own friendly?!

😳

#awkward

[Captain Ron 12,789]

This isn’t an official window, right? So we can’t get any of our good players, right?

[ztejas 43,244]

2 hours ago, kingkoopa6 said:

Noice! I’ll be in building 

 

 

Oh my God we have a fucking USL player on there. 

whatyearisit.jpg

[Ted Lange 15,991]

54 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Oh my God we have a fucking USL player on there. 

 

Not sure if you are serious, but he is a dual nat (mexico) and one of the best LB prospects, he will be in Europe shortly.  

[ztejas 43,244]

14 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

Not sure if you are serious, but he is a dual nat (mexico) and one of the best LB prospects, he will be in Europe shortly.  

Hah. I thought his name was familiar. Just funny seeing Orange County SC on the club list. 

Whatever his potential he probably shouldn't be playing senior games for us. 

[Ted Lange 15,991]

He could be playing in MLS right now at 18.  There was something weird with his contract at FC Dallas, he went to USL so he could go to Europe sooner, I can’t recall all the details. 

[ztejas 43,244]

13 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

He could be playing in MLS right now at 18.  There was something weird with his contract at FC Dallas, he went to USL so he could go to Europe sooner, I can’t recall all the details. 

Looks like he was with Miami's academy? We definitely need some answers in the back going forward so I'm guessing they wanted to get a look at as many of those guys as they could this window. 

We're probably going to see some bizarre rosters like this with the amount of guys we have now that can't play in December. Although Mourinho doesn't seem interested in keeping Reynolds around.

[goatsaag 279]

There are actually two USL players Kobi Henry and Jonathan Gomez (and it sounds like the two of you are each talking about one of them).

To me, this feels like a perfect roster for this kind of game/camp if there was just one or two more promising young midfielders in the group.

[ztejas 43,244]

1 minute ago, goatsaag said:

There are actually two USL players Kobi Henry and Jonathan Gomez (and it sounds like the two of you are each talking about one of them).

To me, this feels like a perfect roster for this kind of game/camp if there was just one or two more promising young midfielders in the group.

Yes I was talking about Henry. I didn't think Henry was close to playing in Europe but didn't want to correct Ted as he follows our yutes more closely.

I guess Gomez hasn't played for Real Sociedad yet. 

Agreed on midfield. We need to move on from Yueill. 

[Braff Zacklin 13,399]

2 hours ago, goatsaag said:

There are actually two USL players Kobi Henry and Jonathan Gomez (and it sounds like the two of you are each talking about one of them).

To me, this feels like a perfect roster for this kind of game/camp if there was just one or two more promising young midfielders in the group.

Exactly. It's a friendly without an official international window. Time to give a second chance to some retreads and cap some n00bs.

And I will go on record now and say that the actual result should be of no importance ... provided Bosnia-Herzegovina doesn't win by a 10-goal margin.

[Captain Ron 12,789]

I would probably let it go if it wasn’t that bad, but Sargent with a terrible miss today against Spurs. Wide open right in front of the net and just never got his foot on it. It rolled through him and then off his plant foot. So bad. 

[Napoleon 8,596]

4 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

I would probably let it go if it wasn’t that bad, but Sargent with a terrible miss today against Spurs. Wide open right in front of the net and just never got his foot on it. It rolled through him and then off his plant foot. So bad. 

Someday he may turn it around, but until he does, I don’t even want him on the group texts with the other USMNT guys, much less called into a camp. 

He shouldn’t even be allowed to shine Wondo’s or Lletget’s boots. 

[Captain Ron 12,789]

35 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

Someday he may turn it around, but until he does, I don’t even want him on the group texts with the other USMNT guys, much less called into a camp. 

He shouldn’t even be allowed to shine Wondo’s or Lletget’s boots. 

I would hate to think of the amount of shoe polish that would be on the floor because it missed the shoes.

[ztejas 43,244]

Like 95% sure it's Pulisic and Pepi - but who else do we like? I honestly wouldn't put Turner that far behind. Maybe Musah for the youngins? 

[alincoln 2,364]

Pepi for sure, but Robinson and McKennie for me for POTY

[Captain Ron 12,789]

Pepi and McKennie.

[Ted Lange 15,991]

WTF is Acosta doing on the list?

[shnsajax 3,589]

Reports that Athletico are looking into Pepi now as well and multiple $13+ million offers as well. 

[alincoln 2,364]

6 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

WTF is Acosta doing on the list?

I think he gets credit for the Gold Cup

[ztejas 43,244]

8 hours ago, alincoln said:

Pepi for sure, but Robinson and McKennie for me for POTY

I think they take into consideration club and country. So Pulisic seems like an auto get for the CL. 

But I agree if we're just looking at NT matches. 

[Napoleon 8,596]

10 hours ago, ztejas said:

I think they take into consideration club and country. So Pulisic seems like an auto get for the CL. 

But I agree if we're just looking at NT matches. 

Missing a shot as a sub in the CL final?

I would hope that Christian doesn’t win the award. 

Give it to someone who stays healthy and plays. 

[Captain Ron 12,789]

 

[ztejas 43,244]

11 hours ago, Napoleon said:

Missing a shot as a sub in the CL final?

Well there was also the two game winners against Mexico.

You don't like Pulisic. We get it. 

[Captain Ron 12,789]

"[FC Dallas president, Dan] Hunt stressed that Pepi is not well served by leaving the club now because that would jeopardize his stay with the U.S. National Team."

 

 

I guess we can add FC Dallas to the list of clubs that can go fuck themselves. That list is called the MLS.

 

 

[Knoxtnhorn 5,928]

F the Hunts.

[ztejas 43,244]

He's apparently had to go to them multiple times to request a transfer. Just ridiculous.

Anyone know how long his current contract is? 

[Captain Ron 12,789]

It runs through 2026.

 

I will admit, I ran with an over the top headline and then put in there an even more over the top comments which backed it up. As a whole his statement as a whole (there is a lot more) is about how if he goes to a team where he doesn't play, he will risk his spot on the USMNT. However, with that headline, I couldn't help but post that.

 

And still fuck FC Dallas.

Edited December 8, 2021 by Captain Ron

[ztejas 43,244]

3 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

if he goes to a team where he doesn't play, he will risk his spot on the USMNT.

That doesn't make any sense though. He's either our best 9 or he isn't. He is better served training and taking some lumps in Europe and watching from the bench for a bit than staying in Dallas. 

[Captain Ron 12,789]

A. You already know this, but you're preaching to the choir here. I'm with you.

B. You think MLS execs know jack shit about soccer?

[ztejas 43,244]

4 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

A. You already know this, but you're preaching to the choir here. I'm with you.

B. You think MLS execs know jack shit about soccer?

Well you seemed to backtrack your criticism a bit so I just wanted to reinforce how lazy that comment is from Dallas. 

Also - it isn't Dallas' job to protect his interests with the NT and they know that. They are just selfish and don't want him to leave because their squad is a disaster and Pepi (also Ferreira) is the only thing keeping it afloat. 

[Captain Ron 12,789]

Not really backing off, but noting it isn't as caustic as they headline states. I think Wahl nailes it here that the papers are in cahoots with the teams/ownership.

But that said, you aren't wrong about FC Dallas's role. I agree 100% with you there plus add that they don't have his interests in mind either. In the end, this article is 100% them selling their stance that they want Pepi to stay. And frankly their handling of him has been pretty poor.

[Ted Lange 15,991]

Hunt is so cheap, why wouldn't he want to sell?   They sell everyone else at 1/5th the price, what is different now?

[Napoleon 8,596]

26 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

Hunt is so cheap, why wouldn't he want to sell?   They sell everyone else at 1/5th the price, what is different now?

Negotiating tactics are not limited to European owners. 

Every trade window that Pepi is not sold, his value goes down.

 

[Ted Lange 15,991]

Well, then that makes even less not to sell him now.  

[Captain Ron 12,789]

1 hour ago, Napoleon said:

Negotiating tactics are not limited to European owners. 

Every trade window that Pepi is not sold, his value goes down.

 

Maybe in a year or two, but for as young as Pepi is, he is going to have some value for European teams. His value isn't going to sky rocket, but he will increase some for a year, more if he continues to develop (yeah I said that with a straight face).

[Captain Ron 12,789]

HO-LEE SHIT!

 

Pulisic assisted a goal for Werner? He's a god.

[Braff Zacklin 13,399]

[Captain Ron 12,789]

 

Edited December 9, 2021 by Captain Ron

[dieucla98 2,931]

Who would have thunk it - he was actually taking a step down when he left Ajax. Maybe now he'll end up on a decent team.

Edited December 9, 2021 by dieucla98