USMNT Thread Part VIII

[East Coast Bias]

Owen Otasowie starting in MF for Wolves. It's on NBCSN now against Burnley.

 

[kingsboy11]

If you have a twitter account, please send him a positive message hoping for his quick recovery.

mother f***er faked that. Stole that pic off of someone else. He got McKennie, Dest and even the USMNT twitter account reaching out to him.

 

[Basement Cat]

Steffen getting the start today for City. Love to see it!

 

[KlausJopling]

Andreas Perea (Orlando City) has filed and been granted a one time switch to US. Previously represented Colombia at U17 and U20 world cups.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Andreas Perea (Orlando City) has filed and been granted a one time switch to US. Previously represented Colombia at U17 and U20 world cups.

 

[John Price]

US has a very bright future with all these lads excelling in foreign leagues.

Does Hoppe have a chance of making the MNT?

 

[Savant]

US has a very bright future with all these lads excelling in foreign leagues.

Does Hoppe have a chance of making the MNT?

I would hope so with USMNT’s current forward “depth”. Might have to wait because Berhalter probably doesn’t know who he is yet though.

 

[kingsboy11]

The more striker depth the better. Not getting my hopes (lol) up for him yet, but at the moment he's in better form than Sargent on a much worse team.

 

[East Coast Bias]

Andreas Perea (Orlando City) has filed and been granted a one time switch to US. Previously represented Colombia at U17 and U20 world cups.

How is he eligible to represent the US? By way of just playing in MLS?

 

[bluesfan94]

How is he eligible to represent the US? By way of just playing in MLS?

Born in Florida

 

[spintheblackcircle]

“Lots of good players. Lots of good players in Germany, in England, even in the Championship. The players are coming and the players have quality. You can find different qualities in the players. It’s not like everyone is a technical, creative player like the Chelsea boy [Christian Pulisic]. It’s not like everyone is physical. I think there are quite a mixture of qualities… You have the players to have a very interesting national team,” Mourinho said.

Mourinho has always talked about his plan to manage in Major League Soccer one day and his affinity for taking teams to Los Angeles as a base for preseason training (particularly the Beverley Hills area) should be noted.

He also had this to say about MLS, and said he watches it when he can.

“I know that you have in this moment a lot of foreign players coming from Central American countries and others. But there are still good domestic players coming and you give them the opportunity,” Mourinho said. “The example of the Canadian boy [Alphonso Davies] at Bayern is the kind of situation that opens the eyes to European scouts. In this moment, European scouts, they have an eye on MLS. I promise you that. People now, they believe they can scout and they can find good players in there. So the production is very positive.”

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Good performance thus far out of the depth guys.

 

[kingsboy11]

I want more

Also was hoping to see Dike start, but it is what it is

 

[KlausJopling]

I know there not a good team. But these are the type of games along with the last 2 that previous US teams would have won 2 or 3 nil. Feels good to beat up on these teams that are much worse than us.

 

[kingsboy11]

I'll take a 7-0 win even if its over a really weak TNT side

 

[John Price]

Important analytics on the USMNT pool

 

[kingsboy11]

 

[John Price]

 

[kingsboy11]

Just gutted for him. His 2nd ACL injury and his chance in Europe is gone in a flash.

 

[Eye of Ra]

You guys are sleeping on Bobby Wood.

 

[BKIslandersFan]

Important analytics on the USMNT pool

How many actually start on regular basis? Not really that impressive.

 

[kingsboy11]

You guys are sleeping on Bobby Wood.

He scored his first goal in like 2 years over the weekend in the 2nd Bundesliga. He's lucky no other striker has stepped up to take the job, but if we're being honest he's way down the list on the depth chart.

 

[Basement Cat]

How far-fetched would running a 3-5-2 be? I feel like we have the pool to do it and it really helps play to our fullback's strengths while mitigating some of their weaknesses.
Something like:

----------------Sargent
-------Pulisic-----------Reyna
--------Mckennie----Adams
Robinson----------------------Dest
------Brooks---Long---Richards
-----------------Steffen

Obviously there's some competition for spots with guys like Musah, Weah, Cannon, Dike, Miazga, Mckenzie, Aaronson, etc. but just laying something out. Thoughts?

 

[John Price]

How many actually start on regular basis? Not really that impressive.

Many of them.

They routinely start CL games too. That's golden experience.

 

[John Price]

How many actually start on regular basis? Not really that impressive.