USMNT major injuries continue
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I have torn my Achilles. It happened on turf also. But I blame age for my injury. No professional soccer team should play on turf.
Damn. He’s one of those guys that flies a little under the radar but we’ll probably notice when he’s not there.
This opens the door for John Brooks. I really like Miles Robinson but Brooks is a starter in the Bundesliga going up against world-class forwards every week. He had been horrible for the US though.
I was shocked when I got to Charlotte and noticed they had switched to a turf field. Why? The weather is good in Charlotte and they had an MLS team coming. I dont like all these turf stadiums in MLS.
I read an article about Brooks before this injury the other day. Obviously this opens the door for him to get a roster spot if Berhalter bites the bullet and decides to roster him and it’s something Brooks was hoping for. He’s one of the more experienced guys in our pool and that can be critical, especially on the back line. His season at Wolfsburg has been hot and cold, and he’s likely playing his last games there as Wolfsburg isn’t bringing him back. Who knows where he will be playing in the Fall prior to the WC. He may be in a crap league.
Cameron Carter-Vickers is another possibility. He's been really good for Celtic this year. If they exercise their option on him, he'll also likely play in the Champions League next year too.
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I'm interested to see how Aaron Long continues to rehab his achilles. He is back and before he blew his out, he was a top notch CB and mainstay on the back line.
But Robinson beat him out, the MLS guy WAS BETTER so Brooks lost his job, playing against world class forwards didn't help.
You need to stop this mantra. It’s old and tiresome. It’s a weird hang up for you. Let it go.
by the way, it can just as easily be an indictment on Berhalter as it is on Brooks.
brooks probably isn’t going to be rostered anyway. For a guy like Berhalter not to take a guy like Brooks, even now, a guy who has World Cup experience that could be helpful on a virtual u23 team , speaks to the fact that there’s something else going on that we aren’t privy to.
the spot that Brooks isn’t going to get might very well go to another euro based player. So there’s that.
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Jason Davis was talking a little Cameron Carter-Vickers on Sirius today as a replacement. He has been reported to have a bang up year in Scotland with Celtic. Didn't realize he was still a Spur.
SMF was doing the same thing as I am in reverse, in his case saying Brooks should be better based on where he plays.
I don't have any problem with selecting a Euro player, just that some people have the idea that everyone in Europe is a better player than anyone in MLS, some people say that.
Yeah we know. A few weeks ago you claimed everyone says that, until we pushed back. I think everyone reading this thread is very disappointed that Robinson, an MLS player, is likely out for the World Cup. Well all of us except maybe SMF. It’s hard to understand how he thinks.
all of this said, Carter-Vickers is probably gonna get first dibs at the roster spot vacated by Robinson. As far as the starting job though, who knows. It’s probably our deepest position, but everyone’s been hurt too (Richards, Long, etc).
There are a significant number of people that will argue that on Facebook discussions about USMNT, easily the majority of people on those pages, so no, I'm not imagining it, it's real.
Took my daughter to the NY Red Bulls game Saturday night and he looked fairly recovered to me. He even scored a goal. I had to check because I thought he was still out. Edit: apparently he’s been back for a while. I wasn’t tracking.
It’s interesting being able to see the size difference of players in person, particularly for center backs. He looks pretty well put together but moves decently too (*against MLS competition).
The people you interact with, regarding the Steelers and soccer, have to be the most misinformed sports fans on earth. I don’t know who these people are you claim to interact with in your posts. It’s like we live in different realities.
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He was getting sniffs from Europe before the achilles injury. West Ham was reported to be heavily sniffing around and there was a potential I think it was $3million offer to Red Bulls for him.
He played as a substitute in the Mexico game and the Panama game in the last window of qualifiers.
He was? Wow. Would love to see him at a club like west ham. Won’t happen now post injury but maybe in the future.
Dude. What about Tim Ream? I just read he’s played over 98% of Fulham’s minutes this year.
If you remember Ream was regularly getting called up and playing in games, including the first couple of qualifiers, and then he asked to not get called up for (iirc) the second window because of "family reasons" and he hasn't been called up since.
Much like with Brooks, something happened between Ream and Berhalter and that was that.
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I'm a fan. Much like Puli with Chelsea, plenty of my fellow English Whites fans hate hate hate Ream and think he is old, slow and dogcrap. OH yeah he's American so he obviously stinks.
Been with the club since 2015 and for those of us that love him, he's a legend, cult legend. You'll hear on the ole boob tube "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM" plenty of times.
I personally think he has been superb. Sure he is caught out of position or makes a bad attempted pass or challenge leading to a goal against but more times than not, he just plays solid backline defense.
He loves Fulham and is Fulham.
Now Derphalter wouldn't use him. I mean he tried to use him a left back or right back for a small stretch including against Mexico last summer. Tim is a back CB.
Unfortunately though, at 34 his quicker days are in the rear view mirror. He just signed a 1 year extension but I don't see him getting major minutes next season, he'll be there for the vet presence in the lockerroom in my opinion.
I like Walker in the back, he has really grown. We will see if John Brooks grows back on Derphalter.
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I really don't like Derphalter. Great he helped get us qualified but I hope he is relieved of his duties after Qatar.
"I claim" WTF is your problem? You actually think I'm making it up? I don't make anything up. You don't need to be a high and mighty A-hole trying to talk down to people, accusing me of making up stuff THAT IS REAL.
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