Where do we go from here? — MLSSoccer.com’s Club and Country panel will be LIVE POSTGAME with the most in-depth studio analysis following the friendly against Portugal, as we discuss what comes next for U.S. Men’s National Team.
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Franchise* not club. Fixed it for you.
These people are fucking crazy. Michael Bradley and Josey Altidore should be locked out of the team, never allowed to wear the jersey again. It's thinking like this that has held us back for so long. Give me Danny Williams over Michael Bradley all day long. As for Altidore, I'm sick of his bad Lukaku impression. He's a flat-track bully that quits and sulks when things don't go his way. The best leagues in the world consider a youth player to be between 14-18 years old, in the U.S. we think a youth player is someone between 19-24 years old. By that age, a player in Europe is considered a veteran. It's a joke.
Could you imagine what would have happened to Christian Pulisic if he had stayed in the States? He never would have been given real minutes playing for an MLS team. Jesse Marsch deserves a lot of credit for playing Tyler Adams. Thank God Weston McKinnie jumped at the chance to play for Schalke and didn't stay with F.C. Dallas. He's our second best player next to Pulisic and will get even better in the years to come. I truly hope Tyler Adams gets offered a contract by a good Bundesliga side, there's no better place to be as a young player then in Germany. Lynden Gooch is explosive.
Danny Williams over Michael Bradley. Forget about Altidore, he's a bad influence on our younger players and has a bad attitude. We should bring in Haji Wright & Josh Sargent. We've still got Bobby Wood and Jordan Morris and can fall back on veteran strikers like C.J. Sapong and Dom Dwyer if we need to. We've got experience in the midfield in Sebastian Lletget and to some degree, Kellyn Acosta. Pair them up with Weston McKinnie, Tyler Adams, and Lynden Gooch. We're not short on talent right now at all. People are just under the Bruce Arena effect. He made our player pool look like a broken down truck, when in reality it's a Maserati GranTurismo with a bad fuel line that needed to be replaced.
Players who should never get a call-up again: Michael Bradley, Clint Dempsey, Josey Altidore, Tim Howard, Omar Gonzales, DeMarcus Beasley, Chris Wondolowski, Brad Guzan, Graham Zusi, Chris Pontius, Jorge Villafana, and Darlington Nagbe. Thanks for the memories, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Veteran players needed for experience and eventual qualifying for 2022 world cup: Danny Williams, Sebastian Lletget, Sacha Kljestan, Geoff Cameron, Alejandro Bedoya, Dax McCarty, C.J. Sapong, Dom Dwyer, Fabian Johnson, Timmy Chandler, Jermain Jones, and Eric Lichaj. (Greg Garza at some point and maybe a few others).
Mainstays and the core of the USMNT moving forward: Christian Pulisic, Weston McKinnie, Tyler Adams, Kellyn Acosta, Danny Williams, DeAndre Yedlin, John Brooks, Matt Miazga, Cameron-Carter Vickers, Bill Hamid, Lynden Gooch, Josh Sargent, Bobby Wood, Haji Wright, and Jordan Morris.
Future hopefuls: Johnathan Klinsmann, Jesse Gonzales, Ethan Horvath, Zack Steffen, Brandon Vincent, Emerson Hyndman, Brooks Lennon, and boat load of other talented guys.
WHAT A JOKE OF USA TEAM
We need to figure out our left back position. Anybody but villafana
I like the style of play we saw in this game. The players all looked hungry. They had good one/two touch passing and good movement off the ball. I say we move towards a younger roster and keep them together longer.
Fan all the way from South Africa 🖒🏟
Carl Edwards from Orlando city B is a clutch GK shows a lot of promise.
Agudelo and no Dwyer in the 2018 player pool wtf
Like what I saw from the guys today. The goalkeeper that played the first half, butter hands.
Miazga, McKinney should have played at the t&t game. 😧
Overall good back and forth game, good to see some usmnt players who arent afraid to take on a defender 1v1
I said a million times a midfield of central midfielders that have speed adams mkeenie danny acosta they can move and they can defend put pulisic as am and wood or agudelo we got a team
Ethan Horvath, man! Idk what to say. We should give him another chance if he does well at Club Brugge but for now lets just keep Gonzalez and Hamid at the GK spot.