Oso planning to go pro
Lots of talk that England has been in talks with Jurgen Klinsmann this weekend about their vacant manager position. Per the Daily Mirror, USA Soccer will not block a move for Klinsmann. Now bear in mind, most of this is from Twitter reports and the Mirror is known as a tabloid, but this does seem to have some legs. Be interesting to see who would be next in line. My guess is Klinsmann would take Andi Herzog with him, possibly Tab Ramos or Jason Kreis as interim manager with the NT targeting either a return for Arena or Bradley, or possibly looking at a MLS coach like Peter Vermes.
US women looked uninspired today against South Africa.
No. This is from the same sources that had Jurgen going to Southampton.
Saw some speculation that Klinsmann himself put this out there to leverage a new contract after Copa. If so that seems ridiculous. Let him walk, why would they want to extend him past 2018 now anyway?
Big Sam Allardyce was named manager for England today....sucks, was hoping they'd take Klinsmann off our hands.
Also puts Yedlin's status for next season in jeopardy.
Big Sam? Dude got run out of West Ham of all places. Doubt he lasts longer much longer than the 2018 world cup.
Classic England, hire another mediocre Englishman who'll underachieve and be out after 2018. Not that Klinsmann would have been a better hire, but at least it would have changed things up. Instead we'll watch Big Sam struggle then get replaced by Steve Bruce, Alan Pardew, Gareth Southgate, or some other nondescript Brit that can't win at a big tourney. At least they're predictable.
Yedlin is only on loan at Sunderland, and he played well last year. He may not stay, but if Spurs don't bring him back, I don't think he'll have a problem with suitors.
I decided to start doing stats for the EPL, Championship, and La Liga (next week) as well as MLS. I may do BE soccer as well.Nobody I know cares about Bundesliga or the Italian league. If there's interest, I'll do it.If you have questions about your team, just ask me. I'll explain using the stats.EPLhttp://www.lowedownstats.com/index.php/epl/Championshiphttp://www.lowedownstats.com/index.php/championship/MLShttp://www.lowedownstats.com/index.php/mls-aggregate-ranking/
Thanks!I certainly didn't need the stats to tell me the Fire suck though. Glad there are rumblings of Hauptman selling the team. He's a freaking waste of an owner.
I'm a big NYCFC fan and really have no quarrel with where you have us ranked, but moreso curious as to how that under/over ordeal works in comparing the two ranks.Also curious as to how the Red Bulls are ranked so high. They are really good at home, but one of the worst road teams in the league. Add that they have some serious injury concerns mounting (understood that this probably doesn't factor that) and I'm not certain they'll continue to make a whole lot of noise.
I started doing this because I wanted to find out if the Fire were any good. All the stats tell me now is that the Fire are bad everywhere. yay.
Man oh man, Christian Pulisic is fun to watch. Kid can create, put it on frame, make timely tackles...I hate getting excited for "the next big thing" but he could really be a world class player. Not saying he's a Messi or Ronaldo or even close, but maybe one of the best players on an elite club team. It's a long way to go, but I don't think I've ever seen a talent like this that was actually delivering at the senior level at this age for the USA ever.