Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - It's Amad World

[yoyoyo1]

breh, i wanna share your enthusiasm but why do you see dempsey as this incredibly influential character? i doubt players all over the world are watching an american who came off the bench for a europa league club go back to the US like

he was a starter, there was a period he came off the bench but it was after the injury that kept him out a month. not to mention the month he missed at the start of the season.

and its apparently confirmed everton wanted to sign him but he went to seattle instead.

so he's the captain of a world cup team, solid contributor to a 5th place team, could play basically anywhere in EPL, and he heads to MLS because he wants to. which is the key point. he didn't run out of options, he's not 34, he can still do a job, and it was of his own free will he felt like coming back.

not to mention half the national team plays in the domestic league now. whats that say? american players dont have to go abroad to "make it", theres no "play for a foreign team" bias. it reveals that MLS will stump up the cash if a player goes there, and with players like keane and dempsey who are still massive parts of their national teams, slowly the bias goes away

if USA does well in the world cup with deuce and landon leading the line the possibilities are endless

 

[yoyoyo1]

@horse. kills @Hollister @yoyoyo1

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0SPYpWbIX0t

Is this lady mixing protuguese in these lyrics? I keep trying to google what it sounds like, but no success.

sounds something like "meu amor naõ querido" or something

i heard the same thing, and maybe a vocé in there, dont doubt it

 

[frush11]

if USA does well in the world cup with deuce and landon leading the line the possibilities are endless

Not all if you think about, what possibilities? The world of Soccer doesn't care if American players, don't wanna go abroad. Just like how they didn't care when Mexicans didn't leave Mexico.

Dempsey coming back means nothing really

 

[yoyoyo1]

Not all if you think about, what possibilities? The world of Soccer doesn't care if American players, don't wanna go abroad. Just like how they didn't care when Mexicans didn't leave Mexico.

Dempsey coming back means nothing really

have domestic stars = more domestic interest = more attendance, ratings = more money

it's cause the news is fresh right now but i bet tv people and marketing people are working on a master plan as we speak

would certainly love to be a fly on the wall right now. people speak about building from the bottom up but i think in this case its building from the top down, because only with those names will people tune in

 

[dennis roadman]

he was a starter, there was a period he came off the bench but it was after the injury that kept him out a month. not to mention the month he missed at the start of the season.

and its apparently confirmed everton wanted to sign him but he went to seattle instead.

so he's the captain of a world cup team, solid contributor to a 5th place team, could play basically anywhere in EPL, and he heads to MLS because he wants to. which is the key point. he didn't run out of options, he's not 34, he can still do a job, and it was of his own free will he felt like coming back.

not to mention half the national team plays in the domestic league now. whats that say? american players dont have to go abroad to "make it", theres no "play for a foreign team" bias. it reveals that MLS will stump up the cash if a player goes there, and with players like keane and dempsey who are still massive parts of their national teams, slowly the bias goes away

if USA does well in the world cup with deuce and landon leading the line the possibilities are endless

that's a pretty big IF. combined with the IF of the mls having enough money to pay top players.

so really dempsey returning to MLS doesn't mean anything unless the league becomes as financially sound as england's, france's, italy's, germany's (which don't compete with the NFL and have a century of development behind them, for starters) and the USMNT makes a deep run

i don't really get the connection between half/all the national team players playing in their home country. england's team plays in england, has that helped them? maybe i'm missing the point.

@horse. kills @Hollister @yoyoyo1

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0SPYpWbIX0t

Is this lady mixing protuguese in these lyrics? I keep trying to google what it sounds like, but no success.

sounds something like "meu amor naõ querido" or something

i hear some, yeah. what's the song?

 

[concise]

Finding the zouk stations on tunein some months back changed my life, brehs


some of the songs I've been feeling since then:

 

[concise]

i hear some, yeah. what's the song?

I don't know the song, I was trying to find it by googling lyrics

 

[EQ.]

32 million 4 years

Clint will be good. Won't even have to work half as hard, might be in the league till he's 38

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

I wish Fulham high jack this move but $9 milli is too steep.

 

[yoyoyo1]

that's a pretty big IF. combined with the IF of the mls having enough money to pay top players.

so really dempsey returning to MLS doesn't mean anything unless the league becomes as financially sound as england's, france's, italy's, germany's (which don't compete with the NFL and have a century of development behind them, for starters) and the USMNT makes a deep run

i don't really get the connection between half/all the national team players playing in their home country. england's team plays in england, has that helped them? maybe i'm missing the point.

having identifiable american players playing week in week out is better than bringing in random guys who might be good and a perfect fit, but no one is really interested in watching play. david ferreira is good but... federico higuain is good but...

this is the first generation where almost the whole WC team plays/has played in MLS, and they are finally gonna reap the harvest on it with the two biggest stars in the league. so dempsey comes home.. who next.

i just think from a financial perspective this bodes well for returning american players and players from europe who thought going to mls might be an international career killer all of a sudden are seeing two relatively big names in the league.. up and comers still being screwed though.

jsut think it could be a turning point.

"if beckham did it..." = player in an ambassador role, what the fukk is he thinking
"if henry did it" = older player playing out his career, mls is a retirement league
"if keane did it" = still a top player and international captain trying something new, this could work out
"if dempsey did it" = still a top player and international captain making the decision to turn his back on EPL offers to head to MLS, this seems insane

patterns

 

[dennis roadman]

I don't know the song, I was trying to find it by googling lyrics

 

[concise]

No trolling or anything, but I really don't find this move surprising. Like yoyo says, it makes a whole lot of sense.

 

[concise]

 

[merklman]

If Dempsey went to the MLS last year, maybe youd have a point. However he flattered to decieve in that fluke season at fulham where he got 20, he was flabby and sick at spurs last year. He couldnt really cut it at a top club

 

[EQ.]

Multiple sources within Major League Soccer have informed NBC Sports’ ProSoccerTalk that Tottenham Hotspur will receive a $9 million transfer fee for the U.S. captain’s services – roughly 95 percent of the £6 million Spurs reportedly paid for Dempsey last summer. To complete the unexpected move, Seattle have guaranteed the 30-year-old attacker $32 million over the next four seasons, making him one of the most expensive players in league history.

So levy took a 500,000 loss on this deal ....prolly wrote it off as deuce's goals against Manu.