One word: Bielsa. And he'd take it too.

i liked donovan fine, he had his glory moments, but you're just talking hypotheticals, what ifs, bla bla. for all you know landon could have collapsed vs ghana from fatness and then we'd be with one more casualty, clint in the same predicament.

you keep rehashing this as if he still was available to play. empty speculations. move on. it's 2015 and we have a new crop of players.

AAAAAAAAAH. BIELSA. YES.

he just started in marseille though. are you sure he'll be free?

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not sure he'll be a good ideological match w/ 'merica though. seriously.

Landon played very well in MLS cup so its not purely hypothetical..

My point is more so how that decision by Klinsmann may have negatively effected team chemistry and trust rather than to argue the tactics. Even if Landonnever played i think the team would have preferred he joined them

it's over

Yep, his contract ends at the end of the season.

Japan and Saudi Arabia are supposedly already making big plays for him.

What would the ideological objections be?

he's a very catholic leftist-- american catholics are more right wingers

he loved bachelet & hated piñera

his brother was a minister of kirchner

can't see him shaking hands w/ jeb bush

Away from all this U.S.A talk. Well Harry Kane starts as he means to go on, with a goal 80 seconds after coming on as a sub on his England debut. Good on him.

Baines had a shocking game though.

Yeah, but it'll be Hilary's hand he'll be shaking, surely. And as for the religion thing, isn't Klinsmann meant to be some kind of new age Buddhist? Can't imagine that went down well in the corridors of power.

Oh FFS! I got my days mixed up. Missed it completely.

ha ha ha no idea about the buddhist thing-- but he married a model and he's a californian now so new age would be fitting. did you read the link i posted above about berti vogts? berti explains it well-- how klinsi is now american-- i won't requote since it's a good read anyway.


did he scream "i love you sugar kane" when he scored?

(badum-tshhhh....)

Re Kane. Right now it seems he can do no wrong but I suppose we'll need to see how he bounces back from a dip before we can really judge him. But right now he does seem unstoppable.

What were we like generally?

Dammit. I missed a trick there. There'll be plenty more times to say though.

Yeah, read that. He does seem very 'californian' (I say, never having actually been there). He strikes me as someone who spends a lot of his time wearing flip flops.

They weren't too bad. Rooney could've had a hat-trick in the first 30mins but hit the post twice. Other than that the first half they seemed tense till the second goal just before half-time. They picked up a hell of a lot in the second half though. Sterling got much better, Carrick played well, Welbeck played well (he's one of those players I go hot and cold on with every game I see him) till he came off injured. Having said that, Henderson was a bit meh for me tonight.

Defensively we'll only get to see them properly against Italy on Tuesday.

Highlights are on itv4 now.

Germans readjust well to California, ive known a few

Thanks, just watched it. Am I being ridiculous when I say that if we can sort our defence out we could be a pretty decent team?

Nope I agree totally. Although the horizon doesn't look that great for the defenders. Stones, Clyne and Luke Garbutt (I'm biased but he's been great when he's played for Everton) are the only ones I can think of who are coming through that could be decent. Anyone I've missed?

The players available up front is just insane though.

Also its funny how California is essentially its own country. Y'all should all expatriate and join us, you can marry a model and get in touch with your Buddhisty New Agism