Rudyjax said:
oh no said:
not playing at BvB vs not playing at Forest. I guess if he had been able to stay on Dortmund's bench, he'd have had really good seats for the Champions League final.
I'm just surprised he wasn't able to break through and become a key cog to help Nottingham stave off relegation. I really expected him to play a lot more there.
I read somewhere, not sure the veracity of it, but NF didn't want to play players on loan.
Hard to buy that. Why agree to accept loans from other clubs if you don't think they can help and you don't want to play them? When you're fighting your tails off in tight battles at the bottom of the table to not be relegated, if there's a loaned player that can help you win, you play him. They must have thought they were getting someone that would help them, then for whatever reason after he got there, they determined they couldn't trust him to help.
I have to wonder about his energy / attitude / work-rate in training, because we've all seen him in intl soccer for USMNT and we know he's got the ability- the technical skill, tactical awareness/decision-making, athleticism, and competitiveness to be a good player.