wangus12 said:
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Then you leave Sargent at home in favor of Zardes and jozy, who are both just not good players. Sargent is scoring goals in the bundesliga. Jozy hasn't scored a meaningful goal for the national team in ten years.
Where are the guys like Fabian Johnson, Alfredo Morales, Lynden Gooch, Haji Wright?
Sargent scored 2 goals in December and hasn't scored since. Regardless of what people may think, Jozy is still the best goalscorer on the team outside of possibly Pulisic at the moment. He lead the team in goal scoring during the last WC cycle, scored a fantastic goal in the last Gold Cup final and is 3rd all time in US scoring. I absolutely want Sargent to step up and take the mantle, but he is still only 19 and raw. I do think he should be on the roster ahead of Zardes.
Fabian Johnson is 31, played 7 games this past season with Borussia M. and is pretty much done at the international level.
Alfredo Morales is 29 and barely playing for his club
Would have loved to see Gooch called up and I hope he can make a move up the English ladder because Sunderland/League One isn't going to cut it.
Wright is in the same boat as Sargent where he is trying to break through into the first team at Stuttgart. He also only played a few games and scored once.
So Fabian Johnson is too old at 31 and is "pretty much done at the international level" while Michael Bradley is 31 and still a cornerstone for the team, even though he hasn't been good since the 2010 World Cup? Also, Fabian had 15 appearances and 9 starts.
Alfredo Morales playing in the Bundesliga and two years younger isn't a better option than Bradley or Wil Trapp? Morales played consistently and had a good season.
League One doesn't cut it but okay MLS players do?
Give me guys playing in Europe any day over these MLS players. I thin it says a lot if you're playing in Europe.
What's not going to cut it is guys like Omar Gonzales, Nick Lima, Aaron Long, Daniel Lovitz, Walker Zimmerman, Michael Bradley, Christian Roldan, Wil Trapp, Jozy Altidore, Paul Arriola, Jonathan Lewis, Jordan Morris, and Gyasi Zardes. Surely we have been players than this, right? None of those guys are good.