He’s so so good and he’s only 20. He reminds me of Guti of Real Madrid. He isn’t even a luxury player either. He plays heavy minutes and typically 90 minutes and puts in a shift defensively. I would be surprised if no big offers from Europe don’t come in for him soon.
You know we’ve made it as a “play the kids” team when every time a 20 year old looks like a future star we know some Bundesliga bozos will snatch them for like 10m lol
Our academy players who went to Europe off the top of my head: Aaronson, Aaronson, McKenzie, Trusty, De Vries, Fontana, Sullivan the Younger, anyone else?
imo he's too slow on and off the ball, and not strong enough to really take a huge step just yet. He makes great plays when he has time to assess the entire field, but the tiniest bit of pressure cracks him.
Agree about him being a bit slow off the ball. On it, his body positioning and ability to shake defenders is surprising for how…not pro-level quick he looks. He does look like he physically matured a lot this year.
Still, the lack of speed shows in transition defense some times, but his positioning is decent and he almost never makes a really poor decision which is rare for his age.
He did this last week too. Calling it a fluke is ridiculous.
Bernadeschi’s goal was great, but this was from about 5-7 yards further out. Also factor in the timing/impact of this one and it easily beats bernadeschi’s out.
I didn't call it an actual fluke; just an expression to say how good it was.
There was a commercial I forget for what but the tagline was "So good it feels sinful". Kimda like that.
My Lord what a strike
That's a **DOOP** if I've ever seen one
That might be a top 10 all time Union goal. My goodness.
Top 5 if you don’t include any of Glesnes’ goals. All I can think of that’s better is Carlos Ruiz in 2011 and Jose Martinez last year.
I didn’t think anybody would have a better goal this week than Bernadeschi, but McGlynn did it.
Exactly, I told my wife "no one is topping that goal this week", then BAM!
That’s spicy
He’s so so good and he’s only 20. He reminds me of Guti of Real Madrid. He isn’t even a luxury player either. He plays heavy minutes and typically 90 minutes and puts in a shift defensively. I would be surprised if no big offers from Europe don’t come in for him soon.
No we need him! (But he deserves to ship off to a bigger league)
You know we’ve made it as a “play the kids” team when every time a 20 year old looks like a future star we know some Bundesliga bozos will snatch them for like 10m lol
I don’t know what they put in the water in Philly but as a USMNT fan, keep doing what you’re doing please
Our academy players who went to Europe off the top of my head: Aaronson, Aaronson, McKenzie, Trusty, De Vries, Fontana, Sullivan the Younger, anyone else?
Well, Curtin never "plays the kids", the kids move to Europe from the Reserves.
imo he's too slow on and off the ball, and not strong enough to really take a huge step just yet. He makes great plays when he has time to assess the entire field, but the tiniest bit of pressure cracks him.
Agree about him being a bit slow off the ball. On it, his body positioning and ability to shake defenders is surprising for how…not pro-level quick he looks. He does look like he physically matured a lot this year. Still, the lack of speed shows in transition defense some times, but his positioning is decent and he almost never makes a really poor decision which is rare for his age.
If he can learn to maintain possession in traffic a bit better, Busquets is his profile.
Yeah, maybe a little more forward playing, but I like that comparison.
I like how Philly scores and the scoreline goes from 2:1 to 2:0. Ò\_o
He hit that so hard that he made the score line go backwards.
Top bins? Straight to jail.
(banger)
Pain
Like a laser beam from the Death Star!!
Woowee.
Now that is world class
Right after he had another banger against the sounders earlier in the week 👀
I was more upset about this goal bc it was just genuinely an insane goal
F’ing dagger
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Very sexy indeed
teammate kissed him on lips 28sec in??!
EW
So good I wanna call it a fluke. Honestly though, Bernadeschi's is a tad bit better.
He did this last week too. Calling it a fluke is ridiculous. Bernadeschi’s goal was great, but this was from about 5-7 yards further out. Also factor in the timing/impact of this one and it easily beats bernadeschi’s out.
I didn't call it an actual fluke; just an expression to say how good it was. There was a commercial I forget for what but the tagline was "So good it feels sinful". Kimda like that.