Jozy's Big Day

Not to mention this very important goal.

my 2 cents

Altidore:
Yes he did his part as CF/Pocher type Forward, but he still lacks good first touch.
Maybe he will get better, but I think to be fair to Altidore an EPL/Turkey or a team were he can play lots of minutes would develop him better.

The thing w/Altidore is he always starts well in the season and then tapers off.

Montero/Cani:
The match changed when Montero came on and combined well w/Cani.

Fuster: He does well w/Rossi, because he plays behind Rossi and doesn’t have to finish.

Ruben: I believe would have done well w/Rossi or Maontero on the Field

Nilmar: Plays best w/Rossi
Nilmar best suites as Wing forward or w/Technical SS supporting him

Best to Cash in W/Altidore NOW !

Ok Altidore, well first I’d like him to stay but thats being selfish, his game time could be very low unless Garrido goes back to the 4-3-3 that he used a bit last season. But there is no way Altidore is faster than Nilmar, he’s got more power but I reckon Nilmar would have him in a footrace, but thats a minor detail! I think Altidore has the talent to succeed in Spain, I thought he was a lost cause for us but the WC changed that. More than likely it’s a toss up between him and Marco Ruben.

Fuster, I’m a Fuster fan, he scored against all the big teams last year something which we shouldn’t forget because it’s one of the most valuable traits a player can have. At 27 I can’t see him being loaned out and I want to see him stay in any case. I definitely think he can be a valuable attribute, what with Cazorla’s injury problems and Montero’s inexperience I think he is an important squad player.

I’d have no worries about the form of Marchena or Nilmar, it was their first 45 minutes of football since the WC so I wasn’t expecting fireworks.

Our 23-man roster is really 21 if we exclude Gonzalo and one of the keepers (Oliva, I prefer); with international callups, injuries, etc. I think Fuster will get playing time and can contribute. I tend to agree with Nick—no need to loan him.

  As for Jozy, he’s still young, and I still don’t think we really know what we have. We loaned him to Xerez, which was a disaster; we loaned him to Hull, and that wasn’t the most stable situation, what with manager changes and money concerns. Unless we desperately need to get somethng for him and save the salary, I don’t see the reason to loan or sell. I don’t see anyone coming in with an offer anywhere close to what we paid for him right now; if they did I would change my mind, but “buy high, sell low” doesn’t appeal to me.

   Dowie (Hull’s last manager) liked him but thought he needed to work harder in training. Fine, let him train under Garrido and he can assess that for himself. Jozy should get some playing time—he adds a dimension of strength we don’t otherwise have—and as for ‘he starts well and then tails off’—we really don’t have enough information to judge.

     The downside of keeping him is if he doesn’t impress at all, or doesn’t play at all, we’ve spent another 1M on salary and he might be less marketable next time. But with a smaller squad than last year and Jozy providing some positive minutes both yesterday and at the WC…..I guess I’m speaking partly from the heart, too, but to me the positives outweigh the negatives of keeping him, unless Garrido can’t imagine using him at all.

And this is a very good sign. I’m looking forward to tonight.

I feel myself getting on the bandwagon. I have never been his biggest supporter, but I have liked the way he has been playing, and if his lost weight and good condition are any sign, he is taking things seriously. The combination of that, along with the obvious skills, size, and quickness he brings, and I think we could make it work.

BREAKING

Alitdore’s agent shas informed ESPN that Altidore future to be decided this week.

2 EPL teams and 6 Turkish Teams are interested

…..plus a couple of French teams maybe. Agent also said ‘Jozy wants to be where he will get playing time’ (big surprise) but he has four years on his contract and Villarreal will want a big transfer fee. So I’m not sure whether we should actually read into it that Jozy isn’t staying, or just that the agent is hyping his client in the hope of generating a bid we will accept.

       Jozy played the entire second half; he drew a couple of fouls, had a few decent runs but looked jet-lagged, not surprisingly. And he had one horrible decision to shoot from an acute angle at goal (missed badly) when a cross was an obviously better option. But he was pretty much having to pick up the ball in midfield and run with it, and didn’t have anyone to play off or set him up so he could poach a goal.

  Rossi played 25-30 minutes for Italy vs. Ivory Coast, had a couple of good moments but nothing spectacular. He got soaked—it was raining quite hard in London.

Agents: GONZALO’S claims Villarreal have turned down several offers for him—both from South American and Spanish clubs. Not sure whether to believe this or not. It’s pretty clear he is not welcome at Villarreal, for reasons not necessarily related to his performance on the pitch, so I’d think the club would accept any reasonable offer just to be done with him and his salary.

Altidore really didn’t need to be there in USA-Brazil, it was unneccessary.

Fly 16 hours + for 45 mniutes?

He should have stayed @ Vila-real

A nice article on Mateo Musacchio. And the B team came back to defeat a Hong Kong side 2-1. Iago Falque provided the assists on goals by Torres and Llorente.