the team is essentially indistinguishable from previous USA Men's WC teams over the past 20 years imo... the youth system needs to provide competent, complementary pieces for Pulisic ldo broken record... groundhog day

The most recent episode of the topdrawer soccer pod did a pretty good breakdown of 4 or 5 of the better youth players at each position that have future USMNT potential.

https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/podcast/

Who on Germany's side is not as good (right now) as Pulisic?

The point was to exclude Pulisic from the discussion, not to say he's better than certain players.

Can any of the Pulisic fanboys even name a player on Germany's side?

Hmmm let's see last time
Usmnt 2 Germany 1
...in Germany .. Diskerud starred

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Go away troll

I was just agreeing with this:

US needs to keep thinking like the second tier side it is, send its best players to play in Europe, for top teams (not Dortmund), and get the whole level up. The MLS can serve as a platform for finding the potential, and for getting the general level up, but it alone and retreads like Bruce Arena won't take the US to a competitive level. Some 18 year old potential is not going to take anyone to the WC semis. Of course Argentina wins more than the US does - they have probably the greatest individual player that's ever played and a host of other top tier talents - and they still can't win it all. You look at teams like Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil - their reserves are starters for sides like Juvenuts and Real Madrid. Right now the US doesn't have a single player playing for a top tier (= competitive in Champions) European side (and nobody that I can think of playing in Italy or Spain or France). If a team isn't stocked with guys who play regularly in Champions League it's got no chance of advancing in the WC.

Even as a non-USA#1er, nothing worse itt than others lecturing americans on why they won't win the World Cup next year

Also, USA is supposed to send its players to top teams, apparently Dortmund not being good enough.

Except that if our players are good enough to get sent to teams better than Dortmund we'd be one of the best teams in the world. Nice tautology, and a lovely finish to some real bad poasting.

Obviously Dortmund is good enough. If all our players were playing for a top 2-3 team in the big 4 leagues we'd be much much much better off.

But it doesn't even need to be the Dortmunds, it just shouldn't be the MLS.

Dortmund not being good enough for our top guys among the scorchingest of takes ITT.

Only the quarterfinals of the Champions League last year, what a joke of a club. How could anyone ever develop there?

Pretty sure you misread the post.

get em' Alexi

"Stanford Wondo" did his hamstring last night. Now there's a higher chance of actual Wondo getting on the field in must win game in October.

Cameron went off at halftime of the Stoke/United game on Saturday with a hamstring too. Yedlin was on the bench for Newcastle so at least maybe we won't have to see Zusi in a game again. I'm just not looking forward to seeing Omar Gonzalez at CB. I guess Besler would be his partner? Our depth is what blows. Seems like the back line is always decimated so we get a 96 year old Demarcus Beasley playing.

Whew, takes got hot in here. Someone else coming in to tell us why we suck as if we don't already know. It's like clockwork. Almost more indicative of a bad poster than the "Poker Handle Theory"

This thread is full of butthurt Pulisic fanboys defending a side coached by a retread loser that can't even score a goal against Costa Rica. Actually, Costa Rica is a better team, and oddly it even has a player on a top tier club. I'm a USA#1 fan and just get tired of the same crap year after year when the problem is short term thinking and a lack of individual talent development at the <10 year old level. American kids, and their parents, are too fat to be good at football, and they spend too little time kicking a ball around in the park, and the only hope is to get some of the better ones over to play in European clubs (and Europe doesn't mean England and Germany, it means Spain, Italy, and France too), some of them in top tier clubs (does not include Dortmund). That and nationalize some Brazilians.

whose new account is this? love me some scorching takes but you are doing a bit too much too fast my man

I dunno but he really doesn't like Dortmund with a side helping of Germany and England hate.

World Cup tickets go on sale early Thursday morning

Dortmund v Tottenham tomorrow...

2 minnows, not even worth watching. Wake me when Buyern play Chelsea. Amirite curry?

Pulisic looked mostly really good even though Spurs won. I am happy!

Fun to watch, but not what you aspire to be. You aspire to beat Juventus 3-0.