Fulham Alumni Report

One of our two Greek tragedies from the previous relegation era squad(s). As likely to get sent off as make a big play. The other, of course, was Kostas Mitroglou, who has 1 goal in three appearances for Galatasaray this season. The 30 year old is on loan from Marseille.

 

Emerson Hyndman to Atlanta United on loan with option to purchase. Hopefully he gets lots of playing time and visibility (seeing how Berhalter loves the MLS guys).

http://www.espnfc.com/story/3890629/bournemouth-loans-hyndman-to-atlanta-for-year

 

I wish Hyndman the best. I never fully understood why he left Fulham when he did.

 

Although he was only at Fulham on loan, I'm going to include Calum Chambers as a Fulham Alumnus. He had a huge impact for Arsenal on Sunday as he scored the late tying goal when the Gunners were playing with 10 men vs. Aston Villa. Chambers also played the role of the gate on Aubameyang's game-winning free kick a few minutes later.

 

I noticed this morning that Jesse Joronen has been the starting goalkeeper for Brescia in Serie A.

 

Saw Matt Targett playing for Villa at the Etihad yesterday. Hadn't read that they'd picked him up. Must've made an impression at Wembley, and elsewhere (Southampton apparently). Good for him. Watched the extended highlights and thought Villa was hard done by the 3-nil score. They put in an admirable effort and very easily could have gotten an unexpected result.

 

My son is a Villa fan and he keeps reminding me that we let Matt Targett get away. Although things didn't go they way they wanted against Citeh, Targett did get the injury time winner the prior week vs Brighton and Hove.

 

I saw that as well Don. Thanks for doing the legwork on his career since Fulham. He doesn't look like a kid anymore, that's for sure.

We'll run into our old buddy Scott Malone Tuesday night at the Cottage.

 

I watched it too, and I agree about Sheffield United. Being an old codger myself, their manager looks like a kindred spirit. Two promotions in 3 seasons as manager looks good on the resume.

 

https://www.espn.com/soccer/soccer-...on-hyndman-from-bournemouth-to-permanent-deal

Good for him to do well enough to get a permanent deal done. Very good technically, but missing a little bit athletically to be upper echelon. Maybe not the rousing success story, but the kid got to live abroad and have life experiences most of us dream about.

 

Ryan Sessegnon finally gets a start and nets his first goal for Tottenham during Champions League play vs Bayern. Tottenham ended up losing 3-1, but it was a pretty sweet strike from Sessegnon to get them level at 1-1:

 

There are so many places to post this, but this is the first one I saw.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/united-...tar-brian-mcbride-named-usmnt-general-manager

This should hopefully be good for some of the lesser called up European based players.

 

I hope that McBride's professional experience can be leveraged to help improve the USMNT. I have trouble seeing how it could hurt.

On a side note, a friend of mine lives in Chicago and in the same neighborhood as McBride. His kids have had pick up games in their backyard and McBride has joined in occasionally.