Who's Clint?

A UK paper (the Mirror) is reporting this morning that we are going to make a bid for Clint Dempsey. I know he is a striker for New England Revolution, is he any good? What do people think?

It the purchase of US players a cynical ploy to increase the US fan base?

 

I really hope this happens, if it dosn't happen I still want Dempsey in Europe. Athletico Madrid was also rumored to be in for Dempsey.

 

I honestly believe that Inamoto was purchesed purely to raise the profile of FFC in Japan, although I must confess the US players question was more a bait, if you look at the players FFC have had:

Eddie Lewis: Good player, never got a proper go. Doing well for Leeds.
Marcus Hannaman: Reliable, good for Reading, tough against Maik Taylor and EVDS.
Carlos: Plays anywhere he is asked, gives 100% and is a solid performer.
Brian Mc: To draw.

 

Hi DCHeather,

Thanks for the links. I have had a look round and it seems like he is rated. The artical appeared in the mirror and it reasonably accurate.

 

Of all the American players in MLS, Dempsey is the one guy I think could be a solid EPL player right now, so I'd be delighted if Fulham picked him up.

Dempsey seems to have the one characteristic which often seems lacking in American players, and that is some real flair and creativity. I've heard others attribute this to the fact that Demspsey learned and played the game on dirt lots, on the proverbial "street," rather than being merely a technically skilled but uncreative product of youth soccer. He's one of those guys who just has a knack for finishing.

This would be a good move, IMNSHO (in my not-so-humble opinion).

 

I saw this on clubcall yesterday and got pumped up. If this happens he and Bullard next year would be sick and he would almost certainly have an instant impact this season in the MF. Check out his myspace....

http://www.myspace.com/txdeuce

 

I really like Clint Dempsey as a player. I think he works hard, has talent and style and gives it his all. I'd love to seem him at Craven Cottage in the future.

From what I can tell, he's bound and determined to leave the MLS and I think it will happen either in January or at the start of the next EPL season.

A Fulham hip-hop jam anyone?

 

If so, he better kip the hip-hop-hooray shit to a minimum. This team is about guts, not the proclaimed size of one players nutz.

 

Lol. A rap about Fulham would seem somewhat out of place to me... Besides, look what it did for the USMNT

 

Rap has a histroy in English football. Former Liverpool god and England flop John Barnes had his hand in two awful raps, the Anfield rap and he also rapped in the middle section of an England world cup song call The World In Motion by New Order.

I hope Mr Dempsy is considerably better at rapping than Barnes.

 

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