Beasley: pulling a Donovan..

I've never really jumped on the DaMarcus bandwagon... in fact, I wondered how a team that was openly scouting him could still pick him after seeing him shut down, dispossesed and even nutmegged by a Crew rookie getting his first start that game.

Well, {forget all the reasons stated} it turns out that he's indeed too lightweight, literally, for European Soccer

RSL making play for Beasley

Well, I wouldnt mind him coming to Columbus... but i wont howl if MLS pulls the strings and puts him where he wants to go {That's their job... walking the thin edge}.

Because he just isnt THAT good ...where he's going to break the opponent team's back.

 

I love MLS but please stay in europe DeMarcus.

 

I see you disagree.. but answer this: How is staying in Europe going to help? Unless they have some way of making him bulk up.. while retaining/improving his foot and ball skills.

How was it he shined in WC'02 but was a dud in 06.. after several years at Eindhoven?

Could it be that playing against MLS defenses was a reverse factor?

 

I think DeMarcus should go to a team in Spain and see if it works out there. If he still fails then come back to MLS, I really hope DeMarcus gives it another year and a half before he comes back home.

 

It would be a bad move personally for DMB to go to the MSL. However, his loss may be the USMNT's and us fans' gain. Maybe after seeing how Donovan came apart after his move from the Bundesliga, we won't have to worry about either of these primadonnas ruining team chemistry. And a bonus for the MSL, DMB is better than 3/4 of the chumps in the league.

 

Re: RE: Beasley: pulling a Donovan..

There goes PCB taking aimless swings at MLS again. I'm not really sure what you get out of it. Chumps? Why must you can continue to hold some kind of personal bias against the league and the players in it?

As for Beasley, the last time he looked like himself was the friendly against Scotland. He's seemingly lost his confidence and willingness to take players on. There could be a million reasons for this. Its clear that since his move to PSV he's reverted. I do think he should stick it out and try to work through what ever problems he's having. Once he comes home it will be hard to get back to Europe at any point, though Cory Gibbs has done it.

It could be that he just is home sick, not every individual is cut out to be up rooted and placed in a foreign country. Some thrive and adapt others wilt under the pressure. We see players who possess obvious talent and dominate the South American game come to Euro leagues and fail all the time. It tends to sort the strong from the weak. The thing that is stumping about Bease is that at first he had good success and something has happened since to cause him to revert.

 

RE: Re: RE: Beasley: pulling a Donovan..

I was angry. The Fulham loss, mixed with my own club team's loss had me on the edge. While I still think the MSL is not very good, I apologize for my vitriole yesterday. I'll probabaly watch the MSL championship game, if Troy State is not playing Pensacola JC on Local Access Television.

 

Meanwhile Dempsey is doing the opposite.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/w ... index.html

I hope he can get over to the EPL asap. I don't blame MLS for rejecting that offer though, $1.5 is peanuts. That's less than we paid for Runstrom. He's worth at least a million pounds, probably more.

 

Good quote:

For his part, Dempsey has no interest in renegotiating his MLS contract. "I already told [MLS] if they paid me more than Landon Donovan I still wouldn't stay," he said, referring to Donovan's $900,000 salary. "I just don't want to be in this league anymore. It's not about the money. It's about me getting better and pushing myself to a higher level. I'll be able to live with whatever the consequences may be, but I can't live with never trying to accomplish my dreams, and I can't live with somebody holding me back from that."

 

Yeah I mentioned strong from weak in my other post and Dempsey is damn strong. I think he'd fit in great in the English game. He doesn’t back down and is not deterred by anything. He actually broke Jimmy Conrad’s jaw a few days ago. I'm also confident his various goal celebrations would become a hit at whatever team he joins.

 

Right you are. They made the switch recently, and I forgot all about it. Where I am, we get to enjoy the view of a few of those TROY UNIVERSITY co-eds every spring. While this L.A. (Lower Alabama) does not have the other Trojans (USC) talent level yet, you have start somewhere.

 

I don't know $1.5 is equal to what like 700,000 pounds. Its kind of rare to see any player come to the EPL from a foreign league for that little money. That’s like what we paid for Zukani and Dempsey having had a good World Cup has in my book proved himself a lot more than guys like Zukani and Runstrom.

 

Good points, I still think he's worth at least a million pounds. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

 

I think Dempsey will end up in the EPL eventually. I don't blame him at all for not wanting to return to the MLS.

Could his celebration dance reach the fame of Crouch's robot?

 

I would rather see Dempsey play in Spain or France.