Dude this Gold Cup roster is [expletive].
G: Marcus Hahnemann (Wolverhampton), Tim Howard (Everton), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)
D: Carlos Bocanegra (Saint-Étienne), Jonathan Bornstein (Tigres), Steve Cherundolo (Hannover 96), Clarence Goodson (Brøndby), Eric Lichaj (Aston Villa), Oguchi Onyewu (AC Milan), Tim Ream (New York Red Bulls), Jonathan Spector (West Ham United)
MF: Freddy Adu (Rizespor), Michael Bradley (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Clint Dempsey (Fulham), Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy), Maurice Edu (Rangers), Benny Feilhaber (New England Revs), Jermaine Jones (Schalke), Sacha Kljestan (Anderlecht), Robbie Rogers (Columbus Crew)
F: Juan Agudelo (New York Red Bulls), Jozy Altidore (Bursaspor), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes)
MrSaigon wrote:Just 3 forwards for the U.S. in the Gold Cup? Can any of those mids move up?
I assume Dempsey will play forward against tough teams. Will see Agudelo-Altidore against the minnows.
MrSaigon wrote: I was hoping Davies would get to go (and I'm hoping he's well enough to see me on Sunday).
Me too but at least he has an excuse, an injury. Teal Bunbury or Herculez Gomez should absolutely be on this squad instead of Wondolowski.
MrSaigon wrote:Is a Turkish second league club better than playing in MLS?
Hell no. This Adu call up is inexplicable. Makes me miss Stu Holden. That should be his roster spot.
Also Robbie Rogers sucks, shouold have been Alejandro Bedoya. Apparently Tim Chandler wanted the summer off since this was his first year of a full season starting with Nurnberg, but I love him and think he'd be dangerous for us.
The roster is good enough to win it for us, and it appears Bob is treating it like a World Cup and won't experiment unless it's some Caribbean gimme, but there's still some odd choices.
I'm guessing this is the primary lineup:
---------------------------------------Howard---------------------------------------------
-------Cherundolo--------Onyewu---------------Ream-----------Bocanegra---------
--------Donovan-----------Bradley----------Jones-----------------Dempsey----------
-----------------------------Altidore------Agudelo----------------------------------------
Then against tough teams it'll be something like this with Dempsey and Donovan cheating forward on offense and getting back on defense.
---------Bradley----------Jones--------Edu/Feilhaber-------------
--------------Donovan------------------------Dempsey--------------
------------------------------Altidore----------------------------------
