Home grown? No clearly one couldn't find a home grown squad (still there are home grown players that could make PL squads) but that hardly matters if you are talking about quality players that play in the league.
Actual transfer news, the mirror is reporting Villa are planning on tabeling a 5.5 mill bid for Huddlestone.
Yeah but then what about players like Guzan, Ream, Bradley and Friedel, who were all playing in the MLS when they were signed by much better leagues? All have played in the Premier League and they all started out in the MLS?
Bradley is good, but it would mainly be a team full of has-beens, Keane, Gerrard, Villa, Kaka, Dempsey, Lampard, Jones, Martins etc. In it's day it would have been a quality side, but they wouldn't have been playing in the MLS. You can't say that Aluko wouldn't get into a side when someone like Luke Moore does. Kei Kamara is top scorer so far and he was ****e for Boro
Aluko isn't a striker. Aluko would not start in a strikers position over someone like Wondo, Aluko would start on the wing where he belongs anyway. Aluko would probably be the top winger in the MLS, so long as he passed once in a while.
I meant players that are yanks But he's the best striker in the league. What I meant by home grown was non imported players from Europe. Yes there's been a few success stories over the last decade or so with the players you've mentioned but by and large they struggle to adapt. I'd much rather have a team from the Championship and I'd imagine it could finish in the top 10 of the PL
Wondo? Yea but my original statement was the local team and he plays in the local team. My god an Aluko Wondo partnership would win the title as the 2 CBs are the only other players that would even make a freaking league 1 squad. The homegrown ones are getting better but it's going to take another generation I think before you will see many top players coming from the MLS. Finding decent players once in a while wouldn't be that hard such as yedlin who was signed by Spurs and should be playing a bit in the PL next season. CB and GK are the 2 areas one could find decent homegrown players to sign.
Here is the Huddlestone article http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-eyeing-55million-deal-5881948? Tim Sherwood will table a £5.5million bid for Tom Huddlestone after going to Hull and back again. Aston Villa boss Sherwood has targeted the England midfielder following Jake Livermore’s drugs shame. Sherwood had planned a summer swoop for Livermore - but he was forced to ditch his interest when the former Tottenham ace tested positive for cocaine after City’s 2-0 win at Crystal Palace two months ago. Livermore was instantly suspended by his club and the FA for the rest of the season, and is now facing a two-year ban from playing. And Sherwood’s hopes of landing loan star Tom Cleverley on a permanent deal were wrecked when the Manchester United midfielder snubbed Villa in favour of a move to Everton. Action please log in to view this image Difficult spell: Huddlestone and Hull were relegated to the Championship That has seen Sherwood turn his sights on Livermore’s Tigers team-mate Huddlestone who looks certain to be part of the big-name exodus from the KC Stadium following Hull’s relegation to the Championship. A source confirmed: “Sherwood is a big fan of Tom, and the pair have strong ties after working closely with one another during their time together at Spurs. “Tim coached Tom at White Hart Lane when he was fighting his way back to fitness with the reserves following a bad injury, and rates him as one of the best creative midfield players in the country. “He believes he is the manager who can bring out the best in him, and would relish the opportunity to throw him a Premier League lifeline.” Neville Williams please log in to view this image Reunion: Huddlestone worked with Sherwood at Spurs Huddlestone has also been linked with a switch to ambitious Bournemouth, but the ex-Derby schemer would prefer a reunion with Sherwood to hooking up with the surprise top flight new-boys. Nottingham-born Huddlestone, who cost the Tigers £5.25million when he joined from Spurs two years ago, still has 12 months left on contract with the Humberside outfit But he is expected to be on the move along with the likes of Nikica Jelavic, Abel Hernandez, Dame N'Doye, James Chester and Andy Robertson as Hull count the cost of dropping out of England’s elite.
I think its just a matter of the young kids working their way up. I am 34 and there wasnt even a team in my high school as it was considered a girl sport. If you wanted to get laid you would not have even dreamed of picking up a ball. After we hosted the World Cup it began to change and its going to take a while for these young kids to reach their 20's. There was an article a while back that said that more kids were playing soccer than were playing baseball. The fact that millions of kids now play instead of thousands implies that the level will improve over time. I could find it if you want and put it in the mls thread.
If we can make on what we paid I'd definitely sell. I can see next season being more about consolidation than promotion. I can't see much of the squad remaining.
£5.5m? Take it if true. I'd love for him to stay and help get us back up, but it's probably the only chance we'll get of making our money back.
I meant in terms of having to build from scratch a team capable of promotion. It's no surprise most of the players we would need to keep have been linked with moves away. It is very unlikely you could build a team and get promotion from scratch this season, not impossible, but pretty unlikely.
Agreed - Championship teams would bypass Huddlestone with pace, energy and long balls. He would't / won't get a kick and certainly wouldn't have the time he likes on the ball
I'm not sure it will be completely from scratch, though I suppose we'll find out over the summer. We needed the midfield changing, we needed to try some new strikers.
Midfield x 2 Strikers x 3 Elmo/Chester/Brady That's another 3 that will be likely to leave. That's 8 changes to a starting 11 - Which is most of the squad. I don't think we'll keep players we had hoped - Primarily Quinn.
I just hope Sherwood does take ''one of the best creative midfield players in the country'' off our hands for anywhere near what we paid as that awnker is one of the biggest reasons we went down. mind you his goals return from last season as our top midfielder did come in handy though.
