Freddy Adu is looking for a new club for the upcoming season, and while has yet to reveal which clubs are interested in him, he has revealed a potential destination: Holland.
Adu told Sportweek that he is eyeing a switch to the Eredivisie. While the club or clubs have yet to be identified, one possible destination could be NAC Breda, where Adu's former D.C. United teammate, Earnie Stewart, is the technical director.
Adu will need to find a new club if he wants a real chance of playing time. Benfica has added world-class youngsters Ramires and Keirrison (on loan from FC Barcelona) during the summer and both figure to eat up any potential playing time Adu might have hoped to get.
What do you think of the Dutch League as a destination for Adu? Think a reunion with Stewart could work? Where else do you think would be a good fit for Adu?
Share your thoughts below.
note to freddy and his agent…..whatever gets you regular time during competitive matches…..make it happen already. it is time for a slice of humble pie freddy!
This is probably where he should have gone initially. Hope this works out.
Garbage Leagues…He should have stayed in MLS. He could be a star by now and ready for USA
He is a great player, but sometimes I think he has walruses in a tank in downtown LA counseling him on his decisions.
Posted by: DC Josh | August 03, 2009 at 04:15 PM
Dude it’s transfer news not South Park..
For all the people talking about how Freddy should have gone over to a European academy at 13/14 instead of signing with MLS, you do realize this would have meant he never received American citizenship? So at least in terms of the USMNT you can’t argue that it was the wrong decision.
I think this is probably the best move for him
I wish freddy adu luck in his quest to sit on the bench in every major european league.
Benfica treated Freddy like an ivestment( which is normal for the Footbll world) and Freddy just needs to go to a loan ASAP to play.- harry
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If everything you said is acurate then Adu (or his people) are as crappy at business as Freddy is on the field. $4 million US is about 2.3 million Euro. Obviously, Benfica thought he wasn’t worth that which sounds like a lot for a squad player. Isd anyone blaming Badley for this contract?
And we have Jozy news. The Daily Mail is saying Hull are looking to take Jozy for 6.5MM pounds from Villareal. It also says they are to beat Fulham to his services. Hull? I think playing would be available at Hull. Playing in the EPL ain’t bad. I like it.
anyone else think that it’s kind of pathetic to see him advetise himself like that to the whole league… wouldn’t the interested clubs already ask about him?
I heard that Adu told a Swiss newspaper that he’s always dreamed of playing in Switzerland and told a Moldovan magazine that is willing to play for any clubs in Moldova- he’s not picky…
Would like to see Adu make the move to Holland. Then hopefully he gets to play. I would love to see him make a run and put pressure on coach Bradley to have him included for the World Cup 2010.
Well why didn’t he do something like this BEFORE HE’S TWO WEEKS FROM THE START OF THE SEASON!!!!??????
He is a great player, but sometimes I think he has walruses in a tank in downtown LA counseling him on his decisions.
After reading The Beckham Experiment, I hope Grant Wahl writes a book about Freddy one day (after he either becomes a serviceable pro, or not….). I’m willing to bet there is a WHOLE LOT that has and is going on behind the scenes with this guy that we have no idea about.
Hood_Rich, i think u forgot Benny Feilhaber, and Micheal Bradley, and Torres, and Edu
Dutch league sounds good, its a good spot for a guy his size and speed. But seriously, if he gets a good bid for Vietnam he should take it, the boy needs to be on the field.
Freddy’s best shot of getting to the World Cup is to have positive playing time and to be that X factor (like Theo Walcott making the last World Cup for England).
There have been Americans who saw the bench or reserves in Europe with their clubs but still became better from the experience (Spector for Man U; probably Cooper too for Man U; Simek for Arsenal), but that hasn’t happened for Freddy.
Sounds like a seriously good move for Adu.
adu needs to come back to MLS. his ego is making him waste valuable time.
1. When talk of Adu transferring overseas, Dave Kasper and Kevin Payne both said publicly that Holland would be ideal for Adu: not too physical, attacking soccer, at a level where he wouldn’t be buried on the bench. When he practiced with ManU, both of them said that the Premiership was a bad fit for where he game was at the time.
2. Yes, Adu needs to get PT. He’s very rusty and it shows.
3. Playing time won’t cure all that ails his game. Even when he was getting PT or had been in a lot of U20 practices and games, he still had issues. He drifts in and out of games–always has, even in his best matches. He doesn’t always show well for the ball. Movement off the ball is so-so. There are a lot of things he may never be strong at (defending, supporting teammates, winning balls, aerial game) but right now he’s just terrible at which means he can really only play 1 or 2 positions on the field. I think he’s unselfish with the ball and hits a beautifully weighted pass. But his decisions with the ball (when to dribble at defenders, when to play back, when to dish to teammates) are bad. How he reads the game isn’t good.
Now, the positive thing is that most of these things I’ve just mentioned can be taught or learned. It’s not like saying he has no speed (like Brian Ching) or has injury issues (like DMB or Convey or O’Brien). But just getting minutes does not automatically improve your reading of the game, your showing for the ball, your defending or at least support of defenders.
It starts with him getting PT. But if all he does is play, his game is still too incomplete to be a really serious contender for the 2010 side (unless a bunch of other US attackers like Altidore, Dempsey, Donovan, Cooke come down lame or don’t play for their clubs this Fall/winter/spring). For Adu to be a serious contender for the 2010 team, he not only needs to play a lot, he’s got to grow his game and reduce or eliminate some of the holes in it.
It does not matter. Adu has great ball skills, but is a terrible soccer player. No USMNT or WC for Mr. Adu (nothing).
excellent, great, halleluyah (or however you spell it)….
“I think the J-League or the Premier League of Uzbekistan looks great at this point for Freddy.”
They’re both better than MLS.
so what was the deal with bradley releasing adu for pre-season with benfica and adu ending up training solo in florida?
i am also wondering about jozy and his loan. I thought it was confirmed that he was loaned out to olympiakos. Guess not.
Agree with many of you about the dutch league being a good league for him. He needs to choose his team wisely though. He has to go to a team that plays in a system and style that fits him. The problem with Adu is that he is close to useless unless the team is completely built around him which not a lot of teams are willing to do and rightly so.
ya his career is over at 20..it hasnt been an easy road so far but a switch to the Dutch league would be great. give him time, by 2014 he should be a great asset for the US.
Whatever happened to the buzz about a loan move for jozy?
Sweden sounds nice this time of year.