By DAN KARELL
A new club has emerged in the Jozy Altidore sweepstakes.
According to a report in the Sunderland Echo, Bundesliga club Werder Bremen are interested in acquiring Altidore on a loan deal with an option to buy in the summer transfer window following the season. Altidore is already linked with a similar move to Lille in France.
Altidore has struggled mightily since returning to the English Premier League, scoring just once in league action and two other times in cup matches since August 2013. In that time, the 25-year-old forward has scored eight times for the U.S. Men’s National Team.
Despite plenty of speculation that Altidore could leave Sunderland in January, he has started Sunderland’s last two matches. Altidore suffered another embarrassing moment in a Sunderland shirt in their 1-1 draw last Saturday with West Ham, misjudging the flight of a cross and missing a golden opportunity in front of goal.
Werder Bremen are struggling mightily in the Bundesliga this sitting, sitting second from the bottom of the standings with 14 points in 15 games. 19-year-old forward Davie Selke saved his side from a defeat when he scored in the 88th minute last Saturday to draw with Hannover.
Franco Di Santo leads the team in scoring with six goals in 11 games.
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What do you think of this report? Do you see Altidore succeeding in the Bundesliga? Should he join a lower league to regain his confidence? Do you think he should remain at Sunderland?
Share your thoughts below.
Bundasliga is the best. A#1. All of our players should be playing there…
Jozy is a great athlete who has average soccer skills. He is what he is. He is old enough that he is not getting better any better. He is the player he is. We should stop expecting more. He’ll never be great in one of the “big” leagues. He’s best off in a 2nd tier Euro league or in MLS.
OH SV WERDER BREMEN SCHALALALALA!
Do they actually think Altdote can keep it them from relegation? Have they seen him play at all? They already have enough problems, the las thing they need is a forward that can’t score goals.
During Saturday’s game, Altidore played reasonably well. The announcers thought so and I would agree. There is after all a lot more to forward play than scoring goals. Of course, it would be a lot better if Altidore would score a few and his miss on Saturday was a howler. Nonetheless, let’s lose all this stuff about what an awful, lazy player he is and recognize that he is a good player playing for a weak team (which leave him at top on his own most of the time). He is not likely to make anyone forget Messi or Ronaldo, but even in the Dutch leave scoring 31 goals takes some ability.
maaaaaan i’ve been trying to explain exactly that to these clowns for months…. they just wanna hate.
“There is after all a lot more to forward play than scoring goals.”
half the people on here won’t read anything after that, because their minds were just blown.
No one here seems to be watching what he DOES on the field while waiting for service. He is essentially a lazy player, he drifts BEHIND defenders waiting for service, which is the lazy way to play. never cuts in front. in reality he makes himself difficult to find. He never tracks back,never defends, never presses. if you watch him without the ball, he just shuffles around,kind of like a poacher, but poor technique and poor first touch exposes him when he plays on a higher level.
That’s what everyone sees except the fanbois.
JK included, I suppose. that and I guess every striker in Holland is “lazy”…
shuffly perhaps, haha, but he tends to drift when he is expecting a back-door lobbed ball. he does look to make slashing cuts you speak of but, if you watch, you’d see, he doesn’t get played the proper ground through ball. he actually does play defense but it depends on the situation. the past two games they have been needing to push up more to come back or find the winning goal so that system asked for the fwds to stay up top waiting to counter rather than drop back. in the games last year and this year he showed plenty ability to drop back and hold a scoreline.
But what do i know, I’ve only (sadly) watched 90% of sunderland’s games in the past year (….not a brag…….). Hmpf…
but regardless of his skill level, I’ve noticed he just has a completely different style than the people on Sunderland. His style is a style focused around the ST but such that the ST uses 1-2s with mids to set up first time shots rather than tons of on the run crossing into the middle from wide. I’ve seen four 1-2s all year from Sunderland…. -___- ……….. they can’t cross, and can’t pass the ball thru. its all poor crosses and mids taking distance shots. go watch his AZ goals and see how they’re created. free flowing pass-and-move to work naturally around a defense. granted their D wasn’t the EPL but again, regardless of talent level, the styles just don’t match. someone on another post mentioned, i believe, Swansea and another team that play this way, and those teams could perhaps be a good fit but may not need/want a ST at the moment, etc. so even if he goes to another team/league, the best fit wil be in a system that actually works for him. though he looks like the big bruiser of sorts, he just wants to pass with his teammates and be teed up for shots (don’t we all…..)
Adam Maher and Jozy did great work together. They wont the Dutch Cup in Mark van Bommel’s last game.
I feel like no body remembers that Jozy actually won something in Holland and scored in the final.
I wouldn’t say he is lazy but he is not good at moving without the ball, he doesn’t have a “nose for the ball” he always puts himself in bad positions, he hardly cuts diagonally in front of defenders for some reason he prefers to try to play behind them.
Did you watch any of his games while he was in Holland?
I don’t know who is running the show at Werder right now. I don’t believe they have run out of money. I do, however, believe that they have really done a bad job starting around when all the great players left there. When Schaaf was coach, they had the greatest players assembled that had ever been in any league. Then they got greedy, and when Ozil left, the bottom fell out. Schaaf left probably because all the great players he had found (Klose, Podolski, Mertesacker, Ozil, etc.) were cashed in, and when Schaaf was not there, there was nobody to find great players. My hometown is Bremen, but thinking they can improve Werder with Jozy is a bit over the top. They need to get really good players to stay in the Bundesliga.
Podolski never played for Bremen.
Skrypnyk is doing well. But yes Bremen winning the league was a long time ago.
Can we call it a sweepstakes at this point? It’s more like who will take a flyer on him.
yet he’s too good for the MLS….
Poor jozy, he needs to stop being delusional and bring down his way of thinking.
Look jozy, I believe you should go back to MLS for 3 years or 2 or forever and become the new Donovan and chivas USA New York or nycfc might pay you a bunch of money.
Another option is ligaMX, which they will love you there and pay you a bunch if money as well and they don’t have crazy rules and you can play libertadores.
You need to stop bouncing around and Europe don’t like American soccer players, unless you’re a goalkeeper.
Exactly.
LigaMX is a terrible suggestion…….
They won’t love him down there, he’ll be ignored. No one cares who he is, he sucks.
You think that Jozy can be Landon Donovan ? Wow. Just wow.
I love Jozy, I hope he starts doing better, but come on.
Poor guys has the yips at this point….just like a PGA pro that can’t make a three foot putt or a second baseman that keeps double clutching the throw to first.
Doesn’t really matter where he goes at this point, as long as he goes. Needs some new surroundings, because the yips will just keep building at Sunderland.
Chuck Knoblauch syndrome.
Chuck Garlic?
Poor Chuck… I wonder if he knows he’s still getting blasted on soccer boards all these years later.
I remember Chuck when he played for the Yankees – watching him implode and self destruct was painful.
Oh that Jozy finds his way out of the doldrums and starts scoring somewhere a she did when he was tearing it up in Holland.
Excellent post!
Werder Bremen is in the relegation zone, 17th in the Bunesliga and really really desperate for goals. With 14 points the difference between them and Paderborn (10th with 18 points),Koln, (11th with 18 points), Mainz 05 (12th with 17 points), Berlin (13th with 17 points), Hamburg (14th with 16 points), Freiburg (15th with 14 points), surprisingly Dortmund (16th with 14 points), is very very marginal, therefore with a good push (goals,goals goals) it’ll be easy for them to lift themselves out of the drop zone…..with that being said am I missing something? Why the interest in a striker that cannot score goals for club or country? Is there some sort of underlining factor /reason? There has to be something Klinsmann and other team coaches see that is invisible to the naked eye and only time will reveal the true ability of Altidore. At this point there is no need analysis the situation because it just doesn’t seem logical…..
I pointed this out earlier. Bremen can score. They have 23 goals in 15 games.
They have given up 34 in 15 games. Jozy would score there should be fine. I honestly don’t think Bremen will go down. It’s gunna be Hamburg but Paderborn has some weird team of destiny thing going on.
I looked at Bremen’s roster. They only have 1 senior striker right now. The others are kids of Bundesliga 2 guys added as depth.
Bremen has won 66% of their games with their new manager, Skrypnyk. I say go Bremen.
We are clinging to straws with Jozy and doing so only because we lack any sort of decent backup or prospects. Our forward pool and play are dismal, yes we have AJ and Rubio in the Dutch league but there is not much coming through the pipeline .
Also in regards to Jozys USMNT performance for me he has left a lot top be desired. I understand he scores at a good clip and goes through periods where his rate is quite efficient but he doesn’t seem to score the big goals against our toughest opponents. I cant think of any of our big signature recent victories/results where Jozy has played hero. I recall the confed cup against Spain but that’s about it.
How about Jozy’s hat trick against Bosnia in the WC warmup? While a friendly, this victory was meaningful for the US NATS in terms of coming from behind against a quality opponent.
Same could generally have been said bout Dempsey pre Ghana.
Jozy scored against Germany in the 4-3 win after the pasting by Belgium in 2013.
As fun as it is to see you lot quibble about Jozy’s performance, it’s hilarious to read the comments on the source link that Daniel posted.
You’d think that Sunderland was banging goals in left and right without Jozy in the starting XI. Even if their team is shite, I guess Sunderland should be thankful that their supporters can at least make them laugh. If the Premier League ever branches off into stand up comedy, they’ll be champions in no time.
You had me at “move.”
hahaha
“sweepstakes” might be over-stating it a touch, don’t ya think?
haha. I love Jozy, but mos def.
indeed
Ahh, didn’t see your post.
Jozy’s dilemma is that he definitely has a playing ceiling. And the circumstances of the PL means he’ll only get chances on struggling teams where he’ll get no service in front of goal. He’s not the player to get goals from crumbs of opportunity. Whatever the level is of the Dutch league, that’s his competency level. Go above that and he’s the Peter Principle in action.
he’ll get no service in front of goal
…but he is.
while you’re technically right because of that one time last game, the reason that jozy’s miss this past weekend was so demoralizing was that opportunities like that just don’t happen for sunderland. they don’t (in general, okay?) provide service to their forwards–the forwards provide service to the wingers and mids (all theoretically, of course).
he’ll probably never get a chance like that again with sunderland, which makes it all the more important that he finish it.
of course you’re right, but then smart-mouthed little italicized comments wouldn’t be so popular on SBI
How peevish of you.
I expect nothing less from you however 🙂
Nate, this isn’t the only opportunity of service he’s squandered. There’s no technicality about it sir.
I’ve watched almost every single Sunderland game he’s played. you are wrong
but when you post content that is not enlightening, italics make you look clever anyway, so keep up the good work
Feel better now or should you add more smiley faces to your posts?
oh man what a burn! you’re so good at this, I’m scared now
You only get one smiley face per italicized comment.
Does that the conversion rate factor inflation into the equation, Leo?
i was thinking of the one-on-one he had with tim krul that ended up getting saved. it was great goalkeeping, but jozy really needed to score that (in a derby, no less).
there’s also that one-time attempt that he knocked wide, but that was a lot harder than it looked before it was slo-mo’d in a gif.
hey man, no arguments, he’s had a couple of chances in his time there that he’s missed, like this weekend which was brutal, but also numerous complete shifts without one ball served to him in the area.
Since you watch all the games, do you see how many times his teammates see him open and don’t pass it to him? You know, because he does nothing with the ball when he gets it?
His teammates know him best and they don’t want to give him the ball, that says more than anything else about his form.
@Del Griffin: Don’t expect a response. Beachbum has used up all of his smiley faces for the day.
With that said, you’re spot on.
@Del
ah yes, let’s blame him now for all the times that his teammates *don’t* provide service.
Del Griffin
” do you see how many times his teammates see him open and don’t pass it to him? You know, because he does nothing with the ball when he gets it?…His teammates know him best and they don’t want to give him the ball, that says more than anything else about his form.”
What makes you think that you can read the minds of his teammates?
Just because it looks to you like they see him “open” is that proof that they actually do? Do you have a webcam in their heads or maybe a cyber link with their sensor array?
If you can “see” that then Poyet certainly can and I suspect he would drop a player that did that. After all it’s not as if Sunderland gets lots of their guys, not just Jozy, open in attacking positions.
“this isn’t the only opportunity of service he’s squandered.”
that’s also true–i think there’s now been 2 (3, at most) times over the past 2 seasons where he really had no excuse but to put the ball away, and didn’t.
it’s still more than fair to blame sunderland for not providing good service to their forwards.
It’s a combination of both. Sunderland has the 3rd least goals of all EPL teams for a reason.
Wilfred Bony had 3 excellent chances before he scored for Swansea yesterday. He managed to screw them all up. He scored on his fourth.
Sunderland doesn’t make 4 good chances for a striker in a game. They can’t do through balls. Their crosses are poor.
Blah, whatever Jozy doesn’t raise Sundland;s game but I feel like he plays to the level of his team.
Blah, whatever Jozy doesn’t raise Sundland;s game but I feel like he plays to the level of his team
I think that’s a fair assessment.
However, my response was to having trouble giving credence that he’s received no service. The ratio and quality can be questioned because the team flat out sucks but the notion he receives no service is hyperbolic. Unfortunately, Jozy has also sucked.
Jozy clearly has not been good. But to say Sunderland’s midfield serves up dangerous balls in the box is just flat out wrong. Wickham and Fletcher aren’t banging them home either, and the fact that Sunderland fans love those guys tells you how starved of service they really are.
this is an excellent point, thank you
now enjoy your semantics discussion with the italicizing and bold lettered guy 🙂
that’s right, another smiley face
I don’t know how to make that face. I’m a bit jealous.
=(
Best I got.
he gets a good chance every week and he just misses them silly. He couldn’t sort out his feet on time for this chance and it keeps happening, this league is just to fast paced for him. You cant keep using poor service and fighting relegation as an excuse. This is just poor form by a guy who is struggling and this might be his end in europe.
Bingo.
“he gets a good chance every week and he just misses them silly.”
perfect, this thread was missing a person who obviously doesn’t watch any of the games.
Nobody gets good chances every week at Sunderland. Even Poyet is complaining about the lack of goals there, and these are games where JOZY ISN”T PLAYING.
You maybe right and you maybe wrong. Schevchenko led Serie A many years in scoring but he sucked when he came to the EPL. Sometimes its skill level, other times its fitting into a system or a style of play in a country that doesn’t suit you. Only time will tell.
Or maybe by the time Sheva came to Chelsea he was already done.
I struggled mightily reading this
Its not your fault.
I struggled reading its when it should be it’s…
I struggled reading a quote without quotation marks.
Poor choice. Team in relegation zone where he might be back looking for work in 6 months with another stain on his resume. Team in Germany where they will expect work rate. etc etc
Ignore your Mr. 10%. Go back to Holland and save your career.
Have you taken a look at the Bundesliga table??? 5 points separates the bottom of the table and 10th place. As usual the Bundesliga is so tight and compact that teams move in and out of the relegation zone almost weekly. It breeds some interesting football where results are at a premium. Bremen has room to move out of the relegation zone. Their place is not cemented —– yet. A move for Jozy could be a help to climb out of the relegation zone and firmly into safety.
the exact same could be said about Sunderland last season before Jozy moved there…..
I’d rather him go to a mid tier team like Hannover96 or something…
He doesn’t need “could.” He needs “will.” Low risk. I fully expect him to take the risky route and we’ll see if he continues to avoid the domestic repercussions. Boyd is hurt again. He keeps lucking out for someone who on his own terms has barely been a club blip since he left AZ.
I don’t see the value in B.1, too good and he won’t play, weaker sides aren’t bad but then at a certain point it’s a relagation risk.
“He keeps lucking out for someone who on his own terms has barely been a club blip”
F++k his club form.
He doesn’t luck out for the US .
In 2013 and 2014 Jozy scored 12 goals in 24 appearances for the US.
In the same time period Clint Dempsey scored 9 goals in 19 appearances for the US.
And neither player inflated his goal total by playing in the Junior Varsity 2013 Gold Cup turkey shoot..
JK and everyone else would wish for a better club situation for Jozy, especially going forward, but he has, in fact produced a lot for the US in spite of the Sunderland situation.
Like everyone else I love Terrance but Boyd has yet to do anything for the USMNT or even look like he was going to, even when he has been healthy. The only incompetence in question is the incompetence displayed by Jozy’s competition.
So let’s say he goes to a team that gets relegated. And? Maybe they won’t have the money to pay him, but assuming they do: is 2nd-tier Bundesliga really worse than staying at Sunderland?
One team where JA could fit in is Manchester City. Unless they extend the loan to Frank Lampard, they will need someone up top as both Aguerro and Czecko are both hurt. The real question is which club is DESPERATE enough to take on Jozy.
I’ve been a huge JA backer for years, but I’ve exhausted all my patience. I can’t make excuses for missing a sitter like he did against WHU. The only excuse I can possibly think of why he missed was that he was surprised he actually received a decent cross. Sunderland couldn’t find him when he was open in the first half. They either passed poorly or to someone else. Maybe, just maybe, on a good team, Jozy would fit in and do 20-30 minutes a game running the channels and getting some garbage goals.
The last place he should be is on a German-speaking version of Sunderland like Werder Bremen. League 1 might be the right place for him.
The reality is that AS A CLUB PLAYER, Jozy’s window is closing up. Unless he makes a return to MLS, or gets regular playing time in Europe, I think for all intensive purposes that he is through as a player for the MNT. The only thing keeping him in the picture has been a lack of depth and injuries to AJ and Boyd.
Why on Earth would Man City go for Altidore?
“…intensive purposes…” ???
“…intents and purposes…” !!! (yw)
I had a little chuckle at this.
So he can’t score against EPL teams for Sunderland but he would be able to for Man City?
O by the way, there goes the poor service argument. Getting closer to the Jozy bois to admit he blows? Can’t play Jamaica and T&T every day for the Nats either.
“Can’t play Jamaica and T&T every day for the Nats either.”
well said. wake me when he scores against spain.
Jozy scored against Spain, Germany, Nigeria, B&H, and Colombia. All of those teams played in the 2014 WC.
The Penalty against Colombia? Give me a break.
Spain in 2009?
Thanks for proving my point.
Take away Guadaloupe, T&T, El salvador and Jamaica and his “record goal scoring for the US team” doesn’t look so good anymore.
100% of donovan’s usmnt goals have come against brazil.
Wait
Del Griffin, you think it is easier for the same guy to score a goal for Sunderland than Man City ?
I didn’t know one post could contain so much ridiculousness.
Haven’t read many “del griffin” posts have you?
Any number of us have lost patience.
Hard to be excited about this. To recap, the following are possible scenarios beginning with the 2015-2016 season for Altidore:
-Second Division German League
-Back to a horrible Sunderland squad
-Once again, looking for a club via loan or transfer
All the while, trying to regain some amount of form for club soccer and score more than two goals in a given season. Prospects don’t sound too promising but it could be worse, I suppose. Right Agudelo?
there’s also the lille rumor, which i think would be a good move for him.
Lille would be more stable than Bremen. I will say that Bremen has scored 9 more goals this year than Sunderland. 23 vs 14.
So he should start scoring at Bremen they can put the ball in the net even if they have no idea how to keep it out
@Increase0 @Old School
yeah, the only thing about lille is they can’t score right now, so jozy might end up in another sunderland situation where he’s routinely asked to make something out of nothing. ligue 1 is defintely a more free-flowing league than the epl, though, so i still think it’d be a good move.
Lille has 14 goals so far and scored 3 of them this weekend… hmmm
I vote Bremen. He will score there even if the team goes down he will do better personally.
Couldn’t agree more. From what I remember a few years ago, Lille played an open style of attacking that Altidore has proven to flourish in. Though, I haven’t seen them play since Hazard left.
Lille is a solid squad. They have lost a lot of talent in the last few years including players like Eden Hazard and Dmitri Payet, and their coach Rudi Garcia, it’s no wonder they are having a bit of a down year, but they will rebound. I think the French league would be good for Jozy. A little more fast paced and athletic based. They still have Martin and Origi on loan right now. Jozy and Origi as a pair up front would be fun to watch.
Well, considering that Werder Bremen is near the bottom of their league and likely to go down I hope he will avoid that situation though I did like Bremen when they had Mohamed Zidane and the super tall Nrazillian CB.
Lille is very intriguing! I like the Bulldogs. They produce quite a bit of talent. Play better than decent football. Fingers crossed especially because I have to BeIN sport TV Channel.
If it’s a loan with an option to buy, then the team going down isn’t as much of a concern for Altidore. If they go down, they probably won’t have the clout to sign him to a contract.
Now if he’s able to bag a few goals, maybe even able to keep them up, seems like a winning situation to me.
Their league position and being loaned would actually appear to be a plus for him.
Lille seems the much better fit since they have wanted him since the summer window and he might actually get some service. With Bremen being a bottom dweller, I’d be nervous that he’d be put in the same situation he’s already in with the Cats.
Just leave. Get on that plane. Don’t even pack your clothes. They’ll give you new ones in Germany.
Agreed. just shorts and flip flops. Head to Cambodia. check with LD’s travel agent.
he should move to ABS15 FC (Anywhere But Sunderland ’15 FC)
Probably rather not move to a team about to be relegated. Relegation fight while trying to gain playing time don’t always mix well.
I posted this below but:
Bremen has scored 9 more goals this year than Sunderland. 23 vs 14.
So he should start scoring at Bremen they can put the ball in the net even if they have no idea how to keep it out. 23 goals for. 34 goals against. Jozy should score there I dunno if he is what they need to stop relegation.
On that note Franco Di Santo plays for Werder: 13 goals in 92 games for Wigan.
10 goals in 33 games for Werder.
That’s triple his rate for Wigan. It should be better even if it still isn’t great.
I don’t get why everyone is trying to figure out what the best imaginary move is for him, he is not playing well, has not played well for a long time, will probably move on and will certainly have very limited choices. Credit that he hasn’t given up and is still giving it his all, maybe he’ll find his touch and stay at Sunderland who knows? One thing we do know is that great/good/average teams are not lining up to sign him, get over it.
Well, if you’re one of Klinsmann’s favorites, it doesn’t matter how poorly you play for your club. If you’re not one of them, it doesn’t matter how well.
Just ask Tim Chandler. Or Landon Donovan.
@Joseph +1
I totally agree.
And what was Bob Bradley thinking when he kept starting Jozy for the USMNT, when Jozy had a nightmare season with Hull? Must be favoritism, like with Klinsi, right?
How many times did Chandler play for the US between being cap-tied and the WC?
Chandler isn’t a favorite… He is clearly the back up. Tell me who should be back up over him….
That’s like saying that Wondo is a Klinsmann favorite because he keeps calling him up and then subbing him in late…
Oops wrong reply and yes he was basically out of the team for a year.
As a Galaxy season ticket holder and longtime USMT fan, Landon was a great player and IS a great person. But he was NOT playing well in the run up to the WC.
Murray, Klinsmann had the chance to address specifics when asked why he did not include Donovan in the final World Cup roster. All Klinsmann would say at the press conference announcing the final selections was that Donovan was slightly behind other players. That answer says more about Klinsmann’s lack of honesty and analytical ability in evaluating talent than Donovnan’s lack of form.
“lack of honesty”?
How “honest” do you expect managers to be?
You are naive in the extreme. When JK said what he did about LD he still had a fair amount of time before the first game to bring LD back in the event of an injury.
And if you think that there is no way that would have happened then you are even more naive than you have demonstrated.
Say what you want about the soccer merits. I disagree, but that is besides the point. JK royally screwed up the PR part of the LD decision in the same way Lebron screwed up his move to South Beach. Look at how bitter American soccer fans still are 6 months later. There is no denying that. He thought he had the persona to overcome a lackadaisical approach to the only American player with star power. He screwed it up. For that, he will never be fully embraced by the complete USA fan base.
Donovan came out and said that he can’t train at 100% everyday. A coach doesn’t want to hear that. Donovan was not playing well at the time, period. I really like Donovan, I have a lot of respect for his advocacy of mental illness/depression. That’s very honorable. Excellent player at his best. The fact is he was entitled, and players put more effort than him. It’s about the future as well. From now on guys like Dempsey, Bradley, won’t screw around and KNOW they can’t expect a spot. Can’t blame Klinsmann for Wondo’s miss. Wondo is an excellent finisher, normally he would have that. Everyone says Donovan would’ve had that, when Donovan easily could not have been in the position Wondo was in. Wondo’s chance was a poacher’s chance. %100 Wondo’s fault imho.
He plays entirely differently with the USMNT. Altidore bashing has become quite common, everyone seems to have Alzheimer’s already for god’s sakes, my gandpa has better memory. Do people remember 2013? The guy was a beast. World class? Of course not, but he’s certainly underrated right now. Tbh, as a coach, up to 50% of sports can be psychological regardless of skill, probably more. Imagine playing in a stadium where your fans treat you like crap, boo you when you touch the ball, not to mention Altidore has had a hand in a good amount of goals, just hasn’t scored. Physically you grow weaker with less confidence, literally. You hesitate more, over think. Go see how Tottenham plays at home, then hopefully people will understand that psychologically plays such a major factor. See Manchester United. See teams under so much pressure, Brazil in the WC.
I have been saying for about 3 years that the Bundesliga would seem to fit Jozy best. He should go there.
Also, I want to point out that some very good players like Podolski and Ozil did very well in the Bundesliga and for the German national team, but not in the EPL. I think it’s a matter of style and the situation/environment.
The Bundesliga is a lot more fluid and teams are built to attack off transitions. This works for guys like Ozil who can find others in space and move the ball forward quickly.
Agreed
“Altidore linked with move to Werder Bremen”
HAHAAHA….yeah, right