By RYAN TOLMICH
Having impressed on both the club and international level in recent months, U.S. Under-20 Men’s National Team midfielder Emerson Hyndman is beginning to earn some looks from across Europe’s top leagues.
Goal USA reported Monday that Hyndman, who is entering the final year of his contract with Championship side Fulham, is now drawing interest from teams in the Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga and Eredivisie. However, to this point, no team has been able to reach Fulham’s valuation of the 19-year-old midfielder.
Last year, Hyndman was the subject of loan offers from Spanish clubs Almeria and Elche as well as Dutch club SC Cambuur. Bundesliga club Stuttgart was also among the teams to make an offer, but Hyndman remained with Fulham for its entire season.
Hyndman made his first team debut for the English club last season, and went on to appear nine times before missing out on the action due to a combination of injury and international commitments.
Internationally, Hyndman is coming off the U.S. U-20s’ World Cup quarterfinals run in which he led the charge as the team’s captain. The midfielder has also earned one senior cap, featuring in last September’s friendly against the Czech Republic.
What do you think of the interesting being generated by Hyndman? What leagues and teams would you see being a good fit? Is it the right time to make a move?
Share your thoughts below.
If that is accurate then Hyndman is gone.
He only has a year left on his contract, and he has so far refused to resign with Fulham. If Fulham want to make some money off of him they need to sell him now or at the latest in January. Would love to see him get a full season under his belt at Fulham, but that looks impossible at this point.
– I assure you, we have top leagues interested in him right now
– Who?!
– Top…leagues.
Cut to Hyndman being sealed in a crate and wheeled down a long bench full of crated prospects…
He should stay at Fulham like Christenson the young Dane is doing. Why when there is a little bit of profile does a player have to be off. Fulham have loads of great youngsters. Instead of stealing everyone else’s best youngsters, develop your own
as much as i would love to see a player like him develop in La Liga, Fulham looks like a great place to build yourself into and start out.
Based on what? All the great players they have developed over the years?
Fulham were dreadful to watch other than Dempsey and Duff. Since they are gone, they are just another club with no aspirations than just surviving.
And yet they have two 10Millon plus strikers that are going to start on Saturdays opener in Cardiff…
Sorry Fulham want back up in the Prem badly… last year they lost the first 8 games and only could dig themselves out…. this year… they will be playing to win the league.
They have 4-5 players under 20 that will be playing for very decent Prem teams soon if Fulham choose to sell.. their youth team consistently is one of the best in England…
So dreaful that they made a UEFA Europa League Final and were minutes away from a shoot out with Athletico Madrid….
What a deadful team…
TROLL
I’m referring to the team after Dempsey and Duff left. Yes, they are dreadful thus their demise and relegation. They have always been a selling club; Saha, Malbranque, Dembele.
10 Million plus rated strikers in that sorry ass Greek dude who did jack when they were in the PL, and Ross McCormack? What non-English clubs would pay that much for them? Haha
We need to be mindful of the message we give to Emerson. If we send him out on loan for experience that could be OK. If we sell him for lots of money that could be OK. What is not OK is to is to keep telling him how good he is but not play him, we need to be straight with him, he’s either good enough for the first team or he’s not, and act accordingly.
+1
Why do “we” need to be mindful? I don’t work for Fulham.
who’s “we”?
He must mean us posters because no doubt Emerson is perusing these posts looking for career advice.
It’s a write-off for them.
How is it a write-off?
They just write it off.
Write it off what?
Jerry, all these big companies, they write off everything.
You don’t even know what a write-off is.Do you?
No, I don’t.
But they do. And they’re the ones writing it off…
The first thing I would tell Emerson is to not listen to “we”.
Not knocking him at all – but how big is he? Please don’t reply with “how big is Messi” etc . . . I am honestly curious how he projects as a center midfielder.
5’9″, 140 lbs.
5′ 9″ 134 lbs
5’9″ 99lbs
If this keeps up Hyndman will waste down to nothing.
He must be on one helluva diet.
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VERY excited about Hyndman. He definitely seemed to wear down as the U20 tournament went on – it was grueling – but he absolutely carried the team in about 2-3 of those matches and definitely had more than a little Michael Bradley in him.
I see him as a 6, myself. A little small, but he looked a lot like Osvaldo Alonso, maybe a little more attacking-minded. Just so neat and clean on the ball, sees everything.
I’d personally work him in with the U23 Olympic team – I expect that’s actually the plan – and then see if he can replace Beckerman with the senior team at some point.
In the short term I’d call in Dax McCarty, but I think long-term Hyndman is the replacement there.
+1. Agree. He had a strange U-20 tournament. Very good in parts, invisible in others. Clearly, he is still at a point where he can be marked out of the game by a good team, but that’s not too odd given his age.
I think he needs to beef up a little bit physically, but mostly I’d say it’s just a function of experience for him. Another season with Fulham would probably be fine, provided he stays healthy and plays
He needs to be the playmaker/distributor we haven’t had since Reyna retired. The role that Stu Holden was primed for until he got hurt. That’s his best fit. I agree he probably needs at least a full season at Fulham and then I think he would do best at a technical league like Italy or Spain.
i don’t think stu was ever going to be that person; he was always more of a box-to-box mid whose greatest strengths were unbounded energy and that amazing hair. hell, bradley’s probably a better “playmaker” than stu ever would’ve been.
We’ll never know but IF Stu had not gotten hurt and had developed the way it looked like he was doing, Mikey’s current role would be very different.
BB’s tenure was dramatically altered by injuires to Davies, Gooch, Jones and Holden.
Had those four not gotten hurt when they did, it would have been fascinating and BB might still be the USMNT manager.
I’d just like to see Hyndman get a full season of starts under his belt.
He only played a handful of games last season due to injury. Probably better for him to play a full season with Fulham and then see where things stand.
Anywhere but a bottom feeding english club
better than any us outfit!!
Not necessarily.
Playing regularly in MLS will always be better than sitting on the bench for a European club.
I am sure he would do well learning the game and playing with me, Lampard and Mix
No, any upper division league/club that will give him significant playing time would be a good move. Playing in the Championship though, rules him out as a transfer to the MLS, unless his contract expires first and he can move on a free transfer. You do not want him to go to a club where he will be “warehoused” and ride the pine for significant time.
Unless he fetches some good money for Fulham, I would expect they would keep him and give him more minutes.