The English Football League Championship will reportedly be receiving another U.S. men’s national team player in the coming days.
Reggie Cannon is set to join English second-tier side QPR as a free agent signing, The Telegraph reported Tuesday. Cannon, 25, had been without a club since late-June after leaving Portuguese club Boavista due to reported unpaid wages.
Cannon completed his third season with Boavista this year, whom avoided relegation during the 2022-23 Primeira Liga campaign. The former FC Dallas homegrown right back featured as both a fullback and centerback last season, logging 32 combined appearances in all competitions.
In total, Cannon scored one goal in 88 combined appearances for the Portuguese top-flight side. Turkish club Trabzonspor had previously been linked with Cannon’s services.
Cannon has earned 28 caps to date with the USMNT, being a part of the Concacaf Nations League and Gold Cup-winning squads in 2021.
QPR desperately needs right back depth with Osman Kakay currently serving as the most experienced player at the position.
Gareth Ainsworth’s squad recently fought back to tie Swansea City 1-1 on Tuesday, moving them to 19th in the league table. Up next for QPR is a trip to Birmingham City on Friday.
Glad Cannon is getting a team and playing again. He also gets to play epl teams sometimes in cup games occasionally.
Well they already got eliminated from the EFL Cup by Norwich so maybe in the FA Cup if they can get to the round the EPL joins in.
Sure why not. Live in London, play in a cool stadium, weather won’t be as nice as Porto though.
Portugal is gorgeous.
Still I prefer getting paid on time regularly.
I don’t know might still be break even to live in Porto without getting paid than pay London prices and get paid.
JR,
You have a point
I am amazed that “real” football leagues allow this – unpaid wages to players. That is amateur business – at least to me. I recall Beasley and others talking about going unpaid in Mexico too, and getting paid in bags of cash rather than checks and deposits. Again, just amazing to me at the low level of administrative review and guidance.
If Boavista was a third-tier, semi-pro team, I could see it.
V: i’ve heard of this in non-old firm scotland, portugal, eastern europe, some spain, mexico, argentina, brazil, etc. every time you hear some team “in administration” it’s possible this is happening. i am sure one reason beyond throwing around salary that MLS gets players is paychecks arrive on time and no one gets kidnapped.
I trust everyone remembers Diego Valeri of the Timbers.
I don’t have the link , sorry Striker you’ll just have to take this on faith, but I remember him giving an interview where he said that a regular paycheck and comparatively safe environment made MLS very attractive to Argentinian players
FFC, CFC, and QPR are all within about a mile of each other, walkable. FFC has the cottage, the thames riverside embankment, and the old school roof on the town-side. used to have terraces before they got promoted. CFC has the roof buttresses, the curved and translucent roof parts, the hanging video screen. QPR’s stadium is an awful boooooring squared-off metal box. it’s not even pretty from outside, ugly 80s UK office building exterior plainly paid for by the window-washer union. i thought barnet (underhill, the sloped playing field that dropped 11 feet end to end) had more character than that heap. QPR’s place was as ugly and unredeemable as brisbane road for leyton orient.
nah i am just happy he gets c’ship soccer.
assuming he plays, dude has fallen upwards. prestige league, historied but struggling team, SW london.
that being said, if you’re out of work in late september your agent messed up. you sign somewhere in july for a year and make it work. if they aren’t happy you go on loan. i don’t get these folks literally letting themselves get shelved and not play. i mean, boyd was once pool, boyd does 6G 2A these days, boyd is forgotten because he spent that time unregistered in turkey.
Tyler Boyd
Is 6g 2a in MLS for a winger exciting? It’s better than Cowell but is it impressive? Americans with better MLS #s
White 11g 4a
Ferreira 10g 3a
JMo 10g 1a
Giaocchini 10g 1a
Ebobisse 9g 3a
McGuire 8g 3a
Ramirez 8g 4a
Baird 7g 4a
Wood 7g 5
Some of those guys are straight strikers but that’s a lot of guys more productive plus you’ve got Weah, Pulisic, Aaronson, Reyna, Tillman in front of him at his position. Aidan Morris has 4g 5a as a box to box MF. Boyd made the provisional for GC that’s about as far as he’s going to get at this point.
sorry but y’all are wrong. dude who had an assist last cap was not dumped for NT performance. that makes no sense. i grant the pool improved but that wasn’t true in 2019-20 when he got dropped. what matches up, and i guess people forget, is he got benched and de-registered in turkey. GB then left him off ever since. that includes when we needed wing help for injuries, called in llanez or konrad or hoppe.
i grant the position has improved and he is not the lead candidate. i am not leading his parade. i am simply saying a wing with solid numbers is not even under real consideration and if you trace it back it basically dates to his issues in turkey.
my point wasn’t these are the first choices for the team and a mistake has been made. my point is that they (cannon, cohen, boyd, etc.) are not even in the discussion and how that happened. you haven’t really undermined that analysis so much as said let’s fast forward to now and just make it a performance analysis, when, as i explained, boyd was dropped 4 years ago and you won’t admit why it happened THEN.
IV if you could actually read you’d understand that I said he’s had hot streaks before but then goes bitterly cold. And he doesn’t have 3g 3a in the Championship he has 2 each and a goal and assist against 4 the division Salford
IV.
” dude who had an assist last cap was not dumped for NT performance”
Horse manure.
“my point wasn’t these are the first choices for the team and a mistake has been made. my point is that they (cannon, cohen, boyd, etc.) are not even in the discussion and how that happened. you haven’t really undermined that analysis so much as said let’s fast forward to now and just make it a performance analysis, when, as i explained, boyd was dropped 4 years ago and you won’t admit why it happened THEN.”
More pure, undiluted bullshit from you.
Who cares why Boyd was dropped four years ago?
But if you care, look at the 2019 Gold Cup
Four years ago Tyler Boyd started the Gold Cup brightly with 2 goals and a MOM vs Curacao. Then he kind of faded as the Cup went on.
He didn’t even play in semis or the final. And he has not really been a USMNT factor since then. That Gold Cup sums up Tyler’s USMNT career. Forget about his clubs.
“i guess people forget, is he got benched and de-registered in turkey. GB then left him off ever since. that includes when we needed wing help for injuries,”
Bullshit. More fantasy made up to fit your narrative.
Boyd joined Besiktas in July of 2019 AFTER the Gold Cup was over. The doubts about Tyler had already settled into Gregg’s head. Boyd was with Besiktas for 4 seasons so he had time to get over the deregistration incident. After that he went on loans and did reasonably well.
More important, he didn’t make enough of a strong impression with his Gold Cup to lock things down . Gregg started looking at other options and never came back to Tyler maybe because those options were better.
Whatever happened with his clubs since then, and you’re the SBI fanboy for big on rating USMNT performance over club performance, that Gold Cup (never been any indication that he was injured during the Cup) kind of told the tale of Gregg’s romance with him.
Bright start, then okay , then kind of flamed out and since then, up to today, nothing.
Cannon, Boyd, Holmes, all had sparks of talent that they just could never fan into consistent flames. Considering last cycle GGG went with Roldan (over Holmes), Moore (Over Cannon), and Arriola (over Boyd) the bar wasn’t so high that they couldn’t have reached it.
Should be much more difficult for any of these types of players this cycle considering the current player pool and those striving to be in the pool are all younger and challenging for time in European leagues equal to, if not better than the Championship.
Holmes’ issue is he can’t put it together for a whole season. He’ll show a flash where he has a month with 2g 2a and then you look three months later and he has 2g 2a on the season. His best season is 5g 0a as an attacking midfielder. That’s the only season he’s had more than 2 league goals in the Championship and never more than 3a.
holmes has 3G 3A as a c’ship mid 8 games into his year. maybe we have to wait until he is a 35 year old center back to give him a shot.
i personally feel both he and green suffer more from being typecast in the manner of a 10 when GB wants double 8s. we kind of tend to roster redundant “types” for a “system” as opposed to bring in guys who might offer bench diversity. to me he has a cannon leg outside the box and we have something against cheap goals or players off the bench who don’t look like the starters.
i also feel based on jamaica like he’s every bit as scrappy as musah or weston and would be just fine as an 8. and per usual his competition isn’t the starters, it’s the last guy off the bench, eg, roldan, tillman, LDLT, tessmann, those type players. i don’t buy him and green are obviously inferior. i buy we don’t quite get at the leadership level why we have to work so hard to win games and can’t beat good teams. i think we could use at least one bench player like them. everyone can’t be a worker bee.
IV,
“we have something against cheap goals or players off the bench who don’t look like the starters.”
I don’t know who “we” are.
“We” aren’t making the decisions, your imaginary fanboys aren’t making decisions, Gregg is the only person making decisions here. And Gregg already has his starters and his #12 to #18 or #20 (leaving out the three keepers).
Holmes and Green are not his starters because they aren’t as good as his starters. Their career arc screams inconsistent mediocrity.
And Gregg’s starters aren’t very good. If you can’t beat them out you are not hot shit.
Even if Holmes and Green were at their peak, they would not be the difference between the USMNT being a contender or an also-rans. Certainly if one of them has a long sustained run where they suddenly discover their mojo and look like they might displace one of the regulars, being reborn is always possible. But neither Holmes nor Julian have done that yet.
Most important of all, Gregg does not believe in either player.
Without that belief neither player will succeed with the USMNT, in any capacity. You’re trying to ram things into dry holes.
Tim Ream did it. He discovered his mojo after looking like mediocre crap his entire USMNT career and then had the 4 best games of his USMNT life in Qatar. And it seems to have rejuvenated him and he’s still going strong.
But that’s more the exception than the rule.
I wouldn’t count on Holmes and Green pulling a Ream
And Gregg doesn’t need to audition for depth. He needs better forwards, centerbacks, defenders and midfielders and if those candidates fail to displace the starters then they become the new depth.
Are those options, better players than Homes and Green? Maybe not but they aren’t much worse either.
If in form, Holmes and Green would probably be fine injury or emergency replacements but ultimately bringing those two into the USMNT picture, most likely, is just shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.
“i don’t buy him and green are obviously inferior.”
What you buy is immaterial. They are obviously inferior to Gregg’s present options for back ups. Their entire careers say “MEDIOCRE and inconsistent ”. The USMNT’s current list of potential backups have the advantage of being young and not yet acknowledged as failures like Julian and Duane. In the next year some of the current USMNT backups just might get to be better than MEDIOCRE.
“ i buy we don’t quite get at the leadership level why we have to work so hard to win games and can’t beat good teams.”
We don’t beat the good teams because we’re not as good. Our best players at their clubs, at this point and for the most part, don’t know shit about winning. And this USMNT is equally ignorant about winning.
And Gregg?
Beating good teams is something you learn how to do and this team hasn’t learned how to yet. With a few exceptions, they don’t have good examples at their clubs and Gregg is not an obvious choice to manage a winning side that can beat better teams. All his wins come versus crap teams.
That’s not to say they won’t win either Copa America or the World Cup but right now it doesn’t look promising for either event to happen.
“i think we could use at least one bench player like them. everyone can’t be a worker bee.,”
That sentence makes no sense.
” i don’t get these folks literally letting themselves get shelved and not play.”
I’m sure he they do that just to spite SBI.
Boyd must have issues to take SBI that seriously.
“boyd is forgotten because he spent that time unregistered in turkey.”
Boyd is forgotten because he is not as good the options the USMNT has at his position these days.
Or when he was previously given opportunities