FIFA Approves Jermaine Jones Switch

Hell yeah

No lets just hope Bradley will play him more than a late minute sub. Bradley really must start playing his best players for the most amount of minutes.

Bradley will use him as a starter if he is healthy and has gotten some matches with the team. Jones wasn't even aware of the rule change until Michael Bradley approached him at his father's request.

Before the injury to Davies, defensive midfield was the team's main glaring weakness. Clark is a good defender but has no offensive game. Feilhaber isn't great for 90 minutes and can't really defend. And Torres is tiny and not a defensive midfielder, so none of the options were particularly appealing.

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Jermaine is going to need serious playing time, and it's unclear yet if he'll be back before the Bundesliga hits the winter break.

While I do feel he is the answer to a lot of problems in the holding role (and be especially helpful tracking back is Onyewu and DeMerit still ain't right), I worry about his match fitness.

I think that DeMerit and Jones will be getting back right around the Christmas break, so while they will miss out on the Denmark friendly, they will have plenty of time to be prepared before the middle of June.

They may even be a little fresher since they have less tread on the tires from the first half of the season. At least I hope so.

Onyewu's situation is a little confusing. I wonder if he will go on loan to MLS or if he will just sit on the bench after mid-February.

i love that the US is finally to the point that there are more good players on the team than spots on the field

certainly a nice problem to have, although we are still super weak up front excluding jozy. moving clint up is the right choice, but id kill for more depth at striker, and if i was bob, id be giving torres a lot of minutes at every midfield spot on the pitch to see if he could play any of them, cause he is a guy that has to much talent and is way to creative to not be on the field.

and i kind of hate to say this, cause he hasnt been really effective on the national level, but i think Adu needs to see more time on the field at the same time as torres and jozy...and even edu when he gets back. the four of those guys together just have so much potential.

man, if we could get healthy and bob learns how to coach i think we would have a damn good team