re: Young Players Tracker and Americans Abroad Thread

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Born in 2008

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frick me.

Also, Guzan was clean for Middlesbrough against West Brom, his second straight good performance.

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U19 BL Week 4: Still no goals for Haji Wright but after this he has 4 assists & 1 forced OG in ~180 mins

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Levante's reserve side sign U.S. U20 Shaq Moore from Real Oviedo B. Will play in the Segunda B Division (Third tier) LINK

Chesterfield have rejected an £800,000 bid from Brentford for winger Gboly Ariyibi, according to Sky sources.

It is understood Barnsley have also made a bid while Derby, Crystal Palace and Sheffield Wednesday are also interested in the player.

The United States U23 international began his career at Southampton before being released by Mauricio Pochettino at the end of the 2012/13 season without playing a first-team game.

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I don't hate him. I have a problem with the unmerited hype that Americans have placed on him just because he's German and is in Arsenal's youth system. He's not any good. His absolute ceiling is mid-table Championship.

It also pisses me off that so many people on here are hypocritical about him.

I do also find it funny that he's being moved from lower-divisision skint club to lower-division skint club, and I'd find that funny no matter what nationality he had.

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Rangers are in the top flight now. I do recognise that at the time he was playing for Rangers whilst they were in the championship. However, Rangers ran away with the championship and beat the champion of top flight team in the Cup semi-final (GZ had a nice penalty in that). The difference in the championship and premiership in Scotland is really quite small. Hibs were able to get to both cup finals, and beat Inverness, Hearts, and St. Johnston in the process, and they finished THIRD in the championship and barely got through Raith in the playoffs.

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Don't talk about things that you don't understand.

A. Much of the Scottish second-division is composed of part-time clubs

B. A cup run is very different from a league. See, for example, Wigan's FA Cup win the same season they got relegated. To even use that argument makes me think that you don't understand soccer or sports in general.

C. In the SPFL promotion-relegation playoff, the second-worst team in the first-division pounded the second-division playoff winner into dust. The same thing happened the previous season.

D. None of that changes the fact that New-Rangers and Bolton are skint clubs (skint means broke, by the way), and that Zelalem played (will play) for both while they were lower division sides.

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That being said, I think you are being far unfair to GZ, and I suspect it is because he was part of the Sevco team that beat Celtic in the cup SF.

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I've watched him a number of times (including in that abomination of a semi-final) and he's never been impressive. In fact, he's normally been called out by the commentators for playing like garbage. It should also be concerning that he keeps being loaned out to really poor clubs in really poor leagues. If he was nearly as good as people on here and at other US websites thought, he'd be going on loan to clubs like Cardiff or Newcastle, not fricking Bolton.

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Side note: How bummed are you about the CL draw? Fun to see them play in Barcelona again...but between City and Barcelona it's going to be a blood bath.

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Not really. The important thing was getting into the draw and the confidence and financial boost that that brings. I do, however, hope that the goal-differential won't be embarrassing. And, depending on how things go today, we do stand a chance at third.