Sir Landon Of Donovan

[Wratho]

http://wisconsinsoccercentral.com/set-pieces/national/3543-donovan-drops-in-for-a-game-at-keva

So I guess LD is in Wisconsin visiting Family. Drops by a Indoor Soccer Facility and plays a pickup game.

Gotta love it.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Go to the 22:40 mark of that show...they obviously don't know sh*t about the league or clubs. If you don't want to, they were talking about Dempsey and said that Fulham were a bigger club than us. Words escape me...

Oh, and Moyes did an interview on MLS.com:

http://www.mlssoccer.com/extratime

Article summarizing:
http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2011/12/19/everton-boss-moyes-throw-donovan-right-mix

Moyes said he expects to throw Donovan right into the thick of things when the current LA Galaxy man begins his two-month loan spell with the Toffees.

“We’ll try and get Landon as many starts as we possibly can,” he said, “but obviously that’s down to form, fitness, and all the things that go with it. … He comes in a real busy period for us – January, there’s a lot of games over here – so he’ll get his football, he’ll get his playing time, and hopefully he can be as successful as he was last time.”

“I see Landon doing a couple of jobs for us,” he explained. “I can see him playing off the right, which he did last time, we may need him off the left at times, and in fact, we’re really short on goals at the present time and I could consider playing him up front as well.”

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So basically, we still don't know where the heck he's playing in our formation, Moyes is considering playing him everywhere we are. He also expresses multiple times he hopes Landon is ready to go 1/4. If he's fit enough, he's starting immediately. Very interesting that upfront comment.

Moyes also answers a question about LD coming permanently - he says we have historically been priced out by MLS, the plans are only for two months BUT, if Landon performs well, and if he wants to stay, Moyes would consider calling Bruce and LA and trying to make a deal. He didn't say an outright no.

Also - Moyes scouted Americans at the USA vs France game (was this reported anywhere?). I'm very curious as to who he was looking at. Knowing our team right now - midfielders??? RB? Shea? Since the US is also sorely short in strikers, don't think that was it. But it's our club's monetary situation that we are looking at the Americans. We come cheap(er) and according to Moyes we're hardworkers with a good attitude.

 

[Kay20]

Open up the EvertonDirect website..... Get your Donovan #9 Shirt for his Return against Bolton....... They expect lots of Shirt sales have to.....

Kay you should have waited one day

Dang nabbit!

I only paid $5 more, that's okay. I just hope it doesn't look any different than if I had waited for the official thing.

 

[Uscrulez2001]

From Twitter:

PursuitVictory Pursuit of Victory
LA may lose Beckham, Juninho, and there are rumors that Landon will stay permanently in EPL. Not good for the Galaxy.

This is what we really need. and Messi of course.

 

[DualityNSNO]

From Twitter:

PursuitVictory Pursuit of Victory
LA may lose Beckham, Juninho, and there are rumors that Landon will stay permanently in EPL. Not good for the Galaxy.

This is what we really need. and Messi of course.

He'd make a great left back under Moyes.

 

[BiggyRat]

Messi? 228 goals in 361 appearances in all comps? (wiki) What on Earth would we do with him here?

 

[DualityNSNO]

Messi? 228 goals in 361 appearances in all comps? (wiki) What on Earth would we do with him here?

Cover for Cahill.

 

[BiggyRat]

Cover for Cahill.

I hope he likes woodwork then...

 

[Welton Toffee]

Ordered my Donovan away 'jersey' last night to take advantage of the last day of the offer, get in!

 

[mabindurham]

Shutouts ?

netminders ?

1-5-1 ?

Why must everything be changed ? embrace our beautiful game and the terms that come with it instead of nfl/nhl/nba/mbl'ing it with alternative parlance ffs.

What seems to be lost on many folks here abroad is that we've had a tradition of association football here in the States since the early 1900s. My home town club, for example, won the US championship 6 times between 1916 and 1924.

Even if we didn't have that, why would it surprise you that we use terms that everyone here would understand?

 

[EFC NY]

Shutouts ?

netminders ?

1-5-1 ?

Why must everything be changed ? embrace our beautiful game and the terms that come with it instead of nfl/nhl/nba/mbl'ing it with alternative parlance ffs.

Netminder is a hockey term. Blame the Canadians.

Just keep in mind that the Internet is not big enough for me to post all of the sports terms that are different in north America

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

What seems to be lost on many folks here abroad is that we've had a tradition of association football here in the States since the early 1900s. My home town club, for example, won the US championship 6 times between 1916 and 1924.

Even if we didn't have that, why would it surprise you that we use terms that everyone here would understand?

why not just use the global language like everyone else does ? I'm sure that your local team in 1916 wouldn't have used terms from other sports.
Matchday 6 and stuff brasses me off as it doesn't exist, hearing it said about our league when we don't say it doesn't make sense, it also gives the impression to us that the sports reporter hasn't got the faintest wtf he's on about.

 

[Kay20]

why not just use the global language like everyone else does ? I'm sure that your local team in 1916 wouldn't have used terms from other sports.
Matchday 6 and stuff brasses me off as it doesn't exist, hearing it said about our league when we don't say it doesn't make sense, it also gives the impression to us that the sports reporter hasn't got the faintest wtf he's on about.

We end up using a mix of old + yank inventions. It's what we do. Not wrong or right.

And let's let this die.

 

[Goat]

*cough*

 

[Matt Damon]

What seems to be lost on many folks here abroad is that we've had a tradition of association football here in the States since the early 1900s. My home town club, for example, won the US championship 6 times between 1916 and 1924.

Even if we didn't have that, why would it surprise you that we use terms that everyone here would understand?

You do know that England was the first professional league in the world?

And that this club in particular was formed in 1878, when Queen Victoria was on the throne and Britain's Empire encompassed 1/5th of the entire world?

Yes. That far back.