My views on the Gold Cup

1. Benny Feilhaber and Michael Bradley are the 2 best central midfielders that US has and should have an ideal partnerchip by the 2010 world cup. Feilhaber plays a lot like Cesc Fabregas and Bradley plays a lot like Carrick excpet unlike Carrick, Bradley can tackle

2. Bob Bradley is the man for US soccer, the way he rotated the squad during the cup was absolutely outstanding, and his substitutions during the final were spot on and probably saved us from defeat.

3. Clint Dempsey is an absolute class player, and altough he did not show it in some of the later games of the tournament, I think that is due to the fact that when you have him playing in the withdrawn striker role, you need to have a quality striker up top, something the US does not currently have. The future does look bright though, if we can send EJ, Ching, Twellman, and Altidore to Europe to gain some real experience as the MLS clearly isnt the placew for an up and coming striker. Also, get Ferrari away from Rossi and Italy, while I do repect Serie A, I think La Liga and the Premiership are the place for our strikers to be at, and if they cannot get to those leagues, at least sign for a decent club in Europe where our strikers can work their way up to the premiership

4. I am not sure what Titus Bramble did to Onyewu but clearly Demerit is the much better center back at this moment. Gooch should fire his agent for sending him to the wreck that is Newcastle when, in all likelihood, he could have signed for Chelsea. We need to get Gooch to either Birmingham or a quality Championship side, like Charlton. And by the way, Simek should be the Us's answer for right back, get him into the Premiership!!

5. No question about it, Tim Howard is our number one, but I would like to see Marcus Hannemen get more call ups from Bob Bradley

6. While Landond Donovan may be a pussy, the US still relies on Beasely and him.

Tottenham Signings

If you have not noticed, Tottenham have signed Gareth Bale, the young Whelshman and Darren Bent for a little over 20 million pounds here are my ideas for theses signings:

Bale- Gareth Bale played very well in the Championship but it is time to see if he will make it in the Premiership. To be honest, I am not sure if he has the right kind of build and physicality to be able to compete in the Premiership but at only 17, he has plenty of time to adapt. I prey to god the Martin Jol plays Bale where he belongs, at left back, and not put him at left midflield because he clearly is not the answer for that position (which I will get to later). Also, he brings some good left-footed freekicks that spurs desperately need. I think it is too bad that this may mean the end of 1st team football for Young-Pyo Lee as I thought he was one of the unsung heroes last season and hopefully he will stay on with Spurs. I think this means the end of Paul Stelteri's time at Spurs which is a shame, but YPL and Benoit Asou Ekotto will provide excellent cover for Chimbonda and Bale.

Bent- Many people have been critical of the amount of money that spurs have payed for Darren Bent but I think that is really not a lot considering that we have not touched the Mansion Poker money and it looks like Defoe and Mido are gone which will probably bring us at least 16 million pounds. Because Martin Jol likes to play a big man little man system up top, Bent can provide cover for both our little man, keano, and our big man, Berbatov, something Mido did an absolute awful job at. Also, Bent could team up with someone like Barcham for Carling Cup games, giving Berbatov and Keano a rest, and providing some good first team experience for some of our younger players

Left Midfielder- This is an importsnt position that we need to improve on. Playing Aaron Lennon on the left is not the answer!!! Currently I think our best option on the left is Adel Taarabt, not Steed Malbranque or Ghaly, as they both get caught up in posession and provide little in the attack. I would love to see us purchase a true left footed left midfielder in Morton Gamst-Pederson.

First Post

Ok so this is my first post and I know that I have a lot to catch up on seeing as how the US has just played a couple of major matches and Tottenham have had some big signings as well but first I will tell you a little bit about the purpose of my blog:
1. I intend to treat this as a diary of sorts so do not expect perfect spelling of grammar.
2. I doubt that many people will find my blog so I will try to respond to as many comments as I can but i do have a life so I may not be able to respond or post all of the time

Ok that is just about it for now so it is time for me to post my first blog...