I’ll be honest I can’t catch many PSG matches so I haven’t seen him prior to today. It always takes time to get in sync. Look at Suarez last year.

The problem was the situation not the player. Di Maria can easily make a case for being the best attacking midfielder in the world. In fact, I think he is the piece of the Jenga tower that was RM last year. Isco and James are simply not on the level of Di Maria and Madrid’s attack is not as effective against other top…

The difference between di Maria at Madrid and at United amazed me. IIRC he was the best player on the pitch with CR out in the CL final 2 years ago. Man U was such a mess last year. I don’t recall Di Maria taking many deep shots with Madrid and frankly he isn’t very good at it.

Ha. I forgot about that. Russell might be ok, but good luck with Hibbs.

I love the end:

Not Skip Bayless - “This is my reaction to his reaction, what’s your reaction?”

And he jacked up those 24 shots in just 29 minutes with just 1 assist. I’m not sure this team will be much better than last year’s team. Certainly not better due to Kobe. No team benefits from that level of efficiency. They might be a little better due to KAT and Randle but they might be worse due to Kobe.

Amen. He is the first top young QB under the rookie cap and it could be a LeBron style market for him at the end of the season.

I believe it should be “had not yet brided enough”.

I always felt Howard was a notch better than those guys but they were certainly good. Odd that the US can produce quality keepers and basically crap elsewhere.

That could be true, but he seems to play more guys than Bradley did before him and frankly he doesn’t have much more talent to work with. Maybe there are some hidden gems but the likelihood of one of these hidden gems being the difference is tiny. Mexico had 4 or 5 players better than our best. That is a gigantic…

Not right now, but he was 2 years ago. And he was arguably top 10 in the world at his peak. Was he ever the best in the EPL? No, but he was world class. He is honestly the only US player in history I think that can claim that. Donovan might have had that potential but he never came close to realizing it.

That was clearly hyperbole, but the idea that US should be at Mexico is absurd. Mexico is the more talented side therefore they should have won. The US and Mexico aren’t so close that the best coach in the world can be the difference.

There is always a fight between national teams and club teams. Tugging on the player’s desire to win for their country is one of the main jobs for a national coach. The club team is always king.

De Bruyne has the potential to be one of the best attacking midfielders in the game. His game reminds me a bit of Zizou. Now I’m not saying he will reach that level but he has a style that I don’t often see.

That is some HoF shit talking for sure. Ballsy for taking the lord’s name in humor. Brazen for doing it at an official press conference. And it is just funny as hell. He waited 9 months to give birth to that shit talking baby.

Yeah, that is true. He can probably do it, but it likely becomes harder as he gets older and does more Pirates or Lone Ranger type films. Sort of like Pacino these days. It becomes schtick.

+1 This is important on a national level because of its connection to to other cities being purchased by the charter school industry. The only thing that really makes Kevin Johnson unique is his prior celebrity status.

Yeah, any action that is done at full bore is convincing with Cruise. It’s that whole nuance this that he lacks. I’m not a fan of him as a person but he can be quite exceptional at what he does. The running is hilarious for sure.

If not, it is likely the new pet name for Ann Coulter’s penis.

I should have been more clear. Cruise is formulaic and plays each character in basically the same manner. There is very little nuance but it can be quite effective with the right character. It is that over the top intensity/confidence thing. He doesn’t display much range, but many characters don’t need that and in…