Thierry Henry

[onetreehill]

So the MLS is slowly going the way of the NASL, except now the players aren't looking for summer jobs. There European careers are, simply, over

Don't think it will hurt the MLS, so long as the teams keep it to 1 or 2 big name retirees per team, but if they start signing players like Hyypia or Stam look out

[Kengy]

Originally Posted by onetreehill

So the MLS is slowly going the way of the NASL, except now the players aren't looking for summer jobs. There European careers are, simply, over

Don't think it will hurt the MLS, so long as the teams keep it to 1 or 2 big name retirees per team, but if they start signing players like Hyypia or Stam look out

Don't think that's a fair statement on Henry, he could have easily signed for pretty much any team in the Prem and probably still started.

[onetreehill]

I'm not so sure you are right there, Kengy. Nothing to back up, my thoughts, but Arsenal already got the best out of him. I wish him luck, but this is a scene that I saw playing out thirty years ago. The real problem wasn't with the one or two "franchise" players so much as the inexpensive journeyman players that became available at younger and younger ages in hopes of extending their careers.

Players like Alan Hinton, John Craven, Derek Possee, Gordon Taylor and Roger Kenyon who were middling English players, but became Whitecap heroes and all cost only a little more than the local lads that they took the job away from.

Then, of course, there were the Peter Beardsleys and Bruce Grobelars who went the other way.

I don't see the MLS going that way, but this is how the fall of the NASL began

[mbl]

i thinks that he is a great signing for the MLS, he is only 32 and could play three good seasons. i don't think he could have walked into any team in the Prem but he could certainly have played for many of them.

[zaqualung]

Originally Posted by mbl

i thinks that he is a great signing for the MLS, he is only 32 and could play three good seasons. i don't think he could have walked into any team in the Prem but he could certainly have played for many of them.

agreed. The problem with Henry is that he may not have the hunger to gain that extra fitnesse fitness edge that would keep him around the very top much longer.....
Although, he probanly would have been as good and better than Ibrahimovic last year at Barca .....

[Midfield General]

I'm trying to get Thierry to come to Locus, my new bar, after the TFC Red Bulls game on Saturday.....a few of his team-mates are coming as are a number of TFC players inc. DeRo.

I'll get some pics and post them.....and no we don't have a kettle at Locus, but we do have an espresso machine

[Harad]

Good man MG.
Hope this venture of yours will become a success

[Midfield General]

Originally Posted by Harad

Good man MG.
Hope this venture of yours will become a success

Thanks Harad, so do I