Lord Elrond Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 21 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said: I’m not sure being on some European team and not playing helps a players career as much as playing somewhere, despite how much it helped a players bank account. With the rise of MLS, and MLS starting to pay more, the money gap has become less, so maybe American players playing more in the US instead of heading overseas will happen more and more? I’m going to have to take back a lot of what I said. Despite Tim being under contract with Fulham until 2025, his appearances for Fulham have gone down in recent years. He appeared 47 times for a Fulham in the 21-22 season, 35 times in the 22-23 season, and only 18 times in the 23-24 season. Tim is now 36. This has the normal career path of someone in the Premier League who’s club has decided has past it’s prime and they want to move to someone else. I’m sure he has a few good years left in the MLS. This is not an example of someone still in their prime in the Premier league moving over to MLS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 7 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said: I’m going to have to take back a lot of what I said. Despite Tim being under contract with Fulham until 2025, his appearances for Fulham have gone down in recent years. He appeared 47 times for a Fulham in the 21-22 season, 35 times in the 22-23 season, and only 18 times in the 23-24 season. Tim is now 36. This has the normal career path of someone in the Premier League who’s club has decided has past it’s prime and they want to move to someone else. I’m sure he has a few good years left in the MLS. This is not an example of someone still in their prime in the Premier league moving over to MLS. Yeah man...Dude's a year older than me, maybe he's just ready to come home. He's also been excellent as the elder statesman on the USMNT roster, he will be great at the same role in Charlotte. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheA_Bomb Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 The beauty of a loan deal for Ream is that his salary will stay the same and he'll play more. 36 is the end of a career unless you're a goalie. Probably a good deal for Charlotte as they likely pay a % of the salary and Fulham pays the rest. Plus they get a USMNT player that helps with publicity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 4 hours ago, OkieBilliken said: ESPN reporting Tim Ream to Charlotte on loan. This is a bit surprising. Everything he said prior to the WC was that he wanted to play a couple of more years in the EPL before retiring. Wish him the best in Charlotte. Not too far a drive for me, maybe I will go see him play. Saw him play at Fulham at in 2018 You won’t see this, but the Athletic says it is a transfer not a loan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brighton Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 The bigger question is why City SC didn’t claim him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 10 hours ago, Brighton said: The bigger question is why City SC didn’t claim him. I’m guessing because he doesn’t speak German. Lutz has been collecting players from his homeland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 10 hours ago, Brighton said: The bigger question is why City SC didn’t claim him. Lutz wanted to replace the current CB's with younger players, going 6 years older would not be in line with that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 6 minutes ago, wgstl said: Lutz wanted to replace the current CB's with younger players, going 6 years older would not be in line with that I wonder if they made a move to get him before Parker, I wonder how much the delay in the inaugural season affected that. A lot of the first signees played MLS2 the first year? I would imagine a guy of Ream's status just couldn't go from EPL to CITY2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 35 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said: I wonder if they made a move to get him before Parker, I wonder how much the delay in the inaugural season affected that. A lot of the first signees played MLS2 the first year? I would imagine a guy of Ream's status just couldn't go from EPL to CITY2 ya I wonder if they tried for Ream first, but at the time Ream was playing near or at his top level. Even with Reams age, I'd still have tried to get him here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufanskip Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 On 8/5/2024 at 10:16 AM, HoosierPal said: Lowen took the corner. Hartel on the pick, which was pretty special and made the play work. Brilliant play all around. This link only take you to the MLS scores page. Click on the highlights tab for the City game. Becher's goal is the 4th clip. https://www.mlssoccer.com/schedule/scores#competition=all&club=all&date=2024-08-04 I stand corrected. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OkieBilliken Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 OMG reading/watching some the responses online from the Fulham fans and players this morning. They loved that dude! If Fulham named a bar after Brian McBride in their stadium...maybe a Ream statue??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Elrond Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Simon Becher gets another goal for St Louis City, it was the 3rd goal for City on the night, City won 3-1. John Klein got in late in the game. TheA_Bomb and OkieBilliken like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 23 minutes ago, Lord Elrond said: Simon Becher gets another goal for St Louis City, it was the 3rd goal for City on the night, City won 3-1. John Klein got in late in the game. Klauss may have trouble getting his job back. Lowen had an insane 106 touches along with two assists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufanskip Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Becher was really good last night. Consistently putting himself in dangerous positions when City had possession and working hard to be disruptive on D RiseOfTheBillikens likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiseOfTheBillikens Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 15 hours ago, HoosierPal said: Klauss may have trouble getting his job back. Lowen had an insane 106 touches along with two assists. Good. I like Simon up there way more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 I am a Klauss fan. Even if he is not scoring he takes up a lot of defensive attention. slufanskip likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLURadioBoy Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Any word on how the Bills did today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OkieBilliken Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 27 minutes ago, SLURadioBoy said: Any word on how the Bills did today? From Omaha twitter SLU 1, Omaha 0 SLURadioBoy likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 2 hours ago, OkieBilliken said: From Omaha twitter SLU 1, Omaha 0 Exhibitions are mostly about playing as many players as possible, and trying some different things. With that said. 1-0 SLU (Floriani) and 4-0 SLU after the extra 30 minutes. SLU likes to play an extra session sometimes in exhibition games, especially on the road. OkieBilliken likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OkieBilliken Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Anyone have an update on how we looked? Had to get the update from the Evansville website that I guess we won 2-1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLUBALLS Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 I know others will have a more thorough analysis but here are some observations. If anything is wrong, I apologize to the soccer gods in advance. We played a lot of guys and it showed with a lack of cohesion at times and difficulty imposing ourselves on Evansville. To be sure Evansville seemed to keep their main guys out there for much of the game and certainly pressed us in the second, which affected our play. Evansville seems to be pulling a Marshall with so many foreign players. I don’t note the number of players SLU used as a bad thing; it does show we have a ton of real depth. Finding how that depth will be used effectively is a next step. Goals: SLU scored within the first 15…one by Anderson I think and new Mexican forward (Luis?). Goals were more of the counter version. Gave up a free kick to lower left post before halftime. Second half offensive action was a bit lacking. SLU did not control the second half as Evansville pressed and rarely did SLU keep ball for long stretches or within Evansville’s half. Starters: French kid in goal, Redmon, Maher, Floriani and Leatherman across back Thiago and Brogan at 8 and 6. Anderson and transfer from Temple out wide. Wrobel and Luis switching between 10 and 9. This group appeared the most polished as a group. Freshman: Delkus and Sellers came on at wing in first half. Good size kids. Delkus will be one they trust to take guys on 1v1. Clear confidence with him. More guys played last night but don’t have much to say. It did appear the freshman were getting acclimated to the speed and physical part of the game which is normal. Transfers: Thiago….beast, physical, tidy…clearly a 25 yr old playing against 20 yr olds. Luis….not sure if this makes sense, but he was like a combo of David Graydon and Dipsy….relentless player….will be fun to watch him. Temple kid was solid as well. No Marcus Moore but I left with 10 to go. He was dressed and warming up early on. He was a top recruit but injury last year set him back. All I got. Can’t wait for Indy. Pistol, brianstl and OkieBilliken like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WUH Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 1 hour ago, SLUBALLS said: I know others will have a more thorough analysis but here are some observations. If anything is wrong, I apologize to the soccer gods in advance. Thanks in advance for all the observations / analysis you and others will provide this season. Your posts are appreciated. Bring on the Hooooosiers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 A10 men's soccer appears to be pretty strong in the top half based on first week results so far. VCU beat #15 Wake Forest 2-1. Fordham tied #17 Hofstra 0-0. Dayton blew out Detroit 5-1. Rhode Island shut out St. John's 2-0. Mixed results beyond those: Loyola (got some first place preseason votes) lost 1-0 at Michigan. UMass tied Siena 0-0. Davidson plays Charlotte tonight. With 4 teams splitting preseason first place votes, there could be a lot of parity in the league. Promising to see mostly positive outcomes so far. SLU has a huge opportunity tonight against the #7 team in the country. cgeldmacher likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Elrond Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 Game time is approaching, the crowd at Hermann starting to arrive, time to bump the thread and cheer on the Billikens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Elrond Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 Are these the same refs as the Women’s game last night? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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