Just now, second-hand from Germany coach Joachim Löw, via the team's press officer to me, now to all of you:
"He is not in Nuremberg and he has not spoken to (Timothy Chandler)."
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On to the next one.
- Greg Seltzer
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Greg Seltzer, you are killing the game
Was there some rumor that Chandler was playing for Germany or something?
I destroy more fun than Britta.
Matt, rumor was that Löw was visiting N-berg today and Chandler had told Tony Sanneh (or at least Sanneh tweeted it) that it would be hard to turn down Germany.
Greg, not to be the fly in the ointment, but how do you know your source is accurate. Tony Sanneh still is pretty connected at FCN
As noted, my source is Joachim Löw.
And let's be clear, this is not any commentary against Tony Sanneh. I'm responding to a Bild article.
The point was this sort of thing seems that would be consistently denied until there's some resolution -- like the USSF and Subotic saga.
Okay... but it didn't happen that way with Jones, at all.
3...2...1...exhale
Fair enough. Just that Sanneh seems pretty well connected (didn't he tell the USSF about Chandler to begin with?) for there not to be pressure there. Maybe it's no more than wishful thinking on BILD's part. But we as USMNT fans have been conditioned to overreact about everything anyway.
Greg,
Some of your contemporaries in the US Soccer media world still acting a fool on twitter.
I wish you'd reconsider your twitter stance. When done right, it's an unparalleled tool for information proliferation and mass communication. Like anything else, you just have to do it right. I'd love to follow your stuff on there.
1 - How so? Do share.
2 - Not interested. For starters, I do not consider it a proper way to report news.
Link to breaking news? Fine. Report? No.
What's popular and easy is not necessarily right. That's just how I feel.
Greg, you wouldn't even have to engage people on there. Your twitter feed could just be like an RSS feed of your blogger page so that followers would know when you've posted a new tidbit here. Anyway, maybe it's not necessary since there are dedicated blog readers (like Jason Davis) that tweet your most interesting posts.
Why would Low admit to trying to poach the player?
If he isn't trying to poach, then he would tell the truth and say so.
If he IS trying to poach, he'd lie and say he isn't.
How can we be sure it is situation A rather than situation B?
I mean, Sanneh spoke to Chandler.
Wow, I can't believe the doubters here on Greg's info.
No wonder he doesn't want to go on Twitter.
My favorite part of this whole saga is that most of the sites that were reporting on the Sanneh tweet made no reference to this blog and the response to the issue. They were just looking for page views by only reporting the alarming aspect. Keep up the good work.
There are a great many outlets that like to pretend this blog and my reporting does not exist.
I find it adorable, to be honest.
I can comment on your last one, Greg. I mentioned your blog on another popular one which reported on the Sanneh rumors and promptly got banned from commenting on it. I just pointed out that if they are going to republish a rumor they should also mention what you reported on. No need to stoke the flames of fear and anxiety IMO, and I'm disappointed in the other blogger or at least his staff. Keep up the good work!
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