"It's been wild, but fun, and it's been good for us. The downside is, they're rooting for David, not for us." - Landon Donovan to the Boston Globe, 8/12/07
Landon Donovan is a very polished, professional player. He is also quite used to being a big fish in a small pond. And as cool as he has been about his replacement as Galaxy, AEG, and MLS poster child I can't help but taste a little poison in that last line; "They're rooting for David, not for us."
As you may or may not be aware, if Landon is to play for the Galaxy next season he will have to take a gargantuan pay cut or the Galaxy will have to acquire another DP slot, something so valuable that I honestly don't think they will spend it on Donovan. Not that he isn't talented, but the bar has been raised; a quality DP (not Claudio Reyna) needs to put asses in seats as well as balls in the net and I'm sad to say I don't think Landycakes is the guy for a club with LA's ambitions.
If you take all that and factor in a few more of these controversy-baiting headlines that say Landon plays second fiddle to Becks , and the City of Angels could potentially see a rehash of the days when two Los Angeles basketball players behaved like a couple that should be divorced. And with that I submit to you the following question:
Will Donovan & Beckham be the new Shaq & Kobe? Or will they behave like another great LA tandem of yore, Magic and Kareem?
Either way Chivas are now officially the Clippers (as if there was ever any doubt).
6 comments:
Yes! Chivas are the Clippers! HAHAHAHA!
you know the cool part of all this.
If Landon Donovan had a theme song it would be "Can you tell me the way to San Jose?"
Please god no, Landon can't go to San Ho.
Its always tons of fun to call Landon a pussy, but there is crapload of truth to what he is saying here.
I doubt there will be a feud but I secretly hope there will be one so yeah, he should stay in LA!
If there's a feud, it's going to be Landon's doing... I think Beckham is too smart and too classy to get in some whining war with Landycakes.
And, just like that, there's a rumor surfacing that MLS may add a second DP slot...
Ii think we have the first recorded case of someone calling beckham smart.
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