Those sentiments were echoed by USMNT legend Clint Dempsey, who added on a player that has helped to keep Gregg Berhalter in a job: “It’s never been a question of his ability, he has always been a player that had that quality, that potential to be a star. With the U.S. he shows that. You saw glimpses of that when he was with Dortmund. The thing is that England is a tough league to go in as an American and be successful. Whether or not that was the right move for him, we talked about it that maybe it could have been a Holland or a Spain, where he could maybe have transitioned a little better and got more minutes. To go into a dogfight, relegation battle team, it’s not easy to get minutes. But credit to him for keep fighting and showing Greg that ‘even though we had drama in the past, I saved you tonight’.”
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