Three days after he said Jordan Morris was offered a contract and he expected the 21-year-American would sign with Werder Bremen, the Bundesliga club’s general manager, Thomas Eichin,had his own explanation for why Morris chose to sign with the Seattle Sounders. ‘”Jordan was homesick,” Eichin told Bild. “It’s better that Jordan says how he feels. […]
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Jordan Morris must earn spot in crowded Seattle attack
Now that the Seattle Sounders have signed Jordan Morris, the question becomes where will they play him. He joins a Sounders’ frontline that may be the deepest in MLS with Clint Dempsey,Obafemi Martins and Nelson Valdez. It’s a problem his new coach, Sigi Schmid, will gladly have.
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Clint Dempsey on Jordan Morris, moving abroad and his national team future
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) Perhaps no player on the Seattle Sounders knows better what Jordan Morris has beenfacing in deciding whether he’ll join the Sounders or German club Werder Bremen — Werder says MLS has won out — than Clint Dempsey. Dempsey was only two yearsolder than the 21-year-old Morris — but with three years […]
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Jordan Morris sweepstakes: Sounders should get their man
The Jordan Morris sweepstakes has come to an end. On Tuesday, Werder Bremen general manager Thomas Eichin issued a statement that the young U.S. international, who spent the last weektraining with the Bundesliga club in Turkey, will be returning to the United States, presumably to sign a Homegrown Player contract with MLS’s Seattle Sounders. “The […]
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What They're Saying: Sigi Schmid
“We’ve had some direct conversations, but we’re both German so we can talk about things. I always find it interesting sometimes the sensitivities of certain people or cultures where if you say, ‘Idon’t agree with you,’ they view that as you not liking them when it’s just not agreeing with a particular point and everything […]
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The Jordan Morris conundrum, what it means for MLS now and for the future
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) Momentum for a move to Werder Bremen continues to build as Jordan Morris played his first game forthe German club on Friday, starting and assisting on the lone goal in its 1-0 win over Inter Baku of Azerbaijan in a friendly game that wrapped up its winter camp in Turkey. No […]