I'd honestly struggle to pick an all-time PL US XI that's even close to acceptable, for whatever reason a lot of your players struggle here. If I'm allowed to pick three keepers at the same time (who would all get in on merit) so the team will basically never concede then it might work.
Let's be honest, for as much as I like to big them up, the fact has simply been that they just don't have the talent for absolute highest level.
Occasionally we produce a player with that kind of talent but then the entire soccer media goes absolutely fucking bananas over them; it can't be good to have that extra pressure of national pride on you
all the time. We're still waiting on an American outfield player to really break through at the top end of the table. For as much as most of us think fondly on Clint Dempsey and Landon Donovan, there's just going to be something different about the first time an American player puts in a MOTM performance for Liverpool, Chelsea, etc etc than putting in one for Everton or Fulham.
More than that, although coaching is getting significantly better over here at a pleasingly rapid rate, we're still not a football culture that is really,
properly astute tactically. Sometimes you get a guy with some pretty good ideas (Marsch), but too often they're ideas that leave one or more fatal flaws in the setup that inevitably will get you sacked once your career takes you far enough. It's not a coincidence that a lot of the heralded players for our national side were raised overseas. Shit, look at Balogun. Would he be the same player today if he had signed on with an academy in New York rather than London? Doubtful.
That turned into more of a diatribe than I intended.
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