By the way, Kartik, I respect that you’re willing to invite some heat with your opinions.

A lot of American fans, I feel are deluding themselves by constantly blaming managers and other factors for the continued failures of Altidore and Adu, among others at the European club level. I did see G. Jones column and wondered aloud the same thing about the mental and physical preparation of guys coming from MLS. Clint Dempsey was prepared because he is a gritty person who wanted the challenge and was dying to leave to MLS. But some of our other kids are being oversold at a young age, then have it easy in MLS and go abroad and cannot cope. Bobby Convey is another clear example of this situation playing out.

The Tweeting and cries for attention from Altidore and Adu in particular are very telling when compared to other players tweets. I wish both the best and want both to succeed, but it’s obvious the obsession with Twitter is bit much.

American fans need to be realistic. He may score goals in CONCACAF, but he is clearly not at the level of a good first division european striker yet. By going to Spain and now England his game has been exposed as not ready for the big time yet.

He’d have been better served to go to Holland like Bradley or Sweden like Davies to start. And while Kartik needs to acknowledge that Jozy was being stand up in his apology, the kid is clearly immature in his other sulking on Twitter (which I believe Kartik was referring to) and has come out of MLS and the USMNT setup being told he is much better than he really is.

What do your youth team sources in South Florida, where Jozy played say, Kartik? Do they admit he’s a bit immature and egotistical?

Jozy should be punished for showing up late as he was. There is reason to question discipline there. But it was a freaking apology on Twitter. Your quotes around the word apology make it seem like the tweet was not sincere Kartik. It wasn’t an outburst. When will this kid get some regular playing time somewhere?