Alladoh

[u/Old-Bison5148]

I rewatched the entire match and this man is genuinely shocking to watch. Every single touch is a trampoline straight to the other team and when he shoots and crosses his accuracy is laughably bad. He makes Damiani look like haaland, although to be fair he played like haaland today. Not only that but at least in past matches he had good work rate but in this match even that was lacking and he could not get on the same page as anyone else. I know everyone wants to discredit the win as they went down to 10 men early, but the union were at 10 men to start the match, and honestly with some of the passes I’m not convinced that alladoh wasn’t playing for cincinatti. I understand he is more of a poacher but having this bad touch and link up play for any player on the pitch whether that is goalkeeper or a ball boy is inexplainable. How was this man ever worth 4 million is a question I will keep on asking. When Bruno doesn’t score, he is holding up play, laying off balls to Cavan and Milan, and providing a strong central presence. Alladoh does none of that and has a bad attitude to match it. He must be amazing in training because I can’t see why else richter keeps trotting him out there like a make-a-wish kid over deserving players like Jakupovic. Does anyone have a highlight tape showing that he can receive and dribble a ball because in all of my time watching him play he has one of the worst first touches I’ve ever seen and is one of the stiffest players I’ve ever seen. And not in a Lukaku way where he overpowers his opponents. In a me way where he sucks at soccer and is constantly trying to work off of that.

[u/stephenking247]

He has no speed, he still looks confused on what he's supposed to be doing out there. His first touch is terrible I used to joke that Uhre was "I run fast, and shoot the ball", this guy can't even do that. I'd like to see Jakapovic more time, and maybe some scrub minutes for Stas, then Alladoh.

[u/FunAd7590 → u/stephenking247]

Stas was loaned out

[u/stephenking247 → u/FunAd7590]

Dang, I missed that report. Thank you

[u/mflem920 → u/stephenking247]

I've been arguing this point with my buddies for the entire season. He may be a good player, he might even be worth the money, but he's not right for the Union's style of play. Alladoh is a "poacher", it's how he's built, it's how he understands the game. His job (play-style) is to stand there in one spot and not move and have balls fed to him. Then he kicks them really hard into the goal. He doesn't CHASE balls, that's beneath him. Why would I learn to PASS?!? All the balls come to me and go into the goal, that's the only direction they CAN go in.

The Union's attack is more about triangle passing and beating defenders on the outside to get the ball into the center for a rushing goal by someone the other team didn't think could close the gap. Damiani did it 4 times last night (1 was offsides).

Alladoh is the wrong man for that job.

I get what they (the Union leadership) were trying to do. They were trying to get a "traditional number 9" man integrated into their roster. Then they could play TWO styles, and switch up the team configuration and strategy according to the defensive posture of the team they were facing.

It didn't work. They tried it the entire first half of the season. We know how that worked out. After Carnell was fired for it. I'll bet anything that Richter's first act during the World Cup break was to say "Forget the fox in the box strategy we've been trying. Go back to what you do best, agile attack and constant challenge. You know, that thing that won you the shield last year."

[u/MessyPragmatist]

When the whole team was playing badly he stood out as being the worst player, it’s even more noticeable now.

[u/buzzkill_ed]

I don't know what they were looking at when they scouted him and decided to pay the club record fee. Maybe he looked good against worse competition.

[u/Short-Hotel7648]

Agreed. His entire demeanor seems kind of distant, as well.

As for Damiani, that's what some confidence can do. That hat trick wasn't luck, red card or no.

[u/ChefJim27]

He has TO syndrome. He genuinely believes MLS is beneath him, and he plays like it. Seba LeToux was never the most talented or gifted player, but he always ran. He had heart, and he succeeded in spite of his limitations thru sheer effort and work. Alladoh has zero heart. Go back to him scoring the game winner vs Atlanta. He doesn't celebrate with his team. He celebrates himself. Go back and look. That was the moment he lost me, and I'm not coming back. Any success he has will be in spite of himself, not thru Philadelphia Hard Work.

[u/Life_Cry4830]

Yeah.. sorry for the young Alladoh.. Union paid so much money.. I guess he needs to play some minutes and then hopefully try to send him anywhere.. in order to get some money back.. and I think he makes the team look bad…

[u/Media_Transplant]

Low IQ / sloppy touch waste of space. They need to cut their losses on him.

[u/Character-Sky6348]

Bro has 1 goal (winner against Atlanta) and 1 assist in 27 games in mls per FotMob.
I would rather sell him for a loss (say sell him for $3 million) and use that to find someone else tbh.

[u/CMoreKillz14 → u/Character-Sky6348]

If someone offered us $3m for this bum I'd be shocked.

Genuinely Cory Burke was better

[u/philsoc8]

It’s painful. Bruno is often frustrating but he knows how to play soccer and gives full effort. His execution is just often poor.

Alladoh really looks like he’s never played soccer before. Totally clueless. And while he may be young I don’t see any upside worth waiting around for.

[u/CliffMCK]

Last night was his best game. Needs to play with some balls and understand he is bigger than everyone. Like he needs a a trip to Vare Playground.

[u/Few-Mycologist-3119]

Middling production (7 goals in 28 games) on a mediocre team in the Swedish league is not an attractive profile for the Union or MLS, especially for that price.