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The first post on this blog should consider none other than the transfers that happened last month.  We saw a number of American players shift clubs abroad.  Freddy Adu and Jozy Altidore will need to learn to speak Turkish, Michael Bradley finally moved to a relevant club, Eddie Johnson has learned that his home is in the Championship, and I still don't know which club will offer me a management position.  The biggest surprise to me, as far as Americans are concerned, is that Clint Dempsey will still wear a Fulham shirt.  Arguably the most successful American player abroad right now and maybe ever, Clint still plays for a middle-of-the-table English team.  Rumors have swirled about Dempsey following Oguchi Onyewu to Milan (though Onyewu recently left the fashion capital in search of more playing time in the Netherlands with FC Twente), as well as repeated interest from Liverpool even after Roy Hodgson got the sack.

The most interesting move has to be Fernando Torres' abandonment of Liverpool.  Torres, a regular for Spain and Liverpool, decided that a move to London was his best chance to earn a Champion's League Trophy.  This comes just a year and a half after Xabi Alonso left for Real Madrid.  In light of the Fernando Torres move, Liverpool fans should be shocked and angered to hear that longtime goalkeeper Pepe Reina has opened the door to a Manchester United move.  Thinking back a few years, Manchester United wouldn't dare allow Gabriel Heinze move to Liverpool, so why should Liverpool allow United to lure their players from Merseyside?

David Beckham has, yet again, made it clear to the Galaxy that they aren't his top priority.  Beckham recently extended his training sessions Tottenham Hotspur and will not return to the States until he feels like it (HAHA just kidding).  This makes me wonder whether or not Beckham should have come to the United States in the first place, and it also makes me wonder if he chose the right MLS club to play for.  Beckham probably chose LA because it is flashy, and the club is about as high profile as MLS clubs come.  What he failed to realize is that the Galaxy are Landon Donovan's team.  Had Beckham been able to play for another club he may have been happier, and a bigger star.  Consider this, Robert Kraft and the Hunt Family have plenty of cash laying around from their NFL clubs.  Why not save a bit of cash for a crafty right winger?  Beckham in New England would have probably been hilarious knowing that Steve Nicol is a former Liverpool player (further establishing the hatred between the clubs) and Nicol loves to sign the obscure player.  But consider Beckham playing in Dallas.  Dallas is a huge market with a growing brand.  They just made the MLS Cup Final, something Beckham's Galaxy failed to do.  The city is huge, and Beckham could have helped shape the club, further establishing MLS and probably attracting a huge sponsor for FC Dallas.  Though this would have been a long shot and Beckham would still only consenst to playing for a handful of MLS clubs- namely Seattle, Vancouver, or New York, Beckham could have thrived in a fledgling market and given the club and the league better identity.