Twente is a good/great team right now. That’s a plus in Blaise Nkufo’s column. He gets playing time, and last Fall scored quite a bit for both club and country.

He hasn’t put up the goals lately though, and the Netherlands’ Eredivisie is a decent league in Europe, but quite top heavy with Ajax and Twente at this time.

Switzerland did win their Group in WC’10 Qualifying, but look at the members of that group and see how like the Hex it is, strongish at top and very weak the rest of the way.

Swiss
Greece
Latvia
Israel
Luxemborg
Moldova

And I don’t expect him to start the season in that manner. I expect we will see him as the Right Mid when he takes the pitch.

The “forwards” will be Ljungberg in a Withdrawn position, and Montero as the “Target” but really just the even further forward type. I guess you could call it a Striker.

the less likely this looks.

He’s still putting up goals at Twente (who will be in the UEFA CL next year) and has on pitch performance quite similar to Juan Pablo Angel (nearly 2M$ contract).

Now, I don’t think that Blaise NFuko has the name recognition that JPA does, and certainly does not represent an ethnic group that would boost attendance, but he certainly makes more than a 500K$ max figure with FC Twente.

He is also the third highest valued player with his Agents. They represent almost solely Swiss players (one Swiss/American), but none are in the USA yet, most are in Swiss, Austrian, German leagues. This just doesn’t seem probable.