{"id":296448,"date":"2023-11-08T16:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T16:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=296448"},"modified":"2023-11-08T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T16:25:04","slug":"aaronson-doesnt-give-a-s-about-anti-american-sentiment-at-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/aaronson-doesnt-give-a-s-about-anti-american-sentiment-at-leeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaronson doesn&apos;t &apos;give a s***&apos; about anti-American sentiment at Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>USA star Brenden Aaronson &#8216;doesn&#8217;t give a s***&#8217; if Leeds fans turned against the Americans in the team when they were relegated from the Premier League last year: &#8216;It&#8217;s just noise&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brenden Aaronson was part of a sizable American contingent at Leeds last year\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He was relegated alongside USA teammates Tyler Adams and Weston McKennie\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Can Liverpool challenge for the title? Listen to the debate on\u00a0It&#8217;s All Kicking Off<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brenden Aaronson is not concerned with any Anti-American sentiment that may have formed at Leeds United last season.<\/p>\n<p>With Aaronson, Tyler Adams and an on-loan Weston McKennie in the team &#8211; and Jesse Marsch managing (until February) &#8211; Leeds had a sizable USA contingent as they were relegated from the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>And when asked by The Athletic whether he was aware of any tension between the fans and the club&#8217;s Americans, he made his thoughts clear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No, I didn&#8217;t hear anything about it,&#8217; he said. &#8216;Excuse my language, but I don&#8217;t give a s***. It doesn&#8217;t bother me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t really care what other people say. I don&#8217;t care if it was an American thing or anything like that. It&#8217;s just noise.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Aaronson started the season off brightly, scoring in a 3-0 win vs. Chelsea, but his\u00a0performances tailed off as the season went on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/16\/77559289-12725683-Brenden_Aaronson_with_Leeds-m-30_1699459211335.jpg\" height=\"439\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Brenden Aaronson started the season off brightly for Leeds but his performances tailed off<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/15\/77559579-12725683-image-a-13_1699458923814.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Aaronson was coached by fellow American Jesse Marsch until he was fired in February<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/15\/77559715-12725683-image-m-14_1699458978538.jpg\" height=\"853\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>USA teammates Weston McKennie and (left) and Tyler Adams were also part of the team<\/p>\n<p>He finished the campaign with one goal and three assists in 36 appearances (28 starts), and lost his place in the starting lineup towards the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;At the end, it was really tough, confidence-wise, to go out there,&#8217; he told The Athletic. &#8216;I didn&#8217;t feel like I was playing my best. I feel like I was letting my team-mates down, I felt like I was letting the fanbase down at times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You&#8217;re thinking all the time. You&#8217;re not just playing. And I think when I&#8217;m playing my best is when I&#8217;m enjoying the game and I&#8217;m in a flow state. There&#8217;s no thinking, there&#8217;s just playing and just doing what I feel and that creative side comes out when I&#8217;m in the flow.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Now on loan with the Bundesliga&#8217;s Union Berlin, Aaronson is trying to get his career back on track.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/16\/77559345-12725683-image-a-31_1699459246013.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Aaronson gives a thumbs up during a Champions League match between Union and Napoli<\/p>\n<p>But when he was sent off from the club&#8217;s second match of the season in August, Leeds fans popped up in the replies of the German club&#8217;s Twitter account &#8211; so incessantly that Union actually posted a retort calling the American a &#8216;superbly skilled footballer.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Aaronson is still owned by Leeds and isn&#8217;t ruling out a return to the club.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;For sure, it&#8217;s possible. It&#8217;s not done and dusted or anything like that,&#8217; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I love the club. I love the guys that I was there with, the connections I made. It was just tough the way it ended.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12725683\/USA-star-Brenden-Aaronson-Leeds-fans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA star Brenden Aaronson &#8216;doesn&#8217;t give a s***&#8217; if Leeds fans turned against the Americans in the team when they were relegated from the Premier League last year: &#8216;It&#8217;s just noise&#8217; Brenden Aaronson was part of a sizable American contingent at Leeds last year\u00a0 He was relegated alongside USA teammates Tyler Adams and Weston McKennie\u00a0\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aaronson doesn&amp;apos;t &amp;apos;give a s***&amp;apos; 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