In most cultures the aged are revered for their experiences and their wisdom. However, your accurate reference to my age was likely your feeble attempt to denigrate me. I understand your type & your intellect, you may have the last word!
I seem to remember s stretch where he was beaten pretty badly a few weeks in a row, after that I can honestly say my radar is broken on him. My feelings about the re-entry draft are that it’s a list of players that their individual teams overpaid and you can have them if you continue to overpay that player. Then I imagine this fact about any player that comes up and it takes some of the luster that player may have had in my mind because of the realities of the cap. My hunch is that the negative effects of a bad contract on a locker room are overblown but I imagine they exist in jealous corners.
That's only Phase 1. At Phase 2 (tomorrow) you can have them for whatever price you negotiate, as long as its a legitimate offer.
Right! Califf is a very good MLS CB who has been a soccer gypsy moving to 6 clubs since 2000. Briefly, he was Philadelphia Union captain & yet traded following well publicised trouble with coaches or management. Although I have no personal knowledge regarding his club interactions, with his history, I believe it is not unfair to wonder if Cariff is a locker room, coaching &/or management pariah.
I was merely re-publishing one of crazyjon85's posts. But, you are right & I should have eschewed the controversy.
Me too. I expected an overhaul of the lineup, but my goodness. I wonder how many different positions Moor can play at the same time? "Drew, you're playing on the left and right tonight and covering in the middle." "Sounds goo....wait, WHAT!"
Wynne isn't on the official list of players in stage 2 of the re-entry draft. Great news, I assume that means he's been signed.
That is if you take Califf, and if he accepts the contract you offer. I think it might be worth it to grab him just to get first crack at him, but if he isn't willing to sign for what we offer then it would be a waste. Hopefully that is part of what the team is working on now is contacting potential targets and making sure that they are at least in the same ballpark contract wise before they think about picking them in re-entry draft.
Nope it just means he took himself off the list before last week. We have the rights to him and aren't forced to sign him by any particular date.
Here is the official list. Freeman and Smith still on there. http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/artic...ls-player-list-fridays-re-entry-draft-stage-2 Should mention that teams can select their own players at this point as long as everyone else has passed on them. LA did this last year with some of their younger squad players.
I hope his doesn't happen. I don't think Moor helps much at fullback. He's on the slow side for a centerback.
Didn't he opt out of the re-entry draft completely? Either he signs with the Rapids, the Rapids trade his rights to another MLS team, or he signs with another league when their transfer windows open.
For all the talk about Califf, Stephen Keel is still on that list too. I think I would take him before Califf. Probably would be cheaper. Now that we only have two fullback on the roster (3 if you count Armstrong), are there any on that list worth considering?
Exactly. The fact that he opted out last week though is generally a good sign that he felt he was close to signing (or he's bailing to another league but we haven't heard anything about that).
I was under the impression that he could still participate in the stage 2 draft if a deal with the Rapids didn't come together this week.