Off-Season Player Rumors & Movement 2013

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That really works out because what this team is sorely lacking is more midfielders.

 

Some Quevedo tidbits:

* the 28 year old Argentine/Italian dual-citizen does play a central midfield role (playmaker/attacking midfielder) which matches Kerith Gabriel's comment

* his 2010 trial with Houston certainly makes him more of an option than others - based on the Houston B.S. board, he was looking for the average salary of the Dynamo roster but apparently Houston/MLS did not want to give it to him.

* his current club is Union Magdalena in the Colombian B Division (9 goals in 35 games) - he is a journeyman who has also played in the Argentina B Division (Sarmiento, Temperley, Estudientes de Caseros), Uruguay Premier Division (Rampla Juniors), Chile Premier Division (Palestino) after starting with San Lorenzo in the Argentina Premier Division.

* he played for Magdalena on October 11 (against America - former team of Roger Torres) but did not play in the October 14 game against Bogota.

http://www.soccerway.com/players/juan-quevedo/59399/
http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/juan-manuel-quevedo/bilanz/spieler_120332.html

 

The theory is that he could be a less expensive replacement for Adu. The reality is that he is another Kai Herdling. (Disclaimer: I have never heard of him prior to today.)

 

not sure about Sarmiento but Temperley and Estudiantes de BA are 3rd division. They play in the Metropolitana. Just below B.

 

According to his Wikipedia page en espanol, he already plays for the Union. Well, Colombian second division side Union Magdalena, that is.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Quevedo​

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You can also read more about that transfer from here: http://www.elinformador.com.co/inde...l-ascenso&catid=58:futbol-nacional&Itemid=386​

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Personally, I think it's fantastic that we're angling after Colombian second division players. It sure beats going after players with previous MLS experience.​

By the way, there is a great comment from someone in that article above: "vuelve el circo a abrir su carpa, con nuevos payasos no se lo pierdan jaja" or, in rough English, "The circus returns to open its tent with new clowns. Don't miss it!" Kinda sums up our franchise.

 

Meet the new boss... same as the old boss...

 

I have to agree, we have enough attacking midfielders, Adu, Roger, Marfan, Keon, Gomez, Pfeffer.....etc....

I mean he COULD just be a training camp body, and I know we will probably have a bunch of roster turn over this season but I think they need to look at target forward and the back line if they want to add depth....

 

jaja. clasico. but so true.

 

I did say he could be a camp body or was that part invisible on your monitor?

 

my bad dills

I guess here is to hoping that Hack doesn't have to try to make chicken salad out of chicken shit next season.

 

He went from Sarmiento to Union Magdalena in the Colombian B Division (Nowak and Gutierrez at least stuck with Colombian Primera A League players ).Soccerway is one of the better sites for getting that type of current club info for a player as it lists the actual games in which a player appears - he has been playing as of late but did not play in this past Sunday's game which is why his name remains a possibility as a Union trialist given that game was the last one of the season for Magdalena so Quevedo is likely free to trial anywhere. He has not scored this 2012 Clausura (Fall season) but scored 9 goals in the 2012 Apertura (Spring season).

http://us.soccerway.com/players/juan-quevedo/59399/

For photos and videos of Quevado, you can see them here:

http://www.juanmanuelquevedo.com.ar/juanmanuel.php

 

OOOOOOMG. trailist galore and some of them are from south america and 2nd tier teams.
i'm giddy

 

Who is going to take Adu? FC Tucson?

 

So Arshavin is open to moving to the MLS and Nick Sack was in England looking for strikers . . .

 

God, imagine what he'd cost?







I don't care. Pay it.

 

I don't want to start a rumor just suggest a reasonable possibility. I'd love for us to get Jonathan Bornstein and fix our LB problem. He's currently getting very little time at Tigres (about 10 games in 3 years) due to a logjam at the position with Carlos Salcido and Jorge Torres Nilo ahead of him, both of whom are regulars for the Mexican National Team. He's probably starving for some playing time and he could see MLS as an option since he had a lot of success here. I'm not sure what his contract situation is but I'm sure Tigres would release him or transfer him cheaply. He was selected by Portland in their expansion draft on November 24, 2010 but only hold his rights until November 24th of this year, after that we would only have to go through the allocation order to get him. He'd have to come cheap, around 200K-250K imo.

What do you guys think about Bornstein?