SSFC trade Mike Fucito AND Lamar Neagel for Eddie "Grown Ass Man" Johnson

so you guys just traded two young and promising forwards for one out of shape wash out. how's that make you feel?

Neagle a local boy come good, Fucito an all heart and hustle fan favourite.

EJ an overhyped under talented hack who has failed just about everywhere?

Was this an attempt to match PTFC Eddie Johnson for Eddie Johnson?

http://www.impactmontreal.com/en/news/2012/02/montreal-impact-acquires-mike-fucito-and-lamar-neagle

And you wonder why people call you a troll.

out of shape wash out? I'll give you that he's out of shape but that can easily be regained before the beginnning of the season & at 27 he's still better than Fucito or Neagle. The fact is Seattle needed one true forward that was better than the rest & could lead the pack. I think its a decent move. There were too many forwards of average or less than average skill. As a SSFC fan, you probably dont like to see them go of all the options there are at striker but I still understand the move & it makes sense.

If seattle is limited in cap space its kinda hard to upgrade at forward. If neagle and fucito were going to get a pay raise and be a budget player i can understand why.

Perhaps Zakauni is much further ahead than one though in his recovery.

So would that mean sadode makes the squad?

Stop trolling, asshat.

If I said I wasn't surprise by this it would be a lie but overall I think its an ok trade a bit of a gamble though. I don't really mind losing Fucito I always thought he was a bit overrated by Sounders Supporters but that's just my opinion but I wish we would have kept Neagle. We will just have to wait and see how this turns out.

uh ... yeah, not so much ... my take is mild compared to some of the vitrol going on over at S@H:

http://www.sounderatheart.com/2012/...ke-fucito-lamar-neagle-eddie-johnson#comments

it has nothing to do with being a sounder fan or not ... i am a EJ hater (because he sucks and always has) ... and SSFC was one of the handful of MLS teams i have great respect for both on and off the field ... well ... usually.

This trade looks like a foolhardy gamble. Two solid young guys with bright futures ahead of them for Eddie Johnson? I sure hope I'm proved wrong but this looks just terrible.

I'm waiting to see before i give a full comment on rather its good or bad trade.

I am anything but optimistic about this. Eddie Johnson isn't a "has been", he's a "never was". His scoring rate overseas speaks for itself but he wasn't all that impressive in MLS either, he essentially had two good years and was never a dominant player. Similarly, his (one time) reputation as an ace striker for the nats was based on a brief run of form against CONCACAF minnows. Most importantly, the guy has never, ever, demonstrated any type of understanding or soccer intelligence on the field. He's shit, he's always been shit, and there's no way he stops being shit at age 28.

I truly hope I end up eating crow on this, but right now this strikes me as an utter disaster of a move.

this man knows what he is talking about ...

Chris Henderson was just on the radio giving an interview about this and called him "a lethal finisher" ... i assume he was talking about his lethal ability to finish off meals? and he also said that EJ was wanting to get back in the USMNT picture so he could go to the WC 2014 ... i almost fell off my seat laughing my ass off.

to put this in perspective ... EJ makes Robbie Findley look like Kun Aguero.

Yoshou,

This move completely changes everything in the battle for roster spots in camp.

So clearly someone has lost faith in Ochoa. Wasn't he supposed to be that guy?

i really don't understand why they didn't go after LeToux or somebody else. teams in the league have signed a ton of "target"-ish strikers that are better than OBW and Ochoa.

i get that Fucito is better as a back up for FM and that another type of forward needs to be paired with FM for best results. and i can see that perhaps Estrada or Cato were better for that than Fucito (despite the cult following). Neagle is a bit different as a local boy makes good story and at a wide midfield position that needed depth ... but even he isn't irreplaceable if sivebaek is good ... i am not taking issue at trading Fucito and Neagle away ... if they had been traded for LeToux i'd have been all for it ... my problem is trading FOR EJ ... he is terrible, always has been and always will be ... his limited MLS success was based on being athletic in a time where that would suffice for success in the league ... MLS is no longer that type of league and EJ's modest talents such as they were have eroded to the point of being negligible over the past 4 years.

this will end in tears i'm afraid.

This is not good. ej has never lived up to his potential or hype. I am getting less and less excited about the upcoming season.

Le Toux is due a major pay raise if he remains in MLS. I don't think we would been able to afford him next year.

Estrada, Cato, Rosales we have options.

okay opinion since this trade occurred does anyone think this pretty much guaratees that Soldade made the squad?