haha, i know! but i looked around and no one knew. liga's official site mentioned nothing and i couldn't find anything on liguistas.com. it seems like ldu's official site is continuously under construction lol.
QUIÑÓNEZ FUERA DE SANTOS Y EN PLANES DE LIGA | Fecha : 2009-01-05 15:10:18 | La dirigencia del Santos FC de Brasil ha confirmado este lunes que no contará con el aporte de un futbolista de sus registros, para lo que será la temporada que está por iniciar con los Torneos Estaduales. Santos-Brasil. El volante de creación y delantero de nacionalidad ecuatoriana, Michael Jackson Quiñónez, quedó fuera de la plantilla del Santos FC de Brasil, pese a tener un año más de contrato con la institución. Adílson Durante, director deportivo del Peixe, confirmó que el ecuatoriano Michael Jackson Quiñónez no entra en los planes del entrenador Marcio Fernandes, pensando en la siguiente campaña. Junto con Quiñónez, Durante detalló que el experimentado delantero de nacionalidad paraguaya, Nelson “El Pipino” Cuevas, tampoco entra en los planes del Santos FC. Su salida ya está determinada en lo absoluto. Según detalló el dirigente de la institución paulista, el actual campeón de la Copa Libertadores de América, Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito, ya ha presentado su interés por contar con el aporte de Quiñónez en préstamo. (LAOH)
hahaha! he's a helluva of a player and has great speed....unfortunately I read that el Nacho picked him up :/ I really wanted the gloved one to play for liga...
Damn, Liga doesn't seem like they're going to be able to hold onto Manso, I was looking foward to watching him in the libertadores again.
The Liga that plays this season is almost certain to be 11 new players on the field. Except maybe Cevallos. Frankly, maybe it's better because the players can lack motivation when they've already achieved everything.
bolanos went to santos from brazil...hope he does good over der nd the IFHHS ranked cevallos #6 goalie in the WORLD!!!..2008 was a dam good year 4 ecuador hope 2009 is better
Luis Miguel Escalada is a young striker from Argentina who played with you back in 2006 I believe. I seem to recall he scored some goals for you. He is now rumoured to be headed to the MLS, specifically Toronto FC. If anyone could provide some insight into the type of player he is it would be greatly appreciated. Oh, and nice showing in the World Club Championships. Great to see an Ecuadorian team winning the Copa Libertadores!! Quito and Ecuador must have been awesome at that time. I am sorry I missed it.
Escalada is coming RSL's way. Would like to know more about him. It looks like 2006 and 2007 were great years for him. 2008 - not so much.
Emelec and Boca Juniors have close ties. So a few times Emelec has gotten youngsters from Boca's youth system. 2006 I believe, Emelec got two of them, Escalada and Mondaini. They both worked wonders together and Escalada had a great yea scoring a lot of goals. Next year he was bought by Liga de Quito but Mondaini went back to Argentina... Escalada had an Ok year but didn't shine too much, scored less and was loaned out cause Liga needed something better. So he wasn't part of last year's Liga's glorious run. I dunno how he has done all of 2008 while he was on loan and I don't know how many teams he played in that period either. But his last team was Gimnasia Y Esgrima de Jujuy (maybe he has been there all of 2008 I'm not sure), a modest first division team in Argentina. He is an average player for South American leagues standard. For MLS he should be more than fine though, and should even shine
The thing is that he's still young...22 years old and still developing his skills...at Liga he scored a fair amount of goals, but nowhere near his previous year's tally...I know he was loaned to Botafogo, GyE Jujuy, and I think Rosario or Newell's? But, he's a pretty effective striker inside the box, has pretty good pace as well and for the MLS, he'll definitely have no problem settling down scoring goals
Would make no sense to buy him if he couldn't play Libertadores. Winning the domestic league is not the big moneymaker for Liga.