http://www.backpost.net/2008/06/goodbye-eloy.html Waiting for official confirmation, but it looks like we're down one Argentine.
so i rarely post on here. i read practically everything though, and it seems like all i've read this year is that eloy deserves more time and is one of our better attacking options. with that being said, the news of him being released can only elicit the question "why?".
I just dont understand it. Unless it was a locker room issue, it makes no sense. We have some players (Pore and Morsink) that have no issue playing in MLS but we let a player that always put a strong effort in and has a good amount of skill go? I am really starting to question the personnel decisions made by this staff.
What makes this even more interesting is the huge raise we gave him in the offseason. He went from making $42,000 last year to $70,750 this year. He was making more than several starters (Harrington, Jewsbury, Pore, and double the likes of Sealy, Morsink, Wahl).
I believe there is a contract day coming up where teams have to pay a certain amount of the contract I think. I thought I read that somewhere on here. Also it does technically open up a senior roster spot if we were looking at someone....
I'm dissapointed if this is true... Eloy, thank you for the game winning assist against Columbus last year.
uhh... wth? seriously? i am not saying that he is the greatest or anything... but when trying to put the best product on the field produces that last game v. Columbus, and Eloy doesn't even make the subs list, and then now releasing him, seems as though these are not supportive of, hmm, let's think, winning at all... Vermes - if this is your decision - giant step backwards... please, i need some reason why this is good for the rest of the season...
I have to think Onalfo and Vermes have someone lined up to replace him. Cap space and roster space freed up now, allowing them to make a move. I assume a forward who can play with Lopez. Many of us have been calling for a target forward. We'll see. Columbano tended to play more on the wing, as Arnaud is now healthy again the gap is in the middle with Lopez. Interesting move, let's hope there is a new player coming in and he lights a fire under the team.
My speculation: Eloy wanted out, and was allowed to leave. He asked to be allowed to return home weeks ago and pissed some players and the team off. Thus, no passing to him when he was on the field ("He doesn't want to be here, fine...then he isn't right there wide open") and limited playing time. It is the only logical thing I can think of. It is the only situation that makes sense. I have a hard time believing he was a locker room cancer unless he was screaming at Lopez in Argie. If my speculation is not correct, then I am doubly dissapointed this week. Even if the team is looking to add a striker, it is not like our midfield is stellar enough to dump a skilled player like Eloy to go get one. With a new striker we still have no one in the middle to get the ball forward, so what good does it do!
Yeah, 70K and he's an International. Maybe we acquire the rights of another international already in MLS? or bringing over a Hungarian? What team was PV looking at recently?
(what the hell, you can only have 3 smilies in a post?) Stupid... one of my favorite players, would really like to know what happened here... perhaps it's a money thing but from what I can figure (roughly, of course) from the salaries on the MLS Player's Union site and whatnot, we have ~$400,000 open... someone correct me if I'm wrong here (of course). And unless I'm mistaken, we don't have much to worry about in regards to international spots... I just don't understand.
If this rumor is true, then this statement from the article on the club website seems a bit contradictory unless this move has been planned for a while: Said technical director Peter Vermes: "The key in these types of situations is you can't panic. You can't, all of a sudden, make these drastic changes. You have to be smart on how you approach them, and you have to have a real resolution to the problems that you have."
I will say that I am a little surprised at how many people seem disappointed by this. To me, Eloy was one of those "take it or leave it" players. If he's on the team, whatever. If he's not on the team, whatever. I personally didn't see enough out of his minutes to really develop any opinion whatsoever.
Not in regards to international spots, but our roster was full, we have 18 senior roster players and 10 dev players. If anything this has to be a roster space move.
I hope this has some significance to it. If Eloy really did not want to be here anymore, we might not be seeing any replacement whatsoever. If this is a strategic move to try to bring in a player to make a difference... why the hell not keep him until we announce the player and then in a paragraph at the bottom of the announcement write "Midfielder Eloy Colombano was released to free up the roster spot and cap salary needed to obtain Joe Soccerplayer"? I wish our FO would be a little more up front with us on moves like this, I'd kind of like to know is this is a strategy or a casualty.
no feelings either way. He wasn't really that great. We're obviously making room for Brian McBride...
I'm pretty sure it wasn't a move that he requested. As for waiting to announce the player signing and letting him go at the same time, see Harvey's post, contracts are guaranteed on July 1, yeah it's only the 19th, but they had to be sure they got rid of Eloy's salary before it became guaranteed. Not defending the move, because I never thought Eloy got a fair chance, but that's my line of thinking in this.
Anyone actually know BMB's status? Would he be a DP? Would we have to be in that weird pool thing to get him?? The idea of BMB makes my little FFC heart bounce.
Some reports say he won't be a DP. He's going to take an allocation apparently. But don't even think to get your hopes up, it's got no chance of happening.
I'll throw my 2 cents in here because I really liked Eloy since he was a "balls to the wall guy" when he came in and because of the fact that I got to talk to him (in Spanish) after games and at practice and he always had the time for the fans (that he could understand) I think that this might be a case of: 1. He's frustrated since he gets no playing time (after being a starter at Defensa and Justicia); I see him as a natural forward and CO playing Pore more than him would frustrate anyone; or 2. He couldn't adapt to the culture. This might seem stupid but he did go back to Argentina during preseason to see his wife and joined the team when they got there and he also left a few weeks ago. His wife, I don't believe is here and he's been here 1 1/2 seasons which makes adapting alot harder by yourself, even harder with a new baby at home you don't get to see.(I could be wrong since it has been about 2 months since I talked to him but I did see Piojo's and MArinelli's wive's while Eloy hangs around with Trujillo). All I can say is that I hope it isn't true but wish him the best. I wish a few more players ran as hard as he did every time he played.
Maybe they're opening roster/cap room for one of the Hungarians that Peter looked at either earlier this month or late last month...