If he only costs 1.5m there better be a sell on clause in there. Otherwise good for Zimm and good for FCD for being reasonable and allowing their talent to potentially move on to greener pastures. Deals like this, if it goes through, make FCD even more attractive to younger players.
Were Montreal pressing like idiots with the lead because of idiot instructions from an idiot manager?
Its easy to forget that Walker's contract expired two years ago. He went on a trialing tour of Scandinavia and had no takers........................... He re-signed with FCD and was expected to be a squad rotation player. At the start of last season, however, Zach Loyd had his severe concussion problems. [Which was actually suffered during a USOC game against their own USL affilaite.] Walker stepped in and almost immediately became a key component of a team that won the Supporter's Shield. I'm not shocked that he has a buyout clause that's so cheap. After teams in Scandinavia passed, FCD probably thought they were relatively safe with that one...............................
Just so you know, I miss the reference because I joined BS after the nepotism battles, a battle I never understood since one could see for oneself how he played by looking at his games. Sports tends to be a great leveler, with time. Am I in the right area, just out of curiosity?
Are you sure that's what happened, or are you making an assumption just because he didn't sign there and Loyd then had injury problems that next season for Dallas? I think Walker was starting before those injury problems happened. From what I see the concussion happened in June and Loyd was an unused sub the first game of last year (so available, just didn't play). And FCD is a better team than just about any in Scandinavia. I mean Zimmerman was trialing with Viking and crap like that. My interpretation was he came back to Dallas because he leveraged fa into a promise of an opportunity to start off the bat. Wouldn't matter if the likes of Viking offered him or not. That's a crap gig. As it's turned out, he's positioned himself much better for usnt and big 5 league spot this way. He's on a lot faster track than Brendan Hines-Ike, for example.
We need to stop judging our players based on result of trialing in Europe, for a multitude of reasons.
if anyone needs a link to Atlanta vs Miami FC open cup game: http://www.stream2watch.cc/livenow/soccer/miami-fc-vs-atlanta-united-live-stream
I really hoped that Atlanta could get up something like 2-0 so more young players can sub in. Unfortunately Atlanta gave up a equalizer goal two minutes after they went up, their back line looks shakey as hell. Anton Walkes really needs work on his positioning, he lets guys get to his inside waaay to easily. Edit: this is really not Anton Walkes Game, Miami FC scored again on a corner header from the guy Walkes was trying to guard, and he just got a yellow (they gotta take him off before he gets another yelllow for a red) The guy who scored the first goal for them beat Walkes on a cut inside goal too btw.
Predictably was excellent. Not much more he could realistically do to get on the field. 74' PENALTY for #ATLUTD after @andrewcarleton7 is taken down in the box— Atlanta United FC (@ATLUTD) June 29, 2017
Polster lays an egg playing a sloppy cm for the first half before being moved to rb. His positioning has to be inch perfect (meter perfect, anyway) in that scheme they play with Schweinie distributing.Otherwise the timing is off and it all looks cockeyed. The defense got worse when they moved hiim to fullback because they don't have Dax. Bad luck for Polster who got injured in pre season and fell behind the curve. otoh, what little I saw of Carleton tonite, his positioning was very, very good. He was better than his teammates in that regard. So impressive for a kid his age. .
This is what the coach of the other team (a former world class player) said. Too bad his own coach doesn't recognize it. 880264281966727168 is not a valid tweet id
He does. He's going about it his own way. I trust his coach. Polster I feel for a little more because they said Arena called him and told polster he sees him as a fullback. Basically that suits Chicago. But what can you do? He's just behind the curve a bit like happens with many college players. They have a very short window to make it. otoh, with Carleton there is time to get things right. Getting him ready and fit for U17's is job #1.
I actually prefer Polster as a RB. I think he's looked good at RB. He should've gotten a call up to the GC. He gets too much flack that is undeserved.