2017 Roster moves

We now have top Allocation spot. How do you think we use this in the season? Trade it to acquire a AM?

 

Use it on Geoff Cameron when he comes back this summer.

 

Hey Geoff - Chris Canetti on line 1...........
Geoff? Where did you go Geoff?

 

I see allocation as a rare opportunity to better the team like a high draft pick, something not tossed away lightly, and as a valuable commodity where even if we don't want to use it, we should extract its value to step aside. I also think the window for this version of the team is now. I also think that building around Torres is dumb. So, as I have said before, you assume Torres is toast, pay down Manotas' DP slot, and use the allocation either directly (with allocation) or indirectly (allocation trade) to secure a playmaker. Torres would be here maybe one more year, the Playmaker and him overlap for 1/2 season in terms of payroll. The Playmaker steps into Torres' DP slot next season and we have one more available when Clark/Beasley/Boniek disappear in the next 1-2 years. This team, such as it is, is then more "complete" for this run. We can't do all our playmaking on wide balls from our own half, and if Alex was going to be good enough to pilot a half court version of the offense to the playoffs it would have happened last season.

Even if they were dumb enough to not want a new player for temporary financial reasons, you have to get something out of the draft position or you're an idiot. The allocation spot is itself valuable, teams don't want to wait necessarily. If you can't get something useful out of that you shouldn't be a GM.

 

Yea, Cam isn't really happy with the organization after Wade wasn't kept on... doubt he would come back with the FO we currently have. I can not remember us ever being in the position with top Allocation Spot. Let's see if shit it away in some stupid trade for MLS Bucks

 

Cameron wasn't happy with the organization before Wade was let go. He has lingering hard feelings over how his transfer was delayed/handled and does not like Canetti.

 

Wasn't aware of this incentive to bash...

 

It's FO-specific. Kinnear helped in his work permit appeal. But Canetti and/or the league held out for more transfer fee when he was sold. The process dragged on and on, he was technically still with us but we were sitting him, while the parties were haggling the fee. Kinnear is gone as are most of the players he played here with. But the FO remains plus Jordan.

I think he wants to come back to MLS, the fee means we don't have first refusal rights, but he's slammed the door a couple times in social media just to be clear.

 

I'm gonna guess a lot of the guys on the allocation list who may want to come back to MLS won't want to play in Houston so that undercuts our trading leverage a bit. If Geoff Cameron were to be in talks with MLS no other team would give us much for the #1 slot because they know he wouldn't sign going to Houston.

 

Two of the three transactions moving us to the top were trades.

I can believe some players might wait out our tenure as top spot or decline to play here. I cannot believe no one allocation-eligible comes available the rest of the season. I can believe that if someone off the list wants in MLS, disinterest in playing here creates rather than destroys the trade dynamic. Blah Blah Punk Kid announces he wants to come back but not here. Ditto Cameron. Cannetti announces in response, we are considering signing him as #1 allocation but open to deals. Voila, market. If the player is good enough, the creation of the market sets off the bidding war and we can take the best exchange. That he doesn't want to play here only helps because it's a sincere opportunity for the player and not your usual bluff and bluster GM stuff. We'd have to risk signing the player but you could easily make some phone calls and test the trade waters before committing to certain players as allocations.

You have the big U20 tournaments coming up, a Bradenton class late spring as usual, and you'll have people who are faltering in Arena's eyes who want a domestic platform for attempted renewed relevance this cycle. I can't believe no one off that list or who could be added to it, is willing to sign a deal. These days, Miazga who? Ream, Yedlin, some others.

That being said, the allocation list now seems more populated by "former" as opposed to "future." Ie, people who got sold out of the league.

But so far, an allocation spot has been worth:
(a) General Allocation Money, the No. 25 pick in the 2017 MLS SuperDraft Pick, and the No. 3 spot in the Allocation Ranking Order or
(b) $100,000 General Allocation Money in 2018, $125,000 in Targeted Allocation Money in 2018, and an international roster spot through 2017

I also think the analysis overlooks that Team X comes out of the gate poorly, decides it will be a rebuilding year, allocation comes available in June, and they look at some of their decent size veteran deals and offer something akin to the Maidana/Wenger deal. That the deal could be salary dump and reboot on their end.

 

If there is no one we can use coming back trading it for anything is better than letting it expire.

 

Given our roster - we can use almost anyone coming back from that list. There will be guys on that list considering coming back in up thru late Summer

 

I was impressed with Fossey U20s

 

http://www.mlssocceritalia.com/calciomercato-mls-fredy-montero-vicino-ai-vancouver-whitecaps/

Aron Johannsson?

 

I can't read that south-of-the-border stuff. Speak 'murican!

 

http://www.lagalaxy.com/post/2017/02/22/la-galaxy-ii-announce-first-ever-open-tryouts-england

unique approach

 

Chicharito may be heading to MLS soon. He will make a good impact, and may be worth the $$

Según un reporte de ESPN, una fuente habría indicado que ‘Chicharito’ estaría negociando un salario anual de nueve millones de dólares, el cual sería el más alto de la MLS. La intención de la MLS, quienes han tratado de atraer al jugador en otras ocasiones, sería poder firmarlo a partir del verano de 2018, luego de que su contrato con Bayer Leverkusen expire.

http://www.univision.com/deportes/f...ciendo-la-mls-por-javier-chicharito-hernandez

 

He would be awesome for Houston, but LAFC is gonna nab him if he comes I'm sure.

 

You're probably right on that

 

Uh, yea, we ain't getting Cheech y'all.

That ish is gonna require beaucoup bucks.

We don't have owners who are interested in spending any money.

 

The article says he is asking for $9-Million

With the current support in the city for the Dynamo, it's a substantial risk, but it's something that the Dynamo need to look at closely.

 

I know the Dynamo are trying to make this sound valuable, but how much is any English or other foreign team gonna pay for Barnes now that he's on his third MLS team in 8 months?

Matt Jordan said Dynamo retain sell-on percentage if Giles Barnes is transferred outside MLS despite Vancouver trading him to Orlando City.

— Corey Roepken (@RipSports) February 26, 2017

 

Maybe Roc Nation people can convince him!

 

It's probably one of the pros of using a well known agency.

 

Now that Coyle is fired, the answer is nothing.