If we are going to go internal, it has to be Martin Vasquez, right? The guy has loads of connections but has been involved with the youth side of the game for quite some time now. I wonder if he wants to make that jump. He would be my least hated internal hire.
Bruce doesn’t strike me as much of a team player. The battles with Dear Leader would be epic though. I wouldn’t give Bruce 24 months before it all came apart and that’s generous. And I think I would be a good GM too so there’s that.
Be careful judging Atlanta on its aggregate salaries: they paid a $15 million transfer fee for 18-year-old Ezequiel Barco (his salary is $1.4 million). They paid $8 million for Miguel Almiron's rights, and another (rumored) $4.5 million for Josef Martinez. That's a remarkable $28 million just to acquire those three players. We paid $460k for Albert Rusnak.
Whatever happens, I hope we learned from letting Garth make several lousy decisions ahead of his departure and whenever we know a GM is leaving, that we make sure decisions are vetted heavily.
If you know you are not going to keep him, would you even let him have a summer transfer window? Gives him another chance to mess it up. I would say no. If there is a chance he can earn his job back then given him a transfer.
I think he gets a transfer window to work with but I don't have high hopes that he will be successful unless tanning is part of the equation.
His contract runs through the end of the season, no? So he'll be here either way. The question is when you make a decision to negotiate or not.
It might be different with Waibel because he would be unlikely to go to another team, much less a conference rival a la Garth.
Ortuno is Europe. Sign of him leaving or are we paying for his European vacation? https://www.rslsoapbox.com/platform/amp/2018/6/28/17514374/alfredo-ortuno-real-salt-lake-transfer
Horst out indefinitely after Achilles repair surgery. The patchwork backline looks even more threadbare.
something has to be said of our uncanny ability to bring in players that have had relatively healthy careers and then completely breaking them. If I was Rusnak I would be getting athletic training advice from my old club constantly
didn't the team change the athletic director this last off season? so would the issue then be upper levels of the organization or just bad luck, really bad luck.
I suspect altitude/hydration. I never had any hamstring issues back East and I played a lot of soccer. A few years after moving back to Utah my hamstrings started to pop with alarming regularity. Of course I got older, and didn't stretch well, and only recently started doing yoga to avoid turning into a crab. It's a lame theory, but heat/hydration/altitude probably have impacts on fluid dynamics on the body. Boyle's law and shit.
Wait? Is this a soccer player or a cheesy men's cologne ad that you see in those airline in-flight magazines?
So in the Columbus game, Kyle Beckerman received his 106th yellow card, all time, and I was curious about where other players rank. I knew Pablo Mastroeni was second; he had 81 in his career, so it isn't close. But what surprised me is how many people with connections to RSL are in the top several all-time. This includes: 4. Mike Petke, 70 (no games played with RSL of course) 5. Chris Wingert, 69 6. Attiba Harris, 67 7. Carey Talley, 67
Maybe not overall, but I'd think that red cards per game have to be pretty high with Atiba, Olave, and maybe Dema too? I don't know where you are finding these stats. Pretty weird.
RSL alums are numbers one and two, and one of them may surprise you: 1) Jamison Olave - 10 red cards 2) Clint Mathis - 9 Pablo Mastroeni is in third (he had 8), while six guys had seven (including Petke). Thirteen had six with three RSL/ex-RSL players there: Borchers, Dema, and Beckerman. Turns out Atiba was only red carded three times in the regular season: once with Colorado, once with Chivas USA, and once with us in his rookie season. How many time Atiba should have been red carded is a topic for another day. I went to the all-time stats page for MLS, which has an option to sort by fouls. From that page I re-sorted to cards.