More valuable to MLS in January yes. I mean I suppose unless you are looking for a guy on a free out of contract in June (& one would think they are identifying those guys) the most likely candidates for a January transfer are guys who WILL be out of contract soon or guys who are languishing on the bench and looking for a fresh start and new opportunities. Seems like some better DP level guys can be had in June but the Chicago Football Club needs some warm bodies ASAP.
The more I learn about Beric, the better I feel about him (not suggesting he's risk free). But, dammit, we need a bunch more players, right effing now.
From Bolavip: "Hay una oferta formal de Chicago Fire por 5MDD por Gastón Giménez. EL jugador pidió una cláusula para seguir en el país al menos hasta el final de la Superliga" Seems like he turned down Club America, and some Euro suitors, is game to come here...after Primera season ends and Velez Sarsfield runs its course in Argentine Superliga. Which would be in May or so. Velez is currently in 5th place, TWO points off the top of the table.
I'm not quite sure how to feel about that if it's true. TFC got into a similar situation with Pozuelo last year but the Belgian regular season only ran until March.
The signal is starting to come in loud and clear that the FO plans on being hot garbage this year, and will be justifying it with Hinkie-brain "rebuilding" pablum. Bold move Cotton, let's see how that works out for them. You get the increasing sense that Mansueto has the sort of unexamined faux-intellectual 2014-era views on sports in general and soccer specifically that would be laughed out of any informed discussion today.
The only laughable thing here is the toddler-like petulance of your post. The childishly, sulky, moody nature of your [t]rash post really lower the bar, even for a Chicago Fire fan. Give the men some time to make the right decision, not the quick decision.
Thank you. Fire fans think they're playing FIFA sometimes and don't have a salary cap that needs to be strategically maneuvered.
That has nothing to do with what I'm saying, but whatever. The issue is seems to have more to do with comfort with the rhythms and machinery of big four organization-building, which are inapplicable to MLS in a variety of respects.
is 18 months not enough time, or are we supposed to be comforted by the notion that Mansueto ignored his investment until the toy belonged to him and him alone?
Heitz and Wicky literally just got hired. Calm down, but I suppose you're just one of those people who needs to be constantly negative about everything Fire related because it's cool
actually, Fire fans are used to watching the transfer season come and go with little or no progress by the FO. We were genuinely excited 6 months ago at the prospect of things being different this preseason. now we're less excited and reverting to standard Chicago Sports Pessimism. It's Joe's own fault.
But that's Joe's mistake, not Heitz and Wicky. Three different people. If the roster is incomplete come opening day, that's on Mansueto. If the team sucks this season, it's on Heitz and/or Wicky.
First of all, if either of those things are the case, it's on the Chicago Fire. An entity that is already fighting an up-Everest battle (largely of its own making) to gain legitimacy as a destination for fans, foreign talent, and academy players. And secondly, my post was in reaction to the increasing background noise that being a half-baked disaster on the field in 2020 is just part of the master plan in a big four tanking sense. That's utter balderdash and should be clearly stated as such. It's "cool" because the club is an absolute embarrassment on every level, just a nuclear waste site of failure, and remains in unfathomable denial about it. The club will either internally come to the realization that the fans it so viscerally despises have been absolutely, unequivocally correct in their criticism of the organization over the past decade-plus, or they will remain face down in the gutter both as a sporting operation and as a business.
if the team sucks this season, it's on Joe. Everyone works for him. If they suck this year, and build the youth program and get a USL affiliate and develop a talent pipeline that comes to fruition in 3-5 years and produces a decade of significance, that'll be on him too, but for fans that have endured a downward trend for a decade, that's a tall ask, and the reaction to the current stagnation is perfectly reasonable. This isn't an expansion team, and they're not going to get expansion team waivers from 20 year fans.