I would sell Acosta in a heartbeat for the cash to improve the side. Acosta will spend too many matches just turning the ball over in the midfield in trade for the times he is special. He is not worth the money. Sell him. Durkin I sell in the off season, even as number 3 in the depth cart he still brings more to the side.
Acosta's trying to do too much because he knows this is the window for him to show his skills. Once his situation is settled, he and the team will return to form.
Which is stupid because any scout who has half a brain will want to see him play the way they need him to play, not trying to show off, hog the ball, create turnovers, and then pout when he gets fouled. Honestly, I'd be surprised if he got any offers from top-flight teams the way he's been playing.
Any scout from Europe who is interested enough to see Lucho in person isn’t going to let a bad month of games sway the decision. The potential free transfer alone probably opens some lower end first division teams.
Pine gone for awhile: https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...ined-with-knee-injury/?utm_term=.6a2f90df8cbf
I have to believe that Wayne's calling the shots on Acosta. When the possibility of selling him for 10 mill came up just before the deadline maybe Wayne wasn't consulted. But now that the figure has dropped the club needs to consult Wayne or risk alienating their best asset. Wayne's here to win a trophy, and I trust him to know better than the FO whether keeping Acosta helps or hurts us in that regard.
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Now look-- let's not get carried away, folks. I mean, we're all happy that their stadium situation got resolved, and all. It was a ray of sunshine on the 2018 MLS season. The Columbus fairy tale had a happy ending. A rainbow landed on central Ohio. Good triumphed over evil. #SavetheCrew ate Precourt's lunch and burped in his face, yada, yada. Bravo, bravisimo, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah. Now that the obligatory "salute the brave Crew fans" bull-crap niceities have been observed, they can resume pounding sand.
From the article: "United is awaiting the results of an MRI exam, but an early evaluation suggested a sprained medial collateral ligament. The grade of the injury would provide a more specific timetable for his return. Grade 1 would sideline him for at least two weeks, Grade 2 for about a month and Grade 3 for two months or more. Midfielder Russell Canouse just returned from an MCL sprain that grounded him for three matches."
MRI revealed Grade 2 MCL sprain - out 2 months. https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...working-transfer-move/?utm_term=.d9410f7c2a56
Imagine that. Olsen the tactical nonce plays this new formation using ALL of our MLS quality CBs... and one of them gets hurt. Can't rotate players when you are using them all in the 1st11 you knucklehead. This whole thing started because the clown car DCU staff was afraid to just play our typical 4231 formation- when we had ONE injury at LB. Back then we had proper depth at CB and RB. We just needed to rotate/experiment at LB with RBs/MFs/etc and struggle through with a LB weakness until this window trade occurred to acquire Pedroso. Lots of ways tactically to mitigate this. Instead... Olsen throws the baby out with the bathwater. We try several games with a completely new formation, playing all our CBs and have multiple 1st11 players either on the bench or playing way out of position. Low and behold...our offensive production nosedives and we struggle for the next 3 weeks. I don't mean to beat a dead horse. But alot of this is on Olsen and staff in my opinion. Pines- you have looked very solid- I hope for a speedy recovery. You should be playing ahead of Brilliant now in my opinion.
Wait, are you blaming the formation for pines' injury?? I assume you are also giving Olsen/DCU credit for helping to improve Pines' game (I know UMD helped in this too), signing him, and giving him playing time briefly at Loudoun and then realizing he was good enough for MLS?