"Fioranelli doesn’t expect many transactions in or out of San Jose for the remainder of the window"

hard to imagine they see much of a bump in season ticket sales based on the hiring of a new head coach who is unproven in MLS.

 

It kinda makes for an interesting soccer experiment- take the worst team in the league and only replace the coach and see what the results are.

I know we added 3 new TAM players so it contaminates the results, but will still be interesting.

 

One of the new players is reputedly a quality left back, so, yeah, some pretty heavy contamination of variables right there.

Not to mention Magnus Eriksson is rumored on the way out the door.

Not to mention we're getting an Argentine goalkeeper (okay, maybe German-Argentine, depending on the rumor-du jour ) to replace Andrew Tarbell.

Not to mention we have a pencil-neck rookie defender whose height and weight makes him eligible for national team duty. And the entire SuperDraft Quakes class got an A+.

Not to mention the new coach is not likely to allow meddling in his lineups.

Did I mention there's no way in hell Magnus is going to single-handedly lose us a game to Atlanta this year?

I'm stoked for playoffs.

 

Shea eats LB’s for breakfast. You really think Lopez is gonna earn his spot? /s

 

So we have to rely on the June-July transfer window once again. Since 2010, has anyone really emerged during that window? I'm just trying to think but I can remember anyone who made a difference. Maybe Geovanni who scored 1 goal in 12 games?

 

Vako was the best in more recent years.

 

I forgot Vako came midseason.. For what they are paying him, he hasn't impressed me.

 

Name someone on the current squad who HAS been impressive? Beyond perhaps Wondo and Lima, the pickings are pretty damn slim.

 

Just when you think the ownership may have learned something....

Well, since they are going to wait till mid-season, I can wait until then to renew season tickets!

 

Why sign someone just to say you've signed someone? Is it not better to evaluate what you have, determine who are "keepers" and where you REALLY need to shore up the roster at? Also just because they may not sign a DP before the season starts does not mean that they are not actively looking, inquiring about potential signings.

 

Ahh..so they're fixin' to get around to improving the roster. What my Austin Texas colleagues say when they actually haven't done anything yet.

 

Don't know where I said that. Stating an opinion that just rushing out and signing someone for the sake of signing someone doesn't sound like the best way to approach signing a player.

 

Don's eternal optimism aside, this is pretty much what I've been thinking as well. If the Quakes turn it around this year, I think you can pretty squarely put it on the coaching change. I'm not expecting the end results will be much different. We'll move from wooden spoon to last in or first out of the playoffs best case. That's my judgement of the value of a coach relative to the talent of the players. But I'm intellectually interested in the result.

If we are in conference finals and the three new players are all MLS best at the end of the year you could say we got player upgrades that contributed. At this point we have no idea whether we got upgrades, downgrades, or equivalents at those positions.

 

that's right, we should be signing players for the sake of not sucking anymore. big time players who can lift this team and give fans a glimmer of hope after a decade of crap. this should be priority #1, especially after last season which broke all-time Quakes record for utter garbage.

 

He has been consistently hot and cold but I nominate Salinas for his longevity and mediocrity....

Look at all the DP’s and foreigners who have come and gone and yet Shea is still here. He outlasted Hucks, Geo, Dawkins Innocent , Ceren , Convey , MPG , Zura and Henok Goitom.

 

Shea is one of my favorite players. I realize he's not a top player in the league (please save all your jokes and snipes) but he in my mind is what an athlete should be in terms of character, work ethic and so many other qualities.
The signing of a new LB is kinda squeezing him out but they have tried to replace him so many times before and he is incredibly persistent, tenacious, ... whatever - he just doesn't give up. No wonder he was re-signed to a new contract. I do hope he will have a role to play this year and knowing him I'm sure he will.

 

Comparing Shea to all the players who have come and gone, you hog up hint him credit. At least he is still here and that has to count for something.

 

I suspect Fioranelli doesn't survive the season. The evidence will be pretty squarely against him if the team doesn't do well. He hired a bad coach for 2018, fine. But Almeyda is a coach with a track record that strongly suggests he'd be successful in MLS.

The fact that Almeyda seems to have taken the reigns in terms of who to sign pretty much immediately since signing on tells me Fioranelli never had a clue as to what he was doing. Stahre was so incompetent that he had no way of showing the lack of value in Fioranelli, but I think Almeyda will make it very obvious that the problems aren't with his staff.

 

I don't speak your language.

 

They should have been looking in August of last year. They ought to know who is available, and a what price, ball-park anyway. We should have a long list of players we're looking at, and three or four for every position where we think we need help. And if we don't, then we aren't really a professional team.

We have a long list of needs and we have not address all of them.

Even assuming that the new left back is good and the new right wing is a solid improvement over Eriksson, do we really think that a second division player from Brasil is going to be great shakes? Judson better be a big improvement over Alashe or Jackson. Hell, he needs to be better than Darwin Ceren.

The 2017 team made the playoffs, but just barely, and then got killed. Is the 2019 roster better than 2017? Wondo and Shea won't be as good in '19 as they were in '17. (Come on Wondo!! Prove me wrong!!) Tarbell has regressed. We need to be much better than we are, because every other team in the league is trying to improve also.

Go Quakes!!

- Mark

 

Man....Just. Shut. Up.

He's a low-end DP being paid like a low-end DP. $1.4M is ********ing NOTHING in this league when it comes to DP.