I mistakenly thought Brad “retired” and then came back and signed for SKC for free. I was wrong. After some in-depth “research,” Brad has gone on to SKC through free agency. I wouldn’t be opposed to him fighting for a spot at RB for us.
Four D.C. United trialists no longer in camp: John Requejo, Sheanon Williams and the two fourth-round draft picks #dcu #mls— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) February 12, 2018 John Requejo is a 21 years old LB, a former U17 and U20 US international and a California native, who signed with Tijuana when he was 18 but the move didn't work. Given our natural LB in both the first and the second team are currently Ashley Cole (37) and Leo Sepulveda (16, Academy player), I don't know how it could be a bad thing to give Requejo at least a G2 contract.
Eh if a player isn't good enough for DC, they probably aren't good enough for us. I'd like to see us go for Villafana in the summer. Till then, Romney, Steres, or even Skljevik can play left back too.
fixed btw going thru stats of last season. AJ was top 3 in completed crosses. (I really need to get over this)
http://www.goal.com/fr/news/transfe...le-francais-mathias/nlvol4s1gd7l1t1ntj25e0ud7 Apparently we are after french offensive midfielder/winger Mathias Coureur, who currently plays in Kazakhstan. He will turn 30 next month and has played in almost every country in Europe (I'm joking, but he has an impressive resume). Not the highest profile and not our biggest need, I'm curious about this rumor.
I don't see anything impressive about his resume or anything good about this potential signing. Bad leagues and never staying with a team more than two seasons. He played in the Spanish and French 3rd tiers up until 2012 when he spent some time in Martinique before returning to the Spanish 3rd division. He finally got into a top flight in 2014, signing in Bulgaria for two seasons before trying out Georgia and quickly going back to Bulgaria for a different club (a newly promoted club which was subsequently relegated the year he was with them) and finally now with a mid-table Kazakhstani team. That's a hard no from me. Hopefully just a false rumor.
An account of Sigi pursuing Kitchen and getting him to come to the Galaxy. Apparently Sigi likes his vocal leadership, a lot: https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018/02/23/perry-kitchen-happy-huge-privilege-play-la-galaxy-year
Mathias Coureur just tweeted this to Aurélien Collin : 967015128678961152 is not a valid tweet id (translation : "maybe I'll join you bro") It doesn't look like a false rumor.
967197537055789056 is not a valid tweet id Dump Ciani and bring back Omar. It can't be a bad move. And of course we are still first in the allocation order.
Pretty please! Although that would put a damper on my prediction of THA winning the starting CB spot next to Skjelvik by the end of the season.
Is there a roster set date? I seem to recall there are usually a few last minute roster surprises. Don’t we still have too many internationals? However I think the COG guys hinted that ola was out of the country which is often a final step to a green card.
I believe the roster set date is Thursday or Friday. I was hoping Ola wouldn't get his green card so we had to cut Ciani. Guess that's not going to work out the way we wanted.
I saw the following tweet on Cordell Cato, and I wanted to say that last year he didn't count as an international for San Jose. He's been in the league for long now. No need to apologize. There has been no determination or at least no public announcement. I feel like the Galaxy are leaning towards him, but he also takes up an INTL slot. They’d have to shuffle some things to make it work. Not impossible, though. #LAGalaxy #MLS https://t.co/JZ9mpgkQRj— Corner Of The Galaxy (@GalaxyPodcast) February 27, 2018 Cato is not an exciting name but he could be a useful signing. Capable to play as a RB and a LB, looked OK during preseason. Given how underwhelming Feltscher and Klimenta have been, he could have his chance. Sign him and bring back Omar, and dump Ciani, and I'm OK with our defense. Edit : he corrected his tweet a few moments later : Oh, let’s correct this tweet.CORDELL CATO would NOT take up an INTL slot!He received his green card some time ago.Not much keeping him off the roster at this point, IMO. #LAGalaxy #MLS https://t.co/5WvHlzVM8Y— Corner Of The Galaxy (@GalaxyPodcast) February 27, 2018
I like that move. We can't count on Rolf to play every game and really his quality is certainly debatable at this time. I'd rather have Cato then Romney at outside back. Would prefer to see Romney get a shot paired with the Norwegian in central defense. I feel like Romney is smarter then most of our defenders.
Bleh, another below par player that won't be on the team come next year. Would bring us up to 19 on the senior roster and 25 overall. I'd assume Vom Steeg is signed as our 3rd keeper bringing us to 26. Leaves one more senior spot and 3 off-budget slots. We only have two HGs on the roster but if we choose to put them in slots 29 and 30, there's no requirement to have any more HGs on the roster if we wanted to carry the full 30.
Having veteran MLS players is a good thing especially with a back line as inexperienced as ours. I'd take Cato.
This. I'm baffled Sigi didn't try Romney as a CB during preseason, he could be better than Steres (he already is IMO), Ciani and THA. Sometimes I think Romney's "weakness" is that he's left-footed. That put him behind Van Damme in the depth chart, and now it's the same story with Skjelvik, and he has always been considered as LB depth because we lack true LBs in our roster and he's subpar here. Or a new Dan Gargan. Cato as depth would not be the problem, but the Feltscher we saw during the preseason is not an elite starting RB. The move was very risky just looking at his career so far (low level clubs in second tier leagues).
Sigi Schmid said ahead of the season opener that he was pleased with the club's depth heading into the 2018 season. Noted that the one spot the team was looking to improve was the forward spot.— Adam Serrano (@AdamSerrano) February 27, 2018 I agree with Sigi, but I don't know if he plans to add depth right now. The only true forwards trialists that we had in camp were Ethan Zubak and Justin Dhillon from G2.
Photo from today's training session in the attached files. I don't recognize the number 46. I thought it was Mathias Coureur, the french winger we were linked with, but I'm not sure. Here's a picture from Coureur from yesterday according to his Twitter account (he was at the airport waiting for a flight to Barcelona but according to him the flight was canceled) : They don't look like each other, so I guess it's another trialist. For what's it worth I think Cordell Cato is just behind Steres. And the good news : Bradford is jogging.
Omar Gonzalez starting for Pachuca in the Copa MX tonight. A report last week indicated that he wants out of the club and a return to MLS, although I'm hearing that it isn't true. The US international has been recovering from injury for most the season. #eltrieng— Tom Marshall (@mexicoworldcup) February 28, 2018