I am gonna quote Woody as he touches on stuff to work on for 2019 Personally the team is in a bit of trouble. Parker will looking at Europe, so too will Lawrence. Adams is already gone. Ratzkowski is gonna go and so to Ivan. Time to look at RBII and see who is available in free agency. We also have to decide who to leave unprotected for the expansion draft. To me this team needs a proper RW to space the field as Muil is not a threat. Etienne is our back-up to Royer, we have no back up to BWP. We need to go swimming again in the English Championship or German Bundi 2 and find another striker to start easing BWP's minutes. We also need to find Kaku, he vanished the second half of the season so we need to be more creative in sitting him or working him out of a funk. We are gonna need possibly new FBs and one new CB, plus 1 new 8 middie.
Expensive DP attacking midfielder. Doesn’t matter what kind since Kaku can play out wide. Just go get the very best player that can press, assist, and score. Starting quality outside back. Murillo/Duncan level player. Try to keep almost everyone (as money allows) and promote some guys. Off the books: Collin, Ivan, Abang, Redding, Keita, and Rivas. If you can put together a sensible salary for Rzatkowski keep him. If not, see ya. GK: Robles, Meara, Louro D: NEW STARTING QUALITY OUTSIDE BACK, Long, Parker, Escobar, Ndam, Taxi, Murillo, Duncan, Lade, Kutler, Yanes M: NEW ATTACKING DP, Davis, Casseres, Rza, Royer, Muyl, Valot, Bezecourt, Etienne, Kaku, Mines, Kofi, Stroud F: BWP, White, Moreno ...Give or take. If any of these guys leave you replace them like for like. Lots of salary coming off the roster plus the funny money with Adams sale. Should be easy.
https://www.onceametro.com/2018/12/...ms-transfer-fee-new-york-red-bulls-rb-leipzig Personally, I think that above some kind of Kaku remittance, there will be money earmarked for 1-2 high profile players (depending on who's on the radar), and the GAM can go towards acquiring the 1-2 other new starter-quality players, a couple of defenders would be good, and $375K could probably acquire a decent Concacaf type defender. A little cash to splash on the club infrastructure, Academy programs would be nice. Maybe some cash for buying the training facility property, I just heard it's leased.
Well they didn’t screw up the obvious so that’s a good start to the off season! Ivan needs to go too though. He showed literally nothing. Even all the euro guys that took time to adjust here showed SOMETHING in their first half season. Plus we have other depth guys at the position he plays. Cut ties with this guy now. We are going to regret it if we don’t. Especially if he stays on a stupid salary.
They took a flyer on Ivan, but he's not talented enough or young enough to be worth keeping. And I'd frankly rather the club kept the fringe 1st team slots available for RBII guys to move up. Etienne will need some more seasoning, and Amando Moreno has been showing some flashes, and will need at least the hint of 1st team playing time. Up or out is the only question that matters at Red Bull. FWIW, the full list of departing players is Aurelien Collin, Ethan Kutler, and Kevin Politz, and forward Carlos Rivas, plus loanees Fidel Escobar and Carlos Rivas. What this means is Ivan is still a RBNY player for now, as is Abang. There are 23 total rostered players. Red Bulls Announce End of Season Roster Updates
May have been mentioned elsewhere, but still a chance for Champions League. Atlanta needs to win MLS Cup for it to happen. http://www.espn.com/soccer/concacaf...n-concacaf-champions-league-last-16-opponents
Do we really want CCL next year? Just would sap our energy/focus away from the league. And it's not like an MLS team has every won that trophy, at least not in the last 10 years since it was rebranded.
Selfishly I do, as I can generally only make weekday matches. So I like long US Open Cup/CCL runs! ; )
To be the first modern MLS team to win the damn thing would be...glorious. And as our previous performances prove it’s not always the best team that wins a tournament. So...as long as we qualify the chance is always there.
We got as far in the last CCL as in the playoffs, and we lost the aggregate by 1 in the CCL and by 2 in the playoffs. At worst, we should beat Atletico Pantoja and reach the Quarterfinals for the third consecutive time. We got an easier opponent than Atlanta. According to Wikipedia's table for the CCL era, Herediano has more points and goals than any MLS club.
I believe last year's CCL games were a great tune up for the MLS season. We came out smoking in the beginning of the season. It's a lot better than playing your USL team or whomever is available. It also gave some RBll players exposure. Mines' first goal in an upset victory was made possible by us being involved.
Good point. But if we advance in CCL, then it overlaps with our regular season, and that was the point I was making about it stretching us thin and potentially eating into our big goal of MLS Cup? That said, if somehow a miracle were to happy and NYRB, an MLS club, were to win the CCL trophy, that would be hot damn!
At this point I’d rather put all our eggs in the CCL basket then just forfit 2-3 months worth of games, start actually playing in the summer and then make the playoffs fresh and healthy.
Can anyone explain Abang ?? I have trouble keeping him around even if they were riding out a contract but somebody actually CHOSE to exercise the option and keep him.
The guys on Seeing Red were conspiracy theorying that they may have resigned him as expansion draft bait. It’s possible a gentlemen’s agreement was reached. I still think he has the ability to play as a half decent target man in this league, but the nonsense at the end of the season for RB2 sealed it for me. You can’t put your team in that kind of situation. Especially considering your already tenuous position at the club. I think it’s time to move on.
Well with ATL winning, looks like we will be in the CCL. ******** all this drain us for the season. Winning the season doesn't mean anything and has not done anything for us. Play to win the CCL and finish 4th in the east! Also try to win the USOC.
One defender out, and one defender in. The Red Bulls lost Hassan Ndam in the expansion draft to FC Cincinnati today. In return, the club gets a bump of $50K in GAM. In Ndam they lose a hulking physical specimen, just 20 years old, one they had scouted and signed right out of high school. He was still pretty raw but developing, the question is whether FCC can actually keep that going and turn him into a useful MLS center back. Within no time Hamlet had pulled the trigger trading a 2019 fourth round pick for Orlando defender, 26 year-old Amro Tarek. I'm not crazy about this pick-up, as he's a tweener from a pretty lousy club, but he's probably pretty cheap. They probably need at least one credible stand-in, maybe go for one on the older side, and at least one to develop.
Ndam will be an picked by FCC, I can see it. As for Tarek maybe he will be a better fit in our system. He is 26 an still hasn't broken through is more of a concern.