RSL Expansion/Re-Entry Draft Thread '14-'15

I stand by my quotes . We had this year one and a half forwards because of Sabo's injury. Yes the 4 other forwards on Real 's team did not add to the scoring. It will be nice to see Real bring in a new forward for Findley.

 

Wouldn't a football lover want to see goals scored?

 

yeah, cuz the thing I've always been accused of is loving statistics and not reading a game.

 

Now I'm picturing 15 the "football statistics fan" sitting in his basement reading pages of information from leagues all over the world while cursing those noisy football lovers upstairs with their goshdang watching and cheering.

 

my confetti is really just printed excel spreadsheets from @ccb1212

 

Well that's woken a few people up

LOL

 

How many open international spots do we have? Rivero and possibly Thomas would occupy an International slot. Even negotiating down, I see it hard to spend ~180K for Thomas when we have a decent DM situation.

I still like Wynne, but not his salary. We need those outside defenders in a bad way.
(Looking at Wingert's salary last year $163K and Beltran's $186K ish, I wouldn't complain if we could get Wynne at those numbers)


Oswaldo Minda (Chivas USA) - DM - 150,000 - Int.

Martin Rivero (Chivas USA) - M - 50,004 - Int.
Marvell Wynne (Colorado Rapids) - CD/RD - 200,000
Hendry Thomas (FC Dallas) - DM - 180,000 - May have a Green Card
Alex Caskey (DC United) - M - 48,825
Chandler Hoffman (LA Galaxy) - F/M - 48,500

James Riley (LA Galaxy) - RD - 80,000

Rich Balchan (Real Salt Lake) - CD/RD - 48,500

 

Cassar's interview on OnFrame made it sound like they are currently courting two international players and the contracts are essentially just waiting on visas. I'd be surprised if we go after any internationals during the draft today.

 

McKenzie makes more sense as a CB to groom to me - than the more expensive guys (Hendry Thomas ugh).

I still like Adam Moffat for our outfit. I think he'd work here depending upon what we wanted to do (e.g. a more Arena/Bradley style 4-4-2 empty bucket). He's got a shot. His possession is decent, his defense is decent. Maybe he's degraded and too pricey, but in theory I like the guy.

 

If you opt out like Maund has, can you still re-negotiate with your current club? It seems that's what Rosales did at Vancouver. I thought all clubs would have to wait until a player is not taken in stage 2 before free-for-all renegotiations could take place.

 

I think that's essentially the reason for opting out. He probably didn't announce that he was opting out until arrangements had already been completed with RSL, or at least until a number was agreed upon.


<Edit> This is from RSL's Twitter feed:

Global Premier Mgmt @GlobalPremMgmt · 2h2 hours ago
@Imamaundsta has opted out of Re-Entry Draft today as we negotiate a new contract with @RealSaltLake. #RSL

 

We go with nobody on this one; only 7 players taken:

Bakary Soumare to Montreal
Marvell Wynne and Sanna Nyassi to San Jose
Chandler Hoffman and Nathan Sturgis to Houston
Atiba Harris to Dallas
Josh Ford to Orlando

 

'Tiba's back to Dallas. He still hasn't played on an Eastern Conference team, as compared to Nathan Sturgis, who's going back to Houston, has moved 7 times (Harris is on his 6th), but at least got to play in Toronto for a season before going back to the West.

 

I can't stand Moffat
please, no

 

NYCFC and OCSC partnered in Brek Shea signing

"The Orlando Sentinel reported on Saturday that Orlando City SC and New York City FC made a deal before the MLS Expansion Draft earlier this month that NYCFC would not take 24-year-old United States national team hopeful Shea with the top spot in the Allocation Order.

In exchange, Orlando City promised not to take any players from Real Salt Lake during the Expansion Draft."

Fascinating. Except then couldn't they have waited and taken Grabavoy and Wingert 9th and 10th?

 

Same story from the other perspective: Orlando City leaders navigate expansion draft

They were thinking RSL player at the top of the draft, then made the deal with NYCFC re Brek Shea. "For me, it was easy because it assured us to get Brek," McDonough said. "And I knew I was going to walk away from only one Real Salt Lake player — because if I had taken someone at No. 1, one was coming off the table and [NYCFC] were taking another one — so I walked away from one RSL player for Brek Shea, and to me that was a no-brainer."

 

Huh, that is actually very very interesting. Shows there is quite the premium on RSL players, at least those that were available for the expansion draft. I can't really agree that Shea is a no-brainer over any of the RSL players that were available, in my opinion Shea is a one-dimensional player who doesn't have the work ethic or discipline to be anything other than a marginal MLS player and fringe USMNT player. I really don't know what all the hype is with that guy, he reminds me of Kenny Cooper, the potential is there to be something really good.....but the player head and style don't fit the physical attributes.

 

Also, I can't imagine Brek Shea as a Jason Kreis player. Seems like a win for NYCFC.

 

I assume the took Ned early to see who else RSL would protect and thus adapt the rest of their choices accordingly.

 

this
which fits perfectly with the draft as wingert was taken last