YNT-eligible MLS players: 2017/18 offseason thread

How many players can mls stockpile on the bench for us to gripe about this year.

 

Let's just change the thread to YNT eligible Central and South American signings this offseason. They'll be lots of activity, at least!

 

Recent feature on Pax. One the more intriguing roster questions this off-season is how FCD sets up competition in central midfield. And do they see Pax as a #8 or a #10. Problem is that they have Diaz and Acosta in those positions. So hopefully Pax enters spring camp as a primary bench option and in full rotation.

 

Very important news: https://www.fourfourtwo.com/us/feat...urce=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_m_medium=t

So under this proposal, teams would keep 100% of the transfer revenue for HG players, and would increase the current 650K cap on allocation money. This increases incentives to develop and sell HGPs.

 

FC Dallas' Youngest Players Seizing Opportunity to Get Ahead on 2018 in Offseason Training
https://www.fcdallas.com/post/2017/...opportunity-get-ahead-2018-offseason-training

 

Great step in the right direction.

 

Ben Mines likely to be next Red Bulls’ homegrown signing: https://t.co/8nuFRWrHm1

 

Just a thought about the latest USMNT roster and homegrown/MLS academies. There aren't as many former academy/homegrown players as one would hope, and they're clustered at mostly New York and Dallas (6 of the 8). That's not totally surprising, but one would hope for breadth there. [Also partly due to the ongoing MLS playoffs, but not really. Trapp, Morris, but not many others there.] This is supposed to be a young and experimental roster, and MLS should be able to offer more. Just my 2 cents.

DCU (Bill Hamid)
FC Dallas (Gonzalez, Acosta, McKennie)
NYRB (Miazga, Adams, Agudelo)
Seattle (Yedlin)

 

Tbf, my biggest gripe with this roster is no Danilo Acosta and no Glad. I think a lot of people share that feeling too. So there’s others who should be or could be here.

 

I'm OK without Acosta. I thought he was good, and an excellent prospect given that he just turned 20 yesterday, but I never thought he was one of the best LBs in the league. I'd have liked to see him if the roster was heavy on potential, but for a 21 man roster, there are other LBs that are ahead of him.

Glad I don't get, because he actually was one of the best CBs in the league. I can't fathom why Tim Ream got called in over him.

 

Don't you know that mediocre experience in a meaningless friendly matters more than actual talent on the field?

 

I think the idea of Ream is that he is a good locker room guy that can help the younger CBs. Can’t have ONLY prospects in a camp.

 

I came here to post exactly this.

From that video, I can't discern much. He seems to make good runs and has a good build, also seems to be a striker, but thats all I can take from that. I've read good things about this guy, but haven't seen much myself. Has anyone seen much of Mines who could comment on what type of player he is?

 

I haven't seen much, but he's always been around as the next Red Bulls guy (Tyler Adams said so a few months ago as well). He's more of a second striker, and is just the level of guy that NYRB can turn into something useful that the rest of the league seems incapable of doing (think Muyl).

I'm surprised all of the footage is from a single youth game, but I guess that's what Eskilson had to work with. Mines has scored a couple USL goals and has more than enough minutes to work with. If he's signed to a homegrown contract, I'd assume his minutes distribution will be similar to Adams last year, with a couple run outs in MLS and cementing his place on NYRBII.

 

Everybody is with you on Glad. With three other young/youngish CBs called in with CCV/Miazga/Brooks (all U24), I think the staff just wanted a veteran option for the rotation. Ream also provides depth at LB if needed.

Both Glad and EPB will get an opportunity moving forward.

Another young CB thought.......................Orlando finally did what @ussoccer97531 has been demanding for years They've declined their option on Seb Hines. Hopefully that means Redding moves one step up in the rotation in terms of minutes.

Notable declined options:

Barnes
Barry
Carrasco (siren)
Hines
Nocerino
Powers (siren)
Saunders https://t.co/VtOUfSYP9S

— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) November 7, 2017

 

Redding needs a consistent starting role, he's ready for it, that was a smart decision. He's fallen behind these other three, but he's still an MLS starter level player for next season, and I think we underrate him because we are comparing him to these other three.

 

3 months is right around when preseason starts, 4 months right around when the season starts. As long as there are no problems, he should be fine, can't be used as an excuse to not give him regular minutes next season.

 

still too early to speculate on minutes for Ferreira next season. He’s still only 16 by the way. It’s Cannon and Pomykal that need minutes ASAP.

FCD has CCL games early next year before the MLS season. I expect is perhaps out of those. Yes. It’s inane that FCD is only then in the CCL for winning the SS in 2016. It puts FCD in a weird spot. They kinda need to start over, but they also want to give the CCL their best shot.

 

Is there an LA Galaxy Post Mortem thread?

 

More FCD info from their post-season training camp....................
Lots of youngsters with academy players filling holes in the scrimmage.

The return of Buzz’s Practice Report is maybe the only good thing to happen to FCD’s 2017, and this one is stocked https://t.co/JDsSpWERcj

— 3rd Degree (@3rdDegreeNet) November 10, 2017

Gray Team
Maxi Urruti
Ryan Hollingshead Mauro Diaz Bryan Reynolds
Chris Cappis Jacori Hayes
Alex Bautista Rula Holland Matt Hedges Reggie Cannon
Seth Wilson

Orange Team

Tesho Akindele Cristian Coleman
Roland Lamah Paxton Pomykal
Diego Pareja Edwin Cerrillo
Julian Hinojosa Chris Richards Walker Zimmerman Adonijah Reid
Carlos Avilez

Some comments from Buzz

Bryan Reynolds is a Grown Ass Man (trademark Eddie Johnson). He's such an immense physical presence. Big, fast, powerful, intimidating, but with some skills on the ball. He really wants to go at people. He was almost never in FCD camp last season, I expect a significant contribution next year.

Reggie Cannon is ready to take the next step. I'll be shocked if he isn't the right back for all of next season.

He also speaks highly of both Cappis and Chris Richards. One will notd the absence of Coy Craft........................

Worth noting that Pareja mentions these are players under contract for 2018. It doesn't mean guys not there aren't going to be re-signed.

One other thing, Dan Hant went on a Facebook Live chat with fans and talked about a commitment to playing young Americans again.

“Who we are is a team that plays our young, American players and we’re going to get back to that.” - @DanHuntFCD mentioning it might not always be starts, but the #PlayYourKids model is coming back in a big way

— Carter Baum (@CarterBaum) November 9, 2017

 

Seth Wilson is an '02 keeper. I mentioned him yesterday in the Nike Friendlies thread. He's 6'3 already, he was called up to the practice instead of Collodi, might be that Collodi couldn't play, but Collodi's an '01 YNT player, so if he has, thats rather impressive. He probably doesn't have much relevance to this thread yet, but could in a year or two.

Interesting that he mentioned they are looking at 5 or 6 academy kids for the first team roster. Richards, Cappis, Padilla, Toledo, Roberts, Almaguer could be among those names, IMO.