YNT-eligible MLS players: 2019/2020 Offseason thread

Very unexpected move for Gio at this point in his career!

 

HA. My mistake. Yea, not sure Dortmund to MLS is a way to advance your career. Claudio Reyna is now running things in Austin.

 

Make that Claudio, not Gio. Hopefully Gio stays in Europe until he retires with Champions League titles, High Finishes in the WC and an EPL or Bundesliga Title.

 

Especially when he would be selecting the players instead of being one. Would lose out on formative development.

 

The five kids over there are Pepi, Roberts, Cerrillo, Rodriguez, and Reynolds.

Hearing that aside from Bayern, 3 other German teams have come in and scouted the FCD kids in Munich: St Pauli, Hamburg SV, and Stuttgart.

— 3rd Degree (@3rdDegreeNet) November 22, 2019

The staff is over there as well. [That's the Bayern coach Hans Flick.]

Luchi and Andre at Bayern (via FCD Instagram) pic.twitter.com/SSHn0BHihc

— 3rd Degree (@3rdDegreeNet) November 22, 2019

 

By the way, Pepi appears to be in a boot.....……………….(don't what that first pick was supposed to be.)

Another look. pic.twitter.com/59bYckm9qC

— 3rd Degree (@3rdDegreeNet) November 23, 2019

Also, love this:

Jesus Ferriera played with FCD 01 Premier from age 7 to 12 when he was promoted to the New U13 FCD pre-academy team. He won a National DA title at U16 and U19. Won a Dallas Cup Supergroup trophy. Signed a MLS pro contract at age 16. He’s the SAME age as the 01 Premier players! pic.twitter.com/Q2a8txBHvl

— FC Dallas 01B Premier (@FCD01BPREMIER) November 23, 2019

 

DC United announced their options decisions after everyone else. Antonio Bustamante's option was declined.

Every thread eligible player that had their option declined will go through the end-of-year waivers process at 3 pm eastern on Monday.

 

Sebastian Saucedo seemed to indicate on Instagram a month ago that he would be leaving RSL.

 

DC United is a terribly run club. They were playing a kid they were about to sign to a HG deal out of position in USL for half the season to accommodate a player they were about to release. At the time, you could've given the club the benefit of the doubt and said one player was on the books at the first team and the other wasn't, but given what they did with their end of season transactions, it makes them look like a terribly run club.

 

It makes them look like? They ARE a terribly run club.

 

You watched them plenty more than I did this year but I watched a few of the games and when I went to one of the Loudoun games and I got the impression they played him deep so he wouldn’t get crushed by the grown men. I mean I’m not saying you’re wrong but I felt like there was some merit to that idea, because compared to the people played he really was tiny, my girlfriend thought he was a ball boy playing a joke by standing on the pitch before the game. Also even as the 6 he was a trivela I mean that’s basically a 10, he was tasked with almost nothing defensively. But I will say there was very little point in playing Bustamante at the 10 he’s the kind of player that I think if he creates a career in soccer it will probably be at fullback.

 

The below are from an international break friendly with Bayern Munich II against the Augsburg first team. Bryan Reynolds started while Edwin Cerrillo and Thomas Roberts came off the bench.

 

Atencio signed a USL deal with Tacoma last off season.

 

Don't you think a player would face more of a challenge as a holding midfielder than a central attacking midfielder? More headers to contest for, more challenges you need to put in, more defending to do. While I agree that Nyeman wasn't tasked as playing a destroyer style #6 role, nor do I think he's capable of that in a professional game, there's still a lot more defending to be done in that role than a double 10 role or a lone 10 role (DC either played a 4-3-3 with a 6 and two 10's or a 4-2-3-1 with two 6's and a lone 10 every game).

 

I know that. Do you think he's going to be content on a USL deal for this season?

 

I wasn't sure you knew as you said he's too good to go to college and that ship has already sailed. IDK what the Sounders plans are with these young players. They have made mention they want them to, perhaps, go on loans or sell them. Hopefully, they can move some of these kids when they are old enough. The )@ will be 18 soon. They rejected a move for Sam Rogers to Standard Liege as they valued him more than what SL was offering. IDK how good Rogers is other than he's been to some camps and SL offered something. They could have signed him when Torres went out for 10 games but didn't. So I don't know what their plan is.

 

I don’t think you’re wrong, I’m not sure what the best thing to do is I’m no pro coach. Mostly I just don’t think he’d play the 10 if Bustamante wasn’t there for that team.

 

'97 US U23 and Orlando City F Benji Michel is currently in training with Club Athletico Paranaense of the Brazilian Serie A. Earlier this year Orlando sent Pierre da Silva on loan to them, so we'll see if the same happens with Michel.

— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) November 20, 2019

H/T @Balerion in Yanks Abroad

Cole Bassett will (or has) be spending a week training with the Arsenal U-23s.

The Denver Post article as includes the following (I know Freiburg's Bassett interest was reported previously):
"Last winter Bassett and Sam Vines trained with Freiburg of the German Bundesliga. Freiburg eventually offered a transfer on each, which spurred other offers for the young local duo."

 

Gray signs with NYCFC. Listed at 5'11. FIFA listed him at 5'8 about two months ago. I said at the time that those measurements were wrong.

"I'm a Bronx kid."

Welcome to the First Team, Tayvon!

📰➡️ https://t.co/WYxMJjWl74 #NYCFC pic.twitter.com/JhMQJfCNM8

— New York City FC (@newyorkcityfc) November 26, 2019

 

I would expect Andres Jasson to get a deal soon as well. Both need a USL club as the DA is below their level like Sands was at this point.

 

They are going to need to make Scally, Sands, Haak and Gray work with one pro team this season. Gray may spend most of the season with the U-19’s (partly because of the other three), but you have to think the other three are first team players, and all defensive types that fill similar positions this upcoming season.

Sands will likely play, but they cannot have another season where Scally and Haak don’t get any professional minutes.

 

Scally is already sold, so at least part of the logjam will work itself out after next season.

 

Yes, and we've just been told that Sands might move as well ...

 

They are adding a USL team in 2021, so the logjam will be this season. After that, the players who are down the pecking order can be playing regularly in the reserves instead of U-19’s. Sands could also be gone after another season. He might be gone before another full season is up.