DC acquires Jerson Monteiro from the Fire for a conditional 2008 pick. RSL gets Yura Movsisyan and a YI spot through the 2009 season for a partial Adu allocation and two picks (2009 3rd round and 1st round supplemental).
Thank god for the MLS deadline, I'm sick of hearing about a trade every 3 hours. If MLS was smart, they'd institute trade windows rather than just a season ending deadline.
That's not very exciting to see . . . Monteiro was worse than bringing back John from his barista duties at the local Starbucks? Wow.
Curious that KC would give up on Yura this late in the season with so little time to replace him. I'd a thought he'd have been a nice assett for a playoff team to have.
While Yura is welcome and a nice addition to a team looking to build for next year (young, goal scoring forwards in Yura and Robbie Findley? Nice . . . ), the YI is key for RSL, which had only one before now. Long reason why - well, in short, because of trading permanent YI slots for rights to crap players like Adolfo Gregorio. Does this make three pretty sweet deals in a row for RSL? Chris Klein for Robbie Findley and Nathan Sturgis - check. Mehdi Ballouchy for Kyle Beckerman - check. 3rd in 2009, 1st supplemental in 2009, partial Adu allocation for Yura and YI slot - check. Given that Jeff Cunningham for Alecko Eskandarian and cash led in part to the signing of the new trio of Argentines, maybe that's four pretty savvy deals. Huh!
That ensures that we get into the playoffs..... Heaven forbid we sign someone who can put the ball in the net.....
I see a ridiculous amount of promise in Yura, and RSL as a whole is looking promising for next season. Granted they've got quite a bit of fixing up still needed, but if their prospects fall into place they'll at least have a high octane offense to close out this season and on into next year.
it's amazing what getting rid of incompetant people can do for an organization. things are looking up in salt lake, and i wish you guys the best now that that hack ellinger has jumped ship.
I think it had more to do with us having 5 or 6 forwards, and no proper right midfielders. Now, though, we have 4/5 forwards and John Thorrington.
So it only took 4 deals and 2/3 of a season to field a competitive lineup? yup, savvy is the word or maybe "competent"
I'm really impressed with what RSL is doing. And the only new person in management is Kreis, right? Talk about a good hire.
I can understand why DCU and RSL would make these deals (both get guys who were drafted very high, are still young, RSL is building for the future and doesn't have a lot of attacking talent, DCU could use a reserve forward and had a developmental slot open). But why would Chicago and KC make those deals? Chicago I see--just a little bit. They add John Thorrington. Okay, their team isn't real strong on right outside mids (well, actually, their team has none but there's a good question as to whether Thorrington, especially an out of work Thorrington would qualify). But Thorrington? If he's the answer, do we really want to know what the question was? They basically gave away the #8 pick in this year's draft to add Thorrington. Think of it this way--if at the time of the Superdraft, Thorrington's rights had been owned by say....Columbus....and Chicago traded the #8 pick in the draft for those rights (in order to sign him), we'd all be talking about how Chicago got scamed. Regardless of what you think of Monteiro, Thorrington isn't worth sacrificing a lot to get. But the other thing is that KC has been sliding in the playoff picture and Chicago is still on the cusp. So you figure each of these teams would be looking to add something (even if it's only small) which might make the difference in 1-2 games (which could have immense playoff positioning implications--especially for Chicago). Maybe, just maybe, you can argue that adding Thorrington qualifies. But trading Movsisyan for future stuff? These are basically the sort of deals that, to me, ignore the realities of where each of these teams is/are at present. This is kind of like a baseball team in a pennant race, with the possibility of not making the playoffs, just sneaking in, or getting in on a strong finish and the team, instead of trading a marginal prospect or cash for a role player or aging veteran instead trade one of their top 30 players and then crow about how they got a good draft pick for the next year of "future considerations."
With Scott Sealy returning to form, Movsisyan was expendable for the Wizards - for this season. We weren't adequately compensated for his potential, but he wasn't going to make the difference in 2007. The best rationale I can come up with for this deal is that Curt Onalfo is going to take the allocation dollars from this deal and from Eddie Johnson's inevitable departure and do some South American shopping in the offseason. KC has some frontline players who are nearing the end of their careers, and perhaps it's time to reload.