I don't see this as being the case. I think trading a Colin Clark, Weaver, possibly Camargo type player could be worth it from what I remember of Toja.
We can ignore everything you wrote after this, because this is perhaps the least knowledgeable soccer statement I've ever read on here. And there have been some whoppers! If you think OBG is weak on defense, you're clueless. He may not be making power tackles all over the field, but he IS all over the field... interrupting play, breaking up passing lanes, redirecting opponents attacks. It's no accident that Brad Davis has been more active in the last ten games than he has been in the past two entire seasons! Boniek's defense has been at least as good as his offense.
Couldn't agree more. With CCL and national team duty we need even more depth at that position....or this team of ours will get burned for quite a few goals out of schedule exhaustion and inexperience.
I'm not so sure. BB, Taylor, Hainault, and Sturgis isnt too bad. We could add another speedier back though, since taylor is the only one who qualifies currently.
FYI Boniek was at fault again on marking a midfielder coming in on the scored goal. I love his work rate, vision, technical ability but he needs to become more responsible.
And once again you're missing the big picture. You can certainly argue that it was Boniek's man who scored the goal, but that's not why the goal was scored. If you watch the replay it is clear that the Dynamo offsides trap failed. The entire back line stayed in position, while the Toronto players moved. Andre Hainault responded too late when he realized what had happened. There were three Toronto players who could have scored that goal, and a fourth coming through who might have made a play on some sort of rebound. It wasn't specficially Boniek's failure, or his "weakness," as a defender that allowed the goal. It was a team defensive failure.
Giles Barnes? According to Ortiz, he's getting a look with the Dynamo this week. Wikipedia says he's a midfielder/winger with some interesting experience in England. Anyone know anything beyond the Wikipedia info about him? Seen him play? (His contract apparently ran out in May, so I believe he was was out of contact during our last transfer window, which I think means an MLS team could still sign him.)
I know who he is. I though Everton was going to try to pick him up on a free this period, but maybe not. He certainly has the talent to start in MLS, even as a young guy, but a few things to keep in mind. He was out 18 months with an ACL tear and has just now rounded into form so it will be a question mark. I am not sure where he would slot for our team right now. Doesn't seem to be an immediate need in a 4-4-2, but I suppose he could replace Kandji or Carr in a 4-3-3.
Barnes could sub in for Carr, who is declining in form right now, or if he works out eventually start there. Kandji is still useful and I'm hoping he starts feeding the ball to Bruin and Carr better. He's too good to waste his talent by not playing his position to the max--it's not all about scoring, but helping others score.
Is Camargo's contract guaranteed? He seems like a candidate to get cut at his salary and lack of playing time.
Unknown and depends on his agent. He isn't locked into a guaranteed deal after only two years but with foreign acquisitions it is possibly he is on one...at least for each year he makes the squad.
Hey now, http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/artic...eveals-dynamo-close-signing-english-mf-barnes Interesting to see what terms will be like. We've got a bunch of midfielders
Camargo and Ching are out for next season. We don't have Cameron's salary anymore but we have gained a full year of Boniek and Rico and possibly Barnes. We need to get ride of players. I'm guessing Colin Clark is also out.
We do, but we really don't have anyone who I feel confident with in our critical midfield roles. The rotation of Clark and Moffat at holding mid is solid, but were Carr, Kandji, Davis, or Boniek to go down we'd be taking a step back to the next player in those roles. If Barnes can competently fill in at some or all of those spots and offer some technical and/or attacking ability, which as a former English international not named Milner is almost a given, he could be a really great signing.
It sounds as if Dom wants to bring him into the team to fight for the starting CAM role or Calen or Kandji's spot. Boniek and Davis rule the wings, and Camargo was supposed to be our go-to CAM, but he just hasn't been this season. And since this guy can also play on the wings, he's really another Boniek, positionally speaking. So you'll probably see him as primarily a CAM, but also filling in and switching around the midfield with the other guys. It's pretty awesome the midfield that Dom is assembling... when you think about it, with 3 guys that can play either outside or in the middle (Davis, Boniek, Barnes) you've got a completely rotational and fluid midfield when they're all 3 playing together. That is HELL for the opposing team's midfield.
From everything I've read about him, it seems like a great signing. There's the injury concern, but it looks like he's been playing healthy for a while. I'm still a bit curious why he'd make a move to MLS now. I saw some reporting that English clubs were still interested in him. If he can play a central attacking mid role, that may be the final missing piece. I agree that Camargo hasn't really worked out in that role. But I've never understood why Dom wanted to take a defensive mid from a two defensive mid system and try to make him into an attacking mid. Be that as it may, Barnes may finally fill that role. Another forward should still be on the shopping list, but I think we can go forward this season with what we have. But I wouldn't be surprised to see a trade before the upcoming deadline. If not, I would be surprised if we don't bring in another significant forward in the off-season. But for this year, I think we still needed one more attacking player. I'm pleasantly a bit surprised that we found a guy who may be a quality attacking mid.
If we couldn't sign Rico until the Cameron deal was finalized because of money I don't see how we could sign this guy without trading somebody, unless he's just really cheap, which is doubtful.
Good point. And there seems to be some chatter around the league (NER, SKC, etc.) about potential moves.
The only possibility would be if we got some allocation money from the Cameron sale but IIRC Canetti said that we couldn't use it until 2013.
Clark is likely a 200kish salary. We don't have the cap space for a 200kish salary on top of Cameron's salary. But with Clark in and Cameron out they likely are in the same ballpark cost wise. Leaving us the same amount of cap space the team had prior to Clark's signing which I thought was in then 150kish range. (from previous discussions ...I think it was troutseth or someone who looked at the numbers in more detail).
At this point we get down to the nitty gritty on cap space which is impossible to predict precisely. We don't NEED 200k to sign a DP. I would expect we have about 130K. HOWEVER, we may have gotten a bit of the allocation money from Cameron (the rest comes next year believe), so we could have enough to sign a DP (remember half season DP count less). *** On that note, Ortiz needs to learn the damn rules before making comments - he is an friggin reporter*** My best guess is that we MAY make a trade for a small amount of cap space if this deal goes through.