MLSsoccer.com is reporting that Chilean outlets are reporting that the Dynamo are close to signing 25yo Chilean defender Jose Bizama. Bizama currently plays for a mid-level Chilean Primera team Huachipato. Bizama had 3 international caps last year presumedly in smaller games where the European contingent was not called in. Transfermarkt has his value at 475k Euros, which is about $533k. Someone has already updated Wikipedia to show that he is now a Dynamo. Bizama is central defender who also plays Right back. He is 5'11" 165#. If he pans out he could be a good depth addition at places we need depth or even an upgrade at right back. The following is summarized from wikipedia: Huachipata are the Steelers. Formed by a steel company in 1947. If you remember that Matias Vera came from O'Henry in the same league, a team birthed by a mining company in a mining town, you can see that the Dynamo have advanced along the chain of production to a manufacturer. Huachipata plays in Talcahuano, a coastal town of 151k population in South Central Chile. Stadium hold 11k. Huachapita last won a championship in 2012, the 2nd in their history. From what I can tell they played in Copa Sudamerica one time in 2014 winning two rounds before losing to Sao Paulo of Brasil.
Interesting. I'm not against it, but where does he play. Struna and Fig are as solid as a pair that we've seen in almost 8 years.
By "signature Matt Jordan signing" is referring to Adam Lundqvist or Pena or Elis/Quioto. Or just "obscure Central or South American player at a position we seem to have decent players at"? Looks like another signature Matt Jordan signing, we should find out which resources the Dynamo used to get him. Rumored transfer fee is between $300k to $800k which I am taking with a grain of salt since MJ is probably the king of Soccer Moneyball— Foxtrot (@DynamicFoxtrot) July 5, 2019
Cool let’s see how it works out. I just imagine the Dynamo looking in the bargain bid at the Dollar store while the teams with real ambition are over shopping at the high end stores
Chile needed a right back today versus Argentina! Or a level headed player for La Roja at least. He should be given a chance to earn starting role at our right back. Wonder if he can play left back as well?
.@HoustonDynamo complete acquisition of Chilean international DF José Bizama from @Huachipato on a full transfer. Deal is done pending medical clearance. Expect official team announcement in the next few hours.— Lester Grötsch🇩🇪🇪🇺🇨🇭🇨🇷 (@LesterDeportes) July 9, 2019
Hopefully this guy can come in a make an immediate impact. Kiki and Fig have been a serious god sent this year. Noone expected them to be as good as they have been and I love them in the center. Lundi has work to do and if he can come and take the RB position from AJ then it will be a good look for them to stop leaking goals. The big problem isn't the defense, it's the mid field, but lets hope they are going to address it. With Elis and Manotas possibly on the way out, we will need to be aggressive... something we are not known for in the transfer market
It's rare that the Dynamo have actually given a mid-season acquisition any material playing time until the follow year. Even rarer that mid-season acquisitions have had much of an impact for the Dynamo during that first half season.
i think the recent defense, without figueroa but with struna, looked pedestrian again, with all that implies. i think fuenmayor looks like a glacial bust this season, and garcia regressed too. i think it would be typical dynamo to start to work on everywhere but where you may be about to lose key players. let's go ahead and burn tools and cash on role players before the pivotal decisions that we would then have to fix to salvage the season. case anyone hasn't noticed we are now 7th and 1 point across the line. so that we have to trade someone else we like to get back the tools we spent to fill the hole(s) we will soon create. you could probably say this anyway, but if he is signed as a RB there is zero point to duvall anymore. even if the idea is for this guy to apprentice dlg through the season's end, we don't need a veteran salary third string behind veteran salary starter and backup at a position where the current options suck. i think we should fix forward first, but it would also be typical of recent years to sign someone not to use until 2020. need help now, dlg unimpressive, but he needs to study film and watch games and learn how dlg sucks before he can be elevated up properly. fwiw kinnear in the early years used to routinely bring in ngwenya or dalglish to fill the last hole on the team. some fan favorite would get the ax. we don't have those cajones anymore. we have to go through some lengthy chingbeasley ritual of letting the occupant decide when to retire as the boat sinks, and we're a half year or year committed to the replacement when they get their minutes. that does not sound like a team with strong convictions about its efforts.
Off the top of my head, the last one was Boniek. Theres got to have been someone since then...right? Hhmmm
Nate Jaqua? 2007 Joseph Ngwenya? There were quite a few under Dom that came in during the summer and contributed down the stretch. Recently, not so much.
And Boniek was Late Dom ie the last MLS Cup team. Dom was 180 degrees the other way, probably because he was his own GM. The recruit would clear immigration and soon be on the field. And if they couldn't hack it playing his way, headed back out of town eg Koke. I think it is telling that the HC and GM are now different jobs and many of our signings sit a while when they get here....coincidence? Hmmm. Dom made his own picks and they soon played. We created the GM and the batting average probably dropped with the current occupant. "You had one job." Why on earth would you build inefficiencies and contradictions into a budget team? Other than CYA ie someone else to fire.
Dom was the King of mid-season transaction that paid off huge. They got into the squad almost immediately. Since Dom left, it's been another story. Main reason why I said HOPEFULLY. Kevin Garcia was always who we thought he was, but for some reason WC thinks putting him in the line up will make some difference.
I mean, along similar lines, I was thinking the other day as I watched Wondo, is there anything even close to that which "Academy plus RGV" has produced. That we were better served back in the reserve league days with a decent (first team) coach in charge. I used to talk up FCD's development system......before I knew McKennie and Richards came from there. But yeah my original point was that shuffling around the org chart hasn't solved any issues and probably made them worse.
We signed the Chilean guy - bought with TAM of course funded by Garner bucks instead of ownership cash TRANSACTION: The Houston Dynamo sign DF Jose Bizama from Huachipato FC in the Chilean Primera División using Targeted Allocation Money, pending receipt of his ITC and P-1 Visa.
At bare minimum I hope he soaks up the minutes that K. Garcia is getting. Maybe he can push DeLaGarza to the bench. If they know they're selling Elis and Manotas in the summer. I'd start trying to tear-down a lot of this roster because that's nail in the coffin for the 2019 season. Well managed team would take the proceeds and then go out and buy replacements, but I wouldn't be shocked if Jordan didn't make any big moves until the offseason.
How many times can you say he can play different positions? He should be replacing dlG on the field already but this likely means in practice he slides into the Fuenmayor/Garcia/Duvall backup slot for now, because we lack the courage of our convictions or the ability to admit we were wrong. Or Kinnear's ruthless willingness to blame the player and ship him back out (even if it should have reflected upon him). https://www.houstondynamo.com/post/...efender-jos-bizama-chilean-club-huachipato-fc