At this point using money or cap space to salvage this season is probably a lost cause. I think we need to start looking in the other direction and see if any MLS contenders want to offer up decent young players in exchange for Shalrie, Reis, a 'glue guy' like Phelan for the bench, or trick them into thinking the Gambians are any good and could provide spark off the bench, etc. The focus in the next two transfer windows should be bringing in a young core of players with room for growth, to meld with what should be another top-3 draft pick next year and the couple of good young players we have. They don't' have to be world beaters but they should be able to possess and pass the ball, and should have upside and ability to work together. Signing an aging DP is not going to do anything for this team but maybe lower our draft pick.
Several Gold Cup standouts looking to join MLS Zelaya looked really good from what I saw. I wonder if any team has a discovery claim out on him yet. We need to start taking some risks on these CONCACAF players instead of the 34 year old Euro leftovers.
Yeah, I agree. I was watching the Panama - El Salvador match last night and thinking to myself, " Zelaya or Tejada would be a good fit for the Rev's"
What's the difference between being 3rd from the bottom, or absolutely on the bottom? Maybe if we trade Shalrie to a contender and he wins an MLS Cup he can come back and bring the trophy to Foxboro, like Ray Bourque
Totally agree...although to properly rebuild, Shalrie should have been traded 18 months ago. The Revs could have had 2-3 quality starters out of such a deal....now, his value is not nearly as high. Either rebuild or don't, but putting tape in places doesn't get it done and SJ just gets older and less valuable
This is exactly what they'll do. Expect another oft-injured attacking player on his way down this summer so that we can try to "make the playoffs again" and be able to blame our season on being "derailed by injuries." The big question is, will two straight years of missing the playoffs - which is basically inevitable at this point - change their philosophy? Patching up the squad with band-aids and asking Nicol to boot-ball his way into a playoff spot isn't working anymore.
He showed up overweight and got canned after a week or so. He was having personal problems at the time and actually broke down and cried after they cut him. Looks like he got himself turned around. But I wouldn't get any players who are fixtures on their (non-US) CONCACAF national teams for all the games they'll miss--why not just get a Brazilian or Argentine if you want to go that route? Anyway--it really doesn't matter, because without fully committed ownership, success in MLS 2.0 is going to be almost impossible. Even if they get a DP, it will probably be yet another 30-something who will fall apart physically and then they'll say "see, DPs aren't worth it", etc. The FO always uses its own incompetence--from marketing to player evaluation--as an excuse to spend even less on the "soccer product."
Years later I still remember how much I hated the Bourque thing - I know it was well-intentioned, but ugh. Anyway, I'm all for dealing Shalrie at this point, because he's honestly a part of the problem with this team now, on-field. Other than his strength/run-making on set pieces, his skills are in free-fall right now. All season he's been slow to the ball, losing balls (something he almost never did) and his pass accuracy is almost totally gone. It's too bad NYRB pulled the Tchani trade with DeRo in Toronto instead of Joseph, because I'd love to have taken that deal now. Maybe revisit Houston and see if the Revs can get one of Davis/Cameron/Bruin for him. This team needs to be run through Benny until we lose him back to Europe, and surrounding him with MLS veterans of similar age is the way to go.
Was Diaz Arce the only Salvadoran to date to play with this franchise? Zelaya would be cool to aquire but seemingly everyone is interested in him and his rights belong to Leon FC of Mexico so he ain't coming cheap. I say NE take a look at other players on that ES squad like Jaime Alas, Shawn Martin or Edwin Sanchez.
The English Messi could probably do a hell of a lot better than any of our midfielders. Hell, I'd take Jovanovic, Poulsen, and more of the Liverpool dross for the Revs, assuming they wouldn't mind making annually what they used to in a week...
One of the ancillary benefits of Kraft selling to NESV (would never happen) is the free transfers of this kind of player from Merseyside to Foxboro. Moving Cole out of Liverpool would be like moving a very short entry from the Encyclopedia to the Dictionary, and increasing the average length of both.
http://dunord.blogspot.com/ DaMarcus Beasley has signed with Puebla in Mexico. -Puebla has also signed Portuguese attacker Nuno Gomes. Gomes to Mexico seems odd to me. Oh well you can cross him off the list.
Lazio are pursuing him and reports say that they are offering a 3 year contract. So, don't hold your breath unless you think the Revs can outbid them, which they can't and won't.
French newspaper Le Parisien has apparently reported today that Cissé has agreed to a four-year deal with Lazio, the transfer fee being 5 million Euro ($7.2 million) while his base salary not counting bonuses and incentives is $1.7 million Euro ($2.5 million).
They should sign me: I'm past my prime, wouldn't cost them much, have a strike rate comparable to our current forwards and I have a long history of getting injured.
Nah, that's no good. The Revolution are looking for a guy who has those four qualities, but in a different order.