News: Revs signed José "Pepe" Moreno

You know, I'm not entirely sure we've seen the last of Phelan.

 

What I just noticed, and makes me hopeful, is that on the Revs website, the link is titled "Moreno adds one piece to the attacking puzzle". Im hoping thats implying that there are more pieces on the way.
Im trying real hard to be positive

 

This team just doesn't get it. Period.

It will be in St. Louis or Detroit or somewhere else in 3-4 years.

 

Oh God, if he turns into Khano II I will commit a serious felony.

 

What does "pepe" mean in Spanish? There's an ass-ton of soccer players with that nickname.

 

Pepe is short for José, as in San José, Saint Joseph, father of Jesus.

 

Burn a Color Me Badd LP?

 

Doubt it

 

Repped for a measured response.

 

Doesn't inspire confidence in their rankings, huh?

 

I'll same the same thing I said about Domi and so many others, he'll get a chance regardless of whether we want him to have it.

Yet, from my point of view, I'd like the Revs to be getting the BEST players from places like Colombia. The established stars of that league, the kids with the highest ceilings. Other MLS teams are picking up those types of players. Moreno is neither.

Ultimately he'll be what he'll be, but from where we sit right now what reasons can you give me to think that he's going to be an impact player?

 

Teams that succeed in this league and make the playoffs on a yearly basis form "cores", and a lifelong journeyman who turns 31 this summer isn't going to be a part of any Revs "core", no matter how he does this year.

The most optimistic view is that Moreno is a band-aid covering a gaping wound.

Caraglio was well-positioned to be part of a "core" going forward.

This is bigger than just Moreno, though--it's about a vision, the way TFC has it, or RSL and its efforts to keep its core intact.

If you go to the trouble to make a step-slower Shalrie a DP and keep him, then your philosophy is "win now", but then where's the financial backing to win now at other positions?

Signing Shalrie as a DP, but not bringing in a Grade-A striker with the aim of making the playoffs this year, makes no sense.

 

Nail. Hammer. Head.

My hope is that the front office sees Moreno as "Robin" rather than "Batman".

 

I don't think anyone in the Revs front office, the coach, the players. the press, the fans, the ground crew et al would disagree with you and except for the NNN's I that it's clear to all parties that making such a signing is their intention. Unfortunately, as we know from recent years experience their ability to execute such signings is highly suspect. FWIW, I see us signing another significant forward the preseason. Will he be a Grade A--DP level striker? Based on past history-- my guess would be--unlikely. Have the changes made in the organization improved their ability to execute major signings? The Jury is still out.

 

It is already time for Kraft to recognize that the front office "changes" are a failure. They need to go now so that the next window isn't wasted too. Instead, the most likely change scenario I can envision is such a huge string of poor results that Heaps is the first to go. I say "change scenario" because the most likely scenario overall is that Kraft just sits on his hands and watches another season waste away.

Unless your talking about Jamal Gay, I don't think there is another likely significant forward signing this pre-season. It really IS a BIG clue that they gave the 9 shirt to Moreno.

BTW, what is the status of the Jamal Gay rumor?

 

Talk about being premature in making an assessment

We are not even halfway through preseason, we don't yet know who will be on the roster, we don't know what/who else they have in the pipeline and have yet to play a meaningful match and your already calling what their doing a failure. Don't you think we need to wait a bit before we get out the tar and feathers?

 

I almost agree here. I know that we all want and expect Burns to fail, but he does have until opening day. All indications from Heaps and Burns point to them attempting to add more players. If they succeed, then we really have to withhold our judgement for 4 or 5 games. In terms of how this organization changes on the field, we really won't know until we know.

There's still a small (10 percent? 20 percent?) chance that they build a decently competitive roster; something to build on for the future. Saying that they've failed this off season isn't completely unreasonable, but IMO it's just a tad premature.

 

It just donned on me, we're not even playing in the same league as half the league........ just look at LA

 

I just wish my first response to player signing announcements wasn't always "who?"

 

How is it premature when it is 2/3 of the same front office that has been there for half a decade? There is plenty of evidence and a track record of failure.

 

HA!

 

Random observation here, but there's nothing on the official Once Caldas website reporting on the loan move. You figure for a player of his suggested caliber that something would be there... maybe I'm just missing it.

 

Once Caldas got Dayro "Partyboy" Moreno back from Xolos de Tijuana and are too busy celebrating that (he's a starting striker for the Colombian national team) to worry about the departure of Pepe, I imagine.

Dayro actually got an offer from MLS (per the below), but is sticking with Once Caldas until June:

http://www.charter.net/news/read.ph...ass&action=5&lang=es&_LT=UNLC_DPNWU00L5_UNEWS

 

OK, you guys are gonna love this.

The last reporting done on Pepe Moreno as an Once Caldas player said he tore/strained ("desgarro") a muscle in his right leg on January 16th and would be out twenty days, a window we're still just in.

http://www.starcomunicaciones.info/...cional&catid=37:noticias-del-blanco&Itemid=64

It also says he had to come out of the second game of the Liga Postobon final with a muscle injury and that, prior to this further muscle injury, he had been working on physical therapy to strengthen the injury.

16 de Enero de 2012

El delantero del conjunto manizaleño, José "Pepe" Moreno, que la temporada anterior logró anotar 7 goles con la camiseta del Once Caldas; sufrió este lunes una lesión muscular que le hará perderse el debut del cuadro blanco en la próxima edición de la Copa Santander Libertadores, que se cumplirá el 25 de enero en Brasil ante el Internacional de Porto Alegre.

El goleador vallecaucano sufrió esta mañana en el inicio de la segunda semana de pretemporada, un desgarro en el muslo de su pierna derecha, que como mínimo lo alejará de los terrenos de juego al menos durante los próximos 20 días. El jugador que tuvo que salir reemplazado en el juego de vuelta de la final de la Liga Postobon II el pasado 21 de diciembre a causa de una lesión muscular, recién salía del departamento de fisioterapia donde estuvo haciendo trabajos de fortalecimiento fisico en los primeros trabajos del cuadro manizaleño la semana anterior.

Now--I realize that sometimes teams and players fake "injuries" when they know they're about to be traded and no one wants a last second injury to spoil things, but certainly one has to wonder about all those games he came out of early last fall.