Tesho Akindele and Maxi Urruti both traded to other MLS clubs for ham sandwiches. Any chance the club buys anybody before a new coach is announced?
Tesho and Maxi have been sold. The proceeds are being used to bring a striker out of retirement that will automatically tally more goals than the two sold. Presenting....... ABE THOMPSON!
Non-Expansion Draft news: Told that Maxi Urruti's salary, which was $780k in 2018, will rise to $1.2 million in 2019 and $1.4 million in 2020. Changes the calculus of his trade to Montreal, who sent $75,000 in TAM and a first-rounder to Dallas for the Argentine.— Sam Stejskal (@samstejskal) December 11, 2018 I gotta say that if this is true, that makes the deal look pretty good from FCD's point of view, even if they're still paying part of Maxi's salary. And this has nothing to do with the Hunts' lack of willingness to open up their wallet. If I had more money than Jeff Bezos and owned this team, I wouldn't pay that much to Maxi. I'm not even sure that he's really merited what he's gotten the last two years.
Cinncy takes Lamah. A useful player but one without a real position and at too high a salary. Dude knew how to score though. Has he ever played off forward?
they traded Victor. holy F'ing Hell sized S-balls. While you're at it, why don't you go piss on the Cotton Bowl, take a dump in Oscar's yard and kick both of Bobby Rhine's mini-me look-a-like sons in the shins? He was the leader in the locker room, by a Preston Road mile. I'm bitter, and unhappy about it.
I keep seeing this but I haven’t seen confirmation. Got any more info on what Ulloa was traded for, or just a solid rumor for right now? FCC had some head scratchers today. Overall I am indifferent to Lamah leaving.
It was a Tenorio report earlier today, but he's been right about literally everything he's spit out in the last few weeks.
Well, all signs (as of Tuesday night) point to Luchi Gonzalez as our new head coach. This ought to be interesting. I just hope that the learning curve isn't too steep, too fast. Managing teenagers is different than working with $1M players (haha) and players with families and mortgages. Luchi may have some personality and an idea of what to do with this rebuild period, like switch to a 1 man holding-mid: If the Ulloa (potential) trade worries you... I mentioned on our latest podcast that Luchi's teams usually play with just 1 holding mid & not 2. So moving a holding mid should not come as a big surprise to all of us.Servania or Hayes may be looking at a lot of PT next season.— 3rd Degree (@3rdDegreeNet) December 11, 2018 http://3rddegree.podiant.co/ I found an interesting Meet the Gonzalez family piece from a blog called Swirl Nation, about multiracial families. It looks like an interview/questionnaire filled out by his wife, Amal Gonzalez. In it, she says: "There is a lot of racism in the Latin culture. It isn’t covert racism. It is in your face and somewhat accepted. I remember I decided to work out while my husband trained with a Uruguayan coach. I was running and my husband told the coach I was really fast. The coach made a joke that I needed to be, so I could run away from the cops." Could she be talking about Fernando Clavijo? Clavijo and Gonzalez go back all the way to Miami FC days where Clavijo was an assistant and later a coach...
Meh, you could see the Ulloa departure a mile away. Ulloa and Gruezo are basically the same player, but Gruezo is the better of the 2. So Gruezo stays, Ulloa goes .
Acosta gone in midseason. Now Maxi and Lamah gone. By my count that's about 1/3 of our 2018 goals (17 / 52) gone. I'm sure Badji will step up and score enough so we don't miss those guys. I believe I detect the not-so-pleasant smell of a rebuilding year coming.
In other news, Jahmir Hyka of San Jose is available in the Waiver Draft. We could pick him up just so he doesn't score 2 goals per season against us, though I'd hope we'd pay him significantly less than the $500k he got last season.
Yeah, anyone not expecting a stink fest in 2019 is not living in reality. Then again, this is MLS, so who knows?
It's going to depend on how good the kids are. If Pomykal can replicate his LW form from the U-20s that would help. If Aránguiz can open up a defense from the #10. If Servania can be that progressive #8 with some offensive bite or Hayes is let loose further forward like he used to in college. No one should expect everything to go right or this team to beat down people but a new system and a new coaching voice with a bunch of hungry kids determined to show they're good enough...a Cinderella story isn't out of the question.
This right here. I don't want to dump on Ulloa and I'm sure he's a great person who has obviously carved himself out a good career but as a player he wasn't special and replicated Gruezo, except not as good. I'm happy he's landed on a team that could use his experience and will hopefully give him a chance to continue starting. Personally I would have much rather have seen Hayes or Servania in his spot and it seems like that is the plan if the new Acosta doesn't arrive.
Man, you guys who are fine to see Vic go have no clue his importance in the locker room. He was the team leader, by a mile. This on a team, after him, devoid of leaders.
Leader whose teams fell apart down the stretch consistently. His moving on also allows others to begin to use their voices in the locker room.
Also, here's our current XI:Gonzalez Cannon-hedges-ziegler-PedrosoGruezo-HayesBarrios-Aranguiz-MosqueraBadjiI'm still looking at a top 5 defense in MLS, and an attack on par with what FCD has offered in the past 2 seasons.This doesn't even come close to blowing things up— Jose Antonio Carmona (@ElChicoCarmona) December 12, 2018 Didn't feel like rewriting the whole thing