Lester saying that we're in negotiations with Ceren, Cabezas and Figueroa. I can understand Cabezas and Figueroa back on smaller salaries, but why on earth do we want Ceren back at any price? I'd re-sign Eric Bird or literally any RGVFC midfielder over him.
Yeah, I'd definitely move on from Ceren. As for Cabezas, it would have to be a huge paycut for me to consider bringing him back after two years of non-stop injuries.
why would you want back AJ or garcia either? and even figueroa basically ran out of gas by summer. i also didn't understanding optioning everyone but mac memo ramirez.
i think if you moved certain forwards back or sold one or both the big dogs and replaced them with good mids, that gets those 2 lines to a decent place. but that defense is horrific.
Hopefully Tab has actual common sense and knows Garcia is absolute trash. Dude had no business being in MLS, but because we were hot garbage he looked decent.
i think tab played a role in valentin (his U20) coming and big joe going. that feels like fresh thinking. but quioto was on thin ice already, cabrera is impact, quintero was an obsession before he arrived and i assume the balance are -- and they feel in quality like -- jordan decisions. if the budget is tiny and most of the personnel decisions are by the personnel guy, and the personnel guy is clueless, the coach is set up to fail. the people who spoke of the tripod and how we needed more money and another GM, not just a coach, are right. at minimum, you need more legs of the chair not wobbling so much. to me ramos could be a genius and he would be crippled by this backline under contract so far. based on who we have signed and cut so far this feels with few exceptions like personnel business as usual and that tab's player horse sense will only come in after he is committed to a lot of junk.
i think you could make an interesting offense by selling a forward or two and buying creative mids. you would perhaps offset the downgrades at forward with unlocking more forward play through the 10(s). but the defense would suck and so would a forward bench of salazar and pena and mac, which would kill your comeback-ability. the shift from younger to older forwards would also limit the window for the team. in a year or two the minnesota xerox will get too old and you would need a new set.
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019...llion-swoop-chivas-mexico-striker-alan-pulido The other perennial bottom-dwellers in the West seem to be making moves. Vancouver with Schuster and now Almeyda might have convinced San Jose to open their purse strings. These are not good signs for us.
Hey now, don't denigrate our plan to Minnesota United south with Ramirez, Quintero and indications we want Miguel Ibarra in re-entry.
This is eerily reminiscent of 2015 when Jordan except replace Minnesota with Philly. We've dodged the second/third division Spaniards so far, but the off-season is young.
it does have a 15-16 feel to me. p*ss poor defense and our focus seems to have shifted from the honduras pipeline -- which was what briefly gave this thing some life -- back to scrapeing the MLS barrel for leftovers. a team made of the players others don't want is a ticket to table bottom. an "Alex" among the recruits may surprise but on the whole a team picking leftovers will be B team level competitive, in an A team league. what got us out of that rut was making some bets on young foreign talent from honduras and colombia and such. that's a wild card where you can maybe get A team types on the cheap.
No Dynamo selections in Stage 1. That's pretty normal for them, prefer to wait until Stage 2 when they can negotiate a new contract with any player they select rather than picking them up on their current contract.
https://www.kansascity.com/sports/mls/sporting-kc/article237816809.html There's another below-the-line team committing to additional spending versus "more of the same" offered up by Brener et. al.
Hey...we're sticking by our values and making sure we rep the city rather than throw money away on just anybody. At least I heard Jordan say something along those lines.
setting aside the degree of naive hope about the sporting product i see on next season, bluntly, have they changed/spent enough to change the minds of ticket buyers? the effort i have seen is preaching to a shrinking choir. even if ramos worked magic the attendance would lag months because a rational fan looking at this effort would be skeptical.
This is a Dionna Widder thing. When I spoke to her months ago she was promoting "My CIty - My Team' and ignoring my recommendation that money needs to be spent on improving the team and not on improving amenities. It's one of those "(insert name of team here) Till I DIe" things that will never work here because there is not enough history of passing a team down from great grandfather to grandfather to father to son. They speak of "Core Values" and "Stategic Plan" - well we know the strategic plan is to spend as little of ownership money above the MLS Cap as possible. The "Core Values" I actually found in a pirated Houston Dynamo FO Policies and Procedures Manual. Core Values "A term used to describe a non disclosed set of guiding principles and attributes required before any potential signing that would require the use of ownership money for either a transfer fee or salary above the MLS cap. One of the attributes of a potential player is that their employment would not require use of ownership money for either the transfer fee or salary above the MLS Cap"
We already knew everything we needed to about the Dynamo willingness to spend when the Harden investment wasn't an injection of capital. If you wanted to spend on the team, you'd have structured that as injection of capital into the organization. When that became return on capital to the investors, the overall intent of ownership was made pretty clear.
The sad thing is that I think it's apparent that Ramos knows where the problems are and is trying to address them, but has one hand tied behind his back due to lack of funds and the other hand by having Jordan as GM. I know that this is negative, but I'm afraid not only that this team is going to be left in the dust by the likes of LAFC/Seattle, but also is about to be passed by perennial basement dwelling teams like the Caps and Earthquakes.
When the “Circle of Suck” guy who blames the fans for not supporting the club wins some type of Dynamo sales reward . . And attendance is significantly down . . . What does that say? http://mobile.twitter.com/JayAdelberg/status/1199795149225771008
What does that say you ask Westie? Well I just typed "Sales Award Winner" into Google translate, with the setting of Houston Dynamo Front Office English dialect translated to just plain ol' American English dialect. The result that Google translate populated on my screen was odd, it returned with "Premio del Pinche Cabron".
Dynamo passed on Stage 2 of the Re-Entry Draft. They will have some deals to make over the winter to fill up the starting spots on the roster.