I'd guess the deal is likely still on. Probably just that Lester was supposed to wait a bit longer to announce. Possible that Parker just hadn't been informed yet or something of that nature.
Disculpas por la confusión relacionada a mi tweet sobre el canje de @Tim_Parker26 al @houstondynamo. Hubo un imprevisto entre los equipos el cual hubo que aclarar previo a oficializarlo. Esto no es nada fuera de lo común. Se espera que el canje, ahora sí, sea oficializado hoy.— Lester Grötsch🇩🇪🇪🇺🇨🇭🇨🇷 (@LesterDeportes) January 19, 2021
my conspiracy theory would be you have ramos inked for this season with mastro and vazquez on the bench, if we are later displeased, one of them ascends to HC and the other is the "john spencer" lead assistant with reserve team responsibility if that comes to pass in 22....... personally i think 433 is a horrible idea for a cheapskate franchise -- you will always be outspent and outgunned while shifting resources to the offense and away from defending other 433 attacks. even if the other team is as defensively careless as us they will almost without fail have spent more on offense. the odds don't favor success. to me if we ever go anyplace without spending it's we shift to a 451 like mastro did in colorado. you negate the spending side of the opposition with team defense then play for the proverbial one goal. if we want to compete 433 we have to spend like we are fighting sides buying vela or messi or the like.
Got our "top priority". Looks like no DP replacements for Elis or Manotas. They did make some decent interleague moves for once so I guess they can wait until the summer and see how the new line up shakes out. Plus with financial losses due to COVID and an unknown 2021 season as far as attendance is concerned, I am not surprised they are not spending DP money. From Matt Jordan in the press release:"Adding Tim Parker addresses our top priority this offseason of strengthening the center of our defense while getting younger, more athletic and bringing a top quality leader into our group." https://t.co/DuDxK2Of0e— Corey Roepken (@RipSports) January 19, 2021
i like parker but he is slow as molasses and usually the compliment to someone like waston, long, or collin. we should go out and get someone mobile but will probably resign figueroa at which point you have 4 immobile center backs a la boswell and hinault. but the 2011 club had some mix of sarkodie freeman palmer chabala taylor wide at various times that year. valentin and lundkvist are not good wide cover like that. they should try junqua or perhaps even vera wide. personally i would get someone other than figueroa because he can't last half a season. but he's playing for peanuts which i am sure is endlessly enticing. if you do get figueroa we need a backup CB better than fuenmayor. so you really need to sign or trade for two people. maybe a draft pick that's good enough. maybe a trade or signing. there have been no indications mccue is ready or even handling USL yet.
$1 million on allocation money would be nuts unless we win MLS Cup. But since we won’t spend real cash we have to overpay with Garber Bucks Houston Dynamo are receiving center back Tim Parker in exchange for $450k guaranteed, with up to $1m based on performance incentives. #HoldItDown #RBNY pic.twitter.com/VpSMRK6MgM— MLS NETWORK (@mlsnetwork) January 20, 2021
well at least they made a bigger acquisition at a place of need and a solid player, not a flyer on a Scandinavian league guy and a Bundesliga 2 washout
$450k isn't bad at all. I would like to know what incentives are included in the $600k. It probably includes a mix of number of appearances, post season awards, playoff appearances, and maybe how far they make a run in the playoffs. Aside from number of appearances, the team would happily pay more if he helps us in the postseason. There might be an incentive too if we sell him in the future as well.
This is the rare Jordan pick-up where I'm actually pleased going in. Can't think of the last move he did that I was really happy with. If we weren't locked into the 4-3-3 and had someone besides Lundkvist for the leftback position, I'd actually be rather optimistic that the defense would improve. They still obviously have moves to do with CBs though because as it stands you have Fuenmayor, Parker and crickets. The only other options are McCue and whoever you care to convert into a CB (Junqua or Bizama I guess?). If I had more optimism about our youth role I'd think that McCue might be given a chance here to compete with Fuenmayor for that starting role and to be the off the bench guy, but I don't see it happening. I really don't expect most of the academy youth to be retained in Houston in 2021, either playing with the reserve league or being shipped out to USL. Lemoine is probably the only one I would expect to stick (not counting Memo here, who isn't really youth at this point).
Various SuperDraft Big boards: https://sbisoccer.com/2021/01/sbi-2021-mls-draft-big-board-version-2-0 https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2021...redicting-wholl-be-taken-round-1-travis-clark https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/2021-mls-mock-draft:-version-10_aid48890 https://bleacherreport.com/articles...st-round-predictions-and-full-selection-order Barring a Jordan special, we're probably looking at either Daniel Pereira (M, Virginia Tech) or a CB.. Nabi Kibunguchy (UC Davis), Ethan Bartlow, (Washington), Josh Bauer (New Hampshire) and Aime Mabika (Kentucky) all seem to be rated fairly equally. Pereira and Bartlow are Generation Adidas. Pereira also would take an international slot, but at least by my count for once this shouldn't be an issue. Mabika is a big guy at 6'6''. Can't really say much about anyone else.
Houston Dynamo FC appoint ex-USMNT assistant Martin Vasquez as assistant coach https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2021/01/19/houston-dynamo-fc-appoint-ex-usmnt-assistant-martin-vasquez-assistant-coach FC Dallas and Houston Dynamo FC: Youth movement begins https://mlsmultiplex.com/2021/01/19/fc-dallas-houston-dynamo-fc-youth-movement/
On our new assistant Coach Martin Vasquez, there is this incredible side note to his playing career. He is one of only two players to have featured for both the United States and Mexico, he has served as a coach since retiring, most recently with the United States. On new signee Pasher: Houston Dynamo FC has closely scouted Pasher during the past year. Houston General Manager Matt Jordan describes Pasher’s concentration and natural left-footed as making him a good fit for the Dynamo system. While not predicting when he’d be ready to start, head coach Tab Ramos said he envisions Pasher increasing Houston’s chances on the attacking third of the pitch. Like the scouting reports on FC Dallas’ Vargas, the sheets on Pasher rave about his speed and physical promise. He also gets good marks on the attack and technical skills that support Ramos’s summary.
McCue has played 7 times in 2 years in USL. RGV have done no better than tie -- and often lost -- every one of those games. On those stats I would be worried about my RGV roster slot, much less helping out here. I think people have said he was injured but the point would be we don't have any objective signals he's ready to help. Using the Memo template I am not sure why on those numbers he isn't on a USL deal. Put someone on the senior team who you might possibly consider playing here. When you're short bodies at a spot and no one is like, oh, you haven't seen him down there, he's awesome, this is his opportunity........this is a sign. If the idea is he's a "body type" project, should have let him go to college and then snapped him up if/when he filled out and showed well. Otherwise I don't get a teenage HGP signing taking up first team roster room that in practice you sit in the minors.
"First team signings/trades" (ie people intended to actually play) -- Parker 27 Fafa 29 Corona 30 Pasher 26 Urruti 29 "Unclear" -- Bajamich 21 "Developmentals" -- Hoffmann 19 Castilla 16 Rios 17 So you can see where the emphasis actually is.
the slowpoke 2011 central duo would work most nights because they had wingback cover. i say most nights because while generally putting up good GA numbers against the league, LAG exposed them. wingback cover to me matters because the wingbacks aren't getting flanked and can help mop up foot speed messes. the problem is instead of being there so you can't run around "parker-plus-one," valentin and lundkvist are an additional window to go after the central backs. the theory is the backs get forward but between them they had 0g 3a last season. so you give up defense and expose the center backs for offense that doesn't concretely manifest.
Correct. The worst thing in the progress of a player that age 18-19ish is to be put on the path to first team roster and then be sent down to an affiliate team and their coach have no desire to play the kid. Or even worse, be in the local Reserve Team set up and still not get much clock. At that terrific age bracket of 17-21 a player MUST be getting a ton of minutes by his club somewhere as a starter! Neither do I partner. However, considering what was on the field for us last season, the article's writer is most likely looking to say "getting younger players" when writing about Ramos's moves recently.
Not sure if the average age for 2021 isn't higher than 2020. I did a quick look and the average age of what I expect to be starters in 2021 is about 29 years old. We lost Elis and Manotas, which were our younger guys. Replaced with Urruti and Picault who are both older. Everyone else more or less the same ages here.