Chris Durkin is being traded to St. Louis for winger Jared Stroud, CB Lucas Bartlett, and $300k GAM. BREAKING: St. Louis City has agreed a deal to acquire midfielder Chris Durkin from D.C United, per sources. STL add another key DM.DC gets for winger Jared Stroud, CB Lucas Bartlett and $300k GAM. DC continue to overhaul roster. More change will come. https://t.co/7vLUr0chPz— Tom Bogert (@tombogert) December 7, 2023
half of DCU forum: Great, we got rid of that dead-weight Durkin other half of forum: Wonderful, now we get to see Chris inevitably go become a star for another team. I think any time you can get two pieces AND $$ for one piece, it can't be all bad. (assuming two said pieces are under contract)
This is good business. I think he is a decent player, but nothing more. He makes too many mistakes for my liking. I wish him the best.
At worst, this looks like upgrading roster depth and getting Garberbucks for a player that didn't have a set position going into 2024. Hope Durkin does well in St. Louis.
Wait wait wait. What happened. At some point this season, you guys were championing Durkin. He scored a couple lucky goals and it must've ********ed with some people. This winger has 6 goals in 58 appearances. So he'll fit in perfectly here. After looking these two guys up, I wonder if theyll be here after preseason.
I love this move, sheds salary, opens up a young DP slot, 300k Gam, and removes the temptation to play Durkin. Players coming back are necessary roster filler as the team is so thin.
This gets us space and funny money. Liked Durkin and cursed him. He wasn't the guy, wasn't going to be the guy. So if he succeeds elsewhere, good on him. Easy to like, works hard, good for at least on facepalm per game. We are better off in his absence with the roster spot, two players, and funny money.
This season was 5 in 31, which is just a bit off TKDP’s numbers. Could have promise, or just what happens when you are on a good team. The CB looks like strictly a depth move. Those two plus $300k is far more than I would have expected for Durkin. Hopefully he flourishes in StL!
Someone on Reddit pointed out we’re freeing up cap space too. Durkin’s U22 impact went to $250k next year, while we’re picking up $189k from those two: $103k (Stroud) + $86k (Bartlett)
After the last 2 seasons, there is no one on the roster, save Benteke and Klich (because they are DPs) that is untouchable. When the house is a mess, rip it back to the studs and rebuild.
I am not kidding when I say we will make the playoffs next year if we continue doing what needs to be done. We will absolutely make the playoffs. I haven't even seen who we are acquiring but I love it. I'm going to have to consult a physician for this 4 week boner.
The only somewhat surprising moves were retaining Canouse and Ruan. I was a bit surprised to see Eric Davis let go, but probably just because I am comparing him to Santos. Just three weeks ago, reading about these moves would have been dismissed as fanfic. Hope to keep this direction and momentum!
I have a feeling we're gonna miss "Perpetually Pessimistic Shammy" faster than we might have expected.
I like Durkin, he's serviceable. I've seen enough progress that I wouldn't have minded holding on to him for another year or two, but I think we got a good deal for his potential. Shout out to Colgate, my alma mater. Stroud looks like a solid depth piece who can hold it together through an actual starter's 8 week injury stretch. Basically quality for quality, aside from Durkin's youth. Getting a 6'3" CB with real minutes last season for no additional salary hit and $300K to boot? That's nice.
Yes, fair point. But Ted is 21 and this guy is 27. He should be in his prime. Id rather gamble on Ted and another academy player.
We still have Ted. We are dumping Cap hit, freeing up a U22 spot, lowering the salary hit and getting two players for the price of one. None of that impacts TKDP.
I didnt mean to imply I thought something was happening to Ted. Just that this Stroud guy is another average player were signing. 27 years old.
Rodriguez and Dajome, and maybe Fletcher, are the only actual WFs on the roster, as far as I can tell. Stroud's more in that mold. Ted, Hopikns and probably Santos _can_ play out there. I'm sure Ted will put some time in outside. The depth chart is really thin in places, and frankly, Hopkins and Fletcher are good for some limited minutes, but I don't think they're "8 game bandaid" quality yet. That's a lot of youth already in that corps. So really at this point, Rodriguez, Dajome, half-a-Ted and Stroud constitute the reasonable starting options for two positions with half-a-Santos, Fletcher and half-a-Hopkins in the running for late game minutes. Any thinner than that and I'm legit worried. I'm already worried about Dajome...
“CF Montreal and D.C. United have been discussing a swap of right backs Aaron Herrera and Ruan, sources say. Probably some money involved as well. MLS trade window opens Monday morning. #dcu” Goff on Threads.
Salary difference last year: Herrera $820k, Ruan $400k. That said, we also paid Najar $450k, so... we paid $850k for right back. Herrera played just 19 MLS games (16 starts) last season. Not sure what the injury situation was/is. After the Leagues Cup game against us in late July, he made just two appearances -- a start (90 mins) on 8/20 & a sub appearance (10 mins) on 10/21. All six of his caps for Guatemala took place in 2023. 2 friendlies before the Gold Cup, 4 games in the Gold Cup. His starts the prior 4 years for RSL were 25, 29, 20, 31. He broke through in 2018, making 14 starts as a rookie. He was an RSL homegrown, joining their academy in 2012. He is from Las Cruces, NM. In summer '22 RSL signed him to a contract extension through '24 with options for '25 & '26. He is 26 now; he'll turn 29 in the middle of the '26 season. He was traded from RSL to Montreal last offseason. Montreal got him, RSL received $500k GAM, sell-on fee, 2023 international roster spot, 2023 MLS SuperDraft first-round pick.