November 26 is the deadline by which the crew have to inform MLS whether it’s exercising option years.
You can technically sign any player you want at any time, but they can't be registered and move to your club until the next transfer window. The transfer window is really a registration window.
We might have seen max play his last game in black and gold. Tristan brown needs to play but cant see him ready for 34 games
New coach, maybe new GM, so who knows. If we do get someone like Courtois, I think he would play Brown, he probably knows his well from the academy pipeline. Also, if Courtois specifically is hired, everyone get ready for former MLSNP MVP Jacen Russell-Rowe to have a secure spot on the roster lol.
He has played in Darlington's spot before, and we can figure it out. You know what I mean. Darlington himself was a winger early in his career, and it isn't as if our team plays strictly by the traditional positions either. If we had 2 central mids who were more attack minded, they would platoon between them to work defense depending upon the flow of the game. And if we back up the truck for him, he could possibly come back, who knows. Stranger things have happened. But i forgot, you slobber the ********ing knobs of Euro footy constantly.
He's just entering his prime and will be a $15 million player by next summer. He would be stupid to come back to MLS now. He'll get paid a lot more in Europe. He'll also have a better chance of starting or playing regularly for the MNT by staying over there. If he comes back to Columbus, it won't be for another 5+ years when he's past the prime of his career.
Except he'll want DP money or close to it, and apparently he hasn't been nearly as good since his head injury. He's a dude whose main attribute has been his physicality, and players like that usually don't age well. He's 32, turning 33 in May. I'd pass, considering the wages he probably wants.
Seeming that you typically defend Tall’s choices with ardent passion I’m not gonna put much on your opinion in this thread.
You do all you can to keep great players. Marshall was a GREAT MLS defender. Sigi obviously thought differently. I will ride with Sigi on this one. Plus, it wasn't like a knee, where even if he's back, he could be diminished. If he's there, he's still Chad. Anyway, IDK if Zimmerman fits Nancy's system in terms ofcplaying out of the back. But IDK if Nancy is gonna be here, either.
No one said Marshall wasn't a great defender. The issue was that he had a lot of concussions and it was feared that he was just one away from ending his career--as had recently (at the time) happened to Paule. And, he was almost 30. Thankfully, for him, he never took that last hit.
No argument from me. I still think Chad Marshall is the greatest Crew player of all time. But... Are you serious with this? You don't consider repeated concussions to be an injury that can affect on-field ability? This is one of the dumber things I've read in a long time. I know you're trying to make a point here, that the Crew made the wrong call by giving up on him. And with retrospect, you could be right. Although it's hard to play the alternate universe game. For all we know, we could have kept him and his career could have ended on the next header. But acting like the Crew just got rid of him for no reason is lame.
My son Mookie, who I seem to be talking about way too much today, got a knock in the head about 15 minutes into a game in college. Trainer cleared.him, he finished the game and had no recollection of any of it. Not the hit, not a bit of the game. Nothing. Concussions are very weird and very scary.
When I was in elementary school, I was at the public pool swimming in the deep end when they closed the diving boards. A friend of mine didn't see me under the water and jumped in while I was swimming in his direction underwater and we directly knocked heads. It sent me for a massive loop - I was struggling to stay afloat and get to the side. Didn't seem to affect my friend at all. I, on the other hand, think that's the day my life changed. Shortly after that, I stopped caring about school. I was straight A student up to that point. Eventually, the following year, I failed reading because I didn't want to do the workbook homework. My "give a damn" literally broke. Caused a LOT of friction with my mom, who taught in the school I attended for 37 years. I never told my folks about the noggin-on-noggin collision, but as I got older and learned more about them from incidental reading and now from focused research, I'm certain I had a pretty serious concussion that went un-treated. My personality changed a lot after that incident.