I just think we can do better but if the money is low it’s a great deal and by money i mean salary cap hit
No if your paying that much money get better if we only pay a part of his salary (more concern with the cap hit than Haslams pockets or our Gam account )
Yall love to take stuff way out of context and run with it. Not what i meant at all i never said anything like this nor did I imply it.
Azerbijan source and an Orlando city aggregator also posting 🚨 🇦🇿 Nariman Akhundzada is heading to MLS. Deal agreed with Columbus Crew 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/PJggb9O0tR— failed (@unnamedbutalone) February 8, 2026
Well dang! I'll weigh in on this one. I know nothing of the deal, and my only knowledge of Mr. Nariman is only what I've found on-line over the past hour or so. I was very pleasantly surprised. I like the looks of this kid. Big and strong. 6'1" with broad shoulders. But, with quick, ballet slipper feet. He looks fast, but maybe more significantly, his strength seems to give him excellent burst. He plays with moxie. I love the "90". Shows a lot of composure and lots of good finishes. There are a ton of excellent goals that he has been a part of for such a young age. He can dribble, hold and create his own shot. He demonstrates good vision with some very nice team work, passing and through balls. He doesn't need much time to unleash a quick bomb. And he can create his own shot. He's good in tight spaces. Interestingly, I think I only saw one header. Hmmmm. Another JRR in the air? Dunno. I hope not. And of course time will tell what the MLS transition will be like. I also saw where a weakness was listed as "concentration." Hmmm again.... Not sure what that means, but it certainly has the potential to trump everything else. LOL. Anyway, I'm excited. Adding size and strength with an ability to give us teeth in a jammed up box sounds lovely to me. It's been a shortcoming. We may have a couple of guys now who can help open things up when teams bunker us. I'm very anxious to see this new team.
I of course dont have any idea if its the same thing, but FWIW I recall back.when Guillermo was still relatively new in Columbus and interviewer asked him how professional soccer here differed from back in Argentina. One of the things he mentioned was that in the US the players don't " concentrate". People took this to mean that they were all running around out there thinking about cooze or the stock market or something when they should have been focusing on the game. A couple days later they trotted him back out to explain that, in South America and other places as well, the players got to.the locker room 6 or 8 hours before the match and spent the time getting close and becoming cohesive. It wasnt required by management, it was just something serious players did. Like I said, I surely dont know but I wonder if thats what is being referred to here.
I wonder if playing on the national team with Zelarayan factored into the Crew's interest in Akhundzada or (the other way around) in Akhundzada's interest in the Crew.
With all due respect, its next to impossible to figure out the Balkans, who hates who, who slaughtered who, who was in league with Heinrich Himmler, who rapes whose women and roasts their babies on spits, on and on and on. Its not really even national, its tribal and Im not sure how even they can keep.it straight. And thats before you toss in the Turks and Greeks, who hate each other so much that even a Lets party and dance and drink and f*ck and to hell with it place like Greece can work up a bunch of anger. Its baffling.
And, throw in the Albanians, and their Muslim allies in Kosovo, who have declared independence from Serbia, while the Serbs have pretty much carved out Serb-majority enclaves in Muslim-majority Bosnia and Herzegovina. And Greece hates Macedonia for using the name “Macedonia” so they call themselves “North Macedonia.” The ironic thing is that Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro all speak the same language (Serbo-Croatian), but the individual “countries” (read:ethnic groups) call theirs Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. Of all the parts of the old Yugoslavia, Slovenia got off easy.
Certainly did. My Slovenian-American grandmother used to share her opinion that the Serbs were ‘dirty.’ Hard to imagine her opinions were based on lived experience.