Crew 2022 to '23 Off-season Roster Thread

Or is that "take a fifth"...

 

Nah, plead the fifth while consuming an eighth!

 

Do you know what a ratio is?

 

I'm fine with signing Christian Ramirez. Hopefully he comes cheap enough. Knowing us, I'm guessing he'll be on a contract closer to TAM level than the league minimum but probably nothing crazy. I could see something similar to BWP money.

As far as the players profile goes, does he score tons of goals? No. But he's not inept either. I have a feeling we're going to overpay and over commit to him but you do need someone experienced who is capable of holding down the spot in Cuchos absence. I think we're hoping JRR will get opportunities and maybe he will get the lions share of spare playing time that's available for strikers. Ramirez is just good enough of a player to push/compete with JRR for minutes. I know everyone hates it....but I honestly would rather have Kei Kamara in this spot because I know he's interested, has a good relationship with the coach, and that he's still solidly productive but c'est la vie.

 

Yep look at his stats previously obviously before Minnesota joined MLS they were way better , but 2017-2028 in 50 MLS games he had 21 goals which is way better than 1 goal every 4 games.

Perhaps you missed my point about prior to LAFC or you don’t understand ratios or you never looked up his stats ? His mls numbers are just meh since leaving Minnesota.

 

I know exactly who Christian Ramirez is. I’ve seen him play more times than you bitch about Bez’s contracts.

Minnesota was tailor made for him, he even played for them in NASL, which is why the fans love him.

He was never the starter at LAFC.

He was a sort of starter in Houston, when they sucked.

No shit his stats weren’t as good when he’s not playing every single minute for a team built around him.

He was a fine player in MLS. Is he Zlatan? No. Is he prime Josef? No. Is he Ruidiaz? No.

I don’t hate the player. I haven’t seen him since he went to Scotland, so I can’t comment on what he looks like now. If Nancy is smart enough to use him properly, and put players in positions around him to take advantage of his skill set, then he’ll be a solid backup/rotational starter. The coach at Aberdeen that brought him in was fired soon after Ramirez came. The new guy didn’t rate him as much, thus the reduced playing time.

I don’t like three years. I don’t know the salary, but Bez had a tendency to overpay. So we’ll see about that.

 

All the Crew love to @TRUJDUB21, but this comment is laugh out loud funny.

 

BTW, goals per 90 for Ramirez:

22/23 - 0.57 g/90
21/22 - 0.38 g/90
2020 - 0.27 g/90*
2019 - 0.45 g/90
2018 - 0.50 g/90
2017 - 0.53 g/90

*In 2020 he played for Houston, which finished dead last in the west.

For reference, Cucho’s had a 0.62 g/90.

0.50 g/90 is a very good ratio. That is basically Zardes’ ratio with the Crew.

 

Yep Ramirez is second fiddle to Cucho and his stats are perfectly fine for eventually ushering JRR to be the starter, not sure how much longer Cucho will be around so good to have that stopgap

 

Has JRR scored an MLS goal yet? From what I remember he looked dangerous but wasn’t extremely effective. I grant you that he is a solid prospect and I’m excited to see him get a chance to shine. But… just as we learned with Miguel Berry, consistency isn’t guaranteed.
I think Ramirez will be who we wanted BWP and Hurtado to be. A solid backup.

 

It’s like some people didn’t learn the lesson of Berry. It’s great we have Crew 2 guys coming through. They looked decent in small samples sizes. Other than Sands, none of them got consistent minutes. To count on all of them to hit is foolish. We need some guys with experience, though I’d prefer they weren’t all 30+ on multiyear deals.

 

Berry wasn’t a league MVP

 

JRR was MVP of a developmental league - a league which the first year the Capybaras just outclassed everyone top to bottom. Not sure how that will translate to a team where he is not the focal point and a league where he is not even close to being the best.

I hope he turns out to be great too but he will need to show he can score first before he gets handed the reins

 

Great, give him minutes. He should not be a locked in #2 at such an important position though, he’s proven nothing in MLS.

 

His ‘appearances’ this year are mainly sub appearances, not full games.

I posted his goals per 90 a few posts back, that’s more accurate.

 

Ironically, I'll be in Edinburgh this week and I have have tickets for the Aberdeen vs Hearts match. I was interested in potentially seeing Ramirez play, then the rumors started flying. My Scottish friend, who is a huge Aberdeen supporter, said Ramirez hasn't got on well with the new manager, Jim Goodwin, and he thanked me for The Crew deciding to take him off their roster. He also said the supporter's knives are out for the new manager. Ramirez is still listed on the Aberdeen roster. He came on in the 99th min. today in a league cup match vs. Rangers, was that his final curtain call at Aberdeen?

 

You think he can play 90m 34 games ?
In Minnesota he was young and in his prime cmon man

his goals per 90 went up as a sub but I’m not impressed whatsoever and we both agree on the 3 year part

 

No, and he probably won’t start. We’ll play mainly 3-4-2-1, or ya know what, Nancy might actually be extremely flexible and play multiple formations. He might do things he never tried in Montreal. Maybe he looks at his personnel and adapts his tactics to that, and not the other way around.

Not everyone is a rigid asshat like Porter.

Ramirez is a backup / rotation guy, not a starter.

We need a backup, we signed a backup. Contract sucks, but the player should be fine, unless he’s completely fallen off.

I don’t watch Aberdeen, and neither do you, so we can’t really say for a while if this was a good move or not, so how about ya just settle down.

 

I CANT settle down becsuse I think Bez made bad moves with Molino & Nagbe and that Ramirez might be a similar move. Hard to see without knowing contract details but if it’s 3 guaranteed years like Molino than it’s evident he is a bad GM

 

Would that be the same Darlington Nagbe who was the Crew representative to.the All Star Game in 2022? If you think Nagbe isn't still one of Columbus' two or three best players then you don't know shit about soccer.

As for Molino, I just don't have the strength to explain it all.again.

 

I don’t give a shit about mls all star games.

Nagbe is a good player he is a tam level player he should be just under DP. But the guy wants to be in Columbus there is no reason he couldn’t take a small pay cut to get under the exception to be bought down. Exercising the contract is foolish it shows Bez doesn’t get it . We have a rich owner but we make moves recently like we are done spending big ( he even said don’t expect another DP)

It’s sad and nothing you can say about it looked good at the time yada yada

Molino contract is horrendous no sugar coating can make that bitter pill sweet. Idgaf about what talking heads said “ at the time “ because at the time we didn’t know how bad the contract details were and we offered more years that’s how we got him over Minnesota. It was a risky move and a bad one and you can’t rewrite history.

1yr deal or 2yr deal where we had a option to make it essentially 1yr would be acceptable risk. Bez should not get the benefit of the doubt going forward , quite the opposite!