Not since the departure of Jeff Biacher have I been so upset by a player leaving the team. Next season is really gonna suck. Anyone want to start pooling money for a "Fire Yallop Now!" banner. Is there anything to look foward to beside watching LD throw tantrums mid season when we find ourselves at the bottom with no way to climb out. Anyway, Good luck Wade, and finally I have a reason to follow Danish football.
You hurt him and Chrissi will have to come over there and hurt all of you. I'll miss Wade. Good luck to him and I hope he has fun. LD better behave this season b/c this will not be the season to be whining.
Not cool, nothing Frank could have done about this one. It's about the bottom line and the decisions would have been made by Johnny Moore, AEG and most importantly WADE BARRETT. He chose to sign with a foreign team instead of the MLS despite being approached by other MLS teams.
Re: Re: Goodbye Wade Well, would you rather sign for the enemy or for a someone else? Think about that.
Re: Re: Goodbye Wade Yeah, your right but keep in mind Yallop had to have a good idea what was going on with Wade plus with Graz on loan, and Cannon maybe gone as well, I would think he would have done a little better with the draft.
Do you ever feel so fustrated with things that you just want to slam your head on the desk? This sucks so bad ya'll.
The Quakes' front office is not to blame for any of this. To think so shows you are not seeing the whole business picture. At season's end, Johnny Moore outlined that there were a series of things that needed to happen. Retaining FY and Dom were the first because they needed to help make determinations about the future direction of the team. Item 2 (though certainly no less a priority) was Landon's deal. However, that was beyond the Quakes' control--they just had to hope for a favorable outcome. There are 2 truths: FY is a winning coach and MLS only allows each team so much money to spend on players per season. From what I've read, Wade and Joe (possibly Richard) really want to go play overseas...not only for bigger money but higher caliber play. Their issue transcends the monetary aspect, so there was little hope with them to begin. Graziani was pure economics...bummer. FY and JM conducted a draft to address the needs of the team in anticipation of the departures of Wade (this year-Dunivant) and possibly Landon in a couple of years (Alvarez/Levesque.) Besides, it's the league that signs the players. Be ticked off that the league isn't able to make better offers before the current ones expire.
Wade, thanks for your effort and committment to the team. Wish you best of luck with your new team and hope you continue to be in the group with the USMNT!!!
Re: Re: Re: Goodbye Wade If he stay in MLS, he would stay with the Quakes. Barrett himself wouldn't go to another team in MLS and the Quakes wouldn't trade him. He wouldn't sign with 'the enemy', Unless the "Campaign Against Terror" includes Denmark.
Well, how's this... I'm a Crew fan, and I'm still sad to see Wade go. My wife was in San Jose when the league started, and she's a huge fan of the team and Wade, and even helped him find a place to stay when he came to the team. Sure, he's been a thorn in the Crew's side... but he's been a thorn in everyone's side, and that's a credit to him as a player. Ask any other team in the league's fans... "F'n Wade Barrett kills us every time." Good luck to you, Wade... and I'm going to miss watching you work harder than anyone else on the pitch.
We've not only lost a great defender, but a great personality as well. Last year after one of the games, Wade saw that my daughter could barely see over the fence in autograph alley. He stopped and asked her if she could see and if she was enjoying herself. A few weeks later he saw her again, this time on a step ladder that we had brought. He smiled and told her he remembered her and that he could see her better this time. When I tell me people about this, they are amazed at how down-to-earth these guys are. Good bye Wade-you'll be missed.
I remember at the MLS Cup, he was saying he had ordered a pizza from room service and it never came. He said he was about to resort to digging through peoples left over food that was sitting out in the hallway, until I told him we had ordered a pizza from Dominos and he could have some of that. He was too funny though, poor guy. At the brunch later on that day, I think he got like 3 plates of food because he never got the pizza he ordered. He was a really great guy though, always stopping to talk to us that weekend. I'll definitly miss him not being a Quake but at least we will be able to see him on the Nat team
Wade is, from my experience, a very humble, soft-spoken and down-to-earth sort of guy. From my experience with Danes (spent some time in the field with Danish NATO troops in the early '80s) I think he'll fit in extremely well in Denmark. His attitude and general personality should go over extremely well there. Unfortunately, in the US the lion's share of attention tends to go to the 'flashy' athletes who are full of braggadocio, attitude and 'badness' while the competent, quiet, and hardworking guys who merely show up every day and give 100% in an uncomplaining, non-boastful manner are overlooked, and more importantly, frequently underpaid.