Ibrahim Kante Signed

Whew! Now that they have this out of the way, they can finally work on filling that vacant SI slot....

 

With Moore out for at least a week and maybe more, I. Kante might actually see some time.

Particularly if Nicol wants to keep Noonan at midfield.

 

Kante signing on the Revs website:

http://www.revolutionsoccer.net/news/press_releases/fullStory_308.asp

At 6' 3", he's even bigger than his brother!

 

If the Revs are ever in a bench-clearing brawl, they'll have some BIG dudes around: Joseph, I. Kante, D. Kante, Brown!

 

What do you think we are playing? Hockey? Baseball? Don't you know Fotty is a gentlemen's game?

Actually, who is likely to be the next forward off the bench?
I know Noonan played forward in college as did Joseph and Heaps. Is Jason Moore able to play Forward?

George

 

I think rugby is supposed to be the "gentlemen's" game.

I wonder if the injury to Moore hastened the completion of Ibrahim Kante's contract.

 

Could be. A couple of things in Kante's favor, though:

-the lesser Moore has bounced around the league a bit and never shown himself to be anything more than an average player. He played for the injury-plagued '02 Fire and only got into 10 games, mostly as a substitute. As a comparison David Vaudreil played in 17 games, starting 14.

-I may be wrong about this but as I recall, the last few years Moore has played mostly as a flank midfielder.

-Kante has upside that Moore probably does not. He is three years younger and untested at the MLS level.

-Kante can play as a target forward, Moore cannot. We don't really have anyone on the roster who fits that description right now, unless you count Wolde.

 

From what I've heard this kid is built so big he makes Monster Matt Oko look like Johnny Torres brother. It might be fun to have him turn the tables on some of the hard men in MLS that keep taking potshots at our strikers Hey Goose, we have someone who wants to meet you-----!