Trading Away the Future? http://sports.yahoo.com/mls/news/mlsdraft.html Jamie Trecker drivel? Notes from Article: Two things are virtually certain at Friday's MLS SuperDraft: Teams won't be drafting goalkeepers in the first round and D.C. United will trade its No. 1 pick. After that, it's anyone's guess. On Wednesday, D.C. acquired U.S. National team standout Earnest Stewart on a free transfer from Dutch side NAC Breda in a move that all but assures United will trade their top pick. Team sources have indicated it will go to a Western Conference team for a midfield player. There also is speculation that the top overall pick could be involved in a complex three-way swap that will see D.C. take a defender from a third team for relief in the back since Ivan McKinley is out for the season with a ruptured Achilles tendon. The Chicago Fire hold the third pick and could swap 36-year-old Hristo Stoitchkov, a player for whom United already are clearing locker space. But sources with both teams confirm that D.C. will trade the No. 5 pick instead as Chicago has to move Stoitchkov for cap reasons.
Frightening Draft Article No, Congress isn't reinstituing the draft...At least one journalist, Jamie Trecker, believes it a forgone conclusion that DC will trade its #1 pick and then follow that up by trading the #5 to Chicago for Stoichkov. Curses! This is not good news. This is not the way I would have expected the draft to go. There's alot about this article that smells of BS. I'd be interested to know what some of the folks monitoring the combine think of this report...it seems way off base considering everything else I've read about the combine and strategies going into the draft. http://sports.yahoo.com/mls/news/mlsdraft.html
I don't believe a word this guy writes until I see it somewhere else. #5 for Stoichkov would be an awful move though.
Sorry mods, please don't kill me! Please attach this to the "Trading Away Our Future" Thread created at about the same time as this one...
Every once in awhile I read the latest article by Grahame Jones and think that he is the most god-awful soccer writer in the US. Then I read something like this article for Jamie Trecker and I realize that Jones has to work hard at keeping his title. I think it's a lot more likely that I start at forward for United than for little Trecker to know what he's writing about.
1. Trecker also said United was talking to Tyson Nunez. Yet if that was so, we wouldn't have been resolving matters with Stewart at the same time (b/c we came to agreement with him and only then did he start talking turkey with the league). 2. Kasper has said that it is almost a lock that we keep #1 and #5. And that is said in the same breathe that everyone acknowledges that Stoichkov is likely coming here "later." The pieces don't fit.
This Trecker drivel is as ridiculous as the fire Hudson thread of a few days ago. However, if #5 is traded for Stoitchkov then I'm on the fire Hudsper bandwagon.
There's a big difference between old Trecker and young Trecker. That's why I wonder about the Nunez blurb by the old and good Trecker. I can imagine a very plausible scenerio between DCU and Nunez: 1) Nunez is released and Unikted approaches him. Nunez says something like, "A million bucks a year!" United tries to explain the salary cap and how maybe they can work a deal with incentives and a definite raise next year. Nunez, thinking that once the Euro transfer market opens up, he can get a much better deal, tells United to take a hike. A month later 2) The transfer market approaches and opens and Nunez finds out whet the rest of us know: It's a bear market out there, especially for guys without a Euro passport. He gets no nibbles. Nothing. Nada. He's still unemployed- "This is ridiculous!," he and his agent think. But there's nothing there for Tyson except poor old DCU/MLS. 3) Nunez gives Hudson a call last week, saying he's willing to talk.... My mind can actually imagine this and so I can see that what old Trecker wrote is possible. Doesn't mean that we will sign Tyson, but it's now possible again. Actually if DCU were to actually sign Nunez and pair him up front with Stewart, I could imagine Hudson completely changing his draft strategy: Drafting Escandarian first no longer is no longer a priority and maybe some of the trade offers all of a sudden look much more enticing. But United has to sign Nunez first. That's a big IF.
Well, in that case, I can play this game. He's an idiot, no doubt about it. Plus, the dude would really benefit from a good editor, a spell checker (in the fourth paragraph he manages to mispell Dallas) and a writing coach to boot. I guess I was giving him some credibility because of his dad. I won't make that mistake again!
Jamie Trecker - smoking dope again..... This guy is unbelievable.. Some of the stuff he spews is moronic at times.. The trend continues.... http://sports.yahoo.com/mls/news/mlsdraft.html
If Ray Hudson trades the #5 pick in the draft for Hristo Stoitchkov, he should be fired on the spot. Just my opinion.
What is this! The third thread someone has started on this article! I'm merging it into the old one and I'll change the title of that thread to make things more obvious.
Actually, Skip, I think Jamie Trecker make Jones look distinctly amateur in the Worst Soccer Journalist competition. Trading the #1 pick for a player we can use now is something I can live with...but you all knew that.
The difference is that, on occasion, Mike Segroves can make me laugh. Trecker just makes my pancreas hurt.
Another example of the very poor reporting in this article. Trekker says Noonan is a P-40 player. He has lots of conjecture and a very poor grasp of the facts. One wonders whether he was even at the combine.
In Treckers world United would also look to create cap space by trading Convey, Olsen and Quaranta for 5th and 6th round picks. That way the players we got back would be cheap and keep us away from the cap problems we are in.
This may have been the worst Jamie Trecker article I've ever read. Is there any way I can get a refund on the 3 mintues I wasted reading it?