First, he shows up Marty F and Jacen McCullough, now Michael Lewis pratically quotes him verbatim..... http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/m...20p-51635c.html
You mean this article? The link didn't work for me. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more_sports/story/55120p-51635c.html
just curious.... does anybody think that balboa playing the final 5 minutes in the last game meant something contractually.... ie...there was a clause in his contract that if he doesn't play at all, he'd lose something substantial..... just curious....cause at that point, i believe we knew were out of the playoffs and there was really no point in playing him.....
Well by dropping Williams and Paule we have basically no midfield. Can anyone tell me who is gonna play Midfield for the metros this year? So what if we get a interanatonal playmaker. Where are the wing players(Davis,Villegas gone) You really want to start Lisi? And whose gonna play Left Midifield? I don't think our midfield was the problem last year. The suspect defense and every cahnging mix of strikers was the problem. Bradkey needs to really strike gold when the transfer window closes next week. Our Midfield is a mess!
Right now our team will probably look like this ---Mathis----Moreno----Magee--- ------------------Clark-------------- ---Williams-----------------Lisi--- ------------------Moore------------- Ziadie/Addo---Pope-----Jolley--- ------------------Howard------------ Not Bad. If Lisi doesn't work out (but im sure he will) we could put in Gaven. Or we can pull Magee back into Midfield and have both Ziadie and Addo in the defence.
Partizan! A Midfield of Ricardo Clark,Jeff Moore,Mark Lisi and Richie Williams is very suspect and below MLS standards. If Bardley can sign a central playmaker and get an effective winger then he can justify his moves. Our defense is better w/Eddie Pope and Our strikeforce could be the league's best(Mathis & Moreno) But our Midfield which is the engine of the team needs alot of work.
Would you all stop trying to project COMPLETE lineups? It's a meaningless exercise at this point. We know Bradley's after a central mid. Uh, think he might start? We also know there are voids on both sides of the midfield. Those voids will be filled differently if we play a five-man midfield than if we play a 4-4-2. There's a little thing called "spring training" when I'm sure the coach will be looking at a number of players, including recent draftees and hold-overs like Ziadie and Lisi. We've got a supplemental draft coming up. We've got discoveries. It's not like we released Andy and Ross and Marcelo and now will have to play with call-ups from the North Jersey Imperials. It's freaking January 28th! Patience, everyone.
Dude, not just you, but people are projecting that Craig Ziadie is going to be an attacking midfielder, then writing, "Man we're gonna suck." What's the use of bitching about something you KNOW isn't goin to be the case. At least Marty is wondering "Who's gonna play here, who's gonna play there?" I can deal with that. But looking at the current roster and saying, "Man our midfield is the worst in the league." I just don't get it. We don't have a midfield right now. Think the coach is unaware of that? Think the first game is going to happen and he's going to look at his roster and say, "Holy S...!!!!! We have no midfield!!! Where's Andy? Where's Ross?" At least discuss the plan of attack, what you think is the way to go...trying to write out a lineup card based on the current roster...and then saying, "We suck..." it's just dumb.
Bob Bradley knows the MLS like nobody. He is the guy who developed the likes of Josh Wolf, DeMarcus Beasley, Evan Whitfield etc. With waiver drafts, Transfer prosepects Bradley can pick up some midfield help. With the MLS teams trimming salary you can pickup some good players in the waiver draft, how about Braeden Cloutier- I always that he was good for SanJose, he is a wide player, if we can get him for cheap we should grab him!
"No disrespect to Andy," MetroStars GM Nick Sakiewicz said. "What Bob has in mind isn't what Andy did for us last year." A question for Bob Bradley....did you watch any of the Metros games last year? I guess we don't need someone who was arguably the team MVP last season. So, who does he have in mind to take his place? One of the umpteenth 17 year olds we drafted?
Actually, I think Bob's intending on playing a 4-3-2, and basically just leaving that spot on the field open. I guess some of you just insist on ignoring things like the salary cap, etc. Bob wants some new players who will cost decent money. Therefore you cannot keep some players who earn decent cash. You cannot keep Andy Williams and just add another similar salary...for the love of god.
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I have faith in Bob Bradley, but even he has to deal with the salary cap. This is a source of concern: "With the 23-year-old Howard's signing - he also had a signing bonus in the neighborhood of $80,000, sources said - the MetroStars have little room to maneuver under the $1.7 million cap. They are about $300,000 under, sources said." How many players are on the roster now? I don't know off hand, but we must have a lot of open slots. $300k doesn't seem like much to work with. Edit: If I'm counting correctly, we have 15 people on mlsnet.com's roster plus four p-40's. Do we have three spots to fill, or are the non-p40 rosters bigger than 18?
I agree with what Chungy said in an earlier intereview - #10s are obsolete. Especially with Clint, assuming he's back the way he was in 2000. he doesn't need any #10. But bob bradly wants one and he had to toss out a lot of middle income players to make room for another max salary player. I think Andy was one of the best of the mid income players. Plus he was the last rev player from that big trade last year.
Chungy is always right. Way to go Chungy! Not sure if Andy is great. He is no Chungy. I mean, Andy is very very good, I'll have him on my team any day, but of course only if Chungy is on that team too. My dream is to see them play together, Andy and Chungy, Chungy and Andy...
Chung was right. A #10 is not necessary when your team has two of the best wingmids in the league and two international level holding mids who can play both ways. Most teams don't have that luxury. With Bradley's history, he tends to like the opposite- Attacking through the center while the wings do a lot of the defensive dirty work. As for the salaries moved, if the Spanish player comes in, and IF he's all he's been made out to be, I'll be thrilled with the movement. I said from the beginning that we should only dump Williams if we had a viable replacement and I stand by that. I still think Williams is a very good player, and would love to get him back at a reduced salary. I never thought anyone would get Beasley to play defense, and Bradley turned him into one of the best defending wingers in the league. I'm curious to see if Bradley could do the same with Williams.
I see most of you assuming Mathis will play at forward, I think he is best as attacking midfielder just behind two forwards, he has a good shot and can penetrate from his midfield spot . If you have 3 forwards you need a very good central midfielder to organize and distribute, one guy realy since the midfield now will have just 3 players not 4 . To bad they don't play 3-5-2 . Here the wings would have to do a lot of work going up the wings when the team is attacking, and going down the wings when defending, but you would have all bases covered , practicly playing with 5 defenders, 5 midfielders and 4 forwards
Really curious why you thought this. What was it based on? How much had you seen of DaMarcus before he stepped foot on the field for the Fire in 2000? It's my opinion that Bradley deserves no credit here. The kid's a competitor who sees the game well on both sides of the ball.
No, I hadn't seen alot of Beasley pre-Fire, but the early part of his career reminded me quite a bit of Davis but with more speed. Beasley seemed way too concerned with pulling the impressive move and getting into the offense than he did in defending (this was back when all the announcers were incessantly calling him Jitterbug). He was a good player, but he seemed to rely on his speed too much, and didn't focus too well on the defensive half of the field. Every season after, his defense seemed to improve. Whether that's motivation by the player or impact of the coach I don't know, but I would assume that Beasley was a motivated player before Bradley, and the defense wasn't there. After Bradley, his D improved dramatically.
It was pure MLS theatrics. What a coincidence! He recovers from injury in time to play five perfectly safe minutes in a meaningless match for the greater honor and glory of the Metro! Spare me. Macelo (there's no "Rocky" in our) Balboa was paid for the express purpose of sitting on our bench and doing PR appearances. It was all part of his retirement package. The five minutes was to prevent the whole charade from being patently characterized as the thoroughgoing fraud that it was from the outset.