Total lack of ambition. Bums I tell you! Bums!! There is still more story to write ✍️ pic.twitter.com/n02dv3bnCZ— The Crew (@ColumbusCrew) October 28, 2024
The salary numbers and the cap numbers are not necessarily the same, remember. Certainly not for the DPs & U22s (Cucho, Rossi, Nagbe, Matan, Hinestroza). Or the non-Senior roster guys, who don't count vs the cap (Schulte, Bush, Hagen, Romero, JRR, Jackson, Habroune, and Arfsten if that extension did not start immediately). I don't think MLS pro-rated the midseason guys (Dej Jones, Chambost, Herrera). And Herrera is also here on loan, so I'd bet the we are not paying all his salary, even after prorating it.
The Crew 16/29 on budget? Is that ambitious?? If we sell Cucho we are screwed, we need to add talent and spend in top 5-10 range salary at a glance from dispatch : I just think we could do better if we got that attacking striker or CM DP after buying down Nagbe then a tam Striker or CM and a u22 CB Diego Rossi: $3,376,827 Cucho Hernandez: $2,886,000 Darlington Nagbe: $1,540,000 Steven Moreira: $882,000 DeJuan Jones: $793,246 Andres Herrera: $737,158 Yaw Yeboah: $663,750 Marino Hinestroza: $574,750 Yevhen Cheberko: $553,250 Rudy Camacho: $551,000 Christian Ramirez: $495,833 Alex Matan: $483,250 Dylan Chambost: $482,219 Malte Amundsen: $432,500 Sean Zawadzki: $421,875 Mo Farsi: $380,000 Derrick Jones: $362,496 Patrick Schulte: $134,978 Aziel Jackson: $102,243 Nicholas Hagen: $100,340 Jacen Russell-Rowe: $97,105 Max Arfsten: $91,561 Cole Mrowka: $91,409 Evan Bush: $89,716 Keegan Hughes: $89,716 Abraham Romero: $89,716 Taha Habroune: $83,401
I can say "I want to get rich" and that's ambitious. Doing something about it is entirely different. They are not solving issues.
What, by solidifying dynamic pricing into MLS and jacking up our season ticket prices to the point that I finally got priced out of them entirely? Yeah, I'm really ********ing glad that Messi is here, on 50% of every ********ing commercial I have to see on every broadcast, and in 75% of every article I read on the Athletic. SO GLAD he is here. ******** Messi.
I 100% support and applaud this post and attitude towards Messi. I wish it was the standard attitude among all MLS fans. Muck Fessi.
Marino Hinestroza and his loan team Atletico Nacional finished leg one of their semifinal game in the Copa Colombia with a victory. He had an assist in the game. He has been playing as nothing but a right winger for the team. I’ve still been following him, the fans of Nacional love him but he loses the ball so often trying to take on his man, and is still so selfish with the ball. Hopefully when he comes back in summer 2025 he’s matured and can integrate himself into the team and the system, but like others have stated, he doesn’t really play a position that the Crew play, so we will see.
I'd say he deserves whatever he and his agent can negotiate and the Haslams should pay it. Keeping Cucho and at a price that keeps him happy to be in Columbus is critical.
Don’t sound like it , he is a winger type and that doesn’t fit well here . I have my doubts about him ever contributing here.
Keeping a long term, recognizable, franchise player is worth paying a little more to keep around longer. I’m not sure how the profits from jersey sales are allocated, but the dude is like 3rd highest in player jerseys sold. That has to be worth keeping him around awhile.
The thing about it is that there's a longstanding, hard and fast principle that says you don't renegotiate a sports contract in the middle of the term. A player is wildly outperforming their number, great. He can get a catch up next time around. But if he signed for a big number and tanked, he's sure not going to give anything back. It works both ways. Plus, then every time a player has a good year he beats a path to the GM's door looking for a raise. And like your old college registrar used to tell you, "if we do it for you, we'd have to do it for everyone" But Cucho is just a rare case. Vreak the rules, give him the dough.and if anyone else comes knocking, just tell them that when they carry the team like he does, we'll talk.
The league (single entity) gets paid up front to license their jerseys for sale by the manufacturer, so unless you’re hitting a prearranged (and I assume) big sales target, probably not getting bonuses. Also, they stopped making third jerseys for everyone due to lack of sales, so I don’t think jersey sales would be a legitimate reason to pay Cucho more money.
Meh, happens in soccer all the time. Unlike American sports, where teams usually have more leverage, soccer is the opposite. A player can get interest from another club from literally anywhere in the world, and money always talks. If Cucho is willing to commit, I’m fine giving him a new contract. Rossi can’t be hire paid than him.
The ones that bug me are ones in the middle of the season for the next season. My European club lost two different cup final matches to a team where the player involved in the transfer missed the final penalty in a match decided by PKs.
Better start improving this roster ,will be another season with lots of games. A longer offseason and a lot of time to reflect. If we still have Nancy I’m confident we will continue to be a great team. But we need some better CB, Camacho as a regular starter has to end.