Official :: Potential Players, Expansion Draft (11.25.09) and SuperDraft (1.14.10) Discussion Thread

Re: Official :: Expansion Draft (11.25.09) and SuperDraft (1.14.10) Discussion Thread

It is now official 2 year contract with Dynamo Kiev. I was wrong.

 

Re: Official :: Expansion Draft (11.25.09) and SuperDraft (1.14.10) Discussion Thread

Agreed! I was looking to see if anyone was discussing the possibility of Vieira coming to the Union and it didn't even occur to me to check this the draft thread. Mods, please. It'd be great to merge a Vieira thread into a "DP/Overseas signing" thread. But, these two have little in common. At least change the name of this thread to be "player acquisition: draft and signings" or something like that so it's clear.

 

Re: Official :: Expansion Draft (11.25.09) and SuperDraft (1.14.10) Discussion Thread

I'm excited about the possibility of Vieira coming to the Union. It'd be a free transfer although he wouldn't be available till the summer. He's not a name that will draw in non-soccer fans like Beckham did, but he will certainly help draw fans of foreign leagues who aren't sure whether to give MLS a chance. He's got a rep as a hard worker, so hopefully he'd bring that to MLS and help us a ton in the midfield. Does anyone watch him enough to say whether they think he'll have enough in the tank? He doesn't rely too much on speed, does he?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpovLUvJyzY"]YouTube - Arsene's XI - Patrick Vieira[/ame]

 

Re: Future Union Players

The "Future Union Players" thread was merged into this one but not deleted, so it stays bold...as I'm rather OCD about it it's driving me slightly nuts...could this be taken care of please? Thanks in advance, pookieses.

 

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Besides, won't Huss and dark knight come down us for having more than 500 posts in the thread?

 

Re: Official :: Expansion Draft (11.25.09) and SuperDraft (1.14.10) Discussion Thread

I hope Beasley comes back, but have mixed feelings about him on the Union. Solely because I have a great insulting chant for him that we would not be able to use if he's on our team.

 

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Meanwhile, we have another thread on here (kit thread) that is over 1,200 posts long, haha.

 

Vieira interested in MLS?

http://url4.eu/LaPi

 

Re: Vieira interested in MLS?

Eh. Someone asked him about it and he was polite.

If he comes here, he probably won't come to Philly. He'd be moving in the middle of the MLS season. I doubt we'll field a team with a Viera-sized hole in it for the first few months of our existence in the hopes that he'll be healthy and sign with us once his current contract is up.

If he does come, I'd guess New York. They're such a train wreck this year that they'll be looking to do something dramatic; they won't be able to turn the team over completely in the offseason without the benefit of an expansion draft, etc; and they're likely to have a lot of cap room to work with and a big pile of allocation money built up from their fourteen seasons of failure.

 

Potential Players for the Union (Part 2)

Note: I've created a new thread for this because the original thread has for some unknown reason been rendered inaccessible due to what looks to be some kind of error involving the mods trying to merge other threads to it.


Jim Curtin has expressed clear interest in playing for the Union.

Might DMB become available as a January signing for Peter Nowak? He's now stuck riding the pine at Rangers in a seemingly hopeless situation for him. Some speculate that perhaps a move to MLS will be in order for him. He's played alongside Nowak for the Fire, so there is a familiarity there. I think Beasley, only at 27, is still a very serviceable player for an MLS team. A new team, a new start for the guy who seems to have fallen on hard times in both his international and club careers might be good.

Thoughts?

 

Re: Potential Players for the Union (Part 2)

Yes, I wonder who's cooking up all these underdone thread folds, sautéeing the board into some sort of twisted fricassee.









JIM, I'M INFERRING IT'S YOU!

 

Re: Potential Players for the Union (Part 2)

Not sure if this was on Part 1 of your potential players, but I do believe (unfortunately) Jeff Larentowitz's (Revolution) contract is expiring after this season and he has ties to the Philly area.

 

Re: Potential Players for the Union (Part 2)

The Bills DO have a look-alike to replace him.