Official Red Bulls offseason thread

------------------------BWP--------------------------------
Oyongo----------------?------------------------------Sam
---------------Alexander---Dax--------------------------
Miller-------?--------------Olave-------------------Duvall
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need a creative attacking mid, cant count on Peguy to be the guy at his age

 

@kokoplus10

Please sticky this topic and unsticky the D.C. bus trip topic.

Edit: And the New England game topic and the 2014 Have a ticket/Needs a ticket topics can be unstickied, or you could remove the 2014 from the title and continue using that topic for next year.

 

Well the league will be increasing the number of DP spots according to Twellman, but Petke has already started to brace the fans for another window of low spending. I hope that they at least target some low-mid range DP's instead of just leaving the spots unfilled waiting for the perfect marquee signing(s). Wouldn't mind BWP getting a raise either.

 

That's a damn good core of players to build a team around, and there aren't too many holes to fill.

Every off season fans think that the elusive #10 is the missing piece to a championship team, but if Petke wants to keep using the 4-2-3-1 then it honestly might be this year. I wouldn't be surprised if Peguy isn't coming back, but even if he does, he doesn't have the legs to play 90 minutes all season. Fingers crossed that they can find a Valeri/Higuain this winter.

 

Yea I think the CAM and CB should be top priority. And if you can get a DP worthy upgrade to Alexander or Oyongo (a Jones or Henry level player), go for it

Maybe Armando can step up after a season getting used to MLS

 

You still doubt of Henry living?.....

Like I say before, the team is super old and we have to start shiping out all those 30ishes aou of town:

Olave, Lozano, Kimura, Miller(?), Sekagya, Cahill, (Where is Convey?, Him too if) Henry and Luyindula...
(?) Miller for 130K could be maybe a safe risk to use him as a bench player....

This is the first move that the RBNY have to do before start the 2015 season and them some more during the off season if we can find younger and better players than: Eckeverry, Bustamante, Christanson and Alexander...

I back from my self impose retirement, because I know what was going to happen, but if they don't do this changes I'm going to go for good, is another team in Home and will not hesitate to join them if the RBNY continue with the same garbage.....

 

I think they still keep Olave to for a veteran presence but Sekagya, Pernelle will be gone for sure (unless someone makes a pretty good trade offer). I agree with changing the team up a bit now so they team doesn't age together as long as some of the older guys are kept to show the young guys the ropes. If we switch back to a 4-4-2 I can see the team pushing hard for Cubo Torres as a young DP. Experience in the league, good prospect and current player, not too expensive.

 

Need a new RB and a true DP caliper CB. Get some south american players for midfed;/forward depth and cut Convey, Sene, Kimura, Eckersly, Perinnele, Sekgaya,Armando and start to re-tool use all alloted DP slots and I guess kiss henry and Cahill goodbye......

 

Official statement from the team that Henry will not be extending his contract

52 goals (2nd in team history) and 49 assists (most in team history) in 4.5 years, instrumental in bringing the team its first piece of hardware. I hope nobody has taken for granted having a legend of the game wear our shirt, it may be a long time before it happens again.

 

You don't count that his first place is....Moneymaker.... I don't take anything of Henry, he is the best player we maybe ever have, but at this time he is too freaking old, period.... beside all that the team no look alike to be help it for this, his stile and mentality is out of the range of the other 29 players and don't understand each other and that don't bring any good to the team, his style and mentality isn't for this club...

Now, when we will hear de departure of Cahill.............

 

Hopefully Tim lets us know before the expansion draft so we don't have to protect him. He seems like a class guy and would do so if he does not come back to us. For all the greatness of Henry I will not miss his walking on the field at times and demonstrative arms and face of disgust as his mere mortal teamates did not elevate their passes and vision to his level. One goal in 13 playoff games over 5 years, to me says something. i know he did get a ton of assists this season in the playoffs but still remember Roy Miller taking that free kick to end last season's playoff run. Hopefully our youth can contribute next year, tighten up our defenense and we can have a playoof run in us in 2015.

 

Honestly, with the contract he's on and the year he's coming off of, I'm not sure its all that necessary to protect him. Is any other team in MLS going to pay him $3.5M a year? The teams that are willing to spend that much have filled up their DP spots, and at this point may think they can pull a higher profile player for that kind of money. Not to mention he's 34, going into the last year of his contract, and all but guaranteed not to stay in the league past that.

Its a bummer that there has been a falling out between Tim, the club, and the fans at the end of this year though, because he does seem like a stand up guy. He seems to have taken the criticism for choosing to play in the recent Australia friendlies personally, and I think our beat guys may have gone a little overboard dramatizing that situation. If he does leave, I hope he does so knowing that the fans will remember him more for what he accomplished in 2013 than anything else.

 

Fullbacks are one of the thinnest positions in the league, are you that confident we'll be able to find a better replacement?

 

Miller is probably one of the best LB's in MLS imo

 

Let's try this. Here was the usual starting lineup late in the season:

GK - Robles
FB - Miller, Eckersley
CB - Olave, Sekgaya
DM - McCarty, Alexander
AM - Sam, Lyuindula, Henry
FW - Wright-Phillips
Sub - Cahill, Oyongo

Obviously Henry is gone, and that's a good candidate for a DP spot if we can find someone. Who are the weakest spots there? I would put Sekgaya there as well as Eckersley. Alexander is a good squad player but I think an upgrade there would work.

So that's four usual starters I'd look to replace. I wouldn't feel bad keeping the rest. Obviously you can only keep Cahill if he's going to start, which you could do if Peguy leaves. Some continuity is a good thing.

 

Unfortunately.... Will be the best to happen to this team...... And I'm coumtimg in his departure, because if is true what Petke is saying he have to go.....

 

I think he has a guaranteed DP contract and we may have to protect him, not want to....