This needs its own thread.... link Traded for the 2010 2nd Round pick we got for sending Kyle Davies to FCD. The Brazilian monster forward will be in RSL training tomorrow. Does this now make Yura more expendable? I think so... [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTVUwhEIE7Q"]YouTube - Pablo Campos Highlights[/ame]
Amen. I'm actually more excited about this kid than I am about ReK, but maybe that's because I haven't seen either of them play... A 2nd round 2010 draft pick seems like a good deal to me!
I hope there is one more addition to the squad, but I certainly do like this pick. We practically got him for nothing (we had nothing, got something, gave it away, now got something again... get where I am goin here) this guy, from the highlights and what I have seen of him this season, seems to be a good fit for the system we are playing now. yes he is a great target guy (he is big) but he also has the ability, it seems at least, to play with his feet quite well (he is brazilian of course) and has a knack for finding the back of the net... for those stat junkies out there: he only has 2 assists (1 shy of Yura's whole career, ha ha) and 2 goals BUT he only has taken 11 shots, 8 of those on frame. If he can score every 4 shots on goal, or every 5th shot... he is a HUGE upgrade from what we got now
Looks like a nice physical target for us. It's good to see us get something out of that whole Davies thing. Sure hope he's upgraded his goal dance...
Is he not the guy who got the Yellow card for diving against RSL? I thought he played pretty good. He's also equaled Yura's career assist total, with 2 THIS SEASON.
He missed one of the most open headers I've seen this season in one of SJ's early home games, which affected his playing time thereafter for a month or more.Did Pablo score 47 goals against that unfortunate first opponent in the red shorts, or was the same set of goals shown from various angles? I am optimistic. We wanted him last year I think, and perhaps the fit will be good. Oh - who is his agent? McSomething?
Didn't San Jose recently get this guy? Why did they want to get rid of him for a draft pick? Did they need salary space?
i had heard, and i wouldnt quote myself on this either so take it for what its worth (nothing pretty much), they were going after Nedved.... seriously (unlike everyone else going "yeah we could use that guy")
maybe he is trying to have all of his players on the team, then one day... they all suddenly are playing in Denmark
almost all of the san jose posters saw dumping him as a good move and are amazed they got what they did... now, I take that with a giant grain of salt as those guys (in my own personal opinion) dont see the game so well, but it is a little disturbing...
Mixed reviews over on the San Jose board. Some speculate they are opening up some space for someone. Others calling him Compost, and happy he is gone. Time will tell. He sure scored alot of goals previous to coming to MLS.
This could be the reason... as reported by a SJ fan. I'm not 100% sold on this guy... and I seem to be one of the only ones who feels this way. So, I'll stop bitching and cross my fingers that he turns out to be the Brazilian Jared Borghetti (minus the douchiness & age).
Sorry to quote myself, but this was a big moment - a bad miss that set a tone of futility in front of a jazzed up home crowd. It would sour many of us, too. Then there's the sublime toying with Berhalter later in the year that drew a penalty - more of that guy, please.
Yeah, except that if blowing a wide open chance doomed you to the bench, Yura would have been riding the pine the first third of the season. At RSL, coaches seem to have tremendous patience for some players and not so much for others...
Campos' a decent player. Some good, some bad... He has a pretty good touch, ok speed for a big guy and can win balls in the air. But he's also pretty lazy, mediocre finishing, and needs others to bring him into the game.
I'm more referring to the timing and nature of the miss, what the team had done to claw back and get chances, and how deflating it was. Even the highlight won't show it well enough - it was its place in the ebb and flow of the game that really mattered. Sell out crowd, opening match, five minutes left, last chance really for San Jose (and he wasn't the only one to miss) in a 1-0 loss to New England. I don't judge him on this, but can see where it went sour fast between Campos and many E-quake fans . . .
considering we got him for next to nothing (a draft pick for a guy we really had no chance of getting it seemed) I understand rolling the dice on him. If he works out, great, if not, we didnt really lose much here did we