From Justin Horneker, not much of a surprise here regarding Njabulo Blom: 1829559332817555812 is not a valid tweet id
CITY will have four free agents at the end of the season: Durkin, Lundt, Nerwinski, and Yaro. 1833512579282432395 is not a valid tweet id
Playing catch-up. Here's the announcement on Josh Yaro's contract extension. Josh is signed for 2025, with a team option for 2026.
Season ending roster decisions: CITY exercised club options to keep: Chris Durkin Hosei Kijima Ben Lundt Jay Reid Indiana Vassilev Akil Watts Michael Wentzel CITY declined the option for Jake Nerwinski but is currently in negotiations with him. CITY declined the option for John Klein, and he is (apparently) a free agent. Here are CITY's players currently under contract for 2025: Rasmus Alm Simon Becher Roman Burki Chris Durkin Jake Girdwood-Reich Caden Glover Marcel Hartel Kyle Hiebert Jannes Horn Henry Kessler Hosei Kijima Joao Klauss Eduard Lowen Ben Lundt Joakim Nilsson Christian Olivares Tomas Ostrak Celio Pompeu Jay Reid Cedric Teuchert Nökkvi Thorisson Tomas Totland Indiana Vassilev Akil Watts Michael Wentzel Josh Yaro Three players are signed, but on loan: Njabulo Blom (Kaizer Cheifs), Miguel Perez (Birmingham Legion), Selmir Pidro (CITY2). Tyson Pearce is "off roster" because he is signed with CITY 2 and was not played more than the league maximum times.
Klien needed to go. He isn't good enough for MLS. Unless we have our sights on a good replacement, Jake needs to be re-signed as Yaro is going to be used as an offer to San Diego to keep them from taking any of our other players during the draft.
Interesting rumor. Promo Tweet or is there something there? 1850955032067293214 is not a valid tweet id
I guess the mess formerly known as Twitter isn't posting today. CITY signed Timo Baumgartl through 2026 with a club option for 2027.
Like many, City has switched to posting on BlueSky instead of Twitter. They've been consistent there over the past month or so
Here are the CITY players exposed in the San Diego expansion draft: Njabulo Blom, Jake Girdwood-Reich, Kyle Hiebert, Hosei Kijima, John Klein, Ben Lundt, Jake Nerwinski, Joakim Nilsson, Christian Olivares, Tomas Ostrak, Selmir Pidro, Celio Pompeu, Jayden Reid, Nokkvi Thorisson, Akil Watts, Michael Wentzel, and Josh Yaro.
Is the general consensus if anyone is selected, it'll be Yaro? We can only lose one player via the draft correct?
To answer one of my own questions. From the MLS eligible player list "All teams are eligible to have a player selected in the 2024 MLS Expansion Draft. Once a player is selected from a club’s unprotected roster, that club is removed from the remainder of the Expansion Draft and may not have a second player selected."
Matt Baker just reported that San Diego will draft Hosei Kijima and trade him to DC United for $400K in GAM.
Sad to see him go, but realistically he took up an international spot and wasn’t playing enough to justify it. We would have to buy an international spot every year for him at about $150k in GAM. I don’t necessarily like this but I understand it.
There was pretty strong speculation online last night that CITY's choice of the final players to expose in the draft came down to Hosei Kijima and Indiana Vassilev, and they feared San Diego would take Indy. I don't know how true that speculation was, but I'm glad we didn't risk Indy. There was also some talk about whether CITY subtly has shifted from build-for-the-future to win-now as a driving force. I can see the arguments either way on that, too. Thoughts???
Friday December 13, at noon CT: MLS Re-Entry Draft, Stage 1. Three current and former CITY players are eligible for this draft: (Hope I didn't miss any!) John Klein - Option Declined by CITY Nicholas Gioacchini – Out of Contract with FC Cincinnati Owen O'Malley - Option previously declined by CITY, transferred to the MLS Pool, loaned to Tacoma Defiance, now reached the end of his loan. He still has two MLS option years on his expiring contract.
In order to win-now we need to spend-now. Nothing I have seen has given me the confidence that we are willing to spend enough money to win a championship in the short term (see LAFC). If we aren't going to spend, then we have to build championship level team, and that takes time (see Cincinnati). I think we will be more competitive next year, but we aren't on the level, nor even close to the big spenders. I would love to see us splash some cash and try to win now, but I don't see it in the short term.
Stage 1 of the Re-entry draft is complete, with only three players selected. Stage 1 required a "bona fide offer" for the players, defined as a 10%/$15K salary increase. Stage 2, next week, only requires a "genuine offer," and becomes a battle of rights of first refusal between the drafting team and original team. Players not selected in the two rounds are free agents, possibly subject to a right of first refusal from the original club. MLS roster, contract, and draft rules are about as clear as instructions for assembly and operation of a hadron collider written in Klingon by IKEA.
St. Louis CITY SC's 2024 MLS SuperDraft selections: Forward Emil Jaaskalainen, Akron, First Round, 7th in round and 7th overall selection. Defender Joey Zalinsky, Rutgers, Second Round, 7th in round and 37th overall selection. Keeper Colin Welsh, Western Michigan, Third Round, 7th in round, 67th overall selection. Welcome to all three draftees. CITY maintains its MLS league-leading dominance of umlauts and Scrabble scores.
Matt Baker reports former Norwegian youth international midfielder Conrad Wallem is inbound from Slavia Prague to CITY at the end of his current season on June 27th. He is 24 years old and is coming on a one-year loan with a purchase option.
Conrad Wallem is in. Seems like a "more-of-the-same" kind of signing. He will probably fit in well with the group, but doesn't exactly set the heart racing. https://www.stlcitysc.com/news/st-l...7BQKrV-M05zGMMtsdw_aem_UK-qmae7wk7081uyzx-bzg