He stepped in a ball on tore his hamstring. Silva IS a veteran CB, who has a few captains armbands to his name. I know he has always been injury-prone, but dropping him for someone else who would cost about the same and also could step on a ball and tear their hamstring doesn’t really make a ton of sense to me. I think we got really unlucky, just like Ruiz, with this injury. However, this was likely Silva’s last year with the team anyhow, so all this does is accelerate the need to replace him, and leaves us in a dicey situation the rest of the year. All teams deal with this stuff.
Didn't see much discussion of this, but looks like the current Silva replacement is Tommy Silva. He went through our academy and was a 4 year starter at UCLA. I don't think he even has a Monarchs appearance to his name, so I've never seen him play before.
You might be right. I was just going by process of elimination cause nobody else was a center back. So we might just not have had a backup CB last night.
My guess is it would have been Oviedo, if needed. There's still about two weeks left in the primary transfer window. I wonder if we'll see any additions given two significant long term injuries already.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_...-flexibility-rules-dps-lionel-messi-world-cup I'm looking forward to seeing the details and if the players approve it. An extra $2m in GAM while having 2DPs/4 U-22 players would be very intriguing for RSL.
RSL is getting some national attention: Chicho is 2nd in MVP rankings https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mvp-power-rankings-luis-suarez-steps-up-for-inter-miami We're not the only ones noticing Luna's form this year. https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mail...iego-luna-what-is-orlando-city-s-path-forward Maybe Gomez is playing a lot better than we're giving him credit for: https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/earl...-which-players-do-the-underlying-numbers-love
All good stuff. I am doing my best to focus on the positives with Gomez because there are a lot. He does get around the corner on defenders a heck of a lot but I am just waiting for him to figure out what to do when he does get around the corner. He reminds me of Anderson Julio in that he has a ton of potential but will he put it all together? That's the question. Hopefully he has tougher hamstrings. Luna is another question. I hope he gets it figured out but I don't think its all his fault. Just look at where RSL is attacking. It's all down the right side and that can't be coincidental. If you wanted your team to do more than attack down more than one side then maybe that would be a little more obvious. Maybe, maybe not.
https://www.transfermarkt.us/xavier-arreaga/profil/spieler/323854 I don't know what Seattle would want for him (I'm not giving up much), but I'm trying to trade for this guy to fix the CB issue, if I'm Kurt. He's an expiring deal, so you aren't out much if it doesn't work out. He's a proven starter in MLS. Plus, SEA owes us.
Yesterday I finally had time to watch the Minnesota game. I focused on Luna. He dropped deep a lot to help connect the back line with the mids. He also defended a lot. So, a lot of the time he was simply left behind when we attacked quickly. When he was forward he stayed on the left and slid to the center from time to time. I think the strategy was to tie up a defender since most of the attacking was on the right side. imo his passing was frustrating him and getting into his head. Sometimes he would send a ball into an undefended area, but nobody made a run and he would throw his arms into the air. A lot of the time his teammates passed him the ball when he was tightly marked and they shouldn’t have done that. Subsequently his own passes were inaccurate. His replacement, Barajas, almost always drifted to the middle and even far to the right when we had the ball. The problems I had with that were he brought another defender with him, and it left us open defensively. I noted that he didn’t find much more of the game than did Luna.
The other player I tried to focus on was Gomez (but to a lesser extent). He had the one great play, but Rosales otherwise dominated him when Gomez dribbled one v one against him. Gomez also got Rosales a yellow card when Rosales grabbed him. But that was a bad decision by Rosales. He didn’t need need to do that because he had help behind him.
Pablo, while talking with Spence Checketts, made it sound like the club is trying to add a CB before the 23rd. Interesting that they'll want to add a new player rather than call-up/re-call a player. I still think they should try to add Arreaga from SEA.
They may have determined that none of the players available via call up or recall are playing well enough. That would probably be the simplest explanation.
Uno, thanks for listening. Very much appreciated. Dos, That’s all we know for real at the moment. Lambert and Orozco not seen as options at CB. At all, and looking at player/s to bring in this window. Can’t imagine them not doing something at CB. Tres, we don’t reveal our sources.
Of course, I don't really expect you to share stuff shared with you in confidence. Can you give us a hint though? MLS or out of the league? I would like to know how they rate Farnsworth and the Pierre brothers. What's the point of keeping them on HG deals if they aren't going to get a shot with the first team? I would also like to know what kind of roster flexibility they have. Do they get budget/roster spot relief with Ruiz being out all year? What's the plan for Lambert and Orozco? Orozco's loan is supposed to end next month.
US Open Cup Draw: Watson Division Real Salt Lake Colorado Springs Switchbacks New Mexico United New York City FC II We are at New Mexico on 8 May.
Not a bad draw, although RSL will be on the road for the next round if they advance. These USOC games aren't very kind to the schedule. This will be in the middle of 5 games in 15 days: 5/4 Host SKC; 5/8 @ NMU; 5/11@ LAG; 5/15 Host SEA; 5/18 Host CRapids Anyone starting a thread?
Well, RSL traded for a MLS CB, but not the one I would have thought. https://www.ksl.com/article/50986175/rsl-trades-for-columbus-defender-amid-injury-desperation
RSL trades $150-200K in GAM for Philip Quinton. Allow us to introduce, Phil of the f̶u̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ claret & cobalt Welcome to the 801, @philipkquinton.— Real Salt Lake (@realsaltlake) April 19, 2024 He's played 1 MLS game in the last ~11 months, which oddly enough was this past Saturday against us. He's generally been a Next Pro guy and gotten very few MLS minutes, but he played 4 years of college ball and is 6'6", so he's a Pablo guy I guess.
Quinton is not agile, not very strong for his size, and his positioning and reading of the game are both subpar. He can pass the ball pretty okay. I am not sure what prompted RSL to make this move, but I am very surprised that Columbus were able to offload him for any amount of money…..he has a lot of work to do to become an everyday starter in MLS, or maybe he just needs a no-nonsense role to become effective. Good luck to RSL the rest of the year!