You forgot Thiago! It's that last bit I have never understood. When these "agreements" were 1st announced with Sao Paulo and Chelsea it was stated that there would be loans coming. We'll aside from Saragosa what have we seen? Not a damn thing. You tellin me Chelsea doesn't have some young reserve who needs some playing time who couldn't help us? Same for Sao Paulo. FCD seems to get pretty good milage out their Brazilian counterpart. Why can't we?
Maybe LAG/AEG could buy whoever does the South American scouting for DC United. I understand that they have a detailed database of SA players. So let's get him and his info. It's standard practice in big business for corporations to raid top talent from the competition, so what's to stop us from doing the same? God knows we don't have the in-house talent to do this job. LAG could make him an overpaid "assistant coach" like college b-ball coaches do with parents of prized recruits. AEG has the money. Salary cap keeps them from spending more on players, but they can spend whatever they want on coaches, right? I was actually joking when I started writing this, but now that I think more about it...
https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?p=13707857&posted=1#post13707857 Pictures of the Fish in the new Galaxy Kit.
It is the same, but the real new ones won't have the bananas. The first Ruiz pic seems like a ripoff of this:
I say we should try to get Gomez at $400k/year (doesn't sound like he'll go for less) and then offload Ruiz to another team. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/soccerinsider/2008/01/gomez_moreno_ej_and_supplement.html
400K for Gomez and offload Ruiz?? No way in hell! Gomez is what? 34? Ruiz 28? Ruiz has some good years left in him. Gomez' shelf life is just about expired.
Its not all about age, he's 33 by the way. Gomez has proven himself to be a quality player in this league. Moreno is just on year older than him and is falling apart. But Gomez continues to play as well as he ever has. I'd rather have Gomez than the diving fish. If Gomez stays in the league next year, we can check their stats at the end of the season to see who had a better year.
I read somewhere that there was to be a press conference today to introduce Ruiz. Has it happened yet?
Comparing Ruiz and Gomez is comparing apples and oranges. We can argue about who is the better player, but the fact is we already have a couple players that fill the position Gomez plays (attacking-mid/withdrawn forward), one of whom is named Donovan, but we don't have anybody decent at forward who can do what Ruiz is capable of. With a salary cap, it's not about getting the best player, it's about getting the best player in the position that you need to improve...
No, but age does matter as far as productive minutes go, and Ruiz too has proven himself to be a quality player in this league, and he can fill a hole the Galaxy has at forward, rather than in the midfield, and at 28 he will likely be there longer.
I read this on a blog somewhere and in scowering the Guatemala threads I came up with a link: http://www.lared.com.gt/detalle_noticia.php?id=7692 Apparently Ruiz's right knee is inflamed and the Galaxy doctors are advising him to not play in their upcoming friendly vs. Argentina in hopes he'll be healed in time for him to play in the Pan-Pacific tourny and Asia tour with the Galaxy. I really hope our team can avoid the injury decimation we had last year that started at the beginning of the season and then continued the entire year.
I had a huge dilemma on going to this game or staying home and watching the US vs. Mexico game. I might just stay home now because Guatemala's chances of scoring have now become 0. As for the Galaxy, they better not let him play unless he is 100%. They better not rush him out there just so he can play in this tournament. I hope they learned their lessons on all of this last year.
RUIZ WILL NOT PLAY WITH THE Guatemala Nat team next week. http://thelagalaxy.blogspot.com/ And http://la.galaxy.mlsnet.com/news/te...ent_id=137048&vkey=pr_lag&fext=.jsp&team=t106
http://la.galaxy.mlsnet.com/news/te...ent_id=137048&vkey=pr_lag&fext=.jsp&team=t106 Anyone notice the poll for which rookie will have the greatest impact for us this season? Lists Franklin as Ryan?