News: The New Normal - 2025-2026 Offseason Thread

Ethan Horvath’s club is in terrible, terrible shape. They’ll let him go. That would be my first call at GK.

NYRB are shopping Daniel Edelman. IMO he’s a young player who is decent, so why not.

More interesting to me is that the Whitecaps are shopping Jayden Nelson, who lost his minutes toward the end of the season. He’s pretty good.

 

Stroud transferred to Minnesota for $475k GAM.

Not our Stroud, mind you. His brother. How high did your hopes get raised reading the first sentence?

 

You, sir, are a bastard.

 

I am not sure that there are more than 2-3 players on our roster at the moment who are worth $475k.

 

I saw that yesterday on Bluesky and had a 2 second moment of HOLY S**T! Great job Dr. Sogut...

But alas.

 

Remember when our backline was also the US National Team’s back line?

 

I recall one year when we had something like 6 or 7 players on various national teams. In the last 20 years, have we ever had more than 4 players at a time on a national team?

 

There are rumors out of the Netherlands that DC is interested in Dutch right back Jordi Altena of Eerste Divisie side RKC Waalwijk. He just turned 22, is a converted central midfielder, and has 2 goals and 4 (or 5, depending on the source) assists so far this season.

Interesting stat on him from Opta:

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Getting him would indicate that Herrera would probably be moving on. Either via trade or transfer.

 

Second tier of Dutch football.

 

The leading Belgian team who is also in Champions League with a shot at the playoffs is looking at him.

 

Levien saw Jordi Alba playing outside back and literally said he wants the knockoff version of him next year.

 

DC is about to spend $4M to buy Tai Baribo from Philadelphia. First DP incoming.

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Baribo had 16 goals for Philly last year and two more in the playoffs.

 

Trying to keep this very high level - is it bad that my first thought given where we live is that this could get complicated based on where he’s from and you know, the genocide?

 

I had no idea that Tai Baribo was Sudanese.

 

DC's not getting him if he's not a DP.

Also, he's still in his prime.

 

Cash or GAM?

 

Cash is what I’ve seen reported.

 

Matt Doyle with some thoughts:

https://bsky.app/profile/mattdoyle.bsky.social/post/3m7sqefqes22k

 

No. Won't get complicated...unless some complete ********ing idiots make it an issue. But it won't be more than 1 or 2

 

$4 million

 

Feel this move for Baribo means our bid for Louis Munteanu failed. Did see reports last week that he preferred to join Lyon as he considered it a bigger club.

 

Plus, he’s Israeli. Hard pass for me.

 

I mean, it just takes one question at a press conference or a social media post for things to spiral pretty quickly.