The Official 2023/2024 Off Season Thread

Marie is a spot starter and good backup. We will keep Yuell because we won't make drastic changes. I would not keep Mensha and bye to the remainder. Is Benji still on contract?

I think Miles Robinson is the only one that I would really be interested from the Free Agent List.

 

Good thread!

Also, crap! Is it time to start thinking about the long off-season ahead?

Putting on my “I wish I was the GM” hat for a moment …

Of our free agents, I would definitely resign Marie and Jackson, though I would entertain trade offers for Jackson. The other guys are out the door. Mind you, I like Tommy, and I might be interested in putting him on the scouting staff, or maybe somewhere in communications. Maybe tell him to come back after he completes his bachelor’s. (Assuming that’s what he wants to do.)

On the other free agents, if there’s a good player or two there, I would look. We might want a veteran GK if we can get a good trade offer for JT.

Of our existing roster, I’d look to trade or dump: Akinola, Baldisimo, maybe Bouda, Cowell, Benji too, Gruezo, Natan, and Will Richmond.

Clearly, I’d want good trades for Cade and Benji, otherwise, I’d keep them.

That gives us plenty of roster spots, but only a little cap space, unless we can move Gruezo, Cade, Benji, and Natan for actual ducats. I haven’t even tried to count the cap space we would save with these moves, but I don’t think it’s a lot. Mensah is well paid, Jamiro costs us a handful of bucks, but it’s not a huge savings unless we can trade someone for real cash.

So then we need to find a quality left-winger, another starting quality CD, and of course, an actual #10 type. Maybe Skahan can fill that role for us, but I wouldn’t go into the season banking on him.

Maybe trade Jebo if we get a good offer for him, but I don’t think that’s in the cards.

I doubt that CL thinks like I do.

Go Quakesfans!!

 

Can we at least wait until we crash spectacularly out of the playoffs or fail to make them altogether in an epic slow-roll "Golden Point" slide before we start talking who we're going to cut?

 

We are doing the two pronged approach here. Just like our attack, only two pronged (on a good day).

 

Why push until tomorrow, what can be done today!

 

As you know our attack is single-pronged -> Cristian Espinoza. So in honor of our team I feel it's only right that we focus on one thing at a time.

Besides we don't know what will happen until the season's over. For all we know, on our way to MLS Cup, Mensah might make 10 goal saving tackles and 5 goalline clearances, Judson might come in for an injured Gruezo and make 85 tackles and get 5 assists, and Monteiro may score 6 goals, including 3 bikes, and an Olimpico. We might want to evaluate their contract status in light of those events.

 

Miles Robinson is 100% going to Europe if there is any interest, he wanted to go a few years ago but Carlos Bocanegra wouldn't accept offers for millions of dollars so Atlanta will now get zero dollars. Brilliant!
If Miles was going to stay in MLS he would almost certainly re-sign with Atlanta.

 

I always thought Bedoya was more hype than product. Sort of reminds me of one of our lads, in that respect...

 

Isn't Bedoya about 300 years old though?

 

Except ours is not yet old enough to drink let alone social security in a few years

 

He used to be good, but Bedoya has lost more than a step or two. Hard pass for me.

Go Quakesfans!!

 

In light of JTs horror injury, I’d like to call to see if Horvath or Steffen have availability

 

Truthfully, other than Daniel and Espinoza and perhaps Akapo, Rodrigues and Marie I wouldn’t shed a lot of tears if we made a clean sweep…

 

Huh? We are looking for a backup and both of those keeps would look to start. Or did I miss something?

 

Horvath is kind of out of sorts with Forest now. He was not included in their 25 man roster to start the season, and there are three keepers ahead of him. Last year he was on season long loan to Luton Town and helped them win promotion to the Premier League, but, now he is in limbo and can't even be loaned out until the winter window. Not sure where Steffen is regarding Man City, but, don't think either could come here until the next transfer window. But, like you said, they would expect to start and would likely require a big salary. No way this would happen.

 

Yeah this doesn’t make any sense to me. We have our #1 keeper for the next year of 2. We just need to pick a #2, whether that’s Emi or someone else. We have enough problems that we don’t need to spend time and resources trying to solve a problem that’s not really a problem.

 

Im thinking we are going to give Emi Ochoa his fair shot to deputize behind Daniel. Certainly would raise his profile showing him that sort of confidence