The Official 2024 San Jose Earthquakes related Blogs/Press thread

I get the feeling that "This is 50" night on our home opener is supposed to appeal to the neo-senior citizens in this forum...

 

The team is 50 years old too

 

So they should apply for AARP membership, right?
(Actually you can join AARP at any age, and more young people are doing so just for the discounts!)

 

What discounts? (Asking for a young person. )

 

An AAA membership is cheaper... been a big help with iffy vehicles I've owned over the last 3 years

 

I’m a member of both and, I agree, AAA far more valuable.

 

I can help consolidate those for you... sign up for the AAA-RP here...

 

I don't do the Mahomes bundle.

 

https://www.aarp.org/membership/benefits/all-offers-a-z/

a lot of times, AAA and AARP discounts are the same.

 

"San Jose Earthquakes
Reason to worry: The wingers can’t carry the entire load

Even with at least one (low-cost) replacement likely arriving to help fill the hole left by Cade Cowell on the left wing, there are major question marks in central midfield right now for the Quakes. Namely, who is going to take Jamiro Monteiro’s starting spot in midfield? Cristian Espinoza will put in work on the right wing opposite a new signing, but with a lack of balance across the entire width of the field, San Jose could become one-dimensional."

Overpaid stars and transfer flops: Why each MLS team should worry in 2024 | MLS | The Guardian

 

San Jose Earthquakes
2023 By The Numbers (per American Soccer Analysis)

"I’ll say it again: The Quakes were bizarro SKC in 2023. They started the year looking like a genuine playoff-caliber team ready to improve as the year went on, then faceplanted down the stretch. They didn’t run across the finish line so much as they tripped about 100 yards out and somehow skidded across it on their face. In that same stretch where SKC became the best team in the West, San Jose outperformed Colorado and no one else. The Quakes averaged 1.13 points per game in that span before bowing out of the playoffs in the Wild Card round.

There is some good news number-wise, though. They have an elite shot-stopper in goal. Daniel only started 22 games last year, but he put up league-best numbers when he played. His post-shot xG differential per 90 outpaced Roman Bürki and Djordje Petrović by a relatively significant margin last year. If he had played a full season, he might have had a strong case for Allstate MLS Goalkeeper of the Year.

Daniel needs some help in front of him, though. The Quakes’ attack seemed to devolve into “I dunno, Cristian Espinoza is down there somewhere, right?” That meant a career-best 13 goals and 13 assists for Espinoza, but the third-worst expected goals total in the West last season for the Quakes.

2024 Final Standing Range

Between fifth and 13th in the Western Conference.

Again, anything could happen in the West. Right now, this seems like a roster set to be near the bottom of the pileup. They lost DP No. 10 Jamiro Monteiro, winger Cade Cowell, center backs Jonathan Mensah and Nathan, and left back Miguel Trauco this offseason. That wouldn’t be horrible news if they had gone out and found exciting replacements for each. That… hasn’t happened. At least not yet. Give it a day or so.

Reports indicate that Bodø/Glimt attacker Amahl Pellegrino is on the way. The Quakes need him to be a star and probably need some depth to truly compete, but it doesn’t seem implausible, right? A year-two jump under Luchi Gonzalez is in play. Even if it isn’t a probability.

Player of the People

We really don’t talk about Cristian Espinoza enough. He represents all of us who are underappreciated at work.

This could all go pretty well if…

Pellegrino is a dude, Espinoza is elite again, Daniel is elite again, Jeremy Ebobisse thrives with some additional help in attack and the Quakes recapture some of the tenacity they showed at the start of 2023 before everything cratered."

Your Thursday Kickoff: Columbus Crew, Sporting Kansas City & San Jose Earthquakes previews | MLSSoccer.com

 

”They lost DP No. 10 Jamiro Monteiro, winger Cade Cowell, center backs Jonathan Mensah and Nathan, and left back Miguel Trauco this offseason. That wouldn’t be horrible news if they had gone out and found exciting replacements for each. That… hasn’t happened. At least not yet. Give it a day or so.”

I don’t know about “exciting”, but is this person aware that we have replacements for all of those players except Monteiro? Mensah / Nathan is really one spot. We got Mensah because Nathan had a season-ender. And we’re not going to add more “exciting” players on top of the replacements we’ve already signed. So either this person is a little delusional or just unaware who we’ve signed.

 

I don’t understand this assessment. I thought we were 1-dimensional last season, i.e. all we really had was Espinoza.

And somehow i missed it — how did we lose Trauco? Did he go somewhere good?

 

His contract had an option year for 2024 and the Quakes chose not to use it. He signed with Criciuma in Brazil.

 

Wow, that’s disappointing to hear.

 

Great left foot, and solid in possesion but can't run, so there is that.

 

Well I guess that means Paul Marie will be starting?

 

Not necessarily. We also acquired a Brazilian left back who'd been playing Portuguese Premeira Liga , Vitor Costa.

 

San Jose Earthquakes

"Cade Cowell is out, heading to Liga MX side Chivas for a club-record fee. The homegrown standout and US international reportedly netted the club $4 million plus add-ons and a sell-on percentage.

Amahl Pellegrino is in, arriving from Norwegian top-flight side Bodø/Glimt. He's won back-to-back Eliteserien Golden Boots and was named the 2023 Eliteserien Player of the Year.

San Jose have made some other key moves, landing left back Vítor Costa and center back Bruno Wilson after they played in Portugal. But the big one remains elusive. It has to be a game-changing No. 10, helping replace DP midfielder Jamiro Monteiro."

MLS 2024 countdown! What has defined your club's offseason? | MLSSoccer.com