The Official Jahmir Hyka thread

I hope this guy can replace Salinas' free kicks. Looks like he can bend in with his right foot.

 

Let's get him over here before Albania gets on someone's list.

 

I hope that the

I hope that the Sutter sponsorship includes orthodontia...

Just kidding!


Gook luck to Hyka and all of the new signings!

 

It is very fortunate that he is armed with that bit of wisdom as he comes to play for San Jose

 

It looks like he qualifies for the "Suarez Plan".

 

From now on I will mimic Dom's and call him "the Hyka guy".

 

I'm very glad things appear to be finally worked out. But it seems unlikely he'll play in more than one preseason game, which is a shame. I agree with the sentiment that this particular singing needs to land in the 10 ring or us to really look different offensively for the first half of the season.
I'm afraid though Dom is going to be stuck in the mud about the starting LB and Hyka won't get enough service from there and will end up relying on Godoy entirely too much and thus won't see enough of the ball.

 

My concern exactly. Salinas works okay with Francis because Shea likes to stay out wide and tries to go around the right back to cross. I don't think that is Hyka's game at all.

Hyka will want his left back partner to make overlapping runs to draw the defenders away from the space that Hyka wants to attack. Without those overlaps, Hyka will find himself boxed in by the right mid, the right back and probably the D-mid. Best he'll be able to do is go backward with a pass to Francis, which plays right into the opponent's hands. Remember how limited MPG and Dawkins looked playing in front of Francis? Hyka will struggle with the same problems they had.

 

Too bad we can't just replace Shaun Francis with... Kip Colvey

 

I guess the coach really enjoys watching Francis push the ball back to Bingham so he can dump a 50/50 ball into the midfield. Nothing like getting a knee in the back or an elbow to the temple on a jump ball to remind you what a fun sport soccer is.

 

Great to see he has arrived

 

He's here, but, has he really arrived yet?

 

Looks like a shot from a kidnapper. "We have your player, give in to our demands"

 

No he's not injured yet - once we find out about his currently undisclosed injury, he will have arrived.

 

He played around 16 minutes against Reno today (2/21/27) ......not sure if he has the conditioning to start on the 4th but I hope he at least makes an appearance.

 

Was he not recently playing/training with his Swiss club??

 

That I don't know....anyone else maybe have insight on his conditioning....?

 

In that one little clip they showed of him, he did not look overly fit to me. He almost blew his first touch, then sort of ambled down the wing a bit and then passed. Looks like he needs a few weeks at least, but then again, a little unfair to pass judgment based on one grainy clip.

 

What are you talking about? That was the entire basis of Doyle's scouting technique!