Get real - none of them ever approached the 17 goals Jebo scored for us last season. Lenny and Lozzano's had ten each during their best seasons for the Quakes and Conteh eight - albeit Conteh was playing on an awful 97 Clash team to be fair. Perhaps as bad as the 2022 Quakes!
Maybe Espinoza needs to be converted to an attacking wingback if there are other youthful attacking options that can score more goals
No but Jebo also had more games to accomplish that task, and Lozzano also had about as may assists as goals. He was a lot more productive. Eboboisse also was our ONLY guy scoring, Lozzano wasn't our point man, like Jebo. He had to share with Wynalda, Cerritos and Baicher that season in 1997. Lenhart had to spread the wealth with Alan Gordon, Chris Wondolowski and Simon Dawkins. Conteh shared with Doyle...
He was good there. We haven't had many real good ones. I was never too sold on Marcos Lopez although he was not bad. We should have held onto Justin Morrow. Jordan Stewart was not bad.
Wade Barrett is the best Left Back we've ever had. Pickens are very very slim after him, Justin Morrow, Ramiro Corrales and Tayt Ianni Rafael Amaya, Mike Burns, Kip Colvey, Tim Martin, Eric Denton, Adam Frye, Mike Zaher, Jed Zayner. Zaher probably could have been better if he got a chance. I know @markmcf8 rated the guy high. I did as well, but he didn't have a chance in hell behind Morrow and Corrales at the time at that position. I didn't include Todd Dunivant and Kevin Goldthwaite they were gone before they got off running. Both had good MLS careers. Dunivant won some cups and Goldthwaite was captain of New York Red Bull for 2 seasons, and had a couple National Team January Call Ups. Marcos Lopez wasn't terrible, but not great either.
Wow! Nice memory. I used to collect baseball cards in my youth. I used to memorize player personal info & stats really well. Those (memory) days are long gone.
❗️ AEK Athens will move forward for Benji Kikanović from San Jose Earthquakes during the summer transfer period. No deal now but AEK manager Matias Almeyda want Kikanović even for next season 🟡 @AEK_FC_OFFICIAL @SJEarthquakes#AEK #Quakes74 #MLS Full story here 👇— Giannis Chorianopoulos (@choria80) January 31, 2023 From a Greek sports journalist. looks like Quakes will have Benji till the summer at least.
Are we sure that is not the Greek Rankel or Rankel himself? If Benji continues to be productive in the next few months, then AEK may not be his only choice.
We better be very careful... we are approaching danger to lose Kikanovic for no return if we don't sell him before his contract expires.
He has club options through 2024, so nobody else can sign him unless they decline the option, right? If they can't strike a deal this year for him, they'll just pick up his option and try again the following year, or sign him to a longer term contract like they've done with other players.
Yes but some players can negotiate to have their options declined unless they have an automatic trigger in their deals. Jozy Altidore pulled that move with TFC which is how he ended up with the Revolution last year. Chances of that unlikely. It's a sellers market. You must take the gamble. You could trigger his option, he gets hurt then he's ********ed... or you can sell when an offer comes in for what you think is maximum your satisfied with and collect the dividends. Knowing this team... we probably sell him this summer. It's not too common in the MLS (yet), as it is other sports, players can hold out as well until they're traded or sold.
Looks like LAFC fans aren't happy Arango is being sold. Comments are interesting too. They don't have a number 9 on the roster. But they're probably going to sign someone. If you open the full tweet it will have the graph and depth chart image. I'm REALLY hoping JT has some big, big, plans with the departures we've been seeing. #LAFC roster is utterly gutted. pic.twitter.com/yN4895tJ0l— LAFC 𝕏 (@LAFC_X) January 31, 2023 Some of the comments. Our next few moves should be really interesting considering Vela is out of contract at the end of this season— D🍩NUTS (@SteelyZidane) January 31, 2023 I wish we had Musovski as a stop gap until we identify another 9. We should try and poach Jeremy Ebobisse from the @SJEarthquakes he'd probably go from 17 to 27 goals.— Rachel (@RCardoza28) January 31, 2023
MLS has a lot of leverage over players. Altidore already had many, many years in the league, so he had a lot more leverage in his contract negotiations. I would venture to guess there is nothing Kikanovic can do about his option. It's all up to the Quakes. If he's not sold this summer, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Quakes give him another multi year contract like they've done many times...unless Kikanovic has a great start to the year and suddenly can demand more money than they're willing to pay. But, given that he and Cowell are already sharing time at that position, it might be hard for Kikanovic to prove his value. The Quakes could easily take time away from him either because Cowell is the better performer or, more cynically, because they want to keep Kikanovic's price down to re-sign him. In our hellscape world, everything is a speculation market, and Cowell is obviously the player potentially worth more money. I could definitely see a scenario where Kikanovic is clearly outperforming Cowell but not getting the time because the Quakes expect to sell Cowell for far more money. It's a weird balance where you need the players you want to sell to play well, but you also need them to not be so good that they become "too expensive" to keep on. There are conflicting incentives between winning games and propping up players for sale that the league currently has to navigate. I think just playing your best players and not worrying about that stuff too intensely will have things work out in your favor often enough, but this is a Fisher team we're talking about, and manipulation is the name of the game.
So far it hasn't been proven that FIFA will enforce "options". It was a big story when Orlando City lost Cyle Larin when he still had an "option" in his contract. Orlando wanted to exercise that option but Cyle took the red-eye to Turkey. It wasn't clear what FIFA was going to do about it at that time. Neither Orlando or the Turkish club (forget which one) wanted to test FIFA so what ended up happening is the Turkish club gave Orlando a low ball fee and Orlando took it. That is to say if Benji really wants to go to Greece when his contract is up he can likely do the same thing and Greece will likely offer the Quakes a bit of money to avoid FIFA making a decision on the matter (which could go either way).
Perhaps. There is 0 reason why FIFA should have anything to do with player contracts, so it's gross that they were even involved. That isn't to say I like that teams have options on players, either. I think keeping exclusivity on a player without having to actually commit to them is extremely scummy and an obviously ploy to drive down the price of players. I would think US labor law would take precedent over anything FIFA tried to do, though. I suppose this has never gone to court, though, either, given that info.