Post-match: Yer a Goalscorer, Abou Ali - Crew v Orlando - Match 7 - 4/12/26 7:00 PM

Where is JRR when you need him????????

 

I'm not even 100% sure he'll be back in time for the half season next February.

 

We can still:

1) Buy out Gazdag, and
2) Replace WAA with another DP since he will be in Season ending injury list before the opening of the secondary window.

It is just a matter of if Jimmy wants to or not.

My guess is no.

 

A third central midfielder is what this team has been dying for. That just means you probably have to drop one of the defenders and drop Max or Herrara back (or my preference drop Herrara from the lineup). Or just switch back to a back 3, drop malte or Camacho, and play taha as an AM or CAM in a 3-5-2

 

It is just a matter of if Jimmy wants to or not.

My guess is no.[/QUOTE]

My guess is that we’ll get halfway there. I think we’ll get a new DP to replace Gazdag and agree that Wessam will be put on the season ending injury list. However, I’m envisioning an inferior short term loan to replace Wessam until his contract winds down.

 

This thread has had it all. A KHT, a K8Ball, WAA tore his ALC and miniscus, bunch of people slandering and defending Jimmy, Bez is coming back, Fire Issa in strong force.

I will say this, that was one of the worst games I've seen in the new stadium. Someone earlier said we actually looked like we put some things together and we did dominate. But Orlando is garbage. Before last night they lost 5-0, 5-0, 6-0 in 3 of their last 4 games. Their right back was one of the slowest humans on earth. And we somehow could only manage one goal. That's not a great sign.

 

He should be alright. ACL's tend to take about 6 months now, and 2-3 months of ramping back up. 9 months would be mid-January.

 

I just sung this to the Village People song "Macho Man"...

 

Finally, something positive to look forward to in the new ridiculous MLS schedule rollout. JK, this sucks. WAA seems very fragile. He plays 4-5 matches, scores 5 goals, and then misses 10-20 matches. This is not sustainable, bring on a new striker.

 

That unlimited alcohol did this to me.
Signed,
The corpse in this room

 

With the Ali injury I have seen this exact thing happen before. It really isn't the physio or the coach that is to "blame". It comes down to the player. If they say they are ok to carry on, how can either complain? It's not like they can immediately scan the knee and look for damage, there is a certain element of trust in the feedback a player gives - but knowing that I have seen this before I was hoping that Ali wouldn't come back on but he did. Not sure if any additional damage would have been caused but it is more likely to make it worse than better. I think what it has further highlighted is how thin our squad now is, but maybe we will work Rossi into more effective areas of the pitch

 

The trouble with depending on Rossi is not that he's a bad player or anything. He's great. But he's small. Teams have been beating up on Columbus physically over the past few years, and Rossi's theatrics aren't winning him any friends among the officiating crews--as witness the fine after the Atlanta match. He needs a complementary piece.

 

I want to know why the rest of the team doesn't seem to like WAA.

 

Why you say that?

 

I’ve been going back and forth over this with my friends, who don’t seem to think it’s that big of a deal that not one Crew player came up and said a word to Wes as he laid there on the field after blowing his knee into smithereens. Which, ok sure, if the team is winning and scoring goals who cares if the striker banging them in isn’t the most popular guy in the locker room. Cucho might not have been many guys best friend here either, not a big deal.

Obviously that’s not where this team is. The team stinks, the coaching has also clearly stunk, what I hope to see at a MINIMUM is a team that appears to be together on the field and showing signs that they’re determined to get through this rebuild as a unit. Us against the world type of thing. We’ve got each others backs and all of that.

In addition to everything else wrong here, I haven’t seen a hint of that.

 

Reports that the team didn't celebrate his goals with him, nor console him when he was down injured.

 

Way better and it was going up against the CBJ who were in the playoff hunt. There just wasnt 19k plus there.

 

Taha might be Wessam's only friend. The locker room has been a mess since last summer.

 

What do you think?

Doing what he does best. 0 goals, 0 assists in 9 games.

 

He was never good enough for Ligue 1, really weird move by Toulouse.