YNT-Eligible MLS Players, 2026 In-Season Thread

James is one of the best players in the age group. He’s doing a solid job, all things considered. Playing a ton of minutes on a terrible team at age 17 isn’t easy. He’s not been perfect, but pretty good IMO for his age.

 

Good on RSL. MLS needs to get appropriate value from sales. It's probably not $20M but it sure is near $10M.

 

If we had more MLS coaches that were half as committed as Bradley is to playing young prospects we’d have a lot more prospects. Even after one of his players plays poorly he still has them start the next game.

 

the cupboard is pretty bare at RBNY so that is part of it, i imagine Redbull is also fine with it since they can just funny money any promising players over to Salzberg or Leipzig. Isn't Hall supposed to be on the fast track over there already?

 

Gozo with another goal.

 

Watched a bit of him last night. He is quite good for a 17yr old. His name sounded very English so I had thought he was.

 

Hopefully that secret news someone here has about Berchimas gets announced soon. Chong Qui didn’t look ready for MLS if he’s the guy from Atlanta.

 

He’s from Minnesota. Mom is Latvian. He can also play for Latvia and they’ve shown interest, but that’s a plan B.

 

Aside from Gozo, who do you guys expect will get sold in the summer window?

I could see Hall but hopefully he stays until the end of the season unless he goes to the Eredivisie. I see tons of potential, but would like to see him develop some consistency in his decision making and passing with teammates.

Staying with NYRB, I also hope Mehmeti stays for a full season. He has so much talent already, yet he does make 1-3 errant passes a game that causes a counter attack for the other team. Staying another year allows him to clean that up.

If Tsakaris didn’t get hurt I could see him going even though he just started getting a full season of minutes.

Cooper Sanchez stays. Peyton Miller could go, but he’s coming back from a series of different injuries.