Nycfc In Talks Kv Oostende For Defender Frédéric Brillant.
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I believe there is 1 spot left, but that will be used once Harrison's visa goes through. I forgot where I saw that, but I remember seeing something saying that they were waiting for the last of his paperwork before giving Harrison the International spot. I think that means there aren't any left once that part goes through. Saw it on twitter earlier today.
Thanks, the true insight here is his place of birth close to the border and the amateur club. Everything else I agree with but really are all guesses.
Unless someone gets hurt and we bring an EDS player in mid season which to me is the ideal use of EDS and a huge advantage for us.
Man, we have some work to do this off season. If PV can take these guys, break them down and build them back up in one season... what a feat!
Why do you say that? He is in the same league as teixiera, the Belgian league. Tefu was in the shitty south African league.
Laurent Ciman and Kwame Watson-Siriboe were in the same league too.
Teixeira was recognized as one of the better defenders in the Belgian League. Brillant is being replaced because his team is making a move up the table.
He started 34 league games for KV Oostende last season and they finished 13th of 16 in goals against. This year, they're about 75% of the way through their season and are sitting 6th in goals against, with Brillant only making 7 starts.
I can admit I really don't know much about either player. But I don't think the things I've been able to dig up indicate that the players are in the same talent tier.
The good news is that even Brillant should be miles better than guys like White, Wingert, and Watson-Siriboe, but whether he's miles better than Facey and Hernandez were last year, or only "sufficient," I think is an open question.
If we can even improve our defense slightly, we should be able to hold about an even goal differential, because we have an above average offense that's getting better. And that's enough for playoffs in MLS. Timbers only had a +2 last year and ended up winning the Cup. We were 49/58 last year for a -9, I think we can get both in the low 50's this year.
1 if Harrison isn't an international. Conflicting reports on his status. 0 if he is.
if MLS hasn't listed him as one then why the conflicting reports?
Where are the conflicting reports? I've only seen MLS not list him as one and then a bunch of speculation on this forum that he might be one. I haven't seen any reports that mention he may be using an international spot (not saying they don't exist, I just don't recall seeing any).
Yeah unless being GA means you're not listed as International he is an international.
I still hold firm that we are on a five year building plan. Thankfully with football being a global game there are tons of players that can fill our roster, we just have to be diligent in searching, and while we didn't sign texeria, brilliant is a good signing in the mean time. In the offseasons though we have to be honest with which players we need to cut. This offseason we did a terrific job of cutting the dead weight, and so far I think we are doing a good job of filling holes we had. We also NEED to be collecting great American players as that's the key to great MLS rosters. We aren't done building this roster to a place that we as fan will be happy, and I think it will still take a couple years, but we are well on our way.
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