You don’t deliver it to the guy that’s part of the problem, you get it into the hands of he guy with power for change.
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NYCFC isn't run like the USMNT. The President, Patricof, doesn't have control of the sporting side of the business. Patricof can't fire Reyna. You have to send this to either Ferran Soriano or Khaldoon Al Mubarak.
Come on Lion, you're really missing the point. Patricof doesn't have to fire Reyna, he just has to put the info in the right person's hands. And Mark actually knows JP and has an ongoing dialog with him, albeit more few & far between over regular, but a relationship none-the-less.
Then honestly, I should print this out and hand it to him at the game on Sunday directly.
I think the expectations were that Maxi would be the assist engine and Wallace/Harrison would carry the additional scoring load. Your numbers prove Maxi clearly under preformed but I do think his assist numbers are lower than he deserves based on the limitations of every player other than Villa to convert the chances Maxi created.
I know his age, potential and endearing personality make it rare for people to question him but a good deal of this should fall on Harrison. Personally I think his current game is too one dimensional and the league has figured him out. Every move ends with him trying to cut in on that left foot. Unless he plans to perfect that to arjen robben type levels he needs to develop a few more attacking approaches.
Let's poach Nikolic to both undermine a potential rival and pump up our scoring!
Oh wait, that's basically impossible within MLS.
Going further with the Harrison thought so many of his attacks in the second half ended in his shot being blocked easily resulting in no chance created or worse his pocket getting picked resulting in a counter going the other way. It just happened way too often for it to be a coincidence. Every LB in the league knows exactly what he plans to do the moment he takes that first dribble towards them. Maybe that highlight from last season when he cut in and put the defender on the ground and scored that got played in about 10,000 mls highlight packages was not the best situation for him.
So, couple of additional thoughts on this.
NYCFC's defense has improved immensely this year. A lot of that can likely be attributed to better defensive players, such as Callens and Johnson. But is the team less aggressive then last year? White was our primary RB for most of the season this year. He is a better defender then RJ, but doesn't often get involved going forward. Mata was also a big part of the offense, and his replacement Sweat did a serviceable-to-good job, but I think Mata is still better.
I also think part of the problem is how much our offense goes through Villa. Meaning how often players try to force feed the ball to Villa even though he is double teamed, or players unwillingness to shot and instead they pass it to Villa. Is this a team strategy from PV, is it Villa demanding the ball all the time, is it a lack of confidence from other players?
NYCFC's defense has improved immensely this year. A lot of that can likely be attributed to better defensive players, such as Callens and Johnson. But is the team less aggressive then last year? White was our primary RB for most of the season this year. He is a better defender then RJ, but doesn't often get involved going forward. Mata was also a big part of the offense, and his replacement Sweat did a serviceable-to-good job, but I think Mata is still better.
I also think part of the problem is how much our offense goes through Villa. Meaning how often players try to force feed the ball to Villa even though he is double teamed, or players unwillingness to shot and instead they pass it to Villa. Is this a team strategy from PV, is it Villa demanding the ball all the time, is it a lack of confidence from other players?
I’m sure some left backs have figured Harrison out, but I think he’s limited with what he can do because of the team’s setup. There’s no target forward for him to cross to. Wallace isn’t really a viable target either, although two of Wallace’s goals did come from rebounds of Harrison’s shots off the post. If Jack doesn’t take a shot himself off the dribble, his only option is to pass it back to the middle on the ground to usually Villa who has run into the space at the top of the box. Rarely does anybody crash the goalmouth for Jack to center a hard/low shot. Rarely is there a midfielder running into the box. There just aren’t a lot of options for Jack to work with beside taking his guy on 1v1.
Gen Addidas contracts are generally 3 + 2 years of team options so I would say not really reliable.
There is a lot of shit that I disagree with here. Mostly, because it’s wrong.
Namely, 1,2,3,4,6,7.
So well done on 5 & 8.
Dude, I’ve been in this a while. We need a Firmino type who can play across the front 4 and stick it in the net. And he’ll be adjusted to replace Villa as the bell cow.
We also need to give up this stupid nominal 4-3-3. It’s shit. Always is for us because we don’t have the players. When we look good in it, it’s because we aren’t actually playing a 433.
All of that said, a DP #10 in MLS shouldn’t look like Maxi, not for $2million.
Maxi looks like a DP for name your Midwest mls club, not at New York.
His sack shrinks up when he gets close to the goal. Higuain is making flicks, megging tricks, playing g’s in. Maxi is hustling around and completing 85%.
Fuck the fuck out of that.
We wouldn’t have finished 2nd in the East given the rest of the squad, if Maxi weren’t on the team.
We will never win an MLS cup burning a DP slot on a player at the caliber of Maxi.
Maxi looks like a DP for name your Midwest mls club, not at New York.
His sack shrinks up when he gets close to the goal. Higuain is making flicks, megging tricks, playing g’s in. Maxi is hustling around and completing 85%.
Fuck the fuck out of that.
We wouldn’t have finished 2nd in the East given the rest of the squad, if Maxi weren’t on the team.
We will never win an MLS cup burning a DP slot on a player at the caliber of Maxi.
Yeah. To repeat a point that has been made a few times in the past, we have not helped him out with an overlapping fullback either.
I’ll go a step further:
Our football people knew they fucked it up so bad with Pirlo, they signed the most creative two way player they could find at some budgeted price to mitigate our results on the season.
They knew Maxi couldn’t create. It was CYA over Zombie Pirlo’s rot spreading to every limb, as we all saw at the end of last year.
Harrison is a championship level player at best. One trick pony
A DP contract for him would be a waste.
You get to say it without catching hell. Jack is a fairly mediocre player.
Maxi isn’t even mediocre as a 10, he’s just a hustle bug attempt on the part of FO people to keep their jobs.
You don’t win titles with people going for job security.
Our FO needs to go. Either they failed, or they are being handicapped by the org to an extent it forces failure upon them.
If you’re in that spot, you gotta go.
Bingo. Except for the part that they knew Maxi couldn't create. They thought they were getting Lodeiro. Everything else is 100% true
For those of you picking on Jack, he's 20 years old, this is his second year of playing professional soccer, he was our second best offensive player and he played in a system used with overlapping fullbacks but we didn't provide him one.
I'm not saying he's a savior, but at 20 he's every bit the player Meram is ($375k), Paul Ariola is (DP), or Zardes is ($500k).
Jack makes a fraction of what those guys make. I would argue, behind Ring and Callens, we've gotten more out of him for what he's making than anyone else on the team. Wallace makes double. Maxi makes 10x as much. Shelton makes more. McNamara makes more.
Lay off Jack. He's outperformed his contract.
I'm not saying he's a savior, but at 20 he's every bit the player Meram is ($375k), Paul Ariola is (DP), or Zardes is ($500k).
Jack makes a fraction of what those guys make. I would argue, behind Ring and Callens, we've gotten more out of him for what he's making than anyone else on the team. Wallace makes double. Maxi makes 10x as much. Shelton makes more. McNamara makes more.
Lay off Jack. He's outperformed his contract.
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