David Villa Departs New York City Football Club

these kids gonna have to start playing pro soon, our team or send them to USL right away on loans
Yep, the team is either gonna have to start a reserve team or promise minutes on first team or they’re gonna lose the kids they’ve been grooming since 13/14 to college (or overseas if they hold a passport).

They stalled for years but now it’s hitting the point of no return with some of the kids.
 
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Owosu steps in immediately and fills a gap for this team. Don’t see Chanot coming back.
He’s good enough to fill a gap left by a starter leaving, or he’s good enough to be a low depth player? Big difference and not clear per your last post.
 
Owosu steps in immediately and fills a gap for this team. Don’t see Chanot coming back.

i thought it was already determined chanot was gone. so there is high hopes for Ibeagha then, who isint bad. but the whole playing out the back he struggled from what i remember.
 
But if it was Villa wanting to play with other high caliber Spanish national team vets I will fault the club a bit. Not because they didn't do anything about it this season but because they didn't do anything about it for 4 years.


But they brought in Amagat from La Liga giants Girona
 
Yep, the team is either gonna have to start a reserve team or promise minutes on first team or they’re gonna lose the kids they’ve been grooming since 13/14 to college (or overseas if they hold a passport).

They stalled for years but now it’s hitting the point of no return with some of the kids.

seems like its our "best" class because they all play together so many years. but im not really following the lower classes so i dont know if there is anyone making noise.
 
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He’s good enough to fill a gap left by a starter leaving, or he’s good enough to be a low depth player? Big difference and not clear per your last post.

He’s good enough to fill the Sweat 5th CB role.

From the Villa event, we know they are discussing a new contract with at least one player who had their options declined
 
He’s good enough to fill the Sweat 5th CB role.

From the Villa event, we know they are discussing a new contract with at least one player who had their options declined
So he’s being signed as a sign/hold role because they were afraid they’d lose him. The 5th CB shouldn’t be getting any minutes.
 
still :rolleyes:, but since he domestic they will keep him if they go down on that salary

I think it’s mcnamara for a variety of reasons but mostly because of the versatility in midfield he provides.
 
If it's just the money thing I won't fault either the club or Villa. But if it was Villa wanting to play with other high caliber Spanish national team vets I will fault the club a bit. Not because they didn't do anything about it this season but because they didn't do anything about it for 4 years. I can't blame Villa at all if he was disappointed in the clubs unwillingness/inability to bring in another high caliber DP to play along side him the last two years. You can debate if for the club Medina was a good signing or not but there's no debating that from Villa's perspective it was an awful signing. The club basically said: Hey David good news for you're last year under contract we used our one open slot that we can use on any player we want to sign a 19 year old that falls over at the thought of contact and is multiple years away from possibly becoming a star. We think he might be really great in a few years, now can you go win us an MLS cup in your last season here.

Sorry for the rant but as the sadness of his departure starts to dissipate I find myself thinking more and more about how the club struck gold with Villa arguably the best MLS DP ever and then just wasted the last 2 years of it because they got cheap. They went on an on about how lucky we were to have him, so why didn't they surround him with high quality firepower and go for it? Get cheap after the guy is gone, I don't care if they filled the roster with terrible DPs after he was gone to recoup whatever they had to spend to go big while he was here.
I mean, in an ideal world, that would be the case. It's a salary cap league so it's hard to build a roster with large talent pools. Teams that are largely successful in this league have great academies and homegrown to supplement the bigger spending. We have two home grown players ever and only 1 has seen any sort of real time. They brought in some great caliber players in (ITS, Tinnerholm, Ring, Chanot, Callens) over the past few seasons but also have misses (Berget, Ofori, etc.) and in a salary cap league, you can't afford to have misses and with home grown players, the misses are fewer typically. Find me a DP worthy player who would of willingly came her last season that would of made our team better. My guess is that you'll struggle to find any realistic options that would genuinely improve the team. It sucks that they couldn't get him a Cup, but at the end of the day, the team went out and tried to win.
 
Find me a DP worthy player who would of willingly came her last season that would of made our team better.
Are you talking money spent on recent NYCFC DPs, or funding needed for a true DP caliber player that can make an actual instant impact??? Because I find it difficult to believe a true difference maker couldn’t be found any year if Uncle CFG opened the miserly checkbook.
 
Are you talking money spent on recent NYCFC DPs, or funding needed for a true DP caliber player that can make an actual instant impact??? Because I find it difficult to believe a true difference maker couldn’t be found any year if Uncle CFG opened the miserly checkbook.

You could even get one off their bench
 
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