2018 General MLS Transfer Rumors
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He did have 11 goals and 15 assists last year. I'd say that's a pretty good season, especially on a team like NE
If thats too much for people Ngyuyen is certainly not good enough to warrant the size of his contract or his ego.
Backlash from who? The fans who care more about fighting and drinking than quality?
And no, that’s not a slight against the Irish. Them’s my people.
ETA: okay. It’s a little bit a slight against the fans who exhibit those behaviours. Mostly meant to insult Tommy, though. Even though I like him. I can like him as rep for a Brooklyn shoe company or a new vape setup, not as a midfielder.
Who is going to make a successful play for Lee Nguyen? He's a really good player, and he's not even making the 18 in New England.
The transfer window closes on May 1. New England likely really want to move him and then go get themselves a good replacement. They already have an international roster spot waiting to be filled.
The Revs turned down an offer of $750K in allocation money for Nguyen. To spitball that amount:
The transfer window closes on May 1. New England likely really want to move him and then go get themselves a good replacement. They already have an international roster spot waiting to be filled.
The Revs turned down an offer of $750K in allocation money for Nguyen. To spitball that amount:
- Darlington Nagbe went from POR to ATL for $1,050 to 1,650K in AM plus an international roster spot.
- Dom Dwyer went from SKC to ORL for $900-1,600K in AM.
- David Accam went from CHI to PHI for $1,200K in AM.
- Justin Meram went from CLB to ORL for $1,050K in AM plus an international roster spot.
- Walker Zimmerman went from DAL to LAF for $500K in AM plus the #1 spot in the allocation ranking, which DAL later traded for another $400K in AM.
- Yamil Asad went from ATL to DCU for $500-600K in AM.
- Paul Arriola went from LAG to DCU for $500K in AM.
- Benny Feilhaber went from SKC to LAFC for only $400K in AM.
- Ola Kamara went from CLB to LAG for $400K in AM plus Gyasi Zardes.
- Sacha Kjelsten went to ORL for only $150 in AM, but the Red Bulls also got 3 young players in return.
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I think he could thrive here, especially if he puts the effort in to badger on defense. He’s a proven scorer and assist guy.
In some ways, I hope if we want him, we hold out until the window is about to close, because it’ll make New England more desperate to move him thus lowering his cost. If we lose out with that strategy, then so beit, we’re still the same as we currently are at the top of the table.
Grab Nguyen with the Harrison money, have Maxi play the 8, and let Herrera go to Europe?
Should have noted that while Nguyen makes $500K per, he wants a new contract, so whichever team signs him will need to renegotiate that. Still, he should be easily TAMable.
Also, he is 31 years old, so this is not an investment with a long term payoff. The team that signs him will have to expect to play him now. On the plus side, there will be no World Cup days off, so he could be a good signing for teams that might expect to miss someone for a few weeks.
I don’t think we need him. Is he that much of an improvement over maxi at the 10? Is maxi a better 8 than Yangel or Ofori, we we need a little physicality. I don’t think there’s a place for Nguyen on this roster.
Interesting story on Laurent Ciman, how he came to play for the Impact, and what it means that he was traded to LAFC. Lots of background here that I did not know.
https://theathletic.com/321369/2018...-returns-to-montreal-and-the-impact-miss-him/
https://theathletic.com/321369/2018...-returns-to-montreal-and-the-impact-miss-him/
We can obviously do fine without him, but I'm intrigued by getting an international spot back. Good Americans are about to go up in price because the league is maxing out on international spots (unless they add more). Hypothetically, imagine adding Wood and Nguyen this summer. Would be huge for roster construction and I'd expect a US Open Cup win with all that depth. Also think ahead to the CCL next spring.
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I don't think there is any. But look at Toronto this year. We thought they had the depth to cover yet they're failing in league play and about to fail in the CCL.
Doesn’t exactly fit here but NE traded Lee Nguyen to LAFC for dough.
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018...uyen-new-england-revolution-blockbuster-trade
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018...uyen-new-england-revolution-blockbuster-trade
Good post, and the perfect place to put it.
It's an interesting move. I wonder if LAFC is willing to renegotiate Nguyen's contract, since that's what started the whole issue with New England.
He's a really good player and has been productive for New England. He will do well in LA.
You have to wonder what LA is going to do about their defense, however. Their 13 goals allowed ties them with 5 teams for 13th in the league.
I also have to wonder where LAFC is getting all this allocation money. They've spent $500K in allocation money on Walker Zimmerman, $400K on Benny Feilhaber, and now $700-950K on Nguyen.
That's a total of $1.6MM to $1.85MM.
That's a total of $1.6MM to $1.85MM.
Nguyen is $350 TAM and $350 GAM and not sure where other $200 comes from but likely TAM (and is add-on depending on his service/production). As an expansion team, they got extra GAM to start with, and They can trade any/all of their regular TAM while using their discretionary TAM on their own roster budget.
Now LAFC have the same problem we would have had signing him, where do you put him and who does he supplant? Why spend $1mm in GAM/TAM for bench depth? They could have boosted other positions of need with all that.
Urena is injured/ hasn't scored yet for them. Having a striker without a goal isn't too good, so I've seen the possibility of putting Vela as striker and Nguyen sitting behind him in the "10" spot.
I don't recall the exact details between us entering and Atlanta entering wasn't one of the big changes that expansion teams got more allocation money to build with and in exchange they shrunk the expansion draft? Hence the complaints that we got screwed being stuck with the old expansion rules that forced us to build with the grabavoys of the world.
You could make a strong case that Atlanta has demonstrated an expansion team roadmap to success that says get as much offense as possible and don't worry about the D. Maybe LAFC is following their lead and just plan to try to out score people to make up for any defensive issues.
After seeing Diomande with Hull for a few years I’m thrilled to see him join LAFC in time to fail to score against us.
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