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So I'm just going to assume that we're gone for right now. Instead of being gloom let's look at what we want to do to fix this team and get ready for next year. My list of priorities is:
1. Sell Maxi
2. Sign Macnelly Torres (I know a lot of people here are turned off by his age but this guy is special trust me. We just need to make sure not to make his contract too long)
3. DP striker- Villa's natural position is having a player to play off of him and as evident today we need more goalscoring threats
4. Sign a fucking right back
5. Dump the trash- This means the TMacs and the Sheltons. I don't want them near this team again.
6. Bring in some talented MLS veterans- I know this didn't work out so great with Wallace but with Mac and Shelton hopefully gone we'll need some depth who know the league
7. Centreback depth- Our only available centreback left is Brillant nuf said
8. Let Vieira know he's on the hot seat.
 
6. Bring in some talented MLS veterans- I know this didn't work out so great with Wallace but with Mac and Shelton hopefully gone we'll need some depth who know the league.


Can I suggest Chris Wingert? NY native. Knows the league really well. Played on championship teams at RSL under a legendary manager. Plays super hard on his birthday. It’s even been said that he’s a guy you build a team around.
 
1. How would this be achieved? Maxi is under contract, so he would have to agree to the terms, right? And if we have determined he deserves 700K per year instead of 2M, how would we find a team willing to pay him 2M? Or do we know Maxi would accept a 60% pay cut to "revive" his career? He's a starter and highly respected by teammates and coach, so his career needs no reviving. The only options are cut Maxi (and keep paying him, a la Mix) or keep him.
2. Sure, why not? But does he deserve to be our last available DP if your Maxi sale doesn't work?
3. DP striker assumes we sell or cut Maxi, or buy Macnelly as TAM. If not, the ST would have to be a TAM player also, if we have enough TAM.
4. Somebody better than Struna? Again, we'll need TAM, which we seem to be using in other places according to your plan.
5. Yes, please. And let's include Okoli there.
6. Sure. Let's name names.
7. I think Ferraresi is coming, and he's a CB.
8. Yes.
 
1. How would this be achieved? Maxi is under contract, so he would have to agree to the terms, right? And if we have determined he deserves 700K per year instead of 2M, how would we find a team willing to pay him 2M? Or do we know Maxi would accept a 60% pay cut to "revive" his career? He's a starter and highly respected by teammates and coach, so his career needs no reviving. The only options are cut Maxi (and keep paying him, a la Mix) or keep him.
2. Sure, why not? But does he deserve to be our last available DP if your Maxi sale doesn't work?
3. DP striker assumes we sell or cut Maxi, or buy Macnelly as TAM. If not, the ST would have to be a TAM player also, if we have enough TAM.
4. Somebody better than Struna? Again, we'll need TAM, which we seem to be using in other places according to your plan.
5. Yes, please. And let's include Okoli there.
6. Sure. Let's name names.
7. I think Ferraresi is coming, and he's a CB.
8. Yes.
Well this is all plan a. I wouldn't buy Torres if Maxi isn't sold.
 
I personally think we need to decide HOW we want to play. And I don't mean it in the touchy-feely terms of "philosophy" or "spirit" but rather structurally. I think we're probably the only MLS team that doesn't have a target ST. If we review all of Villa's goals for us, he rarely receives an assist in the box and fires the last shot. He quite frequently receives it outside the box and creates the space by himself, or receives it as the last pass of a pretty elaborate sequence were he has already had touches. He's an orchestrator as much as a finisher. So, should we get him an elite 9, and have him play Giovinco to an Altidore? That's an option. Or should we replace Wallace with a DP true winger who can dribble, create his own shot, and drag defenders wide to open up space for Villa and continue playing without an ST? If Mata is not that winger, and he's no longer a fullback for PV, do we keep him? Or should he move back to fullback? And supercharge our left offense with Mata at fullback, and an elite guy instead of Rodney? Or should we switch Jack to the left, start Lewis on right, and get a new AM? etc etc etc
 
I personally think we need to decide HOW we want to play. And I don't mean it in the touchy-feely terms of "philosophy" or "spirit" but rather structurally. I think we're probably the only MLS team that doesn't have a target ST. If we review all of Villa's goals for us, he rarely receives an assist in the box and fires the last shot. He quite frequently receives it outside the box and creates the space by himself, or receives it as the last pass of a pretty elaborate sequence were he has already had touches. He's an orchestrator as much as a finisher. So, should we get him an elite 9, and have him play Giovinco to an Altidore? That's an option. Or should we replace Wallace with a DP true winger who can dribble, create his own shot, and drag defenders wide to open up space for Villa and continue playing without an ST? If Mata is not that winger, and he's no longer a fullback for PV, do we keep him? Or should he move back to fullback? And supercharge our left offense with Mata at fullback, and an elite guy instead of Rodney? Or should we switch Jack to the left, start Lewis on right, and get a new AM? etc etc etc

i mean shelton and okoli are supposed to be target ST.....and we know how that is going
 
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may not be 100% accurate but have a look to see contract status

https://www.transfermarkt.com/new-york-city-fc/kader/verein/40058/saison_id/2016/plus/1

EDIT: Wow lots of people out of contract after this year

Ok so off the books are:

1. Lurch
2. Rawls
3. Brilliant
4. White
5. Mataritta (is that true?)
6. Sweat
7. Allen
8. Awuah (true?)
9. Pirlo
10. Mikey
11. Yangel (true?)
12. Sands
13. Camargo
14. Sterzer
15. Wallace
16. Tummy
17. Shelton
18. Lewis (true?)
19. Okoli


Idk, I don’t think this is very accurate. I’m pretty sure we have Mata for 1 more year. Yangel is a loan, but signed for longer. Lewis and Awuah didn’t get 1 year rookie contracts.

If it’s true m, it explains the raises for tummy, Shelton, lurch. Why not give them the extra space under the cap we had leftover before the season starts? It’s their last year. If they perform, it’s goodwill to re-signing them. If not, we didn’t lose anything but money.
 
I would target players who don't play for their national teams. I'm kind of not kidding. Or at least consider the upside of players who are not going to be routinely damaged to our detriment.
 
I would target players who don't play for their national teams. I'm kind of not kidding. Or at least consider the upside of players who are not going to be routinely damaged to our detriment.

this did hurt us this year with injuries

but this goes back to are they good enough if not a NT type player....only if they are young and even then they may get called up depending on the country
 
Play 3-5-2 with Callens, Chanot and Ferraresi/new TAM CB.

Find a top quality striker to play with Villa as the 2 up top.

Sell Harrison and/or make him a WB. Mata is your other WB or sell him. Or sell Maxi and make Harrison your 10.

Herrera’s probably gone so you’ll need another strong box to box CM.

Invest in depth. Give Lewis 1500+ minutes.

The team just crapped the bed and had too many injuries. It happens.
 
Ok so off the books are:

1. Lurch
2. Rawls
3. Brilliant
4. White
5. Mataritta (is that true?)
6. Sweat
7. Allen
8. Awuah (true?)
9. Pirlo
10. Mikey
11. Yangel (true?)
12. Sands
13. Camargo
14. Sterzer
15. Wallace
16. Tummy
17. Shelton
18. Lewis (true?)
19. Okoli


Idk, I don’t think this is very accurate. I’m pretty sure we have Mata for 1 more year. Yangel is a loan, but signed for longer. Lewis and Awuah didn’t get 1 year rookie contracts.

If it’s true m, it explains the raises for tummy, Shelton, lurch. Why not give them the extra space under the cap we had leftover before the season starts? It’s their last year. If they perform, it’s goodwill to re-signing them. If not, we didn’t lose anything but money.
I would assume tranfermarkt doesn't take into consideration option years. Because I would imagine many of these players have team options in their contract. For example, Philly just exercised the option on 11 players for next year.

Herrera's and Camargo's loans are done.

Lewis is a GA, and don't they usually sign a 3 year contract?
 
Transfermrkt is crap here. Lots of those guys have options. Most of those guys have options, including Eirik, Rawls, White, Mata, Sweat, Mikey, Tommy Mac and Shelton.

I can't speak to Awuah, Brillant or Sterzer. Okoli was a two year deal I believe.
 
I would target players who don't play for their national teams.
The thing is, a huge amount of our recruitment pool is from CONCACAF nations. And if many of those nations have players good enough to go abroad, even to a second/third-tier league like MLS, they're likely to be good enough to get called up by their NTs.

This idea could work if we start doing more recruitment from Europe, CONMEBOL and some AFCON nations.
 
So. You know me. I started this last night.
I'm started quantifying our offensive production beyond Villa. I know many players do important things that don't result in goals or assists. I try not to be the guy whose answer to my team's woes is "We need more people who score goals. All the goallzz!" But damn, we need more people who score or create goals.

Here are the top 5 goal scorers for every East playoff team, plus Portland and Seattle. The first line is the team name and its total goals for the season. Below that the columns go Player|Goals|Pct. of Team Goals|Assists. Then I added salary info for selected individuals. I left the labels off to save space:

2017 1.JPG 2017 2.JPG
Where to begin. First some stuff not in these charts.
  • Our second highest goal scorer Harrison scored 7 of his 10 in the first half of the season.
  • Wallace scored all of his 4 by Game 13. Yes, our 4th highest goal scorer was goalless over the last 21 games.
Now let's compare:
  • With 5, 4 and 3 goals our 3rd, 4th and 5th best goal scorers compare mostly to Chicago and the Red Bulls. With everyone else there is a clear gap.
  • With 10 goals our second best goal scorer is even with Portland and behind everyone else.
  • We are the only team besides Chicago in this group without a double digit assist generator, though 9 and 9 from Villa and Maxi compare favorably to most teams' top 2.
  • Remember that on 2 metrics Chicago is one of the few teams we compare favorably with and they are eliminated.
To make it clearer, the next tables show (1) the ranking of the same teams by how many goals their 3-5 top scorers made, then (2) the ranking of the same teams by how many goals their 2-5 top scorers made. NYC comes in next-to-last and dead-last respectively. The last column in each chart is what percentage of each team's goals that group generated:
2017 3.JPG
Again, I love the guys who do the work that don't make the scoring stats, but somebody does have to score the freaking goals. And we don't have those guys beyond Villa.
Let's look at previous editions of NYCFC. This is depressing.
2017 4.JPG

  • Our total goals this year are down by 6 from 2016. The difference between a half season of Lampard and his DP replacement is a loss of 7.
  • I included Pirlo in 2016 just to show he is our only double digit assist maker in 3 years.
  • 2017 McNamara is 2015 Ballouchy.
  • 2017 Moralez is 2015 McNamara with more assists. Significantly more assists, but still. Both were the 3rd highest goal scorer with 5 goals. Maxi makes 10 times what TMac makes in 2017.
  • With 3 goals, McNamara should not be in the 2017 top 5, but that's not his fault. The problem is we don't actually have 5 better goal scorers than him. Plus, he only played 53% of the team's minutes. How do we not have 5 higher goal scorers than a guy who played barely more than half the time?
  • Shelton 2016 was a fluke or he regressed horribly. Take your pick.
  • Who did Reyna and Vieira think would replace Lampard's goals in 2017? Harrison? Moralez? Remember how much the team improved the second half of 2016 after Frank and Jack showed up? First half of 2016 27 goals. Second half 35. NYCFC needed that production.
  • Jack played 21 games in 2016 and had 4 goals and 7 assists. The latter let Shelton edge him slightly which is why he's not on the list. Jack played 21 games. Projected to 34 games you get 6.5 goals and 11.3 assists. He outperformed those projections on goals and under on assists. I can live with that type of development. He also came nowhere near to being a goal replacement for Lampard and it was crazy to think he would be. But if he was not supposed to do it, then who?
  • Project Frank's stats to 34 games and you get 21.5 goals and 5.4 assists. Project to the 29 games Maxi played and it comes to 18.3 and 4.6. Instead we got Maxi with 5 and 9.
  • Maxi did not have an off year. Here are his stats from whoscored. I don't know why the 2017 numbers differ from MLS but this is what we have:
2017 5.JPG

  • Maxi 2017 is exactly Maxi every other year. Actually better than some. There's no reason to expect a jump up next year.
  • Again. Maxi does lots of great things that don't get him a goal or an assist, but he cannot be our 3rd highest goal scorer and 3rd highest paid player.
  • Can Jack improve, so he gets 7 goals in both halves of the season, assuming he stays? Maybe. I can't count on it.
  • Maxi was a disastrous DP signing. Maybe he could have worked if we didn't already have a DP who scored 1 goal in his only full season of contributions to us and was about to become fully useless. But a DP like Maxi is a luxury at best if you are already stacked with goal producers. As we are not.Maxi gives us half of what Vazquez creates for 3 times the price and a DP slot. Meram, Higuain, Villalba, Asad, Royer, Blanco all created more goals for less. Hell, Roldan is competitive at about 6% of the salary and no DP slot.
  • Maxi can be a great contributing player on a team without MLS salary limits. Or maybe he can be like Bradley, a DP on a team with 2 DP scorers and a TAM who also produces. I don't know what the hell he is doing here at this cost with this roster.
What do we do now?
  • We're not cutting Maxi. On top of what I wrote a few days ago about how it will hurt the team's credibility, I have no reason to think the club is willing to eat $2 million.
  • Our Pirlo replacement has to be a goal producer. I have no interest right now in a defensive DP, or some guy who is great at starting a buildup, or goes box to box but doesn't score, or anything like that. This is even more true because Villa turns 36 next month and we have no idea when he will start to fade. I think one more year of excellence is likely, but far from a given. If he does fade even a shade next year and NYCFC does not get a true goal scorer, the team is toast.
  • Do something with TAM. Do we even have a TAM player? After the DPs the highest paid player on our 2017 list is Mix at $770k and he doesn't count. The next highest is Chanot at $383k. Where is our Vazquez for $700k? What are we doing with it? Why are buying down nobody?
  • Maybe try playing Lewis?
  • The only reason I wouldn't can Reyna is the hope we sign his kid in the next 12 months.
 
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So. You know me. I started this last night.
I'm started quantifying our offensive production beyond Villa. I know many players do important things that don't result in goals or assists. I try not to be the guy whose answer to my team's woes is "We need more people who score goals. All the goallzz!" But damn, we need more people who score or create goals.

Here are the top 5 goal scorers for every East playoff team, plus Portland and Seattle. The first line is the team name and its total goals for the season. Below that the columns go Player|Goals|Pct. of Team Goals|Assists. Then I added salary info for selected individuals. I left the labels off to save space:

View attachment 7715 View attachment 7716
Where to begin. First some stuff not in these charts.
  • Our second highest goal scorer Harrison scored 7 of his 10 in the first half of the season.
  • Wallace scored all of his 4 by Game 13. Yes, our 4th highest goal scorer was goalless over the last 21 games.
Now let's compare:
  • With 5, 4 and 3 goals our 3rd, 4th and 5th best goal scorers compare mostly to Chicago and the Red Bulls. With everyone else there is a clear gap.
  • With 10 goals our second best goal scorer is even with Portland and behind everyone else.
  • We are the only team besides Chicago in this group without a double digit assist generator, though 9 and 9 from Villa and Maxi compare favorably to most teams' top 2.
  • Remember that on 2 metrics Chicago is one of the few teams we compare favorably with and they are eliminated.
To make it clearer, the next tables show (1) the ranking of the same teams by how many goals their 3-5 top scorers made, then (2) the ranking of the same teams by how many goals their 2-5 top scorers made. NYC comes in next-to-last and dead-last respectively. The last column in each chart is what percentage of each team's goals that group generated:
View attachment 7717
Again, I love the guys who do the work that don't make the scoring stats, but somebody does have to score the freaking goals. And we don't have those guys beyond Villa.
Let's look at previous editions of NYCFC. This is depressing.
View attachment 7718

  • Our total goals this year are down by 6 from 2016. The difference between a half season of Lampard and his DP replacement is a loss of 7.
  • I included Pirlo in 2016 just to show he is our only double digit assist maker in 3 years.
  • 2017 McNamara is 2015 Ballouchy.
  • 2017 Moralez is 2015 McNamara with more assists. Significantly more assists, but still. Both were the 3rd highest goal scorer with 5 goals. Maxi makes 10 times what TMac makes in 2017.
  • With 3 goals, McNamara should not be in the 2017 top 5, but that's not his fault. The problem is we don't actually have 5 better goal scorers than him. Plus, he only played 53% of the team's minutes. How do we not have 5 higher goal scorers than a guy who played barely more than half the time?
  • Shelton 2016 was a fluke or he regressed horribly. Take your pick.
  • Who did Reyna and Vieira think would replace Lampard's goals in 2017? Harrison? Moralez? Remember how much the team improved the second half of 2016 after Frank and Jack showed up? First half of 2016 27 goals. Second half 35. NYCFC needed that production.
  • Jack played 21 games in 2016 and had 4 goals and 7 assists. The latter let Shelton edge him slightly which is why he's not on the list. Jack played 21 games. Projected to 34 games you get 6.5 goals and 11.3 assists. He outperformed those projections on goals and under on assists. I can live with that type of development. He also came nowhere near to being a goal replacement for Lampard and it was crazy to think he would be. But if he was not supposed to do it, then who?
  • Project Frank's stats to 34 games and you get 21.5 goals and 5.4 assists. Project to the 29 games Maxi played and it comes to 18.3 and 4.6. Instead we got Maxi with 5 and 9.
  • Maxi did not have an off year. Here are his stats from whoscored. I don't know why the 2017 numbers differ from MLS but this is what we have:
View attachment 7719

  • Maxi 2017 is exactly Maxi every other year. Actually better than some. There's no reason to expect a jump up next year.
  • Again. Maxi does lots of great things that don't get him a goal or an assist, but he cannot be our 3rd highest goal scorer and 3rd highest paid player.
  • Can Jack improve, so he gets 7 goals in both halves of the season, assuming he stays? Maybe. I can't count on it.
  • Maxi was a disastrous DP signing. Maybe he could have worked if we didn't already have a DP who scored 1 goal in his only full season of contributions to us and was about to become fully useless. But a DP like Maxi is a luxury at best if you are already stacked with goal producers. As we are not.Maxi gives us half of what Vazquez creates for 3 times the price and a DP slot. Meram, Higuain, Villalba, Asad, Royer, Blanco all created more goals for less. Hell, Roldan is competitive at about 6% of the salary and no DP slot.
  • Maxi can be a great contributing player on a team without MLS salary limits. Or maybe he can be like Bradley, a DP on a team with 2 DP scorers and a TAM who also produces. I don't know what the hell he is doing here at this cost with this roster.
What do we do now?
  • We're not cutting Maxi. On top of what I wrote a few days ago about how it will hurt the team's credibility, I have no reason to think the club is willing to eat $2 million.
  • Our Pirlo replacement has to be a goal producer. I have no interest right now in a defensive DP, or some guy who is great at starting a buildup, or goes box to box but doesn't score, or anything like that. This is even more true because Villa turns 36 next month and we have no idea when he will start to fade. I think one more year of excellence is likely, but far from a given. If he does fade even a shade next year and NYCFC does not get a true goal scorer, the team is toast.
  • Do something with TAM. Do we even have a TAM player? After the DPs the highest paid player on our 2017 list is Mix at $770k and he doesn't count. The next highest is Chanot at $383k. Where is our Vazquez for $700k? What are we doing with it? Why are buying down nobody?
  • Maybe try playing Lewis?
  • The only reason I wouldn't can Reyna is the hope we sign his kid in the next 12 months.
You should email this to Patricof.

I’m not saying that as a bitter fan of last night, but because I have zero faith anybody on the team has analyzed our roster/scoring predicament to the level you have. This is some seriously damning info regarding our roster creation/management.
 
You should email this to Patricof.

I’m not saying that as a bitter fan of last night, but because I have zero faith anybody on the team has analyzed our roster/scoring predicament to the level you have. This is some seriously damning info regarding our roster creation/management.

No, Claudio Reyna.
 
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So. You know me. I started this last night.
I'm started quantifying our offensive production beyond Villa. I know many players do important things that don't result in goals or assists. I try not to be the guy whose answer to my team's woes is "We need more people who score goals. All the goallzz!" But damn, we need more people who score or create goals.

Here are the top 5 goal scorers for every East playoff team, plus Portland and Seattle. The first line is the team name and its total goals for the season. Below that the columns go Player|Goals|Pct. of Team Goals|Assists. Then I added salary info for selected individuals. I left the labels off to save space:

View attachment 7715 View attachment 7716
Where to begin. First some stuff not in these charts.
  • Our second highest goal scorer Harrison scored 7 of his 10 in the first half of the season.
  • Wallace scored all of his 4 by Game 13. Yes, our 4th highest goal scorer was goalless over the last 21 games.
Now let's compare:
  • With 5, 4 and 3 goals our 3rd, 4th and 5th best goal scorers compare mostly to Chicago and the Red Bulls. With everyone else there is a clear gap.
  • With 10 goals our second best goal scorer is even with Portland and behind everyone else.
  • We are the only team besides Chicago in this group without a double digit assist generator, though 9 and 9 from Villa and Maxi compare favorably to most teams' top 2.
  • Remember that on 2 metrics Chicago is one of the few teams we compare favorably with and they are eliminated.
To make it clearer, the next tables show (1) the ranking of the same teams by how many goals their 3-5 top scorers made, then (2) the ranking of the same teams by how many goals their 2-5 top scorers made. NYC comes in next-to-last and dead-last respectively. The last column in each chart is what percentage of each team's goals that group generated:
View attachment 7717
Again, I love the guys who do the work that don't make the scoring stats, but somebody does have to score the freaking goals. And we don't have those guys beyond Villa.
Let's look at previous editions of NYCFC. This is depressing.
View attachment 7718

  • Our total goals this year are down by 6 from 2016. The difference between a half season of Lampard and his DP replacement is a loss of 7.
  • I included Pirlo in 2016 just to show he is our only double digit assist maker in 3 years.
  • 2017 McNamara is 2015 Ballouchy.
  • 2017 Moralez is 2015 McNamara with more assists. Significantly more assists, but still. Both were the 3rd highest goal scorer with 5 goals. Maxi makes 10 times what TMac makes in 2017.
  • With 3 goals, McNamara should not be in the 2017 top 5, but that's not his fault. The problem is we don't actually have 5 better goal scorers than him. Plus, he only played 53% of the team's minutes. How do we not have 5 higher goal scorers than a guy who played barely more than half the time?
  • Shelton 2016 was a fluke or he regressed horribly. Take your pick.
  • Who did Reyna and Vieira think would replace Lampard's goals in 2017? Harrison? Moralez? Remember how much the team improved the second half of 2016 after Frank and Jack showed up? First half of 2016 27 goals. Second half 35. NYCFC needed that production.
  • Jack played 21 games in 2016 and had 4 goals and 7 assists. The latter let Shelton edge him slightly which is why he's not on the list. Jack played 21 games. Projected to 34 games you get 6.5 goals and 11.3 assists. He outperformed those projections on goals and under on assists. I can live with that type of development. He also came nowhere near to being a goal replacement for Lampard and it was crazy to think he would be. But if he was not supposed to do it, then who?
  • Project Frank's stats to 34 games and you get 21.5 goals and 5.4 assists. Project to the 29 games Maxi played and it comes to 18.3 and 4.6. Instead we got Maxi with 5 and 9.
  • Maxi did not have an off year. Here are his stats from whoscored. I don't know why the 2017 numbers differ from MLS but this is what we have:
View attachment 7719

  • Maxi 2017 is exactly Maxi every other year. Actually better than some. There's no reason to expect a jump up next year.
  • Again. Maxi does lots of great things that don't get him a goal or an assist, but he cannot be our 3rd highest goal scorer and 3rd highest paid player.
  • Can Jack improve, so he gets 7 goals in both halves of the season, assuming he stays? Maybe. I can't count on it.
  • Maxi was a disastrous DP signing. Maybe he could have worked if we didn't already have a DP who scored 1 goal in his only full season of contributions to us and was about to become fully useless. But a DP like Maxi is a luxury at best if you are already stacked with goal producers. As we are not.Maxi gives us half of what Vazquez creates for 3 times the price and a DP slot. Meram, Higuain, Villalba, Asad, Royer, Blanco all created more goals for less. Hell, Roldan is competitive at about 6% of the salary and no DP slot.
  • Maxi can be a great contributing player on a team without MLS salary limits. Or maybe he can be like Bradley, a DP on a team with 2 DP scorers and a TAM who also produces. I don't know what the hell he is doing here at this cost with this roster.
What do we do now?
  • We're not cutting Maxi. On top of what I wrote a few days ago about how it will hurt the team's credibility, I have no reason to think the club is willing to eat $2 million.
  • Our Pirlo replacement has to be a goal producer. I have no interest right now in a defensive DP, or some guy who is great at starting a buildup, or goes box to box but doesn't score, or anything like that. This is even more true because Villa turns 36 next month and we have no idea when he will start to fade. I think one more year of excellence is likely, but far from a given. If he does fade even a shade next year and NYCFC does not get a true goal scorer, the team is toast.
  • Do something with TAM. Do we even have a TAM player? After the DPs the highest paid player on our 2017 list is Mix at $770k and he doesn't count. The next highest is Chanot at $383k. Where is our Vazquez for $700k? What are we doing with it? Why are buying down nobody?
  • Maybe try playing Lewis?
  • The only reason I wouldn't can Reyna is the hope we sign his kid in the next 12 months.
Great read. Thanks for the work.

Just thought I would add these tweets I saw today