NYCFC Players Wanted Thread
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If we didn't just sign Medina, I would have taken Meram for left wing.
Kamara would be amazing as well as a LW/CF. We could squeeze him in:
F | Kamara, Villa, Harrison | Wallace, Lewis
M | Maxi, Medina, Ring | Herrera
D | Matarrita, Callens, Chanot, Tinnerholm | Sweat, Sands, Abdul-Salaam
EDIT: Ditto to K Kjbert and
Fake Jew
If we didn't just sign Medina, I would have taken Meram for left wing.
Kamara would be amazing as well as a LW/CF. We could squeeze him in:
F | Kamara, Villa, Harrison | Wallace, Lewis
M | Maxi, Medina, Ring | Herrera
D | Matarrita, Callens, Chanot, Tinnerholm | Sweat, Sands, Abdul-Salaam
EDIT: Ditto to K Kjbert and
Fake Jew
Imagine trading Maxi Moralez for Ola Kamara (or even Meram)
Kamara - Villa
Medina - Ring - Herrera - Harrison
Mata - Chanot - Callens - Tinnerholm
I was thinking Kamara provides a lot of flexibility. He can sub on every match. He can start 6 matches a year for Villa. You can change formation to a 4-4-2 in certain matches you want to rotate out a Herrera or Maxi. My understanding is that he is a true CF. But you could play a 4-3-3 with Villa as your LW in certain matches where the other team parks the bus - thinking like Colorado or Philly have tried to do in the past.
You know what's funny? That would be a dream formation for Jason Kreis.
I won't imagine that. Ridding our roster of Moralez is a pipe dream and I am going to suffer through two more seasons of him missing sitters, falling over in midfield and passing the ball to Villa in double coverage.
I was going to comment on that formation having no goalkeeper, but with Saunders in goal the effect is the same.
Do you have any reason to think Kamara can play there? I have never seen him be particularly useful at anything other than getting on the end of stuff.
IIRC, a common criticism of him is that he does 100% of fuck all other than that.
I'd argue you need to have 5 "starter quality" midfielders. Card accumulation, knocks, fatigue, whatever. If you play 3 CMs (of varying roles, of course), you will almost always be missing one. I like to leave one in the chamber.
I think 3 "starter quality" CBs is probably enough, UNLESS we play 3/5 ATB. Assuming 4 ATB, pick up a cheap veteran backup and between that and Sweat, you're good.
Last year, Ring started 29 games, Maxi 28, and Herrera and Pirlo combined for 28. That leaves 17 starts in the midfield that are not accounted for. I don't know how often we were missing 2 of those 3, but it is hard to justify bringing in a 5th starting quality guy with those numbers.
Maybe my memory is off, but i feel like we were missing 2/3 more often than just 1/3. I’m too lazy to fact check, end of day Friday.
I was too - and still am since it requires paging through the starting lineups for 34 games.
I do think the numbers are fairly instructive. We are missing the few games that Pirlo started because other people were hurt, as opposed to the ones he started before Herrera replaced him. We are also missing the game or two that Maxi played at LW, but I think that’s it.
What about TPFKAU starting? Lopez? Too many times, even if only once.
You just hand points away when you send out shit like that.
Herrera's first full game was Game 8.
That gives us 27 games where the clear preferred central midfield trio was he, Moralez and Ring.
At least one of them was missing for 19 of those 27 games, and they had a combined 180 minutes or less.
Two were missing for 4 games. May 31 against the Revs, and Games 27-29 in September against SKC, Portland and Colorado.
Against Vancouver in July they combined for 158 minutes. Pirlo started in place of Maxi, who came on for 15 minutes at the end. I think that was a PV choice? Also, Herrera subbed off after 53 minutes for some kind of knock.
So 4 games where 2 were missing, but a full 2/3 of the time at least one was missing, which leads to a major falloff should one of them have to leave and our one decent sub is already starting for the missing guy.
That gives us 27 games where the clear preferred central midfield trio was he, Moralez and Ring.
At least one of them was missing for 19 of those 27 games, and they had a combined 180 minutes or less.
Two were missing for 4 games. May 31 against the Revs, and Games 27-29 in September against SKC, Portland and Colorado.
Against Vancouver in July they combined for 158 minutes. Pirlo started in place of Maxi, who came on for 15 minutes at the end. I think that was a PV choice? Also, Herrera subbed off after 53 minutes for some kind of knock.
So 4 games where 2 were missing, but a full 2/3 of the time at least one was missing, which leads to a major falloff should one of them have to leave and our one decent sub is already starting for the missing guy.
Sounds like we really need a 4th CM.
I think your point about Medina slotting in as the CAM and Maxi playing as more of an 8 (or second CAM like City) allows us the flexibility to look for only one TAM CM, preferably a deeper or a box to box type similar to Herrera.
Yeah, I think Medina (attacking) and Sands (defensive) will serve as the 5th CM. I fear if we sign another one (in addition to CM 4) that Sands and Lewis won't see the field much (Lewis starting on the wing when Medina is at CAM). I'd rather play the kids even if they are slightly worse that a potential CM 5 signing so that they develop for the future.
This, I’m on the Ola train as well. He covers for Villa if Villa needs rest, or you sub him in and move Villa to LW in late game situations when chasing a goal. Ola plays a Target forward role as well which could give tactical flexibility.
Basically, Ola Kamara is a YUGE improvement over Ugo from last year. Pick up the phone and kick the tires on this one.
This is a possibility, and I definitely think it is paramount to add another b2b who can do a job at either end.
I just don't mind having another stopper DM on $200-$300k who can come on to lock down matches and spell Ring occasionally (deputize for him when he's out on yellow card accumulation, mainly).
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