[Official] NYCFC signs Ebenezer Ofori

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Going to be singing the chorus to this at the top of my lungs every time he completes a pass

(This guy was quite good on an old version of Football Manager iirc)
 
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I am pretty excited about this one. This was a big missing piece for us - maybe the biggest.

Now we just need depth at CB.
You don’t think we are okay with Ced and Sweat? I’m okay with that if Ced is 90% of our starters.

My only major annoyance now is we didn’t spend our DP slot on someone who can play all across the front, bed into the team this year as a starter at wing or am and be the long term replacement for Villa.

(Eta: Tons of those players around, right?)
 
You don’t think we are okay with Ced and Sweat? I’m okay with that if Ced is 90% of our starters.

My only major annoyance now is we didn’t spend our DP slot on someone who can play all across the front, bed into the team this year as a starter at wing or am and be the long term replacement for Villa.

(Eta: Tons of those players around, right?)
Yeah, I think we should be fine with Ced and Sweat (and Sands could play there if absolutely needed), as long as Ced's injury isn't serious (which doesn't sound like it is).

I think we still need one more CB body on the roster, but nothing that requires much spending at all.
 
You don’t think we are okay with Ced and Sweat? I’m okay with that if Ced is 90% of our starters.

My only major annoyance now is we didn’t spend our DP slot on someone who can play all across the front, bed into the team this year as a starter at wing or am and be the long term replacement for Villa.

(Eta: Tons of those players around, right?)

Medina has looked very raw in the few glimpses we have seen so far. If the season starts with him coming off the bench because he's more of a prospect than an immediate impact player that's another total waste of a DP spot by the front office.
 
Medina has looked very raw in the few glimpses we have seen so far. If the season starts with him coming off the bench because he's more of a prospect than an immediate impact player that's another total waste of a DP spot by the front office.

Not sure what our cap situation is like, but I think it’s a bit of a reach to say it’ll be a waste of a DP if he comes off the bench starting the season. As a young DP, we have extra flexibility to purchase players such as Ofori. I think a combination of immediate impact DPs and investment in youth/sell high in the future are great uses of DP spots, assuming the young players pan out.
 
Not sure what our cap situation is like, but I think it’s a bit of a reach to say it’ll be a waste of a DP if he comes off the bench starting the season. As a young DP, we have extra flexibility to purchase players such as Ofori. I think a combination of immediate impact DPs and investment in youth/sell high in the future are great uses of DP spots, assuming the young players pan out.
I would like to see what his salary is, but there is probably a good chance that we could use his DP slot next year on someone else.
 
Medina has looked very raw in the few glimpses we have seen so far. If the season starts with him coming off the bench because he's more of a prospect than an immediate impact player that's another total waste of a DP spot by the front office.

DP Passengers make us all crazy.

I also wish I had some insight into whether or not we’ve dipped into the discretionary TAM pool. If not, it adds even more scrutiny to the Medina DP signing.
 
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DP Passengers make us all crazy.

I also wish I had some insight into whether or not we’ve dipped into the discretionary TAM pool. If not, it adds even more scrutiny to the Medina DP signing.

True, but the discretionary TAM is for folks making less than $1.5 Million right? Medina had a transfer fee so it was never going to happen.

By the way, Barco scored a golazo yesterday.
 
I don’t think we need another starting level guy at CB. But I would like to see more than 3 players full time at that position. I like Sweat and Sands as depth options and even Sweat as #4 there, but I don’t think it is enough.

We probably need another CM for depth too. Same deal.
 
Was surprised while listening to SITC this morning how unexcited they are for this signing. I get having some reservations about a guy who has barely played in the past 6 months, but they seem to forget, or didn't know, that NYCFC tried to sign him before. The worst part was John Rojas saying he would rather have Mikey Lopez because at least he doesn't take up an international slot.
 
Was surprised while listening to SITC this morning how unexcited they are for this signing. I get having some reservations about a guy who has barely played in the past 6 months, but they seem to forget, or didn't know, that NYCFC tried to sign him before. The worst part was John Rojas saying he would rather have Mikey Lopez because at least he doesn't take up an international slot.

Shows how clueless they are then about how good Ofori is. Hard to get PT with the options Stuttgart had a CM in Gentner who has been with Stuttgart since 1999 and Santiago Ascacibar who is the mostly highly rated CM prospect Argentina has had in a long time. Add in the fact he missed much of preseason with injury, and it is gonna be hard to get a place on the field.
 
The worst part was John Rojas saying he would rather have Mikey Lopez because at least he doesn't take up an international slot.
I hope Rojas hasn’t seen him play much because I trust his opinion on players more than any of the other guys.

Anyone else think Crooks and Abramowitz switched roles? Roberto is now the one who crazily overrates all the blues.