2021 Roster Discussion

[D_RoyJenkins]

Well we have a starting date for the season and more international signings are coming through. Anymore excuses you guys have for the FO?

 

[Shwafta]

Well we have a starting date for the season and more international signings are coming through. Anymore excuses you guys have for the FO?

The season starts a whole month later than usual. Let's assume that means one month push back on normal transfers (regardless of if that's the case or not), and that preseason begins feb 22nd, if the office IS making moves I expect we'll start seeing information next week.

 

[Fantazma]

Well we have a starting date for the season and more international signings are coming through. Anymore excuses you guys have for the FO?

lol why the saltiness ? You know this FO is trash for the most part.

 

[canchon]

Lapmard is available and has ties to NYCFC

 

[ZYanksRule]

Well we have a starting date for the season and more international signings are coming through. Anymore excuses you guys have for the FO?

If we get to the start of training camp with no signings I'll start to get concerned. Until then, let's not jump the gun. This organization built one of the best rosters in MLS for the last two seasons before doing a retool this year. They've earned the benefit of the doubt.

 

[D_RoyJenkins]

If we get to the start of training camp with no signings I'll start to get concerned. Until then, let's not jump the gun. This organization built one of the best rosters in MLS for the last two seasons before doing a retool this year. They've earned the benefit of the doubt.

Benefit of the doubt? Do you remember how late we signed Heber?

 

[413Blue]

Benefit of the doubt? Do you remember how late we signed Heber?

How did that signing work out?

 

[LionNYC]

Is all the GAM we acquired for 2021 just for the roster we currently have and not to acquire new players? If that's true, oh god.

 

[Shwafta]

Is all the GAM we acquired for 2021 just for the roster we currently have and not to acquire new players? If that's true, oh god.

This team is not that stupid. They didn't trade GAM in the draft as well as make multiple 2021 GAM trades without intention of using it.

 

[SoupInNYC]

Is all the GAM we acquired for 2021 just for the roster we currently have and not to acquire new players? If that's true, oh god.

I think we are sitting on it all hoping to gain GAM interest so we can use even more in the future.

 

[moogoo]

Is all the GAM we acquired for 2021 just for the roster we currently have and not to acquire new players? If that's true, oh god.

club just wanted to give Gudi a raise and help him release a NYCFC album - Songs of a Stadium to be.

 

[D_RoyJenkins]

How did that signing work out?

Scored a bunch of goals then got hurt

 

[JayH]

club just wanted to give Gudi a raise and help him release a NYCFC album - Songs of a Stadium to be.

I thought it was Tales of a Bagel to a Schlegel?

 

[moogoo]

I thought it was Tales of a Bagel to a Schlegel?

That's Disc 2 of a 5 disc collection.

 

[Buckley]

We selling Taty too?

 

[Fantazma]

We selling Taty too?

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the article it self mentions they will let him go on loan. This sounds similar with Medina who i think Gremio wanted him on loan as well but in December.

EDIT: Oh and Taty liked the tweet.

 

[moogoo]

the article it self mentions they will let him go on loan. This sounds similar with Medina who i think Gremio wanted him on loan as well but in December.

EDIT: Oh and Taty liked the tweet.

I'll be ok with this if we can get Aguero on loan from the mother ship.

 

[The Toe]

Not too worried yet. We're in a bad spot with travel, the pandemic, unknown CBA, etc. Tough sell for the league at the moment, I'd think, made worse with the lack of Stadium.

 

[FootyLovin]

If we get to the start of training camp with no signings I'll start to get concerned. Until then, let's not jump the gun. This organization built one of the best rosters in MLS for the last two seasons before doing a retool this year. They've earned the benefit of the doubt.

FWIW, significant players signed within 3 weeks of season start and first 3 weeks of season:

2017 - Herrera, Maxi
2018 - Ofori, Ibeagha, Scally
2019 - Mitri, Heber
2020 - Acevedo

That doesn't include many signings that didn't work out. Majority of our signings tend to cluster in the 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after the start of training camp each year. Given that, nothing this year seems out of sorts, even judging by normal standards.

 

[moogoo]

Leaving aside pandemic-related issues (and the need for a greater than zero percent mutual interest), here is how CFG could buy a trophy. Sign Ighalo. He is not old (31) and would score at close to ease in MLS. He is a terrific talent and unfortunately was not the right spot for him behind the Man U kids and then Cavani. He has mentioned MLS as being a landing spot. Let's leave aside his devotion to the other side of Manchester. Sign Diego Costa. Others have mentioned age, attitude, and injury. Come on, he would obliterate MLS defenses (absent serious injury which would keep him from playing). Man City may pull a Lampard with him for depth, but let him come when he wants. Then use the rest of the $$$$ to fill the rest of the holes. with good scouting This won't happen for various reasons, including the pandemic, not our blue print, saving bigger name signings for the new stadium, lack of mutual interest due to homelessness, etc. But if we were the LA Galaxy in NY, and this somehow, came to fruition, we would be unstoppable.

you have really optimistic views. there's no guarantee these guys would perform in MLS. ighalo probably has a better shot than costa. costa's attitude would probably give us more headaches than his salary would be worth. i would be ok signing ighalo as a DP, but not costa and i don't think he'd come as a TAM player.

all that said - i don't think those two players would get us a trophy. MLS is not that low level. I think our biggest problem is not that we don't have a top scorer and adequate supporting cast, but we are very handicapped by a one trick pony coach who drives his players into the ground.