If you had sold Taty ($2.5 million GAM) and Sands (probably also $2.5 million GAM as a HG), then you don’t have these problems. Which is what I said in May.
2023 Roster and Transfer Discussion Thread
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I think he’s said that is not the big euro name, but someone he thinks we are pursuing.
i dont know why why people are expecting big names, that has not happened since the pirlo/lampard/ villa days.
Took my mind off the Vikings implosion with a brief lol so thanks.somehow also posted this in 2019 thread and don’t know how to erase .
No problem my Bills were a frustrating source of anxiety for me most of the afternoon but eked it out . In my defense I’m on a relatively new phone and posting from an exercise bike lol.
Callens to Boca appears to be done.
Best of luck Alex, thanks for burying those 2 PKs!!!!
Best of luck Alex, thanks for burying those 2 PKs!!!!
Where'd you get this,DeGrozz? Haven't caught up yet today.
Just checked and Boca opens in the Argentine Supercopa in five days. Their league schedule starts on Jan. 29. We should get something official very quickly.
Callens came from Spain's second division as a 23 year old CB
My hot take is that if we didn't have Martins as a CB DP I still wouldn't want to have made Callens a CB DP, and it seems likely that that was the only way we could have kept him.
Were he 25 instead of 30 we might have done it regardless.
When he was 26 we extended him for 4 years without needing to make him a DP. One of those paradoxes. He didn't have the ability to demand DP money until he was too old to make it a good investment. And I would probably have been against it then anyway.
Santi just had to be different, didn't he?
But seriously it makes sense given we sign a lot of South American players who are not good enough for Europe when we sign them. Some of them never quite level up and back to SA, or maybe Mexico, is the only place to go, or they age up and home is a retirement stop like Maxi.
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I thought this was an interesting take on center backs. We may be seeing a trend.
There's a certain logic to it, kind of like the old rock'n'roll adage "guitarists are a dime a dozen, the rhythm section makes the band." 2023 moves highlight the importance of MLS center backs
That being said, I'm hesitant to use DPs on center backs too. One is the limit, and it has to be the right guy in the right tactical situation. I know more than a few people think we wasted one on Martins, but I personally am reserving judgment for now. I'd like to see what he does with a full season after being fully integrated and settled in. (The way things are going, he may actually be the "old man" of the squad this year.)
EDIT: I should have said "old man of the XI" rather than squad. I was thinking starters. Obviously, both Fredo and Chanot are older. And I'm assuming Sean Johnson is a goner too.
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Obviously hugely disappointing to lose Callens, but Boca Juniors is a huge move for him. That's a massive club in Argentina. Good for him to get to go to that club, and I hope he kills it there.
I, too, wouldn't necessarily have wanted to make Callens a DP even if we didn't have Martins. We got Callens for his age 24-30 seasons. Players start to regress once they hit their 30's, so we got him for his best seasons and allowed him to move on.
As good as he is, it's probably the wrong move to sign a 31-year-old CB to a DP contract that would have taken him to 34-35 years old. Realistically, Callens would have been gone or diminished in a couple years anyway. Another example of dropping players a year too early instead of a year too late. I'll miss watching him play and he's a legend of this club, but ultimately I don't think this is a wrong move long-term.
I, too, wouldn't necessarily have wanted to make Callens a DP even if we didn't have Martins. We got Callens for his age 24-30 seasons. Players start to regress once they hit their 30's, so we got him for his best seasons and allowed him to move on.
As good as he is, it's probably the wrong move to sign a 31-year-old CB to a DP contract that would have taken him to 34-35 years old. Realistically, Callens would have been gone or diminished in a couple years anyway. Another example of dropping players a year too early instead of a year too late. I'll miss watching him play and he's a legend of this club, but ultimately I don't think this is a wrong move long-term.
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If Deila is still here does everyone leave? Ronnie sent a clear message that he didn’t believe this club was worth sticking with for even one year to attempt to repeat. I can’t believe that has no effect. In all, assuming Johnson goes, 7 of the 11 players who started our Cup final will have left at their earliest next opportunity, and that’s not even counting Medina. Plus you could add Tinnerholm who would have started but for his injury. This has to say something about the club culture, and I don’t think it’s because NYCFC is a bad place to play.
To be clear, IMO Ronnie’s replacement is irrelevant and this has nothing to do with Nick and everything to do with luring players and coaches by telling them the club is a stepping stone and then proving it. Winning the cup is a value multiplier of diminishing time value. Then the manager himself bails out midseason and everyone left has to think - what am I staying for?
To be clear, IMO Ronnie’s replacement is irrelevant and this has nothing to do with Nick and everything to do with luring players and coaches by telling them the club is a stepping stone and then proving it. Winning the cup is a value multiplier of diminishing time value. Then the manager himself bails out midseason and everyone left has to think - what am I staying for?
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