It’s unfortunate we couldn’t sign Gio before he signed overseas but we got a decent payday from Scally. Yeah, he didn’t give us a lot of minutes but he put money in the coffee to sign others.
I feel we may be starting to be too “teen-centric” in talent evaluations. Every player doesn’t need to be World class, they just need to be good. Owusu would have already been playing for many teams. In fact, I think our homegrowns are more finished products than ones from a high press, direct style team like Philly and NJ. That’s why Chris Gloster signs overseas as a young kid from the Red Bulls but has to work to get time with us. Possession based sides are a more difficult and time consuming process to build. Doesn’t mean we’re not producing talent, it’s just we need a higher product to begin with for them to see the field.
I’m not saying CFG can’t do better. But I think we sometimes we are too quick as fans to give up on a kid under 23.
