2025 Roster and Transfer Discussion Thread
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This is exactly the feeling I had and you described it perfectly. You're the best.
We will be the first team ever to win the Cup with 1 player scoring 95% of our goals!
This would be a great signing to increase both the ceiling and the floor of our midfield. We desperately need some steel at the 6, some maturity, and if it doesn’t take up as DP slot, even better.
Now our biggest weakness is the attack. Alonso is great but Bakrar, Wolf, Ojeda, and Fernandez have been just…
Now our biggest weakness is the attack. Alonso is great but Bakrar, Wolf, Ojeda, and Fernandez have been just…
This would be a good signing. It's an area of need - although far from the most critical.
He looks like a good player. Has been captaining his team in Belgium. He's a regular call-up to the Australian team, and he even has 3 caps in the Premier League back in 2016.
He looks like a good player. Has been captaining his team in Belgium. He's a regular call-up to the Australian team, and he even has 3 caps in the Premier League back in 2016.
If Cushing was still here we’d also get “and he missed preseason and took 2 months to get here” for an excuse as why he can’t get more than 10 minutes in the inter Miami game in September
ezbeezy214
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Anyone hear more about the Kenneth Omeruo rumor?
ZYanksRule
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Congratulations to David Lee for doing the absolute bare minimum while leaving a gaping hole in two of the most important roster positions we have.
Absolute roster malpractice this window, and we're going to pay for it on the field the next 3 months. We will have played 23 of 34 regular season games when the summer window opens.
Absolute roster malpractice this window, and we're going to pay for it on the field the next 3 months. We will have played 23 of 34 regular season games when the summer window opens.
Well, at least we don't have to worry about him having visa issues once he arrives because I'm 99% sure that's not a thing, and despite what they told us, no one in the history of the club has ever truly had visa issues after arriving.
watch this guy doesn't get announced until the first day of summer transfer window so lee can say "we've been very active and working so hard"
ZYanksRule
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Even for this forum, that's pretty cynical.
I legitimately believe they think they are trying to do what's best for the team. They probably still believe in Ojeda, Fernandez, Wolf, Martinez, Bakrar, Jones, and Moralez as an attacking group and don't want to layer over the younger guys. Leaving DP and U-22 slots open for 66% of the season is a crazy decision, but a little less crazy if you believe the guys they already have will pop.
We haven't seen any reason to believe they will pop, but when you're stubborn and when you're high on your own supply, you'll believe it. I think this transfer window, in their opinion, is a number game. Bringing in a new winger or striker would take minutes away from guys they really believe in. Should they believe in Ojeda, Fernandez, and Wolf? We would say no. But they clearly do. And considering the money they spent on those guys last year, it's at least somewhat understandable.
That being said, it's still roster malpractice to leave the defense group so thin, and aside from Martinez I haven't seen anything to indicate the forward group is good enough.
Marito
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Yes. But at this point their believing is unreasonable. In the last blue balls podcast they quoted an ASA goals added metric that divides the field by areas and we ranked 16th in our use of the defensive area of the pitch, 8th in our midfield and 30th in our offensive area, Alonso's heroics included. For the season, not just last game. That's way worse than not popping. That's a dramatic level of failure
I wonder if it is less belief and more needing to work out the corner they have backed themselves into. They have a glut and will need to figure out who to keep betting on and who to move on from. Combine that with it being easier to get key targets in summer than winter and Lee may feel it is worth it to give the current crop more minutes for another 4 months to shake out the winners and losers from this group.
ETA: So if you had to bet on 3 to keep and 3 to let go - Ojeda, Fernandez, Wolf, Martinez, Bakrar, Jones - who stays and who goes?
I think who stays is a pretty easy choice. wolf, martinez, jones.
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Or said another way the three Lee spent zero transfer dollars on stay and the 3 he paid a combined $15.5M in transfer fees for leave. Amazing job by David Lee.
Yeah, I’d be rooting for Ojeda or Fernandez to jump over Wolf by July, because if they flip that switch their ceiling could be higher than Wolf. But I’m not expecting it now.
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There is another way this makes sense, and that's if they are gettin KdB in this summer. If that happens, then I understand a little more why they held serve this window.
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