2026 Roster and Transfer Discussion Thread

[moogoo]

What would we grade our SuperDraft? All I saw was that Dallas traded up and got the second and third pick.

don't think we can grade it until these guys show some worth. at least i don't know enough about college soccer to know if these guys have potential to be superstars. the hope is we find ourselves a KOT or Jones among these picks.

 

[413Blue]

Yeah I don't think there is a single expert out there who has a good insight as to which of these players have pro potential.

 

[ZYanksRule]

What would we grade our SuperDraft? All I saw was that Dallas traded up and got the second and third pick.

The high likelihood is that all of these guys will be for NYCFC2 and won't appear in a game for our team at least next season, so I don't think anyone knows. This draft is much more for the MLSNP team than it is for our team.

 

[Gene]

What would we grade our SuperDraft? All I saw was that Dallas traded up and got the second and third pick.

I haven't followed the college game in years, so I couldn't say. However, just by surfing around this afternoon to see what's what, it appears a lot of people think we may have struck gold with Luca Nikolai. Apparently he was a pretty good player coming through the Borussia Monchengladbach (sp?) youth system and he dropped, because a lot of teams thought he might be going back to Germany.

Given he ended up being the 87th pick in the draft, why not take a chance?

 

[ZYanksRule]

He was announced on December 2nd. Perhaps he has a 30 day exit clause in his Sacramento contract.

Either that or he said, "I want a break, I'll start working January 1st" and the club was cool with that?

I don't think it's this nefarious. I think it's as simple as we hired him during the holiday season and he needs time to close out his Sacramento duties and move across the country during the holidays. Obviously while he's in transit he can be in communication with the interim sporting director, whoever that is, and clearly the club is still getting stuff done (academy director and by all accounts a strong draft). I'm assuming they're putting off the biggest moves until Dunivant officially arrives, but we've never been a team that signed a lot of guys in December anyway, so they probably don't think it's a big deal.

I think we'd all prefer him to have already taken control, but he will still have nearly two months to make additions before the season starts and we always make signings late in the window anyway so this won't change anything.