2026 Roster and Transfer Discussion Thread
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I actually remembered that he mentioned last July that the team was looking at adding another attacking dp. There has been 16 weeks of open transfer window since then and it has not happened. He is a liar.
- And in the game of soccer the most important player will be "The Striker" who scores the most goals.
- Will every team have a great Striker?
- No. In fact the team in New York will often go half a season or more without bothering to get any Striker worth playing.
- Seems like they should.
- And yet they won't.
- Why?
- Nobody knows.
- Will every team have a great Striker?
- No. In fact the team in New York will often go half a season or more without bothering to get any Striker worth playing.
- Seems like they should.
- And yet they won't.
- Why?
- Nobody knows.
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With one day left, NYCFC is tied with the Galaxy, Timbers, and Earthquakes for fewest players acquired this window with 5.
If you exclude homegrowns, MLS Next call-ups and super draft signings, NYCFC has 1 player transferred in either by waivers, loan, trade, fee transfer, free agent, or free. I believe the next lowest is San Jose with 3. Everyone else had 4, 5, 8, 10. To be fair, we have a very well constructed team outside of front line attackers. But at the end of the window those attacking holes remain.
Our friend David Lee has brought in 14 new players, and 11 excluding homegrowns MLS Next and super draftees. On the one hand, I don't believe they are a very impressive group. On the other hand, he has a poor budget and started from a terrible position. But he is undoubtedly capable of filling roster holes with alacrity.
If you exclude homegrowns, MLS Next call-ups and super draft signings, NYCFC has 1 player transferred in either by waivers, loan, trade, fee transfer, free agent, or free. I believe the next lowest is San Jose with 3. Everyone else had 4, 5, 8, 10. To be fair, we have a very well constructed team outside of front line attackers. But at the end of the window those attacking holes remain.
Our friend David Lee has brought in 14 new players, and 11 excluding homegrowns MLS Next and super draftees. On the one hand, I don't believe they are a very impressive group. On the other hand, he has a poor budget and started from a terrible position. But he is undoubtedly capable of filling roster holes with alacrity.
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There’s no actual info here. Not sure what Sims could say anyway.
.....So we avoid that issue entirely by not signing star players.
I know he was speaking more broadly at that point but its a weird comment to make in response to a question about a guy as highly regarded as a teammate as Mo Salah. Kind makes me wonder how much Brad even knows about Mo.
Also, who did this pinky promise you love NY with all your heart and really really want to be here and work hard due diligence on Jovan?
based on the club posts, he's been fully integrated and is an integral structural component. i don't see why he doesn't start and play like he's been here for years.
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The beam was just sent out on loan with the option to buy. Currently we are evaluating other beans to make sure they fit the vision for club. If not this window then definitely the next window we expect to have the new beam. But Brad couldn’t be more excited about the potential beams we are looking at.
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If we sent the beam out on loan to La Liga, it would be to Valencia and thus would spend the entire loan basically unused, while we missed two windows searching for a replacement.
So, 2 days before the window closes they drop videos about the last beam even though there seem to be questions about other beams still needing to be placed. And the last day of the window they drop STH gift emails.
Too cynical to think they are intentionally pushing attention away from their failure to act?
Too cynical to think they are intentionally pushing attention away from their failure to act?
If anything it’s too naive to think they have it together enough to make and implement a deflection strategy.
(Kidding. Mostly.)
It's no coincidence that Brad Sims initals are B.S.
There might be some effect, but I think it gives them cover more than it drove the decision. The Sylla deal fell through on February 3. That's almost 3 weeks before our first game, and nothing happened, not even rumors. By the time we won 3 in a row it was March 14 almost 6 weeks later, and there were only 10 days left in the window. I think the direction was set when they left the Sylla deal to the tail end of the European window. Despite several more weeks of MLS window, potential deal makers disappeared.
Also I would hope the club leadership would know better then to believe you can tread water through the first half of a season then ride a key summer acquisition to MLS Cup. The only example I know, at least post MLS 1.0, is 2016 Seattle and Lodeiro. It hasn't happened since, and I think if anything it's getting harder as rosters are getting more depth and balanced over time. MLS rosters are still uneven by design, but not as much as 10 years ago and it's harder for one player to change direction on a season joining midstream.
Also, the rumors of interest in Nico, real or imagined, should be a reminder that you generally cannot build a team over 3-4 seasons when you have a develop and sell business model. We have a really good team right now with a couple of holes up front. At a minimum we needed a striker weeks ago, and could have maybe considered adding a depth winger in the summer. Besides Nico, if Ojeda continues to blossom he's unlikely to be here for the 2027-28 playoffs. If he doesn't, that's a different problem I guess.
Also, the rumors of interest in Nico, real or imagined, should be a reminder that you generally cannot build a team over 3-4 seasons when you have a develop and sell business model. We have a really good team right now with a couple of holes up front. At a minimum we needed a striker weeks ago, and could have maybe considered adding a depth winger in the summer. Besides Nico, if Ojeda continues to blossom he's unlikely to be here for the 2027-28 playoffs. If he doesn't, that's a different problem I guess.
The club seems content to be very good but never push for great given their willingness to just kick the can down the road to the next transfer window every season. I still stand by my position that NYCFC is essentially the Indiana Pacers of MLS. Always in the playoffs, never a true title contender, hyper focused on value while be consistently unwilling to break the bank even if that type of move would make a very good team a true title contender.
At times the way Sims talks almost obsessively about player vetting and all the conditions to sign a player I wonder if some of the clubs issues stem from being overly cautious when it comes to DPs. Sometimes you have to take a swing.
I do wonder if we lost some games to start if they would have been more aggressive.
