Andres Mendoza Will Be Waived
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Yeah I was tipped off to this just now. USL lists him in their roster for Wilmington (but it also lists Poku and others so it's probably anyone who's played this year) but Wilmington doesn't have them listed yet. I'm trying to find more and will keep posting updates as they come.
It seems a local reporter is saying the box score is wildly inaccurate and this isn't true.
That box score does list 4 substitutions so I'm inclined to believe him but for now both teams and the USL are showing it as being true. If there's any correction I'll post it.
That box score does list 4 substitutions so I'm inclined to believe him but for now both teams and the USL are showing it as being true. If there's any correction I'll post it.
Lots of people talking about how Kreis said he wasn't fitting in, and how he didn't seem to play well/be in control, but not many people picking up on other things Kreis said, such as that he couldn't seem to get fit, which would be a much better reason for not playing him and then getting rid. Seems to me there were a whole load of reasons he wasn't working out, and calling it bad scouting, bad managing or bad planning is perhaps only looking at half of the story.
The problem is that this particular players was presented as one of the merits of having a great scouting network (to highlight the merits of being part of CFG) at a time when the club needed to diverge attention from Lampard's fiasco. Mendoza became then a promise (not in the "he has potential as a soccer player" sense but "look how great of organization we are") that yesterday was broken.
The promise was of a global scouting network. Admittedly I was hoping for a couple of better finds too, but that was the promise. Having a global scouting network does not mean that you suddenly become able to close out a deal when the other club is playing hardball. Player purchasing is nothing to do with the scouts.
How can you let a 25 year old with strong defense and some attacking qualities go just like that? Forgot for a second how pathetic this team really is.
What plans are there to not fit in with? We are awful and have holes everywhere.
My guess is he wasn't that good defensively, or something else entirely different that we don't know about.
That said, there is even less cover now for a weakened defense.
Thanks for the memories Andres, we will always have that screaming free kick in Manchester that just went over the bar #neverforget
Someone should make highlight video of Andres' time as a NYCFC player just for shits and giggles.
Lets leave the kid alone. NYC is tough and not for everybody. searh Ed Whitson who was a yankee and when the fans found out he could not handle the pressure, heaped shit on him. guy had a breakdown.
He will be left alone because most fans will have forgotten his presence already. Its not like people are sending him hate mail. Why anyone would come from Ecuador (with the altitude level and all you would think he was well adapted to tough situations) to NYC and waste that opportunity is beyond me. Kreis could be covering up for poor training, etc but its probably correct that he suffered from some homesickness. Maybe Ecuador isn't that bad but its never going to be the United States is it...
He might truly regret this in the long term.
He might truly regret this in the long term.
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Especially since Queens has a strong Ecuadorian presence. I just don't know man. Something's fishy.
I hate to rumor-monger, so I won't go beyond saying there definitely must be something off the field going on.
Could be anything or nothing. Only thing we know for sure is we'll likely never know, unless Kreis one day pens a tell-all memoir (working title "Lucky Bounce", with "Harder Than I Imagined" getting some shouts in various corners).
I agree with this 100%. Had to be something off field. Move on and (hopefully) up!!
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