Claudio Reyna Departs NYCFC; David Lee Promoted to Sporting Director
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With an attitude like that no wonder you moved to Philly
Wasn't Dome leaving pretty much well-known, or at least the rumor, before he did?
And didn't we all know that the club had allowed Reyna to interview for other positions? Austin couldn't interview Reyna for a job while he's still under contract unless the club allows him.
woke up to all this. Thanks for sharing. It’s utterly depressing. If NYCFC keeps winning, can I still support a club that’s pretty much Manchester City run out of MLS? That’s not what I was promised when I signed up for this. This isn’t like Kroenke owning the Rapids & Arsenal (& the Rams, Nuggets, & Avs). We’ve had a pretty clear statements from both the coach and GM/SD leaving a winning organization (one of them who built it from the ground up) and now you, a longtime poster here who always has inside info from the GM/SD side explaining the reasoning. I never supported metrostars/RB aside for some middling interest in the late 90s because they were the only soccer team in the NY ‘area’. But I never went to a match in NJ, it wasn’t worth the shlep for me. And I eventually stopped following MLS altogether Because of it. It wasn’t the RB affiliation, though now I understand that. Then we were promised a MLS team in Queens. And it eventually moved to YS (which wasn’t easy for me) with no end in sight. And now I’m hearing it’s really run completely by Man City. Not an affiliate club under the same umbrella, but what the Lampard fiasco proved, the club is just a tool/vessel of Man City, run from the Man City offices. Maybe Man City actually cares if NYCFC win? And someone working “part-time” on the club out of Manchester (who’s name we don’t even know) is doing his best (when he doesn’t have more important Man City concerns)? I feel a bit suckered here. I’m a bit angry at MLS too for allowing this type of ownership. But then again, they were probably swindled too. Maybe it’s a new way of doing business in sports? But it’s the only team in the world doing it that way. I want local. I want a NY team, win or lose that belongs to this city. And sadly that’s not NYCFC anymore. I’m not sure it ever was.
This really fucking sucks, because I’m not so hot on USL. I make a big whoop on here about Boro, but I don’t want to watch only USL. It’s hard enough to find MLS coverage, USL is true minor league. I’ll probably consider myself a Boro supporter but watch my Spurs for a real soccer fix, hoping Boro eventually make MLS with an expansion bid so I can go all-in with them like I did NYCFC. Maybe I’ll support Miami in MLS with D Dnigly13. But I think I’m really done with this team. Truth is, I can also focus on the Jets, Islanders, Nets and Yanks. I don’t know, but pretty down on this club right now.
So if NYCFC continues to have these City Hall events and David Lee is there in place of Claudio Reyna, he actually has no say over what happens to the roster. So it would be better to have someone from Manchester, who's part time job it is to care for the NYCFC roster, dial in and answer our questions, if they dial in at all, or even bother to care about our questions.
Is this what customer service will look like in the AI world?]
Are we even going to have a coach? Or will someone from the Man City coaching staff devise our gameplans part time and just email someone the tactics package and training sessions?
David will he tasked with fitting the CFG pieces into the MLS rules. Which he is fantastic at by the way.
True farm team. I bet we find out this year if that rule allowing four MCFC loans still applies and Claudio just refused to use it.
A true, well utilized MCFC farm team could do really well in this league, in front of 16,000 fans. Or we could be a true, poorly utilized MCFC farm team slash garbage bin that never wins a trophy, in front of 10,000 fans.
Define pretty much well known. He never said he was leaving - it was 100% innuendo from comments he made to other people about good luck next year. His official stance was he didn’t know what his status would be.
As to Reyna, same situation. Nothing was made official in the PR world, only a few rumors of him to possibly not being here connected to GVB coming on board. As to Austin interviewing him, that’s all been speculation on the boards with regard to potential tampering. It’s not like it kept PV from interviewing and nothing was levied against any party.
Are you talking loan players? Or players who are chiefly scouted via CFG? I'm guessing the latter.
Regarding the Academy, there’s some misconception about NYCFC’s part in developing these players.
All of the guys we’re excited about were developed elsewhere and poached by NYCFC. Reyna and Sands at NY Soccer Club, Tayvon Gray at Cedar Stars, Lil’ Cavani at Met Oval.
Poaching local players at 14 and up is a pretty standard way of doing things, but it’s not the same as developing kids from the get go. Given the addressable market here, it makes the work done at Academies in smaller markets all the more impressive.
All of the guys we’re excited about were developed elsewhere and poached by NYCFC. Reyna and Sands at NY Soccer Club, Tayvon Gray at Cedar Stars, Lil’ Cavani at Met Oval.
Poaching local players at 14 and up is a pretty standard way of doing things, but it’s not the same as developing kids from the get go. Given the addressable market here, it makes the work done at Academies in smaller markets all the more impressive.
considering the club has only been in existence for a handful of years, it's kind of difficult to say our academy truly develops players like other more established academies. That being said, if our academy wasn't very good, these players would have stagnated after being poached. but instead, our academy wins championships.
I don’t claim to be an expert on it, but what I’ve read is that the skill gained before the period you list is incredibly critical. Much like an IRA, miss out on early and important contributions and the ROI doesn’t get the same compounding results.FredMertz isn’t it genuinely considered to be the case that the 14-18 finishing years are more important?
Not that the finishing years, your words, aren’t important, but the early years create the Messi and Ronaldo players, or at least set the skill sets and ceilings that can be achieved. Bad early years and the ceiling is lower.
Isn't that exactly what we expected him to say? I mean, if you programmed an AI and fed it 20 years worth of GM/SD media statements and interviews, then told it to write a statement explaining why a SD took a new job with an expansion team, it would write exactly what Reyna said. This is a completely by-the-numbers statement.
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Exactly. Couldn't be much more uncontroversial and standard than this.
Nycfc was the longest he had ever been in the same job. Just food for thought.