DC Postmatch
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This is exactly what I was thinking. Actually, the upgrades from season 1 to season 2 (players and PV) added a lot too. Do you think we are benefiting from the mother ship or is this coming from New York?
And to be fair, you can't fault people for choosing Villa. I chose Wallace, but Villa had two goals an assist. If you're looking at purely overt statistical output, he is the MOTM. It was hard for me to choose Wallace considering he was subbed out, but I think his output in those 65 mins was that phenomenal.
If you can name me anyone else on this team who converts those two chances then you're welcome to tell me who else should be MOTM today. David Villa is too good.
We made it look so easy. I'm kind of worried about how complacent I am right now.
We made it look so easy. I'm kind of worried about how complacent I am right now.
I did and it fell out of my pocket and I'm childishly upset about it.
So I didn't, I just wanted to whine about it.
Well, Jack was right there to hit the first one. I think it was to him actually. An the final one was at 3-0 with it all put to bed. He was great. But he wasn't the difference today.
Talk about finishing, what's up with that Maxi goal? That was icy.
Win over Burnley > magnet
I basically sprinted from bar to seat. Probably why my hands were unsteady and the phone went crashing at the metal detector
Yes I do remember Shay Facey and Jason Hernandez lol....this team had to start somewhere. The difference between year 3 and year 1 in terms of the roster is night and day. Goes without saying, only Villa left.
Mine is on the fridge now, next to the inaugural banner (I have to work tomorrow, illness or no illness, so I drove all the way back right after the match). They should have given them to everyone (the cost for those things is ridiculously low and they probably pay for themselves) and provided a higher quality "early gate" incentive.
At any rate, it was worth getting there earlier to have a seat in the heated club before heading to our seats.
The stadium is Yankee Stadium. The pitch is Etihad Pitch, along with the Etihad First Class Club Pitchside seats or whatever they changed the name to.
The early trades we executed in season 1 were mostly Reyna's, those seemed to work out reasonably well; for example Poku, Villa, ectera. Then Kreis got involved and created the dumpster fire that was the rest of the team. This caused concern at CFG, the investment vehicle that actually owns all of the teams; i.e. the guys who can fire people at Manchester.
This concern, for the significant investment that is NYCFC, started to become apparent after we couldn't win for 11 games in a row. The result of which was getting players like Angelino, who we were never supposed to get our grubby mitts on, and the high priced DP reinforcement that was Pirlo; who had just started a champions league final.
After missing the playoffs during the first year, and seeing the possibility of a terrifying drop in attendance and revenues from a city that is used to winning, CFG panicked just a wee bit. They fired Kreis and every coach except the goalkeeping coach, and brought in their version of the MLS go fast team. Namely, PV and any coaches he wanted to bring; checkbook officially open, get who you need to win. Oh and you've been allocated way more usage time with the CFG scouting system.
Sometime during this sorted affair Reyna reminds CFG that we need at least two years to fully fix the roster because of how rules work in a salary capped league. This in no way caused additional panic at CFG.
So the situation that at the start of year two is that CFG have sent over all their fixers and hired a few to make sure NYCFC sticks to the plan; never miss the playoffs. This is the situation we find ourselves in now.
So the answer to your question of are we benefiting from the mother ship or not is most easily answered with, yes. With the caveat that NYCFC is its own team with its own staff. Whats really happening is that we're engaged in some actual corporate synergy, which I'd thought was mostly a BS term for something that didn't exist. Don't make the mistake of conflating MCFC with the actual mother ship though, those are two completely separate concepts and entities. Any help we received, or appeared to receive from MCFC was at the direction of the CFG execs looking after their American investment.
CFG are the hard nosed guys that have actually managed to do the impossible and make being a top spender in the PL be profitable year to year. If last year and this year didn't work out, they would slash and burn until they got what they wanted.
Yeah, that's what I wanted to add as well. We were a really good team today and we still haven't seen one of our new acquisitions. This is starting to feel a little bit like the MLS version of what it's like to be Man City, having so many good players that you can't manage to play them all at one time. It seems to be the CFG way, and I'm pretty happy about that.
Feels pretty good to actually have a good team.
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