Kreis Says Wingert To Stay

[TabascoDiva]

Can our esteemed Kreiss revive this Lazarus ? I am still under anesthesia. feel numb and groggy with sadness and disappointment. We have had bad game days but today was the worse. For the last 20 minutes all I wanted just one goal from our Captain Villa to close the season on a positive note. I got my wish and on that note I am looking forward to 2016 season.

 

[BxLio91]

I don't get this. Even at RSL Kreis knew Wingert was getting too slow and was working on ways to replace him. Now he's even older and slower. Why build a defense around him? If he really said it, maybe he's just pumping him up so some slack-jaw club like Colorado or Chicago buy him. Otherwise I'm at a loss. I like Wingert he has heart but he isn't the the future and he isn't even a starter now in MLS especially in 2016.

Can we get NYCFCFan10 to explain this?

 

[canchon]

His lisp is pissing me off.
He said "Facey removed himself with a quad injury".

Juergen Klinsmann noted this and put Facey on his "do not call" list, just in case it ever turns up that Facey has a distant US relative somewhere

 

[Kenny McCormick]

He has to be trolling, Kreis won't be here next year. Yesterday was just the nail in the coffin.

 

[Goodfella]

I wasn't pro-Kreis but I wasn't Anti-Kreis either. Really felt we should give him another year due to all the turbulence of a 1st year, controversial franchise and personnel changes throughout the season. After his choices last night compounded by poor performance and effort from the team, I'm making it official...#KREISOUT

 

[Kjbert]

"Important, veteran part, of a team, that we could look to build around going forward."

That is the actual quote. He wasn't asked to speak about Wingert's future with the club. He was asked to assess his performance on the year - and that was his response.

 

[Tom in Fairfield CT]

Total insanity. He has to be trying to get fired. Please CFG, in the name of the old gods and the new, don't make me watch another season with a lunatic at the helm.

 

[EganSoccerWords]

Guys the reality is that we can only cut one veteran with a guaranteed contract is offseason. Wingert probably isnt the guy we are cutting.

 

[Falastur]

If I didn't laugh, I'd cry. At least he didn't include Grabavoy, Jacobson or KWS in that comment. Dear God, but I really hope we have a RSL clear-out this off-season.

 

[Kjbert]

If you can only cut one guy with a guaranteed contract, you need to cut Ned because he makes so much money.

But they shouldn't have taken Wingert in the first place. The funny thing about Wingert is that I believe he is the ONLY player in MLS with free agency rights this winter.

 

[BxLio91]

Welp, he won't be going anywhere. Can his contract be renegotiated?

 

[Kjbert]

I just read (on the Daily Mail) that Kreis makes $1 Million per year?

 

[EganSoccerWords]

If you can only cut one guy with a guaranteed contract, you need to cut Ned because he makes so much money.

But they shouldn't have taken Wingert in the first place. The funny thing about Wingert is that I believe he is the ONLY player in MLS with free agency rights this winter.

Where did you see anything about free agency rights this winter? If he is a free agent, we can get him at cheaper salary and cut someone else.

 

[Paul]

Where did you see anything about free agency rights this winter? If he is a free agent, we can get him at cheaper salary and cut someone else.

It's in the new CBA but I don't recall the free agency details. Something like 28 yrs old and at least 10 yrs in the league or something like that. I thought there were maybe 5 players who qualify.

 

[BxLio91]

28 and 8 at the same club.

 

[Ryan_Kost12]

Is Kreis drunk? Focus on the younger guys to build around not this bum.

 

[Kjbert]

Where did you see anything about free agency rights this winter? If he is a free agent, we can get him at cheaper salary and cut someone else.

Meaning he can choose free agency. He can opt out

 

[EganSoccerWords]

It's in the new CBA but I don't recall the free agency details. Something like 28 yrs old and at least 10 yrs in the league or something like that. I thought there were maybe 5 players who qualify.

Ballouchy, Grabavoy, Hernandez, Saunders, and Wingert all qualify for free agency. The problem is that MLS does not publicize contract information so we have no clue the length of any of their contracts. They can all be free agents or none of them.

 

[Paul]

Ballouchy, Grabavoy, Hernandez, Saunders, and Wingert all qualify for free agency. The problem is that MLS does not publicize contract information so we have no clue the length of any of their contracts. They can all be free agents or none of them.

If BxLio91 is correct then Ballouchy and Saunders (and maybe Hernandez as well) will not be free agents because they weren't with the same team for 8 yrs.

 

[EganSoccerWords]

If BxLio91 is correct then Ballouchy and Saunders (and maybe Hernandez as well) will not be free agents because they weren't with the same team for 8 yrs.

8 years of MLS experience, not 8 years with one team.