Looking Ahead - Winter Window
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Yeah. I just want one headliner striker to lead this team at all times.
I totally get it -- but it's very roundabout and not at all like what the OP was talking about. He was saying that somehow Dortmund benefits more from the fact that their very good young player is American rather than some other nationality.
It'll also be nice to have a coach that has a similar tactical head as PV. Our possession play and quick passing has been kinda revolutionary in MLS.
Agree. I think it's at least as likely we have Herrera next year as it is that TPFKAU is on the roster.
I'd like to get RJ back down to a salary that doesn't count. I know some will say he covers both fullbacks. I think he's bad at RB and terrible at LB, so doesn't mean a lot to me.
He's paid like a starter because he's starter quality. Right now, it looks pretty smart.
I think you're on the right track when you start mentioning the discrepancy among the top and the rest in leagues such as Belgium and Portugal - possibly Netherlands too.
If you watch those leagues, the bottom of them is about where the bottom of MLS is. The top of MLS is just below the top of them.
If we are looking at teams getting double the allocation money next season, I think you can fairly expect MLS to be very, very close to Championship across the board (although I already think MLS is a better league to watch for the most part). I would think it steps past BL2 for the most part.
Look at where players come from and what they do here relative to what they did elsewhere.
So Chanot is a very good MLS CB - well no shit. He was in the PL pretty early on in his pro career. Vasquez has been very good. But he was Pro league's POTY not long ago.
I don't even know why I'm talking about this, so I'll stop.
Why would you move one of our best attackers to a spot where he sucks? And if the first part of your post happens, as it probably should, then No Sweat won't be starting anywhere, thank God.
Remember guys, there's also an expansion draft next year for LAFC.
NYCFC will likely lose some secondary players so they will need to add depth.
NYCFC will likely lose some secondary players so they will need to add depth.
Because this year it's only one team being added, are we able to protect more players?
Maybe T-Mac can bring back the mullet on his return to LA.
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I was honestly thinking about that yesterday. We can save 10 players.
Villa, Moralez, Harrison, Herrera, Ring, Matarrita, Chanot, Callens, Johnson, Wallace
Sands and Lewis will be automatically protected under Homegrown and Generation Adidas status.
Other than that, Shelton, McNamara, Okoli, Sweat, Allen, Awuah are all available. We're likely going to lose a player this year.
The good thing it that it's only one team making 5 picks. Though wasn't there talk they would end the Expansion Draft and just give the team more GAM and TAM instead?
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Ok lets spitball this.
Players we protect 100%.
Villa
Harrison
Chanot
Callens
Sean Johnson
Ring
Herrera
Mataritta
8/11 spots I feel comfortable saying will be protected no matter what.
Players we might protect (pick three)
Brillant
Okoli
Lopez
Sweat (Only if he stays on a cap friendly salary, I love him at his current salary and he's great for depth, if he wants to go above 80k I don't like him anymore.)
Wallace
White
Players we don't have to protect but are protected due to gen Adidas or homegrown status.
Jlew
Sands
International loans (smart teams don't pick players who are on loan)
Carmago
So right here we have 14 protected guys. And an expansion team is prevented from taking more than 2 players from any one team. Bonus points is that we don't have to protect a third DP because we will likely sign our DP after the expansion draft so we get to "save" one additional depth player. So really we've functionally protected 15 guys, thats the starting 11 plus 4 bench players. I suspect that there are other teams who are going to be able to protect far fewer players than that, and you're much more likely to find quality there.
Why would you take 25 year old Ben Sweat a first year team is doing everything they can to find some kind of quality somewhere. You don't get to worry about depth until year two or three. I don't think we protect Sweat and I don't think we loose him either. Though to be fair I'm kind of speaking out of my ass because I don't really know how many other good/decent wingbacks would be available in the rest of the league.
I completely forgot about the Generation Adidas and Homegrown protection rules. Harrison will 100% graduate as a Generation Adidas player this year but will it be before or after the expansion draft? If after, we save another player.
Isn't Herrera technically on loan? Surely a guy on loan doesn't participate in the draft, right? Since he's technically not on our roster, he's on MCFC's roster?
Remind me, do loanees need to be protected? They aren't addressed directly in last year's rules: http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/2016-expansion-draft-rules-and-regulations
My gut says yes.
My gut says yes.
I don't entirely understand the logic of drafting a player on loan but the 2016 lists show loanees being both protected and left exposed to the draft
I believe that Harrison's status lasts until the official end of the season, which believe it or not is December 31st. And If I remember correctly the drafts are some time in February, so I believe that we are going to have to protect Harrison. And we will protect Harrison because any team with half a brain would snap him up in a heartbeat.
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