Yep. It's a completely BS argument that we're not spending enough right now. Lampard and Pirlo were signed for marketing reasons, and not for sporting reasons. Mitrita was the highest transfer fee in team history. They're spending. They have one of the best rosters in MLS. They're doing what it takes, even if the playoffs were unkind last year.
Periodic reminder that the team signed another proven world wide star who performed under pressure his entire career at the highest league level and international play, came here and was outstanding over 4 regular seasons, yet never once excelled in an MLS playoff game, or USOC game. He had exactly one outstanding Red Bull game.
There's no advance formula to winning in a playoff system. If you can't rely on David Villa in big games, and we could not, then there's no guarantee any big spend on a name player will work out.
This team has tried relying on a superstar for goals, and scoring by committee, and its goals scored in playoff games is 0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 1, 1. They make the playoffs often, are consistently better than average, occasionally quite excellent, almost never terrible, but rarely the best in the regular season. In the playoffs they are more likely to fall to a worse team than beat a better team, and will never win MLS Cup, simply because that is their destiny. NYCFC is the Minnesota Vikings of MLS.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
