Love him or hate him, Nasri literally fits those guidelines to a T. Add into the fact he doesn't play internationally anymore.
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Love him or hate him, Nasri literally fits those guidelines to a T. Add into the fact he doesn't play internationally anymore.
The wheelhouse for young players is young players in their prime we haven't heard of in leagues we don't watch or young players in their prime we have heard of in leagues we do watch who have some warts for whatever reason (could be playing time, blacklisting, coach conflict, bad luck, bad food etc). The latter could be Gio or Chicha.
Oh, Nasri should already be here. I consider it a management failure that he isn't.
I didn't catch anything like that, but it just doesn't feel like one of those deals where the club and player are really just setting themselves up to demand more from the buying club. And if it is, we probably can't afford it.
All the news that I hear coming out is about international players, but without trading for them we don't have any international slots left.NYCFCfan any chance that you might know which Americans the team is targeting to fill out the roster?
Is Rawls still a trialist? He may end up taking a spot. I'd like to see one or two more domestic forwards. Villa won't be here forever. If we end up playing a 4-3-3 a lot, we'll need more depth up top. Hate to say it, but you hope for the best, plan for the worst. They should go after those last few spots with the expectation that Villa breaks both legs.
Andre Rawls, goal keeper.All the news that I hear coming out is about international players, but without trading for them we don't have any international slots left.
Honestly, I could see us signing Rawls and cutting Johansen who's taking up an international spot. I'm sure we can pick up a third keeper somewhere. Rawls looked promising at Wilmington last year.
Loaned out players do not count as Internationals....... wonder if Johansen could possibly be looking for an apartment in Delaware for the next year.....
Not sure how much of this we already knew, but a few shirt number tidbits from the kit man's tweet just now:
Check out @KitManNYCFC's Tweet:
* Lopez looks like he has the number 5
* Harrison has number 11
* Someone else is getting the number 50 (presumably Brillant, Mattarita or Martinez)
Hate to read too much into squad number choices, but that certainly suggests meaningful roles for Harrison and Lopez
Check out @KitManNYCFC's Tweet:
* Lopez looks like he has the number 5
* Harrison has number 11
* Someone else is getting the number 50 (presumably Brillant, Mattarita or Martinez)
Hate to read too much into squad number choices, but that certainly suggests meaningful roles for Harrison and Lopez
I think it's Brandt, same as last year
Holding 30 open for the return of Javier Calle. Too bad he may pull a hamstring on the way back!
He seemed poor even for a 3rd gk from what I've seen. Hopefully he has progressed since, otherwise he's way not good enough. Also hope that we won't cut Johansen cause it's him who's a good and promissing gk.
It's looking better than a few weeks ago with TT looking healthy and playing well along with Matarrita seeing time at LW but i'd still like to see us add one more wing player for depth. Based on rumors and trialists seems like the last 4 spots could shake out as follows:
1. Bravo
2. Rawls/or another US GK
3. Ivanov - this would be amazing if he's even 85% of what he was
4. TBD?? hopefully a forward.
Between TT, Shelton, Harrison, Tommy Mac and Mattarita (who I think will play more LW than LB this year), I think we look pretty good for wingers actually. Which is pretty crazy considering how little width we had last year! I'm more worried about our depth at centre back, where there are more question marks than I'm comfortable with at this point of the year, and up front, where we will look extremely lightweight if Villa gets another bad injury.
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