Official (random Player Name) To Nycfc Rumor Thread
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USAfan6
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Ahh gotcha, I know he impressed a lot over here, i'd take him gladly too.
The reason you don't do this is the implications to the other player acquisitions processes. Take away DP slots, and you would need to trash everything else they've set up to maintain balance. DP slots allow a workaround for the clubs to work outside the normal rules to sign players. By simply not counting the top 4 salaries, you would be removing the clubs ability to pursue the highest quality players. Instead, MLS would have to go out and try to sign a Villa on their own and convince him he'd be happy with whatever team had allocation priority. Good luck with that.
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You.....I like you. Run for President of MLS. This would be awesome and beneficial for all teams.
Explain yourself, please. It would be awful for NYCFC, probably moreso than any other club in the league. I just explained why. Do you want us to have to get our DPs from the various drafts or some allocation process? You have to be mental to actually believe what you typed.
Well, I'd also be in favor of getting rid of stuff like that. Teams are getting more sophisticated scouting networks and academies set up, time is fast approaching to cut them more space from the mothership.
Agree that it is likely going that way, but there is so much that has to change before then. It wouldn't make sense to start trashing the plan that got you this far when you can make more incremental progress by adding DP slots.
I think maintaining some elements of the player acquisition process will work to incentivize player development while not marginalizing teams with lower budgets. The one change I'd really like to see is making at least one of the DP slots transferable. Assuming the number goes to 4, it would ensure that all 80 DP slots are filled. If a DP slot were transferable, the market would drive those transferable slots to the clubs most willing to spend the most (thus, at least theoretically, buying the highest quality players, if the $ = quality assumption is true). In acquiring the additional slots, the wealthiest clubs would be providing additional funds to the clubs who don't have the budget to buy the best potential players (those "worth a DP slot"). With the windfall this would provide, in the long-term, those have-nots would have more money to pour into areas such as their academy, facilities (thus developing better players for their squads/selling). In the short term, they could gain allocation monies that would buy down player salaries so that we don't have many situations where a club's (and thus one of the league's 80) DP slots is filled by a player/s making $450k per year. So what's that start to look like? To me, it starts to act like a gradual raising of the salary cap, except that this method effectively "raises the cap" in a way that correlates closely with MLS clubs' respective desire to increase spending on player salaries.
This is an interesting topic from the perspective of someone who is inclined to enjoy economic theory, and there are myriad ways this could impact, mostly for the good from best I can tell, the full spectrum of MLS clubs. I'd like to go on, but I actually have to get some work done to support my own economic interests.
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Xavi and Agudelo. I don't want Mix of Bedoya coming to MLS yet, and I don't like Jozy. Obviously all the foreign DPs are great, but I love Xavis playmaking. We would be unstoppable.
Mix and Sneijder
From your choices, I would cross off Agudelo because I don't know if he still intends to play soccer, and I don't think we need to waste a spot on someone who doesn't care enough for the game that he'd sit out so long, avoiding MLS in favor of building up his FUT squad, touring Europe with his (smoking hot) piece.
I'd then cross off Xavi and Gerrard because they're old and slow, and I think we're about full on that front. Sneijder fills a more important role than Podolski, particularly given that Pod is a left-footed forward.
I guess I'd go with Mix and Sneijder because I would have Mix's babies, although I think Jozy and Sneijder would be better for immediate on-field results.
At this point you have to figure out how these guys fit in the grand scheme of the club.
If they go 4-4-2 - then you go with Bedoya and Sneijder (Bedoya out wide right and Sneijder slotting in behind Villa)
If they go 4-2-3-1, then you could go Jozy and Gerrard - With Jozy up top, Villa on the LW, Lampard behind Jozy and Gerrard playing behind Lampard.
If they go 4-3-3 then you could go Podolski and Bedoya with Villa up top, Podolski as a LW and Bedoya as a RM.
If they go 4-4-2 - then you go with Bedoya and Sneijder (Bedoya out wide right and Sneijder slotting in behind Villa)
If they go 4-2-3-1, then you could go Jozy and Gerrard - With Jozy up top, Villa on the LW, Lampard behind Jozy and Gerrard playing behind Lampard.
If they go 4-3-3 then you could go Podolski and Bedoya with Villa up top, Podolski as a LW and Bedoya as a RM.
I looked to see who is available on a free this summer. Unless it is someone with extenuating circumstances, I just can't see how the squad would pay a transfer fee for someone. This is what I found that could be feasible, in my eyes, either due to age, squad or other circumstances:
Emmanuel Adebayor
Mikel Arteta
Mathieu Flamini
James Milner
Nigel De Jong
Jan Huntelaar
Michael Carrick
Georgio Chiellini
Anderson
Emmanuel Adebayor
Mikel Arteta
Mathieu Flamini
James Milner
Nigel De Jong
Jan Huntelaar
Michael Carrick
Georgio Chiellini
Anderson
From this list I would take Arteta and Huntelaar
LightTheLamps
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am i wrong for thinking it's inevitable that jozy comes to NYC (yes, i know, i'm wrong).
one of the best ways to make a splash in MLS is acquire a national team player, altidore will be available, NYCFC like all new york teams, likes to get wet (from splashes).
it's going to happen.
one of the best ways to make a splash in MLS is acquire a national team player, altidore will be available, NYCFC like all new york teams, likes to get wet (from splashes).
it's going to happen.
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Gerrard and Lampard would be pretty awesome in a way.
USAfan6
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Xavi and Jozy. Xavi would give us one heck of a playmaker, and Jozy would easily be the top striker in MLS, and he is purely the best player out of all the Americans listed.
USAfan6
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NYCFC wants Altidore yes.... Altidore doesn't want MLS though. Klinsmann talks about wanting players in Europe and in the champions league, and Altidore has apparently a lot of interest from Lille who is in the Champions league right now. It would require a lot of Altidore's preferred options to fall apart before he comes to MLS, so its highly highly unlikely he comes here. Diskerud, Bedoya, and Agudelo are our best shots at getting a USMNT player, if Agudelo still counts that is, granted if Agudelo came here and did well in MLS, he would probably get a call-up right away. He has a lot of talent that is going to waste.
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totally fair points.
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