nah, man. An outright brag would have been, "Me and 29 others rented a party bus to go to Philly and an all inclusive suite at the game. The bus was tricked out with lounge seating, light show, sound system and more. We chatted and took pics with Claudio Reyna and Jon Patricof, as they were in the suite next door. I ran into Maurice Edu in the men's room and had a chat with him as well. The entire day was sexy and douchey." See that's a brag. But that's not my style.
Are you preparing a Ghosts of Forum Future thread?
One of the things I've been debating: if I find something but it's nothing we'd want do I mention it or say nothing?I'm trying to think if an update this year, without a serious announcement, would actually be good for the fanbase. Or if it would just grow the anxiety. MaybeNYCFCfan has looked into some of the previous "updates" from other clubs... what could they actually give us while still keeping their cards close to vest and not compromise their position?
I think at this point, I'm ready for the concrete word saying: "Recently, we came to an agreement with XXXX on the acquisition of XXX acres in the borough of XXX, at the site formerly comprising XXX, to build a XXX-seat SSS, blah blah blah...", instead of a flimsy update. I guess a timeline would be about as much as we could ask for.
Under normal circumstances, if the club was actually transparent with most player/roster/injury matters, I'd say sit on it and give them the benefit of the doubt. Because the team has consistently operated behind roster/injury subterfuge, they've lost the option of "trust us." Put it out there. Put it out there now. Like right now.
That's my thinking, this front office has been anything but transparent. I'll let you know as soon as I get my hands on the information, whatever it may be.
And he's taking up an international slot to boot.
You find something we'd like, tell us.
The problem is, Freddy is a freaking leader. The rest of the crew rallies around him, we need guys like that. We have never seen Tony weld, so we don't know what to expect from him, we need to assume that the foreman Pierre, and the last foreman John knew what they were doing with Freddy. The only alternative is to pay a lot more to get that legend Javier over here from Spain, but he has been making quite a few mistakes in his last few projects.
Yeah but Freddy is very sloppy with his tools. Leaves them lying around for others to take. And on top of that when put under pressure freddy nearly welds his co-worker's faces off. I think its time to give tony a crack at it.
This is something worth mentioning that I don't think has been mentioned in the last 266 pages of comments.
So what you're saying is they like to take something existing and remodel it like a kitchen renovation....
Taking your idea one step farther, before NYCFC, CFG had never built a team from scratch before either, and they paid $100M just to sit at the table.
I promise you I'm not a troll. There were some very specific things about the info I got that couldn't be shared publicly and would out my source, and I don't want to do that. I'd shared that 1. The focus hasn't been on LIC; 2. The process isn't as far along as we think it is; 3. CFG is taking its time, but has a specific borough in mind. I can also probably now share that there was an option/scenario explored that would have been cataclysmic to the club, but seems to have been passed up on, very very thankfully. I mean, it's been over a month since I heard anything, but my source is about as good as it gets in this process.
Lampard contract extension.
