i seem to remember he wasn't great, but would definitely be an upgrade on Bono (league has fully passed him by, sadly).
they should be going all out for sean johnson if possible.
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Maybe this is a misplaced observation but IiRC Tyler Miller is Bono-esque with the ball at his feet.
Keeper position feeling increasingly important these days (especially with Bob trying to have the guys play out of the back). I might say go-big or go home on this one and Tyler Miller isn’t far enough above average to be our guy.
“Upgrade on Bono” should not be the metric we use to gauge whether a keeper would be a good get.
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I don't like what I see from him a lot either but I know he is good. He does have a few Bono moments per match usually. Had a few yesterday.Quote:
they should be going all out for sean johnson if possible.
It’s a trial, not much to lose but I would say Bustos is unlikely to make the cut.
I note that even though he's out of favor in DC, Hamid still had three shutouts in his 10 starts. Given the defence ahead of him, that's not bad.
Some guys just step up the intensity more easily than expected. There's a striker playing for Bournemouth this year, Kieffer Moore, who has literally worked his way up to the Prem from non-league football, and he had two goals last week against Tottenham.
In 2017 he was still at Forest Green Rovers, at age 25 with a career-best seven goals in a season. Now he's a 30 year old starting in the best league in the world.
Given their needs and the respective players' quality, I'd say it's a good bet both Brandon Vasquez and Kai Wagner go to Leeds United in the offseason. Looks like Facundo Torres at Orlando is headed to Arsenal, potentially.
The leagues are getting closer and closer every year; we're going to lose a lot more players from MLS this year than any other, I imagine.
Drew Moor vibes here if the plan is to replicate the 2015 offseason.
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This Pacific to TFC pipeline is a thing I guess. Suspect it is rooted in the relationship between Rob Friend and Stalts.
I look at who LAFC and Philly have as depth players, and they look better than CPL 26 year olds to me. But I have not watched enough CPL to have a big opinion.
As we saw this year, having quality depth is important - we were desperately short handed too often this season. MacNaughton ended up being worth a decent 3rd (maybe 4th) CB on a very low salary. Chung was a miss. A 50% hit rate on low salary players is fine. I'd be more interested in Borges coming in on a trial however, but this is fine.
I keep mentioning how often I watch the Premier League now, but it's partly in recognition that the levels are getting closer every year. I've seen MLS games that were, at the very least, close to as intense and skilled this year as your average Wolves Vs Bournemouth clash.
Really, the discrepancy between Man City/Arsenal and every other team in that league right now really highlights that the top MLS players are all pretty much skilled enough to play at that League's level, but not for the biggest clubs.
What they still have that MLS really lacks is the absolute intensity for 90 mins and the decision making just has to be faster as consequence. The actual speed of the Premier League game is so much higher than most (and the Championship, too) that most "skill" is subservient to "technique," as there isn't time for fucking around on the ball.
The skill moves are always very quick, very clever, and usually only valuable in slipping one, two men at most. As MLS is played at a lower pace, the South American players in particular have more time and space on the ball, and that leads to less tactical, more individual play across the scope of the game.
But it's getting easier to see how guys from this league can step up.
Waterman was dependable. I think McNaughton could be with the right coaching and a little less ego; by the end of the season, he'd gone from cautious and technically competent to taking chances and playing arrogantly.
That does worry me. He seemed to regress under Bob, not get better (albeit on the ground; in the air, he started the season okay and ended it monstrous, having 5-7 clearances per game).
But to Ensco's point, that league has graduated four or five players now to MLS overall, in four years. One of them had to go through MLS NextPro to get there (Mo Farsi), suggesting not all managers have Bob's confidence in it.
I watch Forge playing at their best and they look like they could survive in USL-C. Maybe, if they picked up their overall pace of play somewhat.
But for the most part, it's USLII level, two or three tiers below MLS.
I'd say it doesn't just look like England's National League, it serves the same purpose: the vast majority there will never make it, but it keeps the dream alive for those who have the potential and were missed.
Unless they increase their spending and professionalize it more with proper capital build, stadiums, foreign players, etc, it won't grow. I think they're waiting for an influx of World Cup interest that simply won't happen, or if it does initially won't be sustained by the quality of play.
We've been through all this before, several times, and nothing has changed; grassroots "believers" can never get it through their heads that this is a competitive sports marketplace, and they're an inferior product, end of. Local loyalty will never be enough if the football and stadium experience feel like shit compared to what they see on TV. The game has advanced too far for a feeder league to "grow" organically into a pro pro division. (See also, Australia's floundering A-league, which has been trying to do it the way the CPL is, with mostly local players and grassroots feeders, for more than a decade, and it's just a money sieve.)
I like the Waterman story. Sure. I could just as easily say TFC should sign someone from the amateur leagues, just because that is where Montreal found Kone. I mean sure, it can happen.
Just looking it up. Waterman had just turned 24 when Montreal signed him. Still kind of old.
While it worked in his case, I think CPL could be providing 19 to 21 year olds to MLS. But the system doesn’t really make that possible, eg Russell-Rowe went from TFC 2 to Columbus, and he “should” maybe have had a year in there in the CPL.
So I don’t see how the CPL can become a feeder league to MLS, as things stand. The gap in quality is too large.