We have literally never had a ball delivered on a FK like the one Eustaquio delivered to Larin last night. Not once.
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We have literally never had a ball delivered on a FK like the one Eustaquio delivered to Larin last night. Not once.
To be honest, until this year I can't even remember when we crossed the ball.
So I heard somethings over the weekend that I want share about our club:
Curtis and especially Manning aren’t going anywhere
Bob Bradley is pretty much a done deal…. Just waiting to announce it
Insigne got offered stupid money… insane money for an mls team to offer. The issue is we want him at the end of his contract and he wants to come after the World Cup for obvious reasons
Destro and Cristicio from Genoa are signed, they were here the last international break to tour the facilities
the dressing room is a mess.. very fractured and dysfunctional. New players and the old guard are both part of the problems
Interesting. I guess the first test of your source will be Bob Bradley.
Not entirely sure the Board of MLSE is particularly competent. So not a total surprise if Manning stays, dispute inheriting a team on the up and riding it all the way to the bottom. You would think they noticed the Curtis / Chris Armas debacle. And the defence.
If you are not changing manning, then it's his call re Curtis. Seems natural to me.
I have always thought the right conversation is about Manning.
Re this source - it could be a good one, but no one will know if Manning is going until it happens. Moves like that are thunderbolts from out of the blue.
The general fan base ain't gonna care if Curtis is gone, or Manning.
The twitterverse & the more knowledgeable will be wondering what it takes.
The bigger issues for most people will be the players brought in - Bradley doesn't sell tickets.
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What the heck do we want with a 34 year old LB?
Very sad if true.
A 30 and 34 year old from Italy, after all our injury problems?
"Fractured dressing room" -- to me Bob Bradley doesn't seem like the type who would be the best at dealing with that. Much would depend on which players leave, and the related dynamics. Part of my concern about Bob Bradley would be that it likely leaves Michael in an elevated role. He's been an incredible servant to the club in the past. But a necessary part of turning over a new leaf would be having somebody else move into that elevated role.
Everything sounds like lipstick on a pig to me. Argh.
Criscito kind of makes sense if he is coming in on a cheap contract. He has been mostly a CB recently and is heads and shoulders above anyone else we have even at (soon to be) 35. He is Genoa's captain and has a contract until 2023. Destro has 6 goals in 8 Serie A games. Can't say I know a ton about the guy, but his contract is up in June.
I suspect there's zero chance with roster limits what they are that we're signing two veteran Italian players in their thirties. This league has never had any problem finding talented defensive players domestically or from smaller, cheaper, closer countries than Italy. This smells like bullshit to an nth degree.
Modified the thread name to include "coach" as that is legitimately as much a part of the discussion this year as the players.
I think Manning is going to move to a new job. We will see. If so, Curtis won’t last.
Yes, of course we were in the cup but we were lucky vs Atlanta and overachieved, enabled by the new playoff format. The arc is down and what will matter to the board in addition to that is what they were told by Manning ahead of time - did he identify the right risks etc etc. If he didn’t identify the risk of Seba and VV going, of the defence again, and of Armas failing, he will be in shaky ground.
Michael Bradley FC will live forever
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/BonaguraESPN/status/1461447042270519297?s=20
Confirmed @ the Athletic that Bradley has left LAFC.
I always thought Michael would leave for LA to be with his dad. Maybe the movement will be in the opposite direction!
Fully expecting Bob Bradley to be announced next week. Hopefully the guys can send Perez off with a trophy for the CV.
I don't know if its faith in him or just they really do believe covid caused most of their problems & Armas alone was responsible for making it worse.
BTW, given what's going on in Europe right now, the idea all will be back to normal by March covid wise is premature.
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If what I heard from my sources in the transportation industry today is true, the Vancouver situation is about to drive a stake through the economy.
My point being if management thinks a "normal" season is possible in 2022, I have my doubts.
They didn't have enough cap space to re-sign Zimmerman. They traded him for $900k-$1.1M in TAM. That's a lot! Same thing with the Kaye deal. They knew they wouldn't have enough budget space to keep him long term, so they flipped him for a lot of TAM/GAM. If they didn't trade these players they'd lose them for nothing a year later. You can certainly declare LAFC the loser of both of these trades, but I can understand the merits and reasoning behind it.
They traded Zimmerman for the players they used his cap space and the GAM on.
Looking at the list of guys they added in 2020 and 2021, that seems very dumb.
It was dumb but Thorrington is the Ali Curtis of LAFC. Bradley may or may not have had a say but Thorrington is the GM and he definitely was pushing to appease their fanbase by adding more flash and less balance. Much like the Gals in that regard. Not sure why Bradley gets all the blame for their moves by everyone. It's like blaming Vanney for Curtis botching things in 2018/19.