Im curious about the no money comment.Originally Posted by maninb
Why so. We are a profitble club and well run. We can certainly afford good wages.
Im curious about the no money comment.
Why so. We are a profitble club and well run. We can certainly afford good wages.
I believe the reference is to the fact that the more competitive the club a player goes to it's often the less that club has to pay to get him there.
PSG, even QPR if they chose to open their purse, would throw more more at the prospect of Becks in their leagues than Spurs in the Premier league.
FORMER FULL TIME KOOL-AID DRINKER
No thanks. I'd much rather give that hot academy kid the chance. Haber was playing with Colin Samuel last year and still didn't look good.
Vukovic definitely deserves a look with the first team.
i have been thinking about how awesome having mckenna at tfc would be for a while now; i would be super pumped.
i don't see any chance of us getting straith, but if we could, i'm replacing cann with him in that lineup.
straith is a natural LB
McKenna would look in TFC jersey. he's not getting much PT for his team in bundesliga right now
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
i believe mckenna is naturally right-footed; straith looked good at centre back for canada recently, is left footed, and i believe has played both cb and lb in his career so far, though i admit that i have not seen much of him at the club level. winter wants a right footed and left footed central back partnership. i think they would make a pretty good tandem.
meh, i doubt straith would be coming back this way any time soon anyways.
is there any chance of mckenna actually coming over?
I don't get this obsession with left footed CB. as long as the guy isn't completely weak on his left foot, is that not good enough?
straith looked good against PDL level opposition...
I don't know if McKenna would come to MLS, but he's not getting game time, and if he wants to continue his career with Canada, he's going to need to play more often. plus he's getting into twilight of his career
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
i'm certainly not obsessed with the idea of a left footed cb, but winter seems to like the idea; i do see the benefit of the concept, but i thought with iro it felt forced.
i would hope that a cb would be decently proficient with both feet anyways.
^ The whole left footed CB, thing, puzzles me a bit. I understand that you would rather have your LCB left footed, but it hardly seems as important as Winter and Mariner seem to think. I have never heard of it being that imporant before.
i believe that i originally heard de klerk mention it earlier in the season, and i kind of liked the idea; i can definitely understand how it would be of benefit and it shows good attention to detail, in my mind.
i just hope that it is practically handled, as in not bringing a cb in simply because they are left footed (which i am worried was a big part of getting iro, unfortunately); i would hope that the naturally left footed criteria is well down the list of checkboxes.
^ Yeah, I agree. If you are looking for a LCB and you are looking a two talented CBs, with many of the same attributes, and one of them is left footed, it could be a decisive factor. I get that. But the passes and RCB and LCB have to make are not that different. A RB and LB that is different, due to the necessity to cross. THere are not that many left footed players.
Avila remains cup tied, but I would kill puppies with my bare hands if it meant getting Will Johnson in a TFC uniform, and I love puppies. I think he'd fit this system perfectly and I love his ability to deliver a quality cross.
Okay, not puppies. Kittens maybe.
Hard to argue that.
I mean Will on our team, not the killing stuff.
Johnson isn't good enough passer IMO. Awesome two way play who will run his ass off, but not really fits TFC. Then again, I rate him higher than Dunfield
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
I know I read somewhere that Johnson's hometown is actually Chicago, not Toronto. But god knows we need quality Canadians.
I don't know what Johnson's contract status is, but if he's also out of contract Dec 31, it'd be interesting to see if RSL would swap Johnson for Avila.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
born in toronto, raised outside of chicago i think.
why cant we have both?
although im sure RSL wont give him up for cheap, im sure he doesnt want to leave there anytime soon too
I think you answered your own question. I also suspect that both are looking at big paydays, so you get into cap issues.
Let's agree that we'd both prefer to trade Sturgis for Johnson!
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
---------------Frei---------------
Eckersley--Williams--Cann--Morgan
------DeGuzman-----Frings--------
---------------Avilarse---------------
Johnson----------------------Platarse
------------Koevermans-----------
TFC will have to play their 100% best game. The Galaxy are on another level from most of the rest of the league (even if TFC has beaten them in the past).
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
I like the ambition, but I guarantee you Johnson isn't even considering TFC.
Oh you mean Will Johnson.
For a second I thought you meant Ryan Johnson. LOL
I figure Will Johnson could end up in Europe.
^ I like what I have seen of him with Canada. Is he realy suited to be the playmaking CAM, a true 10 type?
nooooo.... he has a lot of brainfart, making bad passes. hardworker and a grinder, not a creative AM type
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
I hope we can get far. Rep Canada. Those US MLS fans don't really care about the Canadian teams, lets show them how it's done.
That is kind of the way I see it. I would like to see a good passer a creative player in that position.
You will more than likely not be seeing either donovan or beckham, and this would completely destroy the foundation, the only thing that Galaxy has for them is that they are starting Preseason now and we will start in January, giving LA a month more of preseason
Straith is not a natural LB. He's a natural CB. He played LB for Canada in a friendly against Greece and was completely lost and made the mistake causing the goal in our 1-0 defeat.
He also plays RB.
He was slotted in at LB because we were missing De Jong and Klukowski.
I hope Johnson will want to put in a stint here at some point. I think we could get behind him. We'll have to wait for him to get over Salt Lake and possibly a stint in "hometown" Chicago first.
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European coaches want a left-footed centre half so they can adjust based on each team to maximize shot blocking. Players tend to cut across the box to shoot, to widen the angle on one side of the net. If you have left footed defender and play him as your RCB, he is more likely to block a player cutting in from the left, because he's sliding into the block with his best foot.
When teams employ a lot of wing play, as is often the case in the fairly technically simple MLS, and they rely on goals from those wingers as well due to a general league paucity in good finishing, they're going to spend a lot of time cutting inside.
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