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    Quote Originally Posted by ag futbol View Post
    He’s not bad. I’d suspect it’s the whitecaps however. This looks like their type of signing.
    Whitecaps have talented sophmore Jake Nerwinski and new signing Mexican international Efrain Juarez at RB. Looks like they've finally come in from the cold and sorted out their RB issues after giving up Beita three years ago. Long are the days of the Jordan Smith-Fraser Aird Neptune sized blackhole occupying the right side of the field for the Whitecaps.

    Petrasso still seems unlikely to me. I don't think he's better than Hasler. Probably wouldn't push him the same way Beita or a player of his caliber would fight for minutes at that spot. Just very unambitious. Plus we gotta use our TAM on something. Seems the most obvious move to use it there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Areathrasher View Post
    Went to school with the guy hes an alright player nothing on TFC caliber yet. That would be a disappointing signing.

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    ^ oh I certainly wouldn’t call it ambitious either. But he has enough potential where I wouldn’t mind having him on the roster.

    Definitely more backup than starter, as you mentioned.

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    The rumour that TFC offered Beitashour less then what he was getting indicates they might think Hasler is more starter then he was last year. But then, the other reports of them wanting a true winger type might indicate otherwise.

    Sooo....

    Is Hasler a starter on an MLS cup competitive team?

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    So far we know we lost Cheyrou to retirement and Beitashour and Edwards are gone as well. I am still concerned why we haven't resigned Zavaleta, Cooper, Hernandez, Endoh?

    Also if we just received 3 million in allocation money how are we strapped for cash?

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    Quote Originally Posted by michaeltfc91 View Post
    So far we know we lost Cheyrou to retirement and Beitashour and Edwards are gone as well. I am still concerned why we haven't resigned Zavaleta, Cooper, Hernandez, Endoh?

    Also if we just received 3 million in allocation money how are we strapped for cash?
    Who said we were strapped for cash?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jabbronies View Post
    Who said we were strapped for cash?
    Bez and Manning in a few of the end-of-the-season interviews with Molinaro/Larson/Kloke/Armstrong/etc.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cas87 View Post
    Bez and Manning in a few of the end-of-the-season interviews with Molinaro/Larson/Kloke/Armstrong/etc.
    strapped for cash this past season sure, but there's a lot that's changed. dead contracts shifted off, others negotiating or already signed to new contracts. Plus you have to factor in Annual cap increase, Contracts coming off the books from guys who aren't on the team, as well as the huge influx of TAM.

    Bono and Zavs are probably the only guys who are getting significant raises. Everyone else - the Coopers and the Beitashours' and the Moors of the world - are being offered cuts to stay so we can invest elsewhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by michaeltfc91 View Post
    So far we know we lost Cheyrou to retirement and Beitashour and Edwards are gone as well. I am still concerned why we haven't resigned Zavaleta, Cooper, Hernandez, Endoh?

    Also if we just received 3 million in allocation money how are we strapped for cash?
    It because cap space and tam are two different things. For instance you can't use TAM to up an offer to a guy by say 50-100K.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Areathrasher View Post
    I like Petrasso but not at a number over 200k too much of a gamble

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    If we’re so strapped for budget space why is Irwin not off the roster yet for GAM?

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    Endoh? Please no... we need a championship team here.. we're better than that, go hard or don't go at all

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    There's long term thinking involved in this. Seba might very well be gone after 2019. At that time, our tactics might significantly change.

    The example of how this shakes out is Endoh.

    He is out of contract but going to camp to try to win a spot in the 21 or with TFCII. He was drafted back before we started the 3-5-2. He fits a certain tactical approach. He actually had a decent start in his first year but tailed off. Having watched him a bit for TFCII, I think he would start for a couple of MLS teams and be the first off the bench for a couple more. If we ever go to a 4-3-3 or to a wide 4-4-2 or to a 4-2-3-1, Endoh is depth for that right forward/winger spot. We are not going to a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 until after Seba leaves but Endoh remains an option if we go with a 4-4-2. If Endoh is kept around, that means the braintrust is thinking of 2020 (when Seba might be gone). On the depth chart, he would currently be #19-#21 - he's serviceable at that spot. Assuming he keeps up his work rate (everybody says he works as hard in camp as anybody else), I'd keep him for a couple of more seasons at the minimum wage.
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    i dont mind endoh.but his prob is that he counts has a import.

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    On Europeans in Central America, I'll leave one name. Gignac.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ossington Mental Youth View Post
    On Europeans in Central America, I'll leave one name. Gignac.
    That would an interesting signing but I don't see it happening. We already have 5 promising strikers: Giovinco, Altidore, Ricketts, Hamilton and Akinola.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BenRhodes23 View Post
    That would an interesting signing but I don't see it happening. We already have 5 promising strikers: Giovinco, Altidore, Ricketts, Hamilton and Akinola.
    Maybe it's just me but i still really wanna see what they do with Jordan Hamilton this season. I buy into his potential to be at least a starter in this league. He needs first team minutes at a level above USL and if we sign another forward as the FO wishes that should push him further down the depth chart.

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    Quote Originally Posted by portu View Post
    Maybe it's just me but i still really wanna see what they do with Jordan Hamilton this season. I buy into his potential to be at least a starter in this league. He needs first team minutes at a level above USL and if we sign another forward as the FO wishes that should push him further down the depth chart.
    I feel bad for the guy. I think it's best for his career that he leaves but I hope he doesn't

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    Quote Originally Posted by BenRhodes23 View Post
    I feel bad for the guy. I think it's best for his career that he leaves but I hope he doesn't
    The thing is where does he leave to? I feel like he might of gone out on loan to Europe again but his initial experience there was so poor i doubt it'll ever happen

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    Quote Originally Posted by portu View Post
    Maybe it's just me but i still really wanna see what they do with Jordan Hamilton this season. I buy into his potential to be at least a starter in this league. He needs first team minutes at a level above USL and if we sign another forward as the FO wishes that should push him further down the depth chart.
    I’ve heard the rumour that JH isn’t exactly working his ass off during practices and that’s why he didn’t make many first team appearances. My source could be blowing smoke, who knows, but knowing what I know of The Gregfather, where there is smoke....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carter View Post
    I’ve heard the rumour that JH isn’t exactly working his ass off during practices and that’s why he didn’t make many first team appearances. My source could be blowing smoke, who knows, but knowing what I know of The Gregfather, where there is smoke....
    i think they would have cut him my now then.

    Bradley demands that this team only has players of strong character. And players speak well of JH. Maybe he was lazy at one point, but MB would have torn him a new one by now

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    Quote Originally Posted by BenRhodes23 View Post
    That would an interesting signing but I don't see it happening. We already have 5 promising strikers: Giovinco, Altidore, Ricketts, Hamilton and Akinola.
    Not saying we'd sign him simply saying Europeans can play well against Mexican/Central American teams.

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    Quote Originally Posted by C.Ronaldo View Post
    gregs love for americans? really have no idea.

    Spencer had his chances and was cut
    JH did not have his chances, and was not cut

    tough to figure out the logic
    At one point Varney seemed to say that he drifts in and out of games. Despite that, Hamilton has had excellent moments. The same criticism used to be levelled at Jozy ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by MightyDM View Post
    At one point Varney seemed to say that he drifts in and out of games. Despite that, Hamilton has had excellent moments. The same criticism used to be levelled at Jozy ...
    isnt that what pure strikers do? Reminds me of Defoe (without all the mommy issues)

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    Quote Originally Posted by C.Ronaldo View Post
    isnt that what pure strikers do? Reminds me of Defoe (without all the mommy issues)
    Pure strikers who are so good at scoring the defense and work rate come secondary, maybe. Even than they are for every system. Sturridge is a good case scenario of the type of player Hamilton is on and off the pitch (Though Hamilton thankfully doesn't seem to have much at all of Sturridge's suffocating cocksure nature). They can score, but if you're attitude isn't totally there and you don't provide much defensive cover, create goals for other, hold the ball up or anything else that comes along being a striker than there's going to be a lot of situations where having you on the field may not be such a great option and your ceiling will always be very limited.

    The idea that strikers are just guys who are supposed to cherry pick up top hasn't been true in football since about 2003.

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    Wolfsburg. Two players, one dream: the big breakthrough in Europe. Two young players from Canada are currently approaching this goal. Noble Okello and Mustafa Abdi Zakaria actually play in the youth academy of the MLS Cup winner FC Toronto, but are currently undergoing a trial training at the ...

    saw this on twitter.yes im bored.

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    also id rather he stay here, gonna be playing in two tournaments and the league.
    Not as worried about Hamiltons development as some.

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    Efrain Jaurez is a really poor and un-ambitious signing for Vancouver. Was a disaterous signing for Celtic - got only 10-15 starts after a 2Million pound deal. Hasn’t played for Mexico in years. Nerwinski better stay fit or they are toast.


    Quote Originally Posted by molenshtain View Post
    Whitecaps have talented sophmore Jake Nerwinski and new signing Mexican international Efrain Juarez at RB. Looks like they've finally come in from the cold and sorted out their RB issues after giving up Beita three years ago. Long are the days of the Jordan Smith-Fraser Aird Neptune sized blackhole occupying the right side of the field for the Whitecaps.

    Petrasso still seems unlikely to me. I don't think he's better than Hasler. Probably wouldn't push him the same way Beita or a player of his caliber would fight for minutes at that spot. Just very unambitious. Plus we gotta use our TAM on something. Seems the most obvious move to use it there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hamilton_Red View Post
    Efrain Jaurez is a really poor and un-ambitious signing for Vancouver. Was a disaterous signing for Celtic - got only 10-15 starts after a 2Million pound deal. Hasn’t played for Mexico in years. Nerwinski better stay fit or they are toast.
    Mexican footballer in unable to adapt to thuggish scottish football,dark skies, air thick with depression and haggis schocker!. Color me not surprised. His resume in mexico speaks for itself. He'll be a fine RB and so will Nerwinski.
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    Ives is linking TFC with USMNT winger/forward Rubio Rubin.

    Supposedly. Can't access his article on Goal cos we are in Canada and Sporting News doesn't have it up on their site yet.

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    Rubio Rubin is the only player in the current U.S. national team camp without a team, but that is drawing closer and closer to no longer being the case as he and Major League Soccer work toward reaching an agreement on a contract.
    MLS is in negotiations with the 21-year-old forward, sources confirmed to Goalon Monday. Rubin is a free agent after leaving Norwegian side Stabaek at the end of last season, the second of two unsuccessful club stints in 2017. He also spent half a season with Danish side Silkeborg but managed just three appearances before a short stint in Norway.
    At least four MLS teams are interest in acquiring Rubin, who will have to go through the allocation order, which is used to determine where returning U.S. national team players go in MLS. The interested teams, which one source says includes MLS Cup winner Toronto FC and expansion side Los Angeles FC, are hoping to land the player who looked so good with the U.S. at the 2015 U-20 World Cup.

    Rubin looked destined for success when, at age 18, he made his senior U.S. national team debut, starting in an exhibition loss to Colombia in November 2014. Earlier that year he turned pro by signing with Dutch side Utrecht after establishing himself as one of the top prospects in American soccer.


    The U-20 World Cup was his breakout event, as he tied as the U.S. team's leading scorer in its run to the quarterfinals, where the Americans were beaten by eventual champion Serbia. Rubin was unable to build on that success, though, as a serious ankle injury sidelined him for much of the next year.
    Rubin left Utrecht a year ago, but his subsequent stints in Denmark and Norway failed to generate a stable situation. His status as one of the better forward prospects in the U.S. pipeline earned him a place in the January national team camp, despite the fact he is a free agent and hadn't played much in recent months.
    Despite the time out of the spotlight, Rubin is still a sought-after target by several MLS teams. He also has drawn interest from clubs in Liga MX, though at this point an MLS deal looks more likely.
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