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    Default 2019 MLS SuperDraft thread January 11, 2019

    Unlike the last two year's, TFC is in line for a top pick once the dust settles. While the SuperDraft is less significant these days, the chance to pick up a good player is still very high in the top half of the first round.
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    Currently looking like the 6th pick. Meh.

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    Take a CB. We should move on from one of Hagglund & Zavaleta anyways, and a CB could easily be in line for tons of minutes with TFC II if he doesn't make the first team or as a loan down.

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    i think we draft allo cation

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    Quote Originally Posted by reggie View Post
    i think we draft allo cation

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    Well, right now TFC is picking 6th since FC Cincinnati is entering the league next year. Really I don't think anybody from the draft will be capable of cracking TFC's starting lineup and will probably end up with TFCII for the year.

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    Interesting find, while looking at the NCAA 2018 tournament which are now down to the quarters I came across a player who is in his first season at Akron who are in the quarters of the NCAA . His name is Marco Milanese born in 1998 he is 20, he spent two seasons with the 16 and 19 youth teams of Napoli of Seria A in Italy and also practised regularly with Napoli’s first team during practise. He even made the bench but did not come off the bench in a Italian Cup game in 2017. From reading some articles in Italian about him I came across on the internet he was on the verge of cracking the Napoli roster,however, just before training camp before the 2017-2018 season Napoli let him go , from what I read he was pretty devastated by being let go so suddenly after Napoli had shown so much hope of making it to the first team, he decided to go back home to live with his parents in his home town in the Molise region of central Italy and he ended up playing for his home town team which played in Italy’s 5th. division for the entire 2017-2018 season winning with them promotion to Italy’s 4th. division all the while turning down interest from serie B teams while he sorted out his future. By fluke he saw an advertisement online for a company that recruited Italian athletes interested in getting athletic NCAA scholarships in the US, he enquires and the rest is history . This past summer comes to the US and starts his first season at Akron, anyways he plays center back and would be an interesting player to have a look at during this years college draft especially with his background of where he has played as a youth, however, I do realize he would take an international spot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SoccMan2 View Post
    Interesting find, while looking at the NCAA 2018 tournament which are now down to the quarters I came across a player who is in his first season at Akron who are in the quarters of the NCAA . His name is Marco Milanese born in 1998 he is 20, he spent two seasons with the 16 and 19 youth teams of Napoli of Seria A in Italy and also practised regularly with Napoli’s first team during practise. He even made the bench but did not come off the bench in a Italian Cup game in 2017. From reading some articles in Italian about him I came across on the internet he was on the verge of cracking the Napoli roster,however, just before training camp before the 2017-2018 season Napoli let him go , from what I read he was pretty devastated by being let go so suddenly after Napoli had shown so much hope of making it to the first team, he decided to go back home to live with his parents in his home town in the Molise region of central Italy and he ended up playing for his home town team which played in Italy’s 5th. division for the entire 2017-2018 season winning with them promotion to Italy’s 4th. division all the while turning down interest from serie B teams while he sorted out his future. By fluke he saw an advertisement online for a company that recruited Italian athletes interested in getting athletic NCAA scholarships in the US, he enquires and the rest is history . This past summer comes to the US and starts his first season at Akron, anyways he plays center back and would be an interesting player to have a look at during this years college draft especially with his background of where he has played as a youth, however, I do realize he would take an international spot.
    Great scouting and very interesting, indeed; certainly a position of need, and his pedigree is promising.

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    Quote Originally Posted by reggie View Post
    i think we draft allo cation
    It would be great if MLS offered that as an option instead of taking a player, complete with the name. It’s the logical thing next step under MLS’s dumb rules.

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    So TFC have the 6th pick. There are 7 Generation Adidas players. Nice.

    Citing anonymous sources, Galarcep reported for Goal.com that UCLA and US U-20 national team midfielder Frankie Amaya will headline this year’s GA crop, and will be joined by Canadian striker Tajon Buchanon (Syracuse), Kentucky striker JJ Williams, UNC’s John Nelson, Indiana winger Griffin Dorsey, VCU talent Siad Haji and University of Maryland goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair, the Canadian who backstopped the Terrapins’ run to the 2018 College Cup championship
    Two Canadians among the 7

    EDIT: Rollins has heard that TFC are targeting the Canadian keeper, Dayne St. Clair. Matt Doyle has TFC taking him in his mock draft too.


    Last edited by Areathrasher; 01-03-2019 at 09:22 PM.

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    Interesting notion going with a goalkeeper, I am ok with that. The importance of the draft has diminished in recent times with more money being spent on the international market but you can still can some decent depth within the early part of the first round. Nice to see some Canadian GAs. Hopefully they amount to more than the pair a few years ago.

    Quote Originally Posted by Areathrasher View Post
    So TFC have the 6th pick. There are 7 Generation Adidas players. Nice.



    Two Canadians among the 7

    EDIT: Rollins has heard that TFC are targeting the Canadian keeper, Dayne St. Clair. Matt Doyle has TFC taking him in his mock draft too.



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    With a bounce-back season or two Bono could have decent transfer value and we have no other keepers worth mentioning, be it veterans or prospects. Grabbing a keeper makes sense.

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    If you got the time and the inclination you can watch the combine here:

    https://youtu.be/7wXx3c003Uc

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    Normally I find the draft to be a bit of a snoozer but this year we have a decent pick and two Canadians on GA contracts that could fill needs for the team considered to be top prospects.

    I’d lean towards the keeper personally but have to admit Buchanan looks interesting (but likely to be gone by the time we select at 6th).

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    The draft from the perspective of the Canadian player has greatly changed. The top five prospects from the great white north have all been granted domestic player status, meaning they won't count as international regardless of what team selects them. That really is great news.

    In the latest SBI mock draft, the top three Canadians will be gone by the time TFC is on the clock. Ives has the Reds taking Michigan State forward DeJuan Jones.

    https://sbisoccer.com/2019/01/the-sb...ft-version-2-0

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    Philly just traded ALL of their draft picks to Cincinatti for 150k GAM

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    Quote Originally Posted by portu View Post
    Philly just traded ALL of their draft picks to Cincinatti for 150k GAM
    I swear that is straight out of Football Manager.

    I see it as a strong statement of belief in their academy. It's either genius or crazy.

    As a fan it's been difficult to get excited for the Superdraft so I'm not surprised to see teams echoing those sentiments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Red CB Toronto View Post
    Canadians will be gone by the time TFC is on the clock. Ives has the Reds taking Michigan State forward DeJuan Jones.
    This confined production of attaching talent is really frustrating. CMNT is going to have to field 11 strikers, all of which will be left footed.

    Meanwhile, can’t even produce a defender to save our lives. Dream big kids, that RB spot is for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by portu View Post
    Philly just traded ALL of their draft picks to Cincinatti for 150k GAM
    GAM that they got from LAFC for Cinci's allocation order spot in 2020 & reportedly a behind the scenes hand shake to not take an LAFC product in the expansion draft. Gosh this league is weird.

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    “What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by ensco View Post
    Not sure that GK will be there

    They want him to be third string behind Tim Howard and Clint Irwin then

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    Quote Originally Posted by portu View Post
    Philly just traded ALL of their draft picks to Cincinatti for 150k GAM
    I think this is going to signal the end of the super draft soon. Philly basically admitted with this trade that one player (using all the GAM) from anywhere else in the world is better than any of 5 players from NCAA

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    Quote Originally Posted by rydermike View Post
    They want him to be third string behind Tim Howard and Clint Irwin then
    Howard won’t be there much longer
    “What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by ensco View Post
    Howard won’t be there much longer
    Wow, looked him up. Had no idea he was 39. Thought he was 33/34. Makes sense though. Watched him for years and years in the EPL, so he had to up there in years.

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    Shame about St. Clair, the kid looks better than Bono was when we drafted him

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    im sure if tfc really like him they could move up a couple of spots for 100 k

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    Frankie Amaya goes first in the draft....

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    The Quakes take Siad Haji with the second pick....

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    Least interested in the draft I've ever been but still feel bad that for some (most?) of these kids this is going to be the high point of their careers and go down hill from here.

    (never mind me, I'm cranky because I haven't had lunch)

 

 

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