I saw this earlier but I didn't the bear emoji... does Osorio have a nickname I don't know about or something?Originally Posted by Oldtimer
I saw this earlier but I didn't the bear emoji... does Osorio have a nickname I don't know about or something?
i think el oso means bear in spanish
+ The giant bear tattoo on his shoulder.
Wow. That tweet can only mean that he is signed.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
I took that as either
a) a marketing social media thing just kinda thrown out there because its a neat picture with 2 neat emojis
or
b) the beginning of a marketing strategy to invest people in the teamwork between players - something only seen with the marketing of Jozy & Seba and even then rarely
As always right now, the question is "whither Jozy?"
If I were setting odds of where Jozy is opening day, I would lay them out this way:
30% TFC
20% Atlanta
20% San Jose
10% elsewhere MLS (Seattle?)
20% Mexico
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Good luck to Seattle with that plastic pitch if they make a move for Jozy.
Atlanta also has plastic, is it better?
Somewhere in Cali probably if not one of the LAs.
The Galaxies have 3 DPs and Ibra, how would that work? Similar issue for LAFC. But I think the most likely destination may be San Jose.
Someone said previously that this would be kind of sad, but it’s also kind of compelling, if you stand back and look at it.
The Bay Area is a monster market, that the Earthquakes are lost in. The league needs someone like him there. It's grass. It's a place players want to go to live. Jozy speaks perfect Spanish, which is a big market there, but he has tons of crossover appeal to Silicon Valley, which should care about Quakes soccer more than it does (youth soccer is year round massive out there). His Spanish also makes him a perfect signing for Almeyda.
I put Atlanta up there because they have the ambition, they are losing Almiron (and maybe Martinez), and Jozy's Spanish would also be a big asset there. Issue is that they would be breaking away from their vision to spend money on a veteran like this.
Seattle also have the vision and have the dough (because Dempsey is gone), but I am not sure how Altidore would see that. It'd be tougher for any prominent TFC player to go to Seattle, it would feel more mercenary/wrong.
Of course someone like Orlando (Jozy is from Florida) could be possible. (But if I am Jozy, I want to go to a big market. I wouldn’t go to a secondary market.) Or of course he could stay, if whatever breach occurred is fixed.
Last edited by ensco; 11-14-2018 at 12:39 PM.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Why would you think that? Frei has prospered there, so could Jozy - OOOoooohhhhhh...
Seattle has their DP striker team in Morris & Rudiaz.
We'd be crazy to trade/sell hi to Atlanta. They are going to be our Eastern rivals for a while.
You're right. I try to forget about them.
Where does his girl live?
Jozy to Atlanta aint happening. Josef is getting a pay raise and Pity Martinez from River Plate is replacing Almiron.
SJE or Columbus or Orlando (who would be willing to pay his wage)
I think he would have gone to NYRB but for what their fans have said about him the last 2 years.
If I am Seattle, I am not counting on Morris. His strike rate hasn’t been that impressive yet, and nobody knows what he will be like next year
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
I don't think Jozy (or Bradley) will ever play in an old school market that has a long USMNT history like NY or DC (or Columbus).
I think we have only seen a fraction of it. There has just been too much hate. I would never put my family through that.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Jozy to Orlando for the rights to Larin. Sign Larin from turkey and bring him home
You may as well through Cincinnati in that mix. Brand new team looking to make a splash, that would be one hell of a way to do it.
San Jozy Earthquakes. I've been saying it for a while now lol
Perfect marketing, like the VeLA thing
Check out this tweet at [COLOR=#14171A][FONT=&]https://twitter.com/SaudiLeagueNews/status/1062814863137873925[/FONT][/COLOR]
Check out this tweet at [COLOR=#14171A][FONT=&]https://twitter.com/SAFinsider_EN/status/1062829227572187137[/FONT][/COLOR]
AL-HILAL NEGOTIATES WITH FORMER JUVENTUS AND BARCELONA PLAYERS, ITALIAN SEBASTIAN GIOVINCO AND JONATHAN SORIANO
The management of Al-Hilal started to move in order to support the first team with First class foreign players.
Al-Hilal tend to replace the Venezuelan Rivas, UAE Omar Abdulrahman, and the Syrian Khrebin. Local news reported that Al-Hilal keep an eye on the Italian player Sebastien Giovinco, the Italian striker, and Soriano, the Spanish striker.
The Italian international Sebastien Giovinco is playing for Toronto and is a former Juventus player. Giovinco will replace Emirati Omar Abdel Rahman in Al-Hilal midfield after Omar’s ACL injury.
Meanwhile, The Spanish striker Soriano, Beijing club player, is the first option for Al-Hilal.
Al-Hilal would also sign a new defender on January. The new defender will be an Australian or Korean.
Money talks but I know if I had a young family that would be low on the list of places I would be interested living in for a few years.
Probably the least believable club he's been linked to yet.
They bought 33 year old Bafetimbi Gomis for 6.8$ million and offered him a 3 year 6.8$ million per year contract. If he re-signs with TFC it won't be anywhere near those wages. So for a last pay day it makes sense. Though ya Saudi Arabia, definitely wouldn,t be moving the family.
If he leaves to go there I will be truly shocked.
I dunno how shocked anyone should be. Money talks. That is mostly why Seba came here, who is kidding who.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of people in Saudi who go there for 3 or 4 years to make 3x what they would elsewhere. Their families live in places/compounds like this.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/s...mco/index.html
It’s not perfect but it's doable for a while.
I don't know why Saudi are suddenly playing the world football game, but I could speculate. Given the connection of football to politics in that part of the world, it’s more surprising they haven’t been.
This game has drawn a lot of attention. A lot of people would like it moved back to Italy, as a result of recent events.
https://www.football-italia.net/1225...ost-supercoppa
Besides Gomis, this team have signed a manager with a better pedigree than anyone in MLS. I would take him over Tata, for instance.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Jesus
Then these stories, just from yesterday
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1404941/saudi-arabia
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/foot...r-Saudi-Arabia
Bottom line: I don't know if this is real, but it could be.
Last edited by ensco; 11-16-2018 at 08:38 AM.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Money talks, but lifestyle is also a factor. Moving to Toronto is a relatively small change and generally positive for a European. Moving to China or Saudi is a huge change and something you generally do without your family for the short term.
I see this more as an agent attempt to get leverage for negotiations with TFC than a serious move. If Giovinco just wanted maximum cash he could have made the move to China last year.
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