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    Quote Originally Posted by OgtheDim View Post
    Is there a press conference today?
    Pozuelo arriving today. Presser Monday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stegosaurus View Post
    The point is that we really have no true wingers. We have a guy who plays positions on the right as a utility player, and on the left we have... no one.

    Can’t play 4-3-3 with what we have, and if we acquire pieces we are an injury away from not being able to play it.
    Honestly it has given me encouragement that Vanney has been flexible on this front when 4-3-3 was a disaster against Independiente he switched to 4-4-2. In both games this season he has adapted during the game and it has helped. You really need a team that can play 4-4-2 ....3-5-2...4-5-1...and 4-3-3 and the different variations. Trying to force a single rigid system is wrong. You have to play with the best 11 players available & they need to be adaptable.

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    Are any of you rollerblading to the airport?

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    Quote Originally Posted by stegosaurus View Post
    https://www.tycsports.com/nota/futbo...medium=ios_app

    New article on Pity not enjoying his time in MLS with more deets.
    The google translation may be at fault, but this guy sounds like a dimwit

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    Quote Originally Posted by barticusz View Post
    Are any of you rollerblading to the airport?
    I’m at the airport - not for Pozuelo but I’ll keep my eyes open. Only Spain flight I see is Madrid @ 4:40

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    Quote Originally Posted by 69Chevy396 View Post
    The google translation may be at fault, but this guy sounds like a dimwit
    Not any moreso than most athletes. The translation may be the issue.
    Toronto FC baby...best team everrrrrrrrrr -Jozy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hamilton_Red View Post
    Honestly it has given me encouragement that Vanney has been flexible on this front when 4-3-3 was a disaster against Independiente he switched to 4-4-2. In both games this season he has adapted during the game and it has helped. You really need a team that can play 4-4-2 ....3-5-2...4-5-1...and 4-3-3 and the different variations. Trying to force a single rigid system is wrong. You have to play with the best 11 players available & they need to be adaptable.
    Yes, the flexibility is good. I’m just hoping that once Pozo comes they aren’t dead set on forcing a 4-3-3 until we have the pieces in place. There have been more than enough failed experiments in the past...

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    OK, frees up an int spot but whether this gives salary relief is another matter.
    Last edited by OgtheDim; 03-22-2019 at 02:50 PM. Reason: Chubbs WINS!!!!!

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    Just minutes ago, van der Wiel released, mutual consent. Check TFC website

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    Should scrub his salary off the books and that's good enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ultra & Proud View Post
    Should scrub his salary off the books and that's good enough.
    If that's the case, that would be helpful.

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    Things seem a little unsure as to how this exactly is done but I would be surprised if there isn't some relief.


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    No buyout though. Mutual consent is the dissolution of the contract mutually. TFC terminating his contract based on conduct as they could have done would probably have had to be a buyout as I couldn't see the MLSPA letting that go.

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    I wouldn't be shocked if he waived a golden handshake so he stop training on his own and go sit on a beach in Dubai or somewhere till he can find a club in the summer.

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    Typically the Mutual consent happens when the player has found another team. I wouldn't expect someone to walk away from the better part of $1,000,000 unless he had alternative means.

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    The VDW saga probably took so long because TFC likely were working with the league to see what they could do. I’d doubt we’d be negatively penalized/ cap harm or else why bother doing anything.

    My speculation is the TAM money and Int roster spot are now both available

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    Quote Originally Posted by MightyDM View Post
    Typically the Mutual consent happens when the player has found another team. I wouldn't expect someone to walk away from the better part of $1,000,000 unless he had alternative means.
    Good point. That would be fantastic news for TFC if he’s indeed headed to another club (with no $ spent on buyout).

    I haven’t been this impressed since we pulled the wool over Cincinnati’s eyes for hagglund

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    Quote Originally Posted by Webdogg View Post
    ...My speculation is the TAM money and Int roster spot are now both available
    Yeah, my suspicion is this too.

    $150K of cap space lost but all that TAM & an int slot now available.

    Looking more & more like another move for an international TAM player before the end of next week.

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    as Platt just speculated, this likely means the yearly buyout was used on Aketxe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OgtheDim View Post
    Yeah, my suspicion is this too.

    $150K of cap space lost but all that TAM & an int slot now available.

    Looking more & more like another move for an international TAM player before the end of next week.
    TFC should have tons tam money to spend with vdw, VV, aketxe off the books and the hagglund trade.

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    this will get ya'll rilled up:
    https://twitter.com/Chris_Mavinga/status/1109182070121730048


    hahahaha

    Please Note - I see nothing wrong with this.

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    I have no idea what the salary cap implications are. I would guess partial but not full cap relief. I'll wait to see if Curtis or Manning say anything on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jabbronies View Post
    this will get ya'll rilled up:
    https://twitter.com/Chris_Mavinga/status/1109182070121730048


    hahahaha

    Please Note - I see nothing wrong with this.
    Mavinga must read these threads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OgtheDim View Post


    as Platt just speculated, this likely means the yearly buyout was used on Aketxe.
    Ya by wouldn’t Aketxe’s buyout count as a 2018 buy it?

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    Good riddance. Mavinga is free to go with him next.

    Just for the record, I thought VDW would be a really great player for us, being a great passer out back would have further enhanced the teams cohesion.
    Last edited by Richard; 03-22-2019 at 05:11 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain View Post
    Ya by wouldn’t Aketxe’s buyout count as a 2018 buy it?
    No, or they would have just bought him out already.

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    I thought the Spanish team Aketxe went to picked up his contract? Perhaps we didn't buy out either one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by notthesun View Post
    I have no idea what the salary cap implications are. I would guess partial but not full cap relief. I'll wait to see if Curtis or Manning say anything on it.
    Yeah let's all be honest, we don't actually know what vdW leaving now means in terms of roster and cap hit. Oliver Platt said so himself at the top of his Twitter thread: "I imagine that might mean partial but not full cap relief for TFC." If it was full cap relief, then they likely would have done it earlier. I see no mechanism for that in MLS; otherwise lots of teams would do some kind of "mutual consent" thing. If vdw were going straight to another team, i.e. trade, then there would be cap relief. But they didn't announce a trade, most transfer windows are closed (unless he were moving within MLS), and "mutual consent" means something else.

    I doubt we ever get full disclosure about this. Maybe some hints based on where vdW goes next. Folks here in this thread will comment based on how they would like to spin it for the club (good or bad).

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    Quote Originally Posted by magmadragon View Post
    I thought the Spanish team Aketxe went to picked up his contract? Perhaps we didn't buy out either one.
    Oliver Platt says we used the 2019 buyout on Aketxe. He was on $1.3 million last year. Probably Cádiz didn't want to pick up all of that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ag futbol View Post
    Good point. That would be fantastic news for TFC if he’s indeed headed to another club (with no $ spent on buyout).

    I haven’t been this impressed since we pulled the wool over Cincinnati’s eyes for hagglund



    hahahahahaha

 

 

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