I don't think he'll get a Premiership offer. There's a certain mentality about undersized players there.
His agent, who previously said he wasn't interested in going to MLS, is now calling it an option.
https://www.fussballtransfers.com/a5...ls-eine-option
They said $20M gross (before taxes) and €11M net (after taxes) per season. No way we’re offering anything close to that.Originally Posted by MikeForbes
I could see an offer in the $8-10M range before taxes. We’ve had DPs in MLS close to that.
"they" usually get the total wage offer mixed up with the per year
every
single
season
Salaries have drastically increased in Europe over the last decade. MLS has been insulated by the salary cap, so $20m seems incredibly ridiculous to us.
Fuck the league. If a team can pay then they can pay. We’re owned by Bogers, not a half-insolvent nobody.
PTSD from NASL is holding this league back.
MLS can't compete with Europe dollars. Best for them to have some sort of a salary cap in place. Maybe not as stringent as it is now, but there should be something there to stop owners from sending teams into debt.
There’s a Bob Bradley Wheeler interview on YouTube today,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uujprE_kDk&t=1039s
some good stuff in there. Notes he brought Mo Salah into the Egypt team as a 19 year old and will play youngsters if they’re ready.
also hints that team dysfunction often involves arrogant successful players who lose sight of being coached.
Great find. I enjoyed that interview.
Poz replaced VV not Seba. Playmaker. We have never replaced Seba.
This!
Yes… but no.
At the time, it was easier to get away with two guys who put in a very light shift defensively PLUS a target man. You could not get away with that now IMO.
What we needed but never got was a wide forward who is a secondary goal scoring threat. Someone like Tajon who is direct, skillful, and has pace. Instead, we went out at bought a second playmaker and created a 1 + 1= 1.5 scenario. This is after years of mediocre / average attempts to fill that position.
Piatti & Benezet were kind of like this and we were decent. The problem was we were missing the target man most of the time.
I agree they were supposed to be the type. To be frank I wasn’t terribly impressed with either.
Both had average pace at best. Chipped in the odd goal but otherwise wasn’t at the overall quality level we needed
You're both looking at this too narrowly.
First off, I keep hearing this nonsense statement whenever the two are compared. When you say "replace Seba" I can only assume you mean his production output? or are you speaking about his position?
Look, They are both game changers. Both guys who can single handily help win a game for you. They both proved that by winning MVP's. They both took TFC to finals.
Replacing a DP doesn't always mean replacing stats or even position. It's about replacing the impact. Poz did that IMO.
Another example of player replacing a player would be Ciman replacing Cheyrou. That is a thing and it has nothing to do with the position they play or the stats they delivered,
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Also Vanney changed our formation as well so having a floating Giovinco type wouldn't have worked in the one striker set up. If we would have let Altidore walk then we probably could have replaced the goal scoring aspect of the DP forward role but sentimentality won on that day.
I agree. We have a tendency to look at positions as "boxes" that need to be filled, hopefully by the best possible for each position. However in real life there are those exceptional achievers who don't easily fit into a box but are game-changers. You need to work around those players, not constrain them to a rigid system or idea of position.
sure, but we had two scorers (Jozy and Seba) and a playmaker (VV) and replaced one scorer (Seba) and one playmaker (VV) with one playmaker (Poz). edit: tried to delete this post as it is nearly a duplicate of the next but it won't delete
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Looking at it the other way, we never replaced VV. We had Seba, VV, Jozy and replaced Seba and VV with Poz. Quite literally.
We needed a playmaker and a goal scorer.
We had Poz and we had Jozy
Jozy was a bust. That was the fuck up.
The Fuck up wasn't "not replacing Specific player A to the exactly the same thing"
We changed the way we played. We didn't need to replace both Seba and Victor to do exactly the same things they did because we weren't going to play that same system. We adapted how we played and we went to a final and then 2nd overall in the league by adapting.
Jozy was the fuck up.
Your comparisons aren't taking into account the change in shape that Vanney wanted prior to 2019. He openly wanted to switch to 4-3-3 so the replacements can't be like for like because it wasn't a 2 FW set up. With his set up that responsibility and more of the ball thus opportunities were to go to Jozy and our signings were to be complimentary wide players. So it went:
VV (M), Jozy (CF), Giovinco (FW)
to
Poz (M), Jozy (CF), Benezet then Piatti (WF) <---we should have gotten another wide FW on the other side both years though
Were those last two perfect like for like to Giovinco? No but they were wide players. If 2019 was different and we re-signed Giovinco either Vanney would have had to dump his 4-3-3 idea or else shoehorn Giovinco out there he would have not produced like he (and we) were used to and then would have pouted and whined until he was out the door. Or at least until Jozy got hurt and then he would have been CF.
I think a lot of people lose sight of the fact that Vanney wanted to change our shape and style in 2019 and thusly it affected roster decisions. Curtis gets all the blame and for sure he is an idiot but he went and got pieces that fit into what Vanney wanted and Benezet & Piatti were Vanney hook ups. I think if Vanney wanted to keep the status quo and wanted Giovinco he would have been re-signed. As it went, we didn't need two outright goalscorers as we only had one spot up top avialable (in theory barring the inevitable injuries).
This is it. Vanney changed our system and Jozy was to be the offensive focal point and he broke down and/or was out of shape for most of the season and all of it that mattered.
For sure, but I think the secondary goal scoring threat point is also valid. As much as Poz can chip in a few there needed to be someone else to plug the gap.
All three finals could have gone either way, if Jozy doesn't score in the 67th minute and Seattle gets a fluke one again, we lose the 2nd one, even though we dominated. I truly believe if Jozy starts the 2nd half in Seattle we win, I will never understand why Vanney held him back. But truth... Poz needs a finisher or someone to draw defenders away from him. Not right to compare Poz to Seba., different players, different teams.
I would argue that not resigning Gio was the major screwup which snowballed into Jozy being given the contract. They had their pants down and were caught out cold.
A lot of that blame is on Manning when everyone knew that contract negotiators are different in football.
We would have had much better seasons with Gio producing, yes he was on the decline but perhaps he could have adapted in the system, it's to late for that now.
I would agree with this, except Gio, or his advisors let greed take hold, he is to blame as well (he has said as much). I just don't get the Jozy haters, he played through real injuries in 17. I wouldn't listen to that clown Armas either and I don't begrudge him his contract, Manning gave it to him. The guy bleeds Red and is a legend, he may be broken down but play him to what he can do or buy him out but slagging him makes no sense.
Just watched 'We Must Go' a good documentary on Egypt trying to qualify for '14 World Cup and shows the dedication of what BB had to go through and how he stuck with it despite everything they were going through.
I found it on Fubo tv. Not sure if you can find it anywhere else. Worth a watch though
I think if we sell Soteldo back to Brazil, which seems likely, TFC will spend for an out and out number 9. If MLSE is that commited to spending crazy money for Insigne, I can't see them cheaping out for that 3rd DP slot.
This thread gets more and more pointless as the years go by. It’s on topic maybe 5% of the time.
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Some murmurs that an eastern conference team is looking at Darwin Quintero in re-entry phase 2. Doubt it’s us? But he’s a guy I’d take in the spot/salary that Dwyer occupies.
that sounds like a MTL type signing
TFC is close to getting Ayo re-signed per Buffery on Twitter.
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