Everything here logically points to them having to cover too many departed contracts to take on any more starting-quality players, thus the kids.
If that's only a one-season problem, which seems likely, we should see five or six signings in pretty short order, as they doubtless -- or doubtless should -- have a looooong shopping list.
Shaff doesn’t fit the system. You can’t hold onto players because fans like them. He needed to leave to advance his career.
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
If there is one thing we gotta do as fans it's stopping with the “he doesn’t fit the system” excuses for talent misjudgments…. when our system isn’t working!
We keep having bouts of this, starting with Aron Winter all those years ago… Until you prove you are an elite team, you play your best XI and adapt to that. Like everybody else.
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
MINUTES PLAYED IN MLS THIS SEASON.
Jakob Glesnes is the only other non-keeper on this list.
EDIT: Unless I've missed anyone, our next-most minutes on the season was Jesus Jimenez at 2351, not even in the top 60
A. Blake PHI 34 34 3060 J. Bond LA 34 34 3060 J. Glesnes PHI 34 34 3060 S. Johnson NYC 34 34 3060 Z. MacMath RSL 34 34 3060 E. Room CLB 34 34 3060 M. Bradley TOR 34 34 3050
I believe the ten minutes he missed was the last 10 in the Charlotte game, after he scored twice.
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I'd also be in favor of having some improved communications from the club next year. MLSE treats a sports franchise's communications like a corporate PR "fuck off" department, judging by how infrequently it attempts any sort of narrative or information flow.
You'd think they would use PR proactively to build excitement; but it seems to do little to take the lead.
Strong disagree. He's home grown, small cap hit, no international spot, versatile, decently effective and won't demand to play every week. Add in a local which helps for retention. This is *exactly* the kind of player you need to pad your squad with if you want to win in MLS with its roster rules, you need squad players that have as little impact on your squad space as possible. We went from making very effective, efficient moves in that area of roster building to not having the slightest idea what we're doing and that, as much as anything, is why we just had maybe the worst season in league history in terms of return on spend
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Given that he's basically a hype man, I wonder if Manning requested he develop a style that would be seen as TFC "brand" ala Gegenpress at Red Bull.
Perhaps the presser, where he admitted they're sitting down this week to reevaluate everything, was a nod to admitting what was proposed just didn't work. It wasn't just the talent base.
They can be proactive without gaslighting. There are things people love about their club even when they're losing; usually that doesn't include management. But there are plenty of other angles to keep attention on what's going on; even just better communication over things like injuries and roster flexibility would probably go a long way to easing tension.
They don't have to wait for reporters to ask the question, as most are fucking awful at their jobs and ask the most facile shit possible.
We are going to know a lot based on how the "clean out day" pressers go.
Who the team brings out?
What BB says
Who has been let go by then
I expect to see MB trotted out & for him to give his usual "it wasn't good enough" speech which is getting tiresome to us as fans let alone guys who have to hear variations on that theme every day.
I'm hoping to see Oso
I would like to see Frederico
Did we all watch the same team this year? BB looked for Shaffelburg to be a LB so unless we’re saying we stubbornly believe that was ever going to work out, he needed to go.
BB isn’t changing his system because some people on a message board think he should adapt to his best X1. This is less opinion and more so accepting realities.
He left. He got minutes playing his natural position. He has so far thrived. I’m happy for the guy. Whether or not I believe in what we have going on here, this was a great move for the player. His career was being stagnated here.
He played a winger as a fullback and it didn't work. That's all that happened. We still need wingers.
His system uses inverted wingers, and Shaff has been more a traditional winger. But that's not a huge adjustment.
He did poorly because he was played out of position. He had two goals and two assists for Nashville in his first five appearances, then started for them and played 78 minutes last night.
Bob and Bill are the problem until they get released, doesnt matter who you bring in for players, we will never achieve anything with them at the helm
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We did that all year, playing a bunch of different formations based on available players.
We played 352, 3411,442, 442 diamond, 343, 433, 433 with insigne central.
infact, not even 2 days ago we rolled out a 352 as that suited the available players best.
the biggest issue, as has been all season, is that the available players after the first 3-6 are nowhere close to good enough.
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