No doubt!Originally Posted by MikeForbes
But seriously, it’s definitely a step in the right direction, all of the various lists are outdated and unnecessary now.
No doubt!
But seriously, it’s definitely a step in the right direction, all of the various lists are outdated and unnecessary now.
Perfect, now get Larin over here now that we don't have to deal with the silly allocation.
Now to get rid of GAM/TAM/SPAM, designated players, and lets just keep things simple. $50M cap, full free agency, and no domestic rules.
Get Adekugbe on the phone stat
How will that work, will clubs be forced to compete with each other in order to sign players? I'm shocked (but delighted) they did that, that tool was a very useful wage suppressor. Hopefully we move towards more of a model of just very basic, fixed salary rules and the free market for the rest
Unless he's physically hobbled in some way, I'd say the easiest signing we could have became available today; Uri Rosell was released by KC and he's always been a good DM in this league. He's 30 now and it looks like money saving on their part.
Too many mids there and he's the oldest and one of the most expensive (albeit not on a ton, $475,000) so he's available.
Yes, because they're bringing in a normal inter-league transfer system in 2024. All that shit is going out th ewindow in favor of traditional transfer values and deals, allegedly.
thank god
I think we have to agree that this allocation order rule change may explain the delay in signings. So let's see now what happens.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Based on the SKC fan comments I saw on Reddit, they were praising god he’s gone and said he’s washed now.
yeah, I trust American football fans about as much as week-old Wendy's Chili.
He's 30 and has a fairly limited injury history. Unless his heart's not in it, I Can't see him being crocked.
His stats from last year don't look crocked, they look typical of a decent DM in this league.
Non-Penalty Goals 0.00 Non-Penalty xG 0.05 Shots Total 0.30 Assists 0.10 xAG 0.03 npxG + xAG 0.08 Shot-Creating Actions 1.00 Passes Attempted 55.24 Pass Completion % 86.3% Progressive Passes 1.80 Dribbles Completed 0.40 Touches (Att Pen) 0.40 Progressive Passes Rec 0.30 Tackles 2.10 Interceptions 1.90 Blocks 0.90 Clearances 1.60 Aerials won 0.10
Top 6% in interceptions (the most important DM stat), top half in tackles (higher than any of our players last year), top 20% in clearnaces, passing at 84%. His progressive rate is very low but that's because he's used as a true number six, not an eight.
I suspect some of their fans don't really know the difference between an anchor and a two-way mid.
Also top third in assists per minute played, which from a DM position is very positive.
Last edited by jloome; 01-20-2023 at 05:19 PM.
Yeah, that's why only 10 moves league wide in the last week; they've probably been negotiating changes league-wide.
I wonder if we argued to keep it this year, as all the other changes are coming next. We were in line for the top allocation position. There may be someone coming back to the league and someone wanted to outbid us, for example (Larin would be a possible.)
Certainly if you were an agent of a player with even an inkling that this would happen you'd be insane to advise your client to sign a contract before you can be bid on in the open market
Allocation Order abolished. Looks like the Galaxy wanted to sign someone. Thats usually the source of all MLS rule changes, the LA Galaxy need to do something that's not allowed yet
(this is just a joke- before I get a reply saying the league needed to do this for progress or whatever)
Doubtful. There’s only about 40-50 players on the allocation list that this rule applied to, including the likes of Alphonso Davies and Christian Pulisic. Would be unlikely that we are targeting multiple names on the list.
Looks like my idea of abolishing the whole discovery list thing was the complete opposite way MLS is leaning.
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/MLS_PR/status/1616530194055004168?s=20&t=Q4SkBYkOuu-sVsFYJqSjmg
So… I assume there will be a link where I can see who is on each team’s discovery list.
Oh wait, this is MLS. There is no chance they will do this.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
well this turned out to be wrong... unless there's an announcement coming tomorrow during the day.
Really starting to wonder if TFC should pivot to whatever their plan B for GK is. Or atleast leak a rumor about a plan B. We can't wait on Johnson forever, the longer this goes the more it feels like we are being used as a bargaining chip against NYCFC.
i mean if that was the case he would have re-signed there by now.
our offer has been on the table for 6 weeks already.
And what is it with the weird language? “Discovery”, “discoverable”… none of these players are unknown to anyone and the allocation guys have all played in the league before. Sounds like U.S. military speak or something.
About the league-wide lack of signings, has the salary cap and/or all the additional initiatives that increase the allowable budget been set by the league yet? I seem to remember talk of more revenue and even more increases than usual but I don’t remember seeing any numbers.
The fact that our offer has been on the table for that long without a resolution is enough reason to start looking at other options. I want SJ as much as anyone, but we can't wait forever for him.
SJ is overrated ask POZ...lets move on from him
I'd offer Ethan Horvath a high TAM deal. He's on about $1M right now, but Nottingham Forest's boss doesn't favor him (despite him playing very well for them last year when Samba went out). He's been dead good at Luton this season (although had one howler of a bad clearance against WBA last week). He's a US international, he's doing the perma-loan thing like a lot of guys who've come back to MLS.
And he's 28, I think. So he could be a legit top number one for a while.
He could probably be had for $1-2M.
I would be very surprised if they were not talking with others.
But when exactly do you walk away & make that other deal?
(that and past history has shown that sometimes for x to happen, y has to occur first - I can seriously see how being second in the allocation order would be an issue that needed to be resolved first)
I’d be very happy with that. Makes more sense than Johnson. But does he want to come back? (And yes, another dubious bit of Forest judgment.)
Holy hell. Anything more than 700k on a keeper in this league feels like massive overpay.
Keeper salaries have been rising. We’ve always had mediocre keepers because the salaries offered were low (at least to begin with). I’m fine with a high TAM keeper if he’s genuinely good and can play with us for many years. Again, that’s more that either we can or are willing to pay, but I think the days of winning with shit keepers are coming to an end. Salcedo was making 2.4 million or some such. Would have been better split in half and spent on a keeper and a centre half. Burki at St. louis is on 1.5 million, Room and Blake are each close to 900,000.
Forest has two better goalkeepers in Henderson and Hennessey. Henderson has been excellent this year. Can’t see Horvath coming mid-season when Luton is striking distance to the playoff. I agree we need to push this SJ thing or get onto another player.
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