apparently Matty Longstaff formerly of the Newcastle system (loaned out to league 2 & SPL teams) has been spotted travelling with the team. Trialing? 23 year old C;/B
/CDM 900k value on transfermarkt.
https://twitter.com/TheStoicBowler/s...BIIECwqog&s=19
Both these profiles are the same that we had with bez and vanney.Originally Posted by ag futbol
Blew his ACL at the end of 2022 and hasn't played since.
But that's pretty normal for an ACL. Rehab and everything, he was probably out for 6-9 months.
Promising young player up until then but clearly not in Newcastle's plans as he was on loan four or five at the time, in League Two.
Herdman's from the Tyneside area (Durham County) so he'd probably know of him already or gotten strong recs.
Reclamation project, though, albeit a free one.
Somewhat bizarrely, his father is a famous English (such as they are) hockey player. But an actual English one, born in England, not a transported Canadian. Maybe there's a story there involving duel citizenship or a Canadian grandparent.
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Bez and Vanney had an actual leader above them who inspired confidence. That's the difference.
I think Herdman has an objectively better profile than Vanney coming in. Bez I would argue was more sought-after than Hernandez and the league was at a different stage of its development. But it is what it is.
I suspect that just about every gm/coach/other key decision makers that come into mls for the first time have no knowledge about all the nuances of mls roster building......
i would say that with sean rubio, herdman and staff and hernandez all doing the same job that bob bradley was doing **by himself** last year gives me more confidence.
rubio has a very good track record and it's a structure far more congruent with modern MLS than we've had last few years.
I have a little optimism. I think we can at least be mediocre this year and not fold like cheap tents in a stiff breeze.
Even if Herdman turns out to be the next Postecoglou, the fact is our individual pieces haven't shown yet that they're good enough, so there's no reason to assume we don't need some better players in.
It would be fair to say they've all had flashes of being good at some point, so perhaps he'll harness them into something we don't even recognize from last year. Would be nice.
I'm kinda wondering if we don't make the playoffs can we keep this group of 3 still because this was NEVER going to be a 1 year project.
Manning needs to go...said that before.
But I'm not sure about judging these 3 based on the mess left by BB.
I do believe that a good number of our pieces have shown that they have MLS starting quality.
Kobe
Oso
Insigne
Bernardeschi
Coello
Johnson
O'Neil
Have all shown they can start in this league JMR should in all likelihood be good enough.
The question of can Rosted, Petreta, Flores, Akinola, Owosu, mailula, Mabika et al, be meaningful contributors is definitely an open question. I think that last year was definitely a group that was worse than the sum of its parts.
We had no tactics at all. I think that any reasonable coaching and effort makes us a playoff team. If we manage to get the vest out of our players and see some growth from the young players, this could be a surprising team.
Anything between ninth and a home playoff game would not surprise me. The Italians are that good if we get the best out of them.
Is Matty Longstaff the one that was linked to a big money move to Man United cos he scored a cpl of thunderbastards against them?
He is the same guy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Zdac...FuIHV0ZA%3D%3D
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Looks like one for Herdman to me… but did he do his ACL and then another knee injury since that bit of video?
He tore his ACL at the end of 2022.
so based on everything that's been put out there about the game vs columbus:
final score was 4-2 columbus
tfc were 2-0 up at 60 mins then heavily rotated their lineup
so the positive is that the starters have won 2 games in a row vs decent teams. the depth is predictably and worryingly bad, it seems.
overall, still seems like an improvement though, considering how our best lineup performed last couple years.
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Interestingly, his strike partner at Western Michigan signed with Charlotte.
Lazar Stefanovic and Adam Pearlman named to the Canada U20 team for CONCACAF U20 qualifiers
is pearlman still with tfc?
he is shown has unattached on the csa list
His TFC2 contract expired at the end of the season. They wrote that they were in negotiations with him to sign a new deal. Maybe they didn't reach an agreement then, I guess, if he;s listed as unattached
https://www.torontofc.ca/tfc2/news/t...d-roster-moves
tfc2 sure do have small roster at the moment,i also heard that walkes is training with york united
They're allowed to add 11 academy players to the roster, who don't count to the roster. Last year they had about 16 players on pro contracts for the full season. The rest were academy guys.
it was his brother Sean that was linked to Utd
A Newcastle fan online yesterday said one of the big Italian clubs came in for Matty but Newcastle persuaded him to stay there. Then they loaned him out, then he blew his knee.
Who was it that suggested we were looking at him as a possible CB? Did he play centre back during his loans?
Someone saw him with the team in LA, and Herdman is from County Durham.
Those two I know of, but not the CB part.
A ‘what happened to Marty Longstaff’ article:
https://onefootball.com/en/news/what...taff-38781629#
Oh... good point!
Every clip I've seen of him he's playing midfield. He's a defensive minded 6/8 type, I think, and probably too small to be playing centre half in MLS.
But we definitely need another DM.
Yeah, that was what I was thinking. He seems not an obvious candidate for conversion to CB.
But yes we definitely could use another DM. I don’t think Cohelo is a natural 6, and he didn’t really look it in his one match under Herdman, either. Maybe I’m wrong and he can learn. No doubt he can learn something from Flores, and he does have special qualities but none of them are especially purely defensive minded. He might be able to play the double pivot or be a Micheal Bradley or Hutchinson sort of ‘6/not naturally 6’. But they were both bigger/tougher and quicker than Coelho is.
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I thought it was this individual as well. Just understood it may not be. The initial rumour was posted on 05FEB24. iIUC, seems he made the starting line-up for the Copa AUF Uruguay match between Montevideo clubs Wanderers and River Plate on 07FEB24. Also, seems according to the club website he may have renewed his contract by recently re-signing with the wanderers for 2024. So unless something dramatic has happened and caused his situation to change, thinking it’s not him, if any Emiliano Garcia at all.
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