Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/joshuakloke/status/967046461178310656
Hype. Would love to see him come off the bench on Tuesday if we can get his documentation sorted in time.
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/joshuakloke/status/967046461178310656
Hype. Would love to see him come off the bench on Tuesday if we can get his documentation sorted in time.
Vazquez helped him decide to sign apparently
Awesome, can’t wait to see him combine with Vasquez! Looks like another game changer from Bez! Just put the quad a little more in reach!
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/JohnMolinaro/status/967051730176294912
This is the most excited I've been to hear our stadium announcer pronounce somoene's name for the first time since we traded for Bright Dike.
I was so excited that day. The possibilities man...If only he was worse at his job.
The Basques are very interesting demographic. I read a really interesting piece a while back about how a significant percentage of Basque's have an extremely difference genetic historical make-up to the rest of Spain and france and the rest of Europe. So much so that they can't actually pin down where they came from or how this community became whole.
much bigger case for Basque independance compared to the Catalonoian case. They're mostly just privileged assholes in comparison.
I'm not sure what exactly I said that isn't fair. They aren't obligated to give him any more than the standard yearly increase. A player who hardly played isn't getting performance related bonuses or raises, so that's not an issue either. Salary was never the thing holding up his signing. Therefore, it's his international status that's holding it up. So they're either waiting to see if another signing pans out before using their last international spot on him, or they're trying to get him papers to be domestic
Well a couple posts up they mentioned that Chilean player, so maybe they're trying to acquire a ninth International slot to get both players. Endoh's only been in Canada for two years (Canadian citizenship I believe is 3 of last 5 years as a Perm Resident), and he left the United States to come here, not sure if that would eliminate his domestic status in the US
Guess this officially means Tim Kubel won't be a first-team deal if Endoh is being signed
Last edited by rydermike; 02-23-2018 at 05:00 PM. Reason: wrote DP slot instead of international slot
Completely agree, now with 7 of 8 international filled I always have believed the Reds would take a wait and see approach with players like Endoh and say draft pick Tim Kubel. That they someone like them would only be signed if there was not a better player out there who would upgrade the squad. I don't think anyone expects every MLS team to have eight top flight internationals. As such the Reds have shown in the past, the willingness to use an international spot on a utility player, case in point with Oyvind Alseth last season. So we shall see how this shakes out.
Slot Player Nationality 1 Ager Aketxe Spain 2 Auro Brazil 3 Sebastian Giovinco Italy 4 Nicolas Hasler Liechtenstein 5 Chris Mavinga Democratic Republic of the Congo 6 Gregory van der Wiel Netherlands 7 Víctor Vázquez Spain
Remember The Man, The Legend, The Goal 5-12-07 and All That #9 Left On The Pitch, Thanks For The Memories !!!
Remember The Man, The Legend, The Goal 5-12-07 and All That #9 Left On The Pitch, Thanks For The Memories !!!
"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
Didn't we have a CB in the early Bez era who we signed out of college and had to talk out of going back to France for a similar job? Simonin or something? was alright for a game or two and then unfortunately had a career ending injury IIRC.
Talked earlier today with a Colorado supporter who mentioned Irwin's high intellect as being fitting for a city like Toronto. I think Bez and Vanney really specifically target these highly intelligent, high work ethic type players to round out the depth of the squad. Very solid organizational move as a whole. trims the fat off the meat if you get what I mean.
Last edited by molenshtain; 02-23-2018 at 06:59 PM.
A critique of Aketxe by an Athletic Bilbao supporter:
https://underthecoshblog.com/2018/02...m-ager-aketxe/
Aketxe may be more of a potential Seba sub than we realized.
"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
With Aketke signed, are we done?
Did Bez make any mentions of more signings?
The rub here is that when you get to that level (La Liga, Bundesliga, EPL, etc...) the players have numerous strong attributes regardless of the overall flavour of the league. La Liga is technical but that doesn’t mean the players aren’t strong or capable of handling physical play or that the level of athleticism required isn’t well above MLS. It’s a high enough level where you have to be well rounded.
I still remember watching Liverpool play TFC at sky dome from field level. Comparatively it looked like our players shrunk a few sizes in the wash.
So MLS may be physical and fast, but that is a relative characteristic for leagues of this quality. It’s not really all that physical of you are comparing to the best of the best.