The LAFC moves today are interesting - bringing in one of the best Uruguayan prospects to add to their attack while dumping off Martinez to Houston.
The LAFC moves today are interesting - bringing in one of the best Uruguayan prospects to add to their attack while dumping off Martinez to Houston.
I can never see the moves Atlanta and LAFC made and are making right out of the gate, without thinking about Teachers and Richard Peddie and how they stuck it to us.
"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
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Interesting bit of history. The owner of the Lynx, Bruno Hartrell, predicted that TFC would draw 2000 -3000 per game!!!
I used to go to the occasional Lynx game and knew the U-Sector from back then. The Lynx had trouble getting decent crowds to Centennial Stadium. Nothing screams "low budget" like their operation was: Bruno would sell the tickets, and his wife Nicole would sell the hot dogs!! He lost a fortune on his love of the game, deserved better than what he ended up with (he wanted the Lynx to become TFC 2, instead Mo decided to start from scratch, leaving the Lynx worthless). The Lynx most notably developed DeRo and gave him his first pro contract.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
If we were to go down the route of historical what ifs - imagine an MLSE owned by somebody competent in 2007 & you would probably not be discussing a management group that fell/lucked into the first supporter culture focused crowd in MLS, something that I argue saved MLS
There's no black/white to all this except for this
So Galaxy finalize Pavon, on what's called a "free loan" lol. Nice little trick to get 4 DP's.
Honestly I don't care, but offensively they're stacked and Ibrahimovic, Pavon, Alessandrini, Dos Santos, Alvarez etc is the type of talent the could bring MLS glory in champions league vs Mexico.
Tosaint signed with Vancouver. I'm kinda bummed about that. And we haven't signed anyone better since he left.
Happy for him & yes we need to get a better #2 post up centre forward then Mullins.
But that's not Ricketts either.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
People who somehow score goals despite themselves: Ricketts.
People who don’t score goals, provide nothing ever, and are probably even worse than Hamilton who also provided very little: Mullins.
Good thing we have Mullins. Can’t score, doesn’t even know what the goal looks like, short, very little technical ability, etc etc.
Ricketts could slip and fall on the sidelines warming up as a substitute and somehow we’d end up with a goal.
I hear Ricketts to Whitecaps is done anyways so it doesn't matter.
Also there's an awful tendency here to write off freshly acquired players, regardless of match fitness, whether they were bench players previously, or out of the squad entirely prior to the deal, to walk in to our starting XI and score right away or else they are shit.
I'm not saying Mullins is good but much like Boyd, he should get a few matches to find his footing and if no good then see ya.
Congrats to Ricketts on his return to the MLS. He has travelled the world playing in Finland, Romania, Norway, Turkey, Israel, Toronto, Lithuania and now Vancouver. He hasn't many long tenures at any club and hopefully he gets to finish his career in Vancouver.
I don't see mullins being able to provide hold up play at all. When balls come in to him he more often than not heads them or passes them to spaces where we have no one and no one was even making a run to. I'm perplexed as to why we have him after some of the simple plays he's totally effed up.
Any way, back to current trades to other team, Well done to Tosaint. Hope he helps to get some semblance of normalcy back for a hopeless VanCity.
What's the over/under of Ricketts scoring on us in that dying minutes of a game? Will he be the new Alan Gordon?
Happy that Ricketts is in a good place, he seems like a great guy. Too bad he's on a woeful team like the Whitecaps. Maybe he'll get more minutes.
So you're comparing goal records solely on TFC when one player played in 53 matches and the other guy played in 2.
Okay. Got it.
To requote myself:
Also there's an awful tendency here to write off freshly acquired players, regardless of match fitness, whether they were bench players previously, or out of the squad entirely prior to the deal, to walk in to our starting XI and score right away or else they are shit.
Given Vancouver's penny pinching I wonder if Ricketts is volunteering?
Watching Mullins play you can tell how far he’s regressed and how little promise is left, from a player who was once considered a potential quality USMNT prospect.
The funny thing is that just about the only thing he could do was hold up play and maybe lay-off at the Crew, but for some reason he can’t even do that here.
It’s not a string of useless minutes here that formed my opinion of him, unfortunately. He simply didn’t look good before arriving here either.
It’s unfortunate, because he could be a pretty versatile player capable of playing in different formations and contributing to the attack in a meaningful way.