Last edited by ensco; 01-28-2022 at 10:46 AM.
"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
This is exactly what I mentioned by raising the league minimum and the "TAM" threshold. This is why Delgado is gone to a degree and Bono will be soon as well. The raises players get annually is fine but after some time they will hit the TAM threshold and then a team has to decide whether they're worth the allocation $$ to buy down. I don't think that was the sole reason for Delgado moving but eventually it will be the downfall of Bono. That is helping the 98% and isn't doing anything for the DPs, they're unchanged. Only difference would be to DPs that were around $1.6 to $2.49M as they would be re-classed as whatever "TAM" level guys are now. Doing this would in effect raise pay across the board and allow domestics to reach a higher pay bracket before requiring allocation buy downs.
Last edited by Ultra & Proud; 01-28-2022 at 11:05 AM.
Also, for a year almost everyone was bashing Curtis for signing Soteldo without addressing our defence and leaving us terribly unbalanced. Now they address this exact issue and that's no good either. There is literally no way to win.
"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
"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
For me I'm more trying to figure out the 'why'. From a pure team building POV this could be a top signing to help us win, so I'm not against it at all. Just at this point I have no idea what MLSE are thinking. Insigne told me the strategy was to splash cash and generate serious buzz, but not pairing him with any other high profile DPs would be a weird choice then.
In other words I find it more fascinating than concerning. We definitely need a top level centre half, though we also have a huge, huge need up front and that spot usually demands a DP level signing whereas centre half can usually be filled underneath that threshold
I'm floored by the amount of confusion there is behind getting a CB as a DP.
The type of CB we need doesn't just appear on the market in abundance. Even at the most Elite levels of football, finding someone who can lead a back line is very difficult.
Walker Zimmerman would be the Non-DP/TAM MLS level CB we should be targeting if we are serious about being competitive.
If that level of player isn't available, you don't settle for less. You spend bigger if you have to in order to get the right piece.
"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
The problem is that they’ve given DP money to a TAM CB. There are some very good CBs expiring this summer that the club could have gone after if they actually wanted to spend on a CB. Instead, they were so desperate to dump Soteldo that they’ve given Salcedo a near 50% raise and a DP spot.
I want to know the story behind Soteldo. To not even try and make it work under Bob Bradley to the degree that you’d basically spite yourself to the tune of millions of dollars is just too crazy.
While I’ll be disappointed if we weren’t able to buy down Salcedo, I don’t think it restricts us too much. We have a ton of cap space/allocation still available this year ($4M+, thanks to noxx98 ‘s excellent spreadsheet).
And I think there is a decent chance we transfer Pozuelo in the summer or at the end of the year. Depends on how the new coach sees him fitting in with Insigne.
We'll just have to wait and see. Destro might actually be the biggest key to this offseason.
Agreed. It's not always about plan A. They didn't get the striker they wanted, they didn't get a cheaper alternative from within the league, so they shored up the spine of the team by spending money.
It'll be bought down to TAM in year two, probably.
We don't need two Insgine-level marquee signings to be successful on the stands or in the pitch. One will do just fine. There are a ton of decent attacking players in South America and Eastern Europe who can be had for less than DP money.
I think they'll bank on BB's connections in Scandinavia, the French second division and Egypt to uncover some more offense.
Teenage Hadebe is DP CB for Houston
Look, I believe that WillForbes is some dude impersonating some other dude and is probably some dude in his Mother's basement. AND Sam Stejskal is a LEGIT writer from The Athletic... but Salcedo as a DP doesn't make sense with Manning going to Italy in a week or so, and reports are he is looking for a High End Striker... in this vain, what WillForbes writes makes tones of sense (and this window he has been more right then wrong)
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/TransfersMLS/status/1487116501043789829?s=20&t=W6FS9LxyVugCznAXeIIC7w
This scenario kills two birds with one stone. You get rid of a DP that doesn't fit and you bring in a starting CB. Mistakes cost you and we are seeing the mistake of signing Soteldo being corrected.
They signed a guy who culturally couldn't fit into the MLS, Canada and more specifically TFC. I don't blame him at all. I blame Curtis for selling the guy on a lie.
My interpretation of the Soteldo story (Not fact, just opinion):
His head is big from all of the love he gets in SA.(my wife's cousin lives down the street from Vila Belmiro and they know the FO very well - he got a lot of attention and football respect there)
Then he comes here and he's literally nothing. He's a nobody in the city, the fans don't rate him, media doesn't care about him and he's come into a broken locker room/club. His family is far away and there isn't much of that South American Culture in the city for him to retreat to
So he ain't happy at work or at home. And he's at an age where his generation posts their feelings through Insta and Insta stories. So go and look at his feed and see how much he yearns to go back to Brazil. (although his Insta stories were a lot more telling)
So, I'm not sure when this happened, but some point he checks out - He doesn't give a shit and doesn't make the effort to even try and fit in with the team/club (if you have been in this situation you know how fucking awkward it is for everyone).
He finds a couple guys in the club that understands the life he came from (Gallardo and some other random south American player) and then rides it out to the end of the season, making sure he looks good on the pitch so his value doesn't degrade. All the while his agent is letting FO know this isn't working out and something needs to be worked out.
Last edited by jabbronies; 01-28-2022 at 01:20 PM.
Yeah if theres no transfer fee theres no way hes a dp...making him a dp without a transfer fee would be a bad move and anyway there is no dp slot open
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