We won’t have one. Poz was a #10 through and through (even when pushed out wide) and he didn’t look at home in Bradley’s conception of football. Bernardeschi is more like the player BB was asking Poz to be: defensively responsible right winger.
We still need quite a few players however, especially if Salcedo is gone.
So TFC just traded a former mvp make 3.5 million to go sign a dp that didn’t score in over a calendar year and probably pay him in the 6–7 million range (gross not net)
before any of you start… he played the majority of his games against the lower positioned teams.
fire manning straight into the moon. He really is useless
i hope pozeulo torches every single time he plays us…
I share your concern about his overall value but we have to temper it by considering that he’s a) playing at a higher level and b) may be primarily tasked with roles outside the final third.
I’ll be on board until it doesn’t work, as usual.
If we sign him, great, hopefully it works out. I can’t see a guy who’s played regular for their national team HURTING us. Our team play and transition play is so poor, even a guy who’s being overpaid relative to production can be pretty valuable.
As long as he fulfills his team responsibilities at a top level, his overall production may be less important, because we still have Insigne, Jimenez and Akinola, all of whom are pretty much locks to score 10 plus a season.
Right - literally every player we've moved on from except maybe Kemar this year has been just as bad if not WORSE than we've been.
Manning literally said he looked at transfermarket to figure out who to sign….
JFC they should all be fired into the moon. MLSE board, manning and anyone else who was in on these decisions
Woah. Sad to see Poz go. I would've like to see him get a couple of games with Insigne to see how they'd work together. Now we'll never know.
He’s ultimately a guy who seems very keen on positional responsibility. Even when he was good (which was, really, most of the time) Poz was all over the pitch because he’s played like a guy with a free role since basically his second year at Genk.
He’s been successful being the guy on the ball for six years, so he’s probably locked into it now.
But on a team that relies on taking positional advantage — basically eschewing prescribed movement in favor of supporting triangles and filling zones to support teammates, ala Cruyff ball — that forces teammates to be as good as he is, because they have to read and adjust more.
GIven that Oso tends to do this as well in the final third as a consequence of being able to keep the ball in traffic, we end up with a lot of disjointed situations that turn into bad transitions the other way,.
On a team of veterans none of this would be an issue, because the other players would all read, react and adjust quickly enough to cover problems. But the kids just need more positional discipline. That’s my read, anyway.
Poz is very much a round peg and Bob wants square pegs in square holes.
100% agree with this. Poz was (and is) a great player and did so much for TFC. But he wasn't a fit with the vision for the team. Getting a significant return for Poz was always going to be tough with 6 months left on his deal - especially if he was wanting to go to Miami in the future.
Whatever the future holds for this team, it's going to be fun.
160 people browsing this thread…. Been a while… LOL
Getting 150K in GAM for an expiring deal in a Year 0 season, to me, is gravy. It allows TFC to attack the DP market during the summer, which is huge. I just feel a bit for Pozuelo.
I've never liked Bernardeschi and the club would overpay to get him, but I do expect him to produce at a DP level. But hoping they go for a real game-breaker with the other DP spot.
This is the man we got - even though he wasn't great for us these past couple years, he'll always be this guy to me.