#61
Posted 07 June 2019 - 03:45 PM
#62
Posted 07 June 2019 - 04:37 PM
recruiting wars always make you question as to why some kid attends such and such college to play hoops/football/hockey. i don't see that changing at all when it comes to kids in soccer academies, etc. gonna get nasty.
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#63
Posted 07 June 2019 - 05:43 PM
We are good enough to beat the best teams, and bad enough to lose to the worst teams.
#64
Posted 08 June 2019 - 09:10 PM
It was top tier. As BrianMLS has laid out for all, that is no longer the case. Which is part of the reason Ralf is being put in charge.Seriously. Our academy is top tier in North America. Supposedly up there with Dallas. Why would a local prodigy be poached by another MLS team when they could join the RBNY pyramid (assuming they're good enough) instead?
Eleazar is dead on accurate about the recruiting aspect of the Academies. Kids are gonna get paid to go to places, whether legally or illegally. Anyone who follows college football knows how this is gonna go. It ain't gonna be easy. We had a massive advantage with the closed geographical boundaries because we had probably the second or third best talent pool in the country under our sole control. Open it up, get some cash payments involved...
I wouldn't be too pollyanna on this stuff, guys. It ain't just gonna be about perceived quality of the Academy.
Hadn't heard the Paderborn stuff, B.
#RedBullOut
#65
Posted 09 June 2019 - 10:48 AM
Kids are gonna get paid to go to places, whether legally or illegally. Anyone who follows college football knows how this is gonna go. It ain't gonna be easy. We had a massive advantage with the closed geographical boundaries because we had probably the second or third best talent pool in the country under our sole control. Open it up, get some cash payments involved...
When the MLS boundaries open up some teams are going to spend a lot of money to snag kids from places far away from them.
And at some point one team will spend a lot of money and come up with a revolutionary way to scout the entire USA without spending TOO much money.
I have no faith that Red Bull will do either.
#66
Posted 10 June 2019 - 12:01 PM
When the MLS boundaries open up some teams are going to spend a lot of money to snag kids from places far away from them.
And at some point one team will spend a lot of money and come up with a revolutionary way to scout the entire USA without spending TOO much money.
I have no faith that Red Bull will do either.
Why is it that you think teams that have made relatively minimal investment up to this point will magically change direction following one rule change? RB has made the academy a priority and have spent at a high level, with talk of a residential academy. Why would they suddenly decide to back of that strategy?
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#67
Posted 10 June 2019 - 12:07 PM
Why is it that you think teams that have made relatively minimal investment up to this point will magically change direction following one rule change?
I dont think all teams will do it.
#68
Posted 10 June 2019 - 07:05 PM
Dallas just sold a kid for 1.5m and he never played a first team game. If you've got a really, really high end u-16, why not pay him to join your academy for a year and promise to sell him on early in his career?
#RedBullOut
#69
Posted 18 October 2019 - 11:57 AM
https://en.m.wikiped...tico_Bragantino
14 points up for automatic promotion with 9 to play:
https://en.m.wikiped...sileiro_S?rie_B
RBNY drops another place on the food chain.
We are good enough to beat the best teams, and bad enough to lose to the worst teams.
#70
Posted 18 October 2019 - 10:37 PM
RB about to have a first-division club in Brazil.
https://en.m.wikiped...tico_Bragantino
14 points up for automatic promotion with 9 to play:
https://en.m.wikiped...sileiro_S?rie_B
RBNY drops another place on the food chain.
this is bad if they send all the Casseres type prospects to that team.
That being said I bet we end up taking more players from this team than we would ever send over. Plus it should expand the scouting network the club has in South America which is a positive. The Brazilian league is not a place where I expect RB to do anything else besides exporting talent to RBL and RBS.
#71
Posted 19 October 2019 - 03:39 AM
Better Latin American scouting is a big need, hopefully this results in a few savvy signings (for Metro, not Leipzburg).
RED. BULL. OUT.
#SaveTheMetro
#72
Posted 19 October 2019 - 09:43 AM
Sometimes I think the entire Red Bull existence has been some 19 year old kids football manager save file he only plays when he comes home drunk. - 'Mibabalou'
#FUCKredbull
#73
Posted 19 October 2019 - 09:58 AM
Rb has been in Brazil for a dozen years
With a noted lack of success.
https://en.m.wikiped...Red_Bull_Brasil
Stuck in the local Paulista League.
AFAIK, not even in the national 4th division.
So, buying a top-level club is similar to the
strategy by recently successful MLS clubs.
We are good enough to beat the best teams, and bad enough to lose to the worst teams.
#74
Posted 22 October 2019 - 09:11 AM
#75
Posted 22 October 2019 - 11:28 AM
Marcos Paullo is one, iirc. But that team was in the lower depths of Brazil's pyramid. Newly acquired Bragantino might have some players that can perform at this level.
RIP Guillermo Romulo, Alexander Francis Orig, Celenio Eleazar, and my Mom, Resurreccion Eleazar.
RIP Cesar Castello, Mike Vallo, Glenn Stampiglia, Bob Paquette, and Warren Lee
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