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One player in the top 5 mls players per position.

It was long at CB at #5.

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Few things to note from MLS' roster site.
1. Kaku has been finally been removed from the team's roster on MLS' site. Hopefully this means the saga is wrapping up.
2. Pendant is listed as injured.
3. Still +1 on international spots.
4. Luca Lewis is listed as "Unavailable". In most cases I would lean towards this being the season-long loan to USL. While it likely is, Jorgensen is listed as "loaned out".

Still a slew of issues with the site. Player numbers, Casseres listed as a forward, Coronel listed as "Carlos", Harper listed as "Signed" but not with a Senior Roster player designation, Edwards not listed as "unavailable", bunch of player designations that don't match when going to RBNY site.
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Actually promotion.... our Captain on WDHA in the next couple minutes...

"Blah blah blah new coach.... yada yada will take time to gel..."

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I'm not really sure which thread this belongs in, but Matthew Doyle's piece "All 27 MLS teams ranked by tier for 2021" contains this tidbit: "Long and Daniel Royer are the only two proven starters on this team, and sources around the league have told me all offseason that the Red Bulls were shopping Royer."

 

Realistically, how many of the starting 11 will this team turn over this year? To be expected, but I can't remember consecutive seasons where the roster was SO different.



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Royer is another one like Davis that is in his option year.

Can understand with potential replacements being brought in (Harper, Klimala for Royer and Amaya for Davis) that they might want to cash in on some allocation money before letting them walk at the end of the season.

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New York Red Bulls and USMNT center back Aaron Long on European aspirations: "In terms of my situation with the Red Bulls, I'm just going to try to make the best of it, and we’ll see what happens." #RBNY
 
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If we get the Devil and Amaya, I am very much inclined to side with the not a shit show offseason camp.


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at this point i'm just assuming we will make a U22 rule signing once Long goes to Europe within the next 12 months.  Hopefully whoever that is, is good.



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If we get the Devil and Amaya, I am very much inclined to side with the not a shit show offseason camp.

One can arguably be underwhelmed or pessimisitc, but "shitshow" would be difficult to justify.


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I'm not really sure which thread this belongs in, but Matthew Doyle's piece "All 27 MLS teams ranked by tier for 2021" contains this tidbit: "Long and Daniel Royer are the only two proven starters on this team, and sources around the league have told me all offseason that the Red Bulls were shopping Royer."

 

Realistically, how many of the starting 11 will this team turn over this year? To be expected, but I can't remember consecutive seasons where the roster was SO different.

 

Can't say I'm too shocked, I'm sure they respect Royer plenty as a player but he seems like another square peg in a round hole for the formations Struber prefers. That inverted winger role is really where he shines and that doesn't exist in the diamond 4-4-2 or the 3-5-2. He's an OK second striker, but not a great one.



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Royer was making 700k in 2019

Davis was making 300k in 2019

 

I'm not surprised that Royer is being shopped and that Davis could be on the way out too. Approx one million reasons to not have them on the roster anymore. 


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One can arguably be underwhelmed or pessimisitc, but "shitshow" would be difficult to justify.

Challenge accepted!

We let go of known quantities (quality quantities as well) in Kaku and Parker and stocked up on a bunch of relatively unproven or previously underperforming kids.

Yes, some of them have upside, but I dont want upside. I want a cup.

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We let go of known quantities (quality quantities as well) in Kaku and Parker

We didnt really let go of Kaku, he just left.

As for Parker, I know a lot here will disagree, but I think his known quality of not being a great passer is the reason hes gone. Playing out of the back is important to Struber, its why he also brought in Colonel.

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If for any reason Meara wins the starting job, would mean that our RBS loanee keeper would be demoted to Lt. Coronel. 


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Challenge accepted!

 

lol Koko to be fair, we could be up 3-0 in an MLS Cup final with 5 minutes to go and you'd still find a way to call it a shitshow






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