#16
Posted 10 May 2019 - 07:29 AM
The fact that this team did nothing to replace Adams at that CM spot shows you that winning isnt at the top of their priority list.
Ppl bring up that this is a very similar team that won the SS last year. But lets not forget that most of our opponents FOs didnt sit on their hands this offseason and last summer window. Last summers big signings like Ibra and Rooney have settled and are paying dividends.
5 year plan
#17
Posted 10 May 2019 - 11:08 AM
#18
Posted 10 May 2019 - 11:47 AM
Even if the academy pumps out a tyler adams every other year it will make very little difference in the long run bc we wont have the new phenom play with the existing young phenom bc the first guy would have been sold already.
The fact that this team did nothing to replace Adams at that CM spot shows you that winning isnt at the top of their priority list.
Ppl bring up that this is a very similar team that won the SS last year. But lets not forget that most of our opponents FOs didnt sit on their hands this offseason and last summer window. Last summers big signings like Ibra and Rooney have settled and are paying dividends.
Pretty much.
The league isn't stagnant, teams get better, and generally the quality is going up each successive year. Even with that in mind it was always going to be extremely difficult to replace Tyler Adams. That was a kid who was groomed and brought up for the system Marsch played. He executed our system and played at such a level that he is a starting player on a Champions League bundesliga team. It's hard enough to replace him just on his understanding of our system alone...it's next to impossible to replace his skill without breaking the bank for a high quality product.
There's this group of ownership defenders who literally cannot criticize them at all for whatever reason. I like CCJ, I think he has some promise. But the same people who were singing his praises as the answer to Adams THIS YEAR are the first ones to blame Armas alone for the situation we find ourselves in right now. This ownership needed to spend to plug the hole in the midfield...they responded by bringing back Rza. Is he a solid rotational option and good depth player? Yes. Is he a starting CL quality midfielder? Hell no.
The reality? Tyler Adams not only was the defensive stalwart cleaning up messes for the midfield, he was also the guy who was able to spring our attack with his passing. He was crucially important to this team and downplaying his loss was idiotic. Almost as idiotic as dropping the the entire transfer fee on a kid with 400 total minutes of first team football in nowhere Denmark. Maybe Jorgensen is something, I don't know. But I do know that he's so far behind we've had to sign another kid from USL for striker cover, and the wings still remain an unresolved issue.
#RedBullOut
#19
Posted 10 May 2019 - 01:13 PM
Wait, winger is an unresolved issue? But we had eight on the roster at the beginning of the yr?!?! #sarcasm
Although BrianMLS' rundown earlier in this thread has me worried sick.
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
#20
Posted 10 May 2019 - 01:18 PM
Although BrianMLS' rundown earlier in this thread has me worried sick.
Same
#21
Posted 10 May 2019 - 01:45 PM
#22
Posted 10 May 2019 - 03:33 PM
Front office is probably too busy getting more tarps made.
Probably have sweat shop conditions in the basement doing this as we speak. Maybe theyll just have everyone squeeze in sections 102-133
#23
Posted 10 May 2019 - 05:08 PM
Probably have sweat shop conditions in the basement doing this as we speak. Maybe theyll just have everyone squeeze in sections 102-133
Based on what I've seen, they wouldnt need to squeeze in.
@CurseofCaricola
#24
Posted 10 May 2019 - 07:13 PM
Not giving a shit about this club and or winning...
"Red Bull on the pitch - Metro in our hearts."
#RedBullOut
#25
Posted 10 May 2019 - 09:37 PM
#26
Posted 11 May 2019 - 03:42 PM
our Belgian Soda Overloards
Did I miss something?
We are good enough to beat the best teams, and bad enough to lose to the worst teams.
#27
Posted 11 May 2019 - 05:01 PM
And Olsen didn't turn DC into a bunch of whining, diving.. oh, nevermind
-MetroSquard
#28
Posted 11 May 2019 - 05:57 PM
Otherwise we are just a useless billboard for an energy drink.
only when we lose and get absolutely stupid draws.
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
#29
Posted 12 May 2019 - 12:51 PM
#30
Posted 12 May 2019 - 12:56 PM
it's worse than last yr.
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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