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Sounders rumored to be acquiring Honduran midfielder Wilmer Crisanto in January. Potential replacement for Mauro Rosales? You decide.
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Can he play offensive line? Who am I kidding... sark will just covert him to a running back.MelloDawg said:Sounders rumored to be acquiring Honduran midfielder Wilmer Crisanto in January. Potential replacement for Mauro Rosales? You decide.
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As you doubtless know, his name popped up around Labor Day along with Icelandic player, and he was thought to be a good offseason signing. He looks to be a rising young talent.MelloDawg said:Sounders rumored to be acquiring Honduran midfielder Wilmer Crisanto in January. Potential replacement for Mauro Rosales? You decide.
But the team needs to do much more to take the talent level to where it is needed for an MLS CUp run.
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Alright you two, get a room
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Actually, they do have a room. Thankfully.DerekJohnson said:Alright you two, get a room
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DJ is right. The Bistro IS the room for all talk of the beautiful game.
I remember the Icelandic guy, Gudjohnnsen, seemed promising at a reserve league match as did that Romanian Ogararu. Need more allocation $$$ though -
Mello
Yes, seems so. But nobody signed, and the Sounders need to spend more to keep up with LA. -
Roth, Hannauer and others swear that money won't be a factor in terms of pursuing the MLS Cup, whatever that ends up meaning. As much as guys like Rosales have helped, this philosophy of young Central-American players doesn't get the job done for me.
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Too much teeth?MelloDawg said:, this philosophy of young Central-American players doesn't get the job done for me.
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Agree about the young Central American players. They are fairly talented usually, and cheaper than their European counterparts or even most South American counterparts. If they have been in Central America, it is typically the minor leagues of the Hispanic futbol world. Getting a transfer to a better paying S. American club or to the US, is a good step for them, or even better for them, to a decent European club.MelloDawg said:Roth, Hannauer and others swear that money won't be a factor in terms of pursuing the MLS Cup, whatever that ends up meaning. As much as guys like Rosales have helped, this philosophy of young Central-American players doesn't get the job done for me.
But if money truly was not a factor, the Sounders would not be buying from here, but from the better clubs of S America or Europe. They get bargains and diamonds in the rough with their strategy, but it is financially driven.
But the old NASL went bankrupt by diving too heavily into expensive European talent pools. As a young guy, I worked for a while with the old NASL Sounders. As you doubtless know, the Cosmos were the LA Galaxy of that era, with expensive guys like Pele, Beckenbauer, Chinaglia, Alberto, etc.
That is clearly not a good economic model without much better stadium attendance and BIG TV contracts.
So I wonder how the Galaxy do what they do? The economics of their team is something Seattle needs to understand. Can it be emulated?
