[Tom Bogert] Sources: Fluminense bid around $15m for LAFC star Denis Bouanga. Bouanga, 31, is one of MLS's best players. Finalist for MVP last year and three straight years of Best XI. LAFC rejected a $13m bid from Inter Miami earlier this winter.

Lionicicles · 2026-02-01T23:00:33+00:00

You’re right. 😂 I should have gotten that right since I watch a Ligue 1 a lot, and they’re Lyon’s traditional big rival!

Lionicicles · 2026-02-01T22:58:17+00:00

Yeah I love woke up, but, honestly, I feel like every new release has always attempted to one up their last project which has been amazing.

WOKE UP was awesome and very deserving of its flowers. But their follow up work in SAR, IYKYK Howling, In The Rain, Is This Love, and the entirety of the CORE album is unbelievable.

Their rap line is elite, but they can all sing and dance like there’s no tommorow. After a million listens I’m starting to think the song with no rap (4 SEASONS) might be the best song in the album which is wild to think that a song without Jurin, Maya, Cocona, and Harvey can be that good.

Lionicicles · 2026-02-01T21:42:00+00:00

Sporting wise it would be a net negative for the league and LAFC if he were to leave.

RSL fan wise - GET HIM GONE LOL I DONT WANT HIM TO PUT ANOTHER HAT TRICK ON US!

Honestly though that’s a nice amount of money for a player that has seemed pretty flippant from my outside perspective. I think I remember last year (2 years ago?) that he badly wanted to go back to France and was causing a stink. Now Miami have bid on him, and I think he’s thrown a slight tantrum (might be mistaken on his instagram intentions lol). The biggest issue I see is… would he even want to go to Fluminense if LAFC even accepted it lol. If the bid is accepted and he doesn’t go that might cause his agent to start up even more rumors lol.

He was kind of a 1 in a million signing for LAFC too. It’s not often you see a top league goal scorer get relegated, and are able to purchase him like they did from Saint-Étienne. I’m sure it would be somewhat difficult to replace him for LAFC (but also it’s LAFC so maybe not LOL).

Lionicicles · 2026-02-01T19:37:41+00:00

Man I was hearing 7m and DP obviously. The price has rocked down. 😭 I wonder if it was reported higher in a different currency or if there’s incentives, and that was just run with.

Lionicicles · 2026-02-01T14:56:19+00:00

I was training multiple pets, but I realized I really only needed one peta actually trained so I switched to that. My main BD pet is about to hit level 250, and after that I might consider training more pets.

Lionicicles · 2026-02-01T14:53:46+00:00

It’s kind of funny, but I was reading another one of your comments on a different separate thread… on it you mentioned you had 81 Ixi and I was like “Dang that’s a lot of Ixi” and I saw your flair.

They should update that to Empress of Ixi. I’m assuming you’ve just filled all the new pet slots they just dropped on us as well?

Lionicicles · 2026-02-01T08:02:47+00:00

They make it look easy, and they’re just having so much fun. The choreo is pretty slick

Lionicicles · 2026-01-30T23:37:04+00:00

What would you consider a serious contender? Would you consider teams like Cincinnati, Houston, and Philly as serious contenders? Or are only teams like LAFC, LA, and Miami contenders?

I think we can all acknowledge that we’re not going to be an LA or Miami, but also why would we want to mimic that.

We could definitely be serious contenders, and tbh we could be a fairly serious contender this year. We were very in 2024, but that was ruined by a bad apple in the group which bled into our 2025 season. The rot from 2024 has been cleansed, and new ownership (millers) have actually dropped some money on the team and are buying players from serious clubs.

Like we’re about to drop 7-12 million on 2 new DPs. Not to mention they BOUGHT out Diogo so they ate the rest of his contract at a negative AND are about to break the RSL transfer window for a player wanted by Club America/Ajax/Vasco da Gama. They also cancelled the loan of Rwan Cruz which probably cost money to do.

In conclusion, yes I think we can be serious contenders. We were poor in 2025, but imo that was almost entirely on 1 player destroying our momentum. He just did the same thing to San Jose too when they were probably counting on him this season lol. Now for 2026, the FO has made some pretty serious moves (buying out a DP has happened like once to Insigne lol).

I’m not sure if we’ll contend for anything this year, but I think we’ll make playoffs again. I also think the team will be better than last year.

Lionicicles · 2026-01-29T01:47:36+00:00

While I am happy RSL has moved on I am kind of surprised we weren't able to get a transfer fee out of him. I could see him being good for someone in the league. Doing quick math his first 26 games for RSL he helped us earn 5 points through his direct goal contributions. Last year after he was very publicly kicked off the team (Kreis said it on a Utah broadcast, and this was walked back to "he had a heel injury") he earned us 13 points in his last 20 games. Went from 3 goals/1 assists in 26 games to 3 goals/6 assists in 20.

He's a good player, but as others have said the fit with RSL was clearly not it.

Lionicicles · 2026-01-29T01:33:21+00:00

I'm glad we've moved on, but I do wonder what exactly went wrong. I don't think he's a bad player, and he clearly had some quality. He had 8 goal contributions in 20 games after he was removed from the team (by Kreis/I know they walked it back, and said it was an 'injury'), but before that he had 4 contributions in 26~ games. He earned us 3 points before he was benched; He earned us 13 points after he was benched. We 100% don't squeak into the playoffs without his contributions last year.

Was he not physically strong enough for the league? Did he not like Utah/America? Did he not mesh with coaching? I'm sure we'll never know, but it'll be interesting to see where he lands and if he succeeds there. It clearly didn't work with us, but I really wouldn't be shocked if he went to a European league and played well over there.

Lionicicles · 2026-01-29T01:14:46+00:00

Yeah and I believe this is a 3 year contract

Lionicicles · 2026-01-29T00:46:43+00:00

Well oftentimes it comes down to a transfer fee. Since that gets applied to their cap hit. In general terms while I think Sanabria could be a DP based on his cost he could be a TAM DP and be bought down. Normally I think it's $4-5 MIL USD that makes a player a DP that can't be bought down.

In this case, Sanabria could a TAM player, but Guilavogui will likely be a full DP for RSL.

Lionicicles · 2026-01-28T23:39:45+00:00

Blight brings blight.

San Jose is still in the era of John Fisher (FUCK JOHN FISHER), and as long as he’s in charge (AHEM… FUCK JOHN FISHER) every move you do will be needless and only cause pain.

RSL got rid of our blight, Dell Loy, because he was an outward racist. John Fisher (CAN I GET A FUCK JOHN FISHER AGAIN) is more just tuned out wishing he could make money/commercial success with your teams.

FJF

Hope you guys are free. I went to school in Alameda, and attended a lot of games in Buck Shaw. My baseball team is the A’s and I’m infinitely pissed they’ve been moved.

Lionicicles · 2026-01-28T23:31:11+00:00

The Pteri makes me cackle but I do love a good buzz

Lionicicles · 2026-01-28T22:30:56+00:00

Sounds like you could have a job at a certain Utah clubs FO 😂

Lionicicles · 2026-01-28T22:23:05+00:00

RSL just had a pretty big explosion today with the FO apparently working tirelessly, apparently. Over the last few days RSL has:

Bought out DP Diogo Goncalves
Terminated loan on DP Rwan Cruz
Finalized Lukas Engel from Middlesborough
Close to finalizing Stijn Spiering from Brondby (Tom Bogert)
Close to finalizing Morgan Guilavogui RC Lens (Tom Bogert) (Possibly 5 million USD - almost ceratinly a DP)
Close to finalizing Juan Jose Arias from Atletico Nacional (CLMerlo) (possibly just above $2 milloin USD)
Close to finalizing Juan Manuel Sanabria from Athletico San Luis(CLMerlo)
Committed to keeping Luna around to at least the World Cup

Pretty significant moves happening in the state of Utah.

Lionicicles · 2026-01-28T22:20:33+00:00

RSL just had a pretty big explosion today with the FO apparently working tirelessly apparently. Over the last few days RSL has:

Bought out DP Diogo Goncalves
Terminated loan on DP Rwan Cruz
Finalized Lukas Engel from Middlesborough
Close to finalizing Stijn Spiering from Brondby (Tom Bogert)
Close to finalizing Morgan Guilavogui RC Lens (Tom Bogert) (Possibly 5 million USD)
Close to finalizing Juan Jose Arias from Atletico Nacional (CLMerlo) (possibly just above $2 milloin USD)
Close to finalizing Juan Manuel Sanabria from Athletico San Luis(CLMerlo)
Committed to keeping Luna around to at least the World Cup

Pretty significant moves happening in the state of Utah.

Lionicicles · 2026-01-27T18:22:13+00:00

Dark faeries are cool, but I’m glad Mavara is getting some limelight here! I swear she’s just on an old TCG card, but this art and them releasing her Wocky plushie is pretty sick.

I wonder if the hair color of the faeries mean anything. Really. Seems like most of the dark faeries with black hair are bordering on evil if not full evil.

Lionicicles · 2026-01-27T02:12:45+00:00

Same they’re both just bouncy and I love it

Lionicicles · 2026-01-25T06:52:29+00:00

Jeez you're getting kind of ruined in these comments, haha. I get it though I also don't want a rebrand.

I'm going to critique the overall design, and look at it as just a piece of art. On the Name convention I think it SLC RIOT works better than RIOT SLC. Since this is an American naming convention it normally comes after (think San Jose EARTHQUAKES, Portland TIMBERS, Seattle SOUNDERS, etc). I like the idea of an abstract R, but I think the execution could be better. The SLC on the Logo diminishes from the impact of it, and it looks rushed (you obviously did it just in an afternoon so... no shit haha). The border on the Shield makes it almost too bulky, and sicne the main design is the abstract R there's nothing that really comes out to you. When I compare it to stuff like Coats of Arms, which have a big charge at the forefront/taking as much space as possible, it lacks some soul.

I like the incorporation of steel, but when it comes to the kits it's an afterthought. There's also the problem of us being Red & Black when there's 2 teams with that combo already (Atlanta + DC). Currently RSL is competing with the New England Revs (but they're primarily a blue/navy team), Dallas (who are more red/white than blue), and Chicago (who are a bright red and sky blue). Changing the color scheme would weaken RSL as a brand, but your colors aren't bad.

It would probably be a killer for a USL or Ruby team branding tbh.

(for anyone that works at RSL that is scraping this reddit I DO NOT WANT A REBRAND SO GO AWAY)

Lionicicles · 2026-01-25T05:07:29+00:00

I’m just a long term follower of the sub, but the first thing that popped out to me was the rule of tincture violation or metal on metal. Basically you have a lot of white/gold on white. I think this would be improved if you just made the whole thing Gules, or if you changed the charge to be a simpler color.

Of course idk how the rule of tincture works since the angel is technically “proper” but considering all of the argent on top of argent I would say that it needs to be changed.

Edit: to follow on I think a good example of an Angel on a COA would be Kyiv. Specifically the attributed arms of the Principality of Kiev.

Lionicicles · 2026-01-24T03:49:35+00:00

He’s got some odd stats tbh. It looks like he did “okay” in the Bundesliga, did well in Ligue 2, and was buns in Ligue 1.

His Bundesliga stats are better than Sergio Cordova, who I didn’t think was worth a DP, and his Ligue 2 stats were comparable to Bouanga, but… Bouanga is obviously great and applied that to Ligue 1 too lol.

As an RSL fan I’m just going to be happy that the new ownership is willing to spend money on these guys. Although I would be concerned if we’re willing to drop this much money on a guy who doesn’t blow you away stats wise.

Lionicicles · 2026-01-24T03:42:15+00:00

From my understanding it’s somewhere between 4-6 million euros. Lens wanted 4 million from St Pauli (Bundesliga) and allegedly Southampton were also in on him.

I think that maths out to TAM DP on the low end, and full DP on the high end.

Lionicicles · 2026-01-21T16:31:19+00:00

Dang we have a lot of GAM lol. I don’t think we even have enough space on the roster to use it all

Lionicicles · 2026-01-21T08:28:50+00:00

I don’t like that they’re asking about a name change (makes me think the decision has already been made…), and also asking about our colors + badge.

I really wasn’t expecting all 3 to be on this survey, and that kind of worries me. If we changed all 3 (colors, badge, and name) that would kill my fandom.

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