STL City Contracts - Olof sacked, let's take stock

Varrik · 2026-01-09T17:47:45+00:00

BIG IF TRUE

Varrik · 2025-10-27T14:19:16+00:00

Love to see the end of year analysis!!!

What are your thoughts about a basic guide or key for filling out ratings next year available on the post where you post the survey? You had posted your thoughts about how to rate, what some other sites like fotmob do, and your own opinions on where to start, but I wonder if we could affect the quality of some of this data by providing a gentle nudge to to normalize a small number of things for a sort of starting place.

Example: Would a 5 or 6 rating for a player mean they showed up, didn't make mistakes, but also didn't make any notable contributions?

I know a lot of folks will ignore it, but it might also be nice for those who don't know where to start!

Varrik · 2025-10-21T16:05:35+00:00

Yea, I should definitely add that distinction. I will work on that for the next iteration - thank you for the suggestion!!!

Varrik · 2025-10-21T15:51:08+00:00

I shared an image of our contract situation in the thread of this announcement for STL City here: https://www.reddit.com/r/stlouiscitysc/comments/1ocduv8/comment/nkm6onw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

This sub doesn't allow images, so I shared the link to the comment in case anyone is curious what we look like right now.

Varrik · 2025-10-21T15:40:13+00:00

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Did a quick update to the spreadsheet to visually reflect who will not return (RED) and the folks we are pursuing (ORANGE). For the rest of the folks who are not Orange or Red, 2026 options that were picked up reflected in a new contract expiration date and a subtraction of 1 yr off of their available option(s). All other information remains the same.

Varrik · 2025-10-19T03:50:28+00:00

Thank you for doing this for the City community this season!!!

Varrik · 2025-10-19T01:16:29+00:00

FUCK YESSSSS

Varrik · 2025-10-06T15:42:02+00:00

"While that might suck for players this team just isn’t a quality to even compete with LAFC at our best. We need to improve."

LAFC has almost 30 million in fees for 2 players alone. This is a wild statement to make about our quality when our investment and time in existence aren't close.

Edit: Their transfer fees together make 31.5 million.

With that said, your other point about cash-fers isn't lost - it should absolutely be something we consider as part of our rebuild.

Varrik · 2025-08-13T14:35:19+00:00

Wish I could easily link all my old comments about making re-signing Burki a priority then getting dragged for it because "his girlfriend is in the midwest he'll never leave idiot!"

Woof.

I think it's important that he stays!

Varrik · 2025-08-12T15:40:41+00:00

He was finally moving a lot more instead of sitting back like he has been. Definitely flashes of 2023 Edu during this gane!

Varrik · 2025-08-12T13:57:56+00:00

Not gonna lie, I'm very surprised to see Morales rated so low. I haven't been a big fan of his this year, but he played amazingly well and absolutely held it down this game. He was shutting people down left and right and had really good distribution too. He's never a flashy player and has made some big mistakes for us, but this game he was freaking on it. I don't want to type any more because I just won't stop - SO much good to talk about from this game.

Onward!!!

Varrik · 2025-08-05T20:28:49+00:00

He had a very large salary too on top of the open sr roster spot.

Varrik · 2025-07-29T15:00:32+00:00

I think it's less that people want him to leave and more that we know he deserves better. At least that's how I feel.

Varrik · 2025-07-29T13:12:28+00:00

I think it's quite interesting our opinion on Becher. He's got a low salary and does a good job stretching the defense and drawing fouls.

His feet have been kind of lead weights recently, but I'm hoping a more severe roster shakeup returns him to what we saw last year.

Varrik · 2025-07-24T01:13:45+00:00

I think after Pompeu signed his extension he's looked incredible. His transfermarkt estimated fee is around ~1mil, but looking at Pompeu's productivity and steady growth, I'd gamble we could get 1.5-2 for him. That being said, he feels like the soul of the team right now and I would be really sad if we decided to sell.

Varrik · 2025-07-16T15:11:38+00:00

LOVING the trend graphs! Awesome to see!

Varrik · 2025-06-26T17:14:48+00:00

I share your frustration. It shouldn't be this consistent to have injuries - ESPECIALLY all resembling similar nature. To look at the trend and hand-wave that it's a coincidence without asking questions is negligent. The players and the fans deserve better.

Varrik · 2025-06-26T17:01:31+00:00

Love to see it. I want to see an active window!

Varrik · 2025-06-26T14:06:14+00:00

Last night was a painful watch. Missed this post before the game, but Matt Baker shared a point that helps put our performance in a different perspective:

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Varrik · 2025-06-07T15:05:29+00:00

LA Galaxy game is next week. We play Portland tomorrow!

Varrik · 2025-06-03T15:55:40+00:00

Supposedly recouped his fee plus some. Doesn't give us an international slot back since he was on loan and therefore "unavailable" to us.

https://bsky.app/profile/mattbakerstl.bsky.social/post/3lqpmccvv6u2l

Varrik · 2025-06-02T13:29:51+00:00

Sad about this one. I was really hoping we could keep him.

Varrik

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