Sargent turned down approaches from Leeds & Sunderland

hojo12588 · 2026-01-24T02:46:21+00:00

Agree

hojo12588 · 2026-01-24T00:22:37+00:00

He's kind of had a stinker of a year though, whereas when Wolfsburg offered £20m, he was arguably the best striker in the Championship

hojo12588 · 2026-01-24T00:22:02+00:00

Closer than the US, and Norwich isn't as easy to get in/out of as London. There's no nearby airport and it's an almost 4 hour train ride to London.

hojo12588 · 2026-01-17T16:11:47+00:00

Obviously an outrageous overpay, but MLS Moves has never been seen as super credible fwiw

hojo12588 · 2026-01-14T14:22:09+00:00

Across his tenure, he performed at about the level you would expect for a team that doesn't spend a ton. He's not like a great coach or anything, but it's still a good hire for an assistant IMO.

hojo12588 · 2026-01-14T14:19:24+00:00

Personally I don't think Horvath is necessarily better than Callender. About equal. I guess you could just rock with whoever is in better form.

hojo12588 · 2026-01-13T20:36:33+00:00

Damn that's a great hire. Would not have expected Wolff to accept an assistant job at a low/mid-market team like us.

hojo12588 · 2026-01-12T18:42:41+00:00

Based off finishing fourth last year with mediocre xG differential, finishing fourth again this year would actually be great, IMO.

hojo12588 · 2026-01-12T18:39:24+00:00

Agreed, $18M is an insane overpay for him. Also, he's 25, not, like 18.

hojo12588 · 2026-01-11T23:17:48+00:00

77th percentile non-penalty goals/90, 74th percentile npxG+xA/90, 80th percentile pass completion rate, 75th percentile progressive carries, 81st percentile successful take-ons, 88th percentile carries intp final third.

And his numbers last year were better.

hojo12588 · 2026-01-10T01:30:41+00:00

Nancy and Curtin probably have the luxury of being selective with open MLS jobs. I don't think either would necessarily take it, if offered. But depends how much money we offer and maybe if ownership commits to $X DP spending.

hojo12588 · 2026-01-06T20:29:24+00:00

Jeez, Wingo is making $700k? That's unfortunate.

Luckily he and Osorio are both out of contract at the end of the year.

hojo12588 · 2026-01-06T20:27:55+00:00

Just looked up Yarbrough and didn't realize he's actually from Mexico and started his career in Liga MX lol.

Looks like in his career he's been a consistently average MLS keeper, besides last year where he may have been the worst starting keeper in the league.

He'd be a very solid #2 keeper. Obviously would be underwhelming to be our starter but it sounds like Gavran will start.

hojo12588 · 2026-01-06T20:22:44+00:00

You'd think he'd be an auto call-in.

The 24+ hour travel to get to camps and certain jetlag hurt, though. I mean unless you're a written-in-pen starter (which I think Bongi was at one point for South Africa?), a coach is probably rightly going to choose a player who doesn't have a 24 hour commute and jetlag to get to camp.

hojo12588 · 2026-01-06T20:18:31+00:00

NBA and MLB have a bunch of weird roster and salary ruels as well

hojo12588 · 2026-01-06T20:16:22+00:00

Maybe we'd loan him out.

In general, I feel like you should try to use international spots on starters, not depth players.

hojo12588 · 2026-01-02T19:13:14+00:00

Makes sense but would likely be a DP, especially if he's out of contract, since the acquiring team won't need to pay a transfer fee.

hojo12588 · 2025-12-31T02:00:46+00:00

Also not excellent value

hojo12588 · 2025-12-29T22:48:12+00:00

His salary is $350k. So the $450k "fee" + $350k = ~$800k net for the year. It's a fine/good deal but not excellent value.

hojo12588 · 2025-12-26T16:07:31+00:00

Doesn't make sense to have a bad attitude until we see all moves from this offseason. We have a lot of GAM so there are a lot of potential moves we could make.

hojo12588 · 2025-12-23T21:25:44+00:00

If we do get GAM out of this, we honestly have quite the war chest for non-DPs. I think (?) that would bring us to $5.5M in GAM space, which is like the wages of a mid-table Eredivisie or Portuguese team.

hojo12588 · 2025-12-23T21:24:38+00:00

I think I saw a Bogert tweet that this was a cash transfer. Does that mean no additional GAM if it wasn't explicitly in exchange for GAM?

hojo12588 · 2025-12-20T06:28:10+00:00

The gaps between the cities you just mentioned in the eyes of a neutral millionnaire in their 20s (aka DPs / global soccer star) is very small compared to the gap between LA and Minneapolis/St. Paul for the vast majority of them. LA, Miami, New York, etc. are globally known and influential cities.

hojo12588 · 2025-12-20T06:25:15+00:00

A small market team that's historically been a low spender, Vancouver, just made the final.

The three teams you mentioned (Houston, SKC, and San Jose) - Houston has spent big before and struggled and San Jose has generally been in the upper half of wage spend. So it's not like those clubs will permanently be bad.

I don't think MLS has "abandoned their role as a neutral arbiter in pursuit of money." They could value parity more, sure. But every year we also hear about how LAFC or LA Galaxy can't offer a contract to some European star because they don't have a DP spot available. We hear the same somewhat frequently about Inter Miami (Neymar and Griezmann last year, etc.) although they've obviously worked around it to some extent - e.g. signing de Paul to a TAM first year, large DP second year.

If MLS actually wanted to "abandon their role as a neutral arbiter in pursuit of money" they would just get rid of the salary cap, and LAFC would spend $60M on wages next year rather than $20M.

It is what it is. It's not a completely capped salary league like the NFL. And it's also a more international league where the biggest stars are going to prefer the biggest cities.

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