man that really bums me out.

im no athletic talent scout but Vide and D’oh were the players I was most excited about beyond the big 3 up front {JPA, JA, DR}

ps. we need midfield help – play-making and defensive
pps. ‘night

btw, when you get spammed, just look on the page later in the day and it will appear. (I HATE that filter)

Ken, if I were to write a season preview TODAY, I would copy and paste what you wrote. And THAT is why I am waiting till the first or second week of March . . . the depth just is NOT there and there havent been any marketable improvements.

In a 3-5-2, an Etchevarry will do well enough as a CAM (I hope). But that still means Dane will have to get his crosses in order and that the left side has SOMEONE to cover what seems to be a departing DVB.

Again. I will hold my tongue till things are clearer in RBNYLand.

Great to have ya back Ken!

I am ready for another Red Bull season. As a die hard fan who goes to every game sorry do not understand why we keep looking for forwards. We really need midfields to feed Jozy and JPA. Also was never a Reyna fan and told everybody around that it was the biggest mistake that the organization made signing him to the designated slot. Lets look at DC who we all hate! Wow can we compete with them? That midfield could have been ours if Reyna had not been signed. Why is nobody going to South America like Columbia or Argentina or Mexico to sign international slots for two midfielders. By letting Watterus, Schoop,Dema, and Doe go why did we not gofor GOmez? I love the Red Bulls but they went out and got my favorite player ever who works his tail off JPA but no midfielders who even come close to working and suporting him which will evenutally annoy him. With Dema gone (stupid move) and rumors of DVB going who the hell is going to play midfield? Reyna will be hurt in two games and then what. I am glad we did not trade Dane Richards for Conde who we can get for less this summer. But come on new coach and no foreign midfields this is crazy brother! I want to compete for MLS Cup but any soccer fan can see that we did not improve one bit and if anything went backwards. We were a couple goals away from playing the Chicago Fire and who knows if JPA and Reyna stayed in the game we might have one. Not a bad year and WHY do we make wholesale changes every year. Sorry not taking it out on you. But Zack Thorton and Conway ! We need a better goalies but I hope I am wrong cannot take another bad year but compare to other teams we did not make much improvement. We needed to keep Mathis who can backup Reyna when he limps off the field within a couple of weeks. If they wanted to get a forward to replace Jozy who is leaving this summer they should have signed Alecko Eskandarian. Can you imagine he and JPA. Well sorry to go on and on but remember my email and hopefully I am wrong but the DC lineup scares the hell out of me.

Take Care my friend

Ken

Love what your saying about targeting the ethnic groups beyond S.America – I am Argentine WITH a Chinese girlfriend, so I COMPLETELY agree!

Thanks for always making it so entertaining and informative and a fantastic destination on the series of tubes called the interweb.

Regardless IMO the answer – and I hoped to see it this offseason – would be to target shamefully certain ethnic groups. How huge would the RBs be if we could pull Zeng Zhi in to NY and his 300 billion fans? LOL

actually instead of China we should target latin america where there is a huge ex-pat community here and where there is an identification with latin culture. Plus a real appreciation of their style of play.

Lord knows with how poorly the players are paid in Argentina and elsewhere in S America there should be interest in their coming here. Not to mention how much raw talent there is down south.

I always talk about the growth of soccer in Houston what with their stores and chains with Dynamo logos all over the place . . . we need that level. And NY needs to be a center of that growth.

. . . I just noticed how far off topic that thread went! From jerseys to the cap! Only MLS . . .