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Brett Mendell's avatar

This trade is likely to fall into the Jon Gallagher bucket of bad trades. In related news, Juanjo Purata scored the tying goal for Tigres in yesterday’s Concacaf champions cup semifinal.

I’m working off memory, but hasn’t Xande had as many goal contributions as Miranchuk during Miranchuk’s tenure here? I seriously hope management has an immediate plan to sign another player and they’re not just collecting dry powder. Otherwise, a goal challenged team just gave away one of the few players with an ability to create a goal scoring opportunity.

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Chris Loonam's avatar

You had to bring up Gallagher? It makes me sad to see what he is doing in Austin. You could see his talent and anyone with half a brain knew he was special. Luckily we had Carlos who only had a quarter of a brain, so he traded away one of our best young players. Hopefully there is a plan to bring in another LW here.

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Allan C's avatar

Could we at least traded to get some other option

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Adam's avatar

who needs wingers anyways?

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Kareen Malone's avatar

Only one anyone wanted??

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Brent's avatar

Goodbye Xande, you weird and wonderful player with a knack for the sensational every 10 games or so. I think Xande's presence will be missed mostly in the locker room, where he seemed to be an all-around fun person. I have to wonder if that may have been to his detriment, though, and if Ronny is looking to bring a different tenor to the culture - otherwise, why get rid of him?

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Don Bollmer's avatar

In other sad news, looks like they have the green kits for earth day. If I remember correctly, we never made the playoffs when wearing that color of kit. Plus we became injury prone.

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GB's avatar

And that's a wrap. Another deadline came and went without any reinforcements to help... Our needs are many. I guess we will wait until the summer window and build for next year.

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