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“famed social media transfer repeater” - bravo!

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🙂

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Is winning a priority for AU or is the team just a player flipping mechanism? Let’s sell all our proven good players and continue our hit and miss crap shoot at equivalent replacements. Season ticket holders don’t care about winning, we just want to cheer Boca on as he flips GG for $5m! Go, Sell, maybe Win!

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MLS salary cap rules make it impossible to keep a highly talented roster (see: Columbus, who started the season largely intact and have already begun a mass exodus, and our own painful transition post-2018). To be consistently successful in MLS a team has to be good at three things:

1) Recruit the most valuable DPs you can and play them as much as possible until they either retire or are sold to a better league (2-4 years typical)

2) Have a quietly competent group of franchise players who the DPs can augment (can be upwards of 10+ years depending on position, club loyalty, and consistency of team style)

3) Produce a steady stream of homegrown players who punch *way* above their paychecks because all the best ones will be gone sooner than later (1-5 years depending on development)

If you note, 2/3 above are as much luck as they are planning. MLS is a selling league not a destination league, for better or worse. So as much as the team may desire to win (that's how you keep up ticket sales), they are fighting the reality of the MLS system as much as anyone. The team did a relatively poor job navigating that reality for years; now they have someone leading the FO who is as much an expert at building dynasties in MLS as you can realistically get.

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Also: the reason you sell talent is as much to reward the player for their hard work for the team as it is to make a profit. They want to maximize their career to the extent possible, and no MLS-level team wants to block those moves as doing so will be a big asterisk for incoming players.

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He should go to the Netherlands or France

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Petrovic has never been loaned out from Chelsea

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Ian Maatsen out, Caleb Wiley in. Chelsea doing Chelsea things. Seems about right.

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This transfer makes the other rumored move for a left back much more reasonable. July 18 is going to be a very busy day for the club; we could be looking at nearly half of our starting XI being replaced, though I’d expect most are loans with buy options for maximum flexibility once a new manager is named.

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Mid table ligue 1 seems right. Hopefully he can stay there and not get miazga ed

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