Fire Lose... Nobody in Expansion Draft!

[Jntg4]

Chaves and Paladini and others are staying in Chicago!

Montreal's selections:
Jeb Brovsky - Vancouver
Bobby Burling - San Jose
Brian Ching - Houston
Josh Gardner - Columbus
Justin Mapp - Philadelphia
Sanna Nyassi - Colorado
James Riley - Seattle
Seth Sinovic - Kansas City
Zarek Valentine - Chivas
Collen Warner - Salt Lake

Trades Today:
James Riley and allocation money to Chivas for Justin Braun and Gerson Mayen
Allocation money to Seattle for Tyson Wahl

 

[inactiveuser1]

Chaves and Paladini and others are staying in Chicago!

Montreal's selections:
Jeb Brovsky - Vancouver
Bobby Burling - San Jose
Brian Ching - Houston
Josh Gardner - Columbus
Justin Mapp - Philadelphia
Sanna Nyassi - Colorado
James Riley - Seattle
Seth Sinovic - Kansas City
Zarek Valentine - Chivas
Collen Warner - Salt Lake


Trades Today:
James Riley and allocation money to Chivas for Justin Braun and Gerson Mayen
Allocation money to Seattle for Tyson Wahl

the Fire made those trades? And howdid Brian Ching become unprotected good selections by them

 

[Jntg4]

Pretty nice draft for Montreal.

They also have Nelson Rivas, Hassoun Camara, Evan Bush, and Siniša Ubiparipović on their roster.

They have 16 players, 11 Americans, 1 Colombian, 1 Frenchman, 1 Bosnian, 1 El Salvadorian, 1 Gambian, and 0 Canadians, lol.

 

[Jntg4]

the Fire made those trades? And howdid Brian Ching become unprotected good selections by them

No, Montreal made those trades.

IDK, Ching, Mapp, and Adu all were unprotected, but they couldn't take Adu because they took Mapp.

 

[inactiveuser1]

No, Montreal made those trades.

IDK, Ching, Mapp, and Adu all were unprotected, but they couldn't take Adu because they took Mapp.

Wow that's a big gamble that Houston lost on :kick:

 

[Jntg4]

:yep: Montreal might be decent.

 

[nwfisch]

Fire must suck if no one took them :dunno:

 

[inactiveuser1]

Fire must suck if no one took them :dunno:

:nope: other teams made really dumb moves and left some big name guys up for grabs, we have a solid core and we played way better the second half of the season under the new coach, we will be in the playoffs next year

 

[Jntg4]

Fire must suck if no one took them :dunno:

Only bench players (for the most part) were made available from our team.

 

[Jntg4]

Waiver Draft is over (I think), didn't get anybody I guess.

 

[Jntg4]

Wow, Montreal wants Hainult and others in a package if they are to send Ching back to Houston.

 

[Jntg4]

OFFICIAL: Montreal Impact Signs Midfielder Bryan “Mookie” Arguez : Major League Soccer (MLS) Rumors – For the time between the games.

 

[giaco]

Houston were idiots if they thought that they could get 12 protected by having Ching announce he'd retire if selected. Good on Jesse for calling their bluff. Houston continues to be low-class--especially for whining about Montreal's picks after the gamble didn't pay off.

At first I really thought that we may lose some folks in the draft, but after looking at who else was available and the currency that is allotted/expended in the various positions, I became more confident that no one was going to be taken. it's not an indictment of the lack of talent, it's more a matter of value on the dollar for signing a player, or acquiring them for trade purposes. Smart expansion franchises spend the 24-48 hours between when the unprotected lists are made available all the way up until draft day calling around to other teams' FO's to find out who they would want from the other teams, and what they could gain for being the middleman in the transaction. Jesse learned that trade well in Chicago--for more info on that, read the article on The Fire's page from Jeff Crandall, the team writer.

 

[Jntg4]

Their whining was dumb, but leaving him unprotected was a gamble I can understand. However, when you lose in Vegas, you can't whine to the casino and get your money (Ca-CHING) back.

 

[Jntg4]

Montreal just traded allocation money to Los Angeles for Donovan Ricketts.
Wow

Montreal Traded Seth Sinovic and cash to Kansas City for Davy Arnaud.

 

[giaco]

If they stand pat with who they've taken in and use the full off-season to work out together, they will be a decent side; think more like Portland than Vancouver.

 

[Jntg4]

LOL, Vancouver sucks.

Except Hassli, he's a beast.

 

[giaco]

I'm convinced that when he came to MLS they made him a deal to pay him for a full season, but allowed him to get as many reds as he wanted so that way he'd only have to play half the games all while showing some real fire to his teammates and exciting the fanbase.