Rumor: Offer for Hanyer Mosquera from Colombia as a central defender?
"The central defender had already arranged their relationship with the Blues, but an offer from Portland to the MLS made him change his mind." [Google translates]
Video of said player: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zfd1C8cUdg
[Nice and long, just under 10 mins]
Wiki'd, where he apparently is already in MLS.
LATE EDIT: Credit to BrianDB @ SCUSA
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Well, that certainly would change the Timbers' draft plans.
When I write, I write for the Timbers. Contributing Editor of Stumptown Footy
Did I miss something on Movil? Haven't heard that name in a while.
Of course I don’t know if that rumor ever got past the translation phase.
Should be a good busy week.
volatilelyle.com
according to MP
A deal fell through at the last minute on a player they were trying to sign. However no name was attached so we don’t know who that would be referring to.
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Mosquera seems highly valued
http://www.transfermarkt.com/en/liga-postobon-i/marktwerte/wettbewerb_COLP.html
Tied for top 6 in value for Liga Postabon defenders according to that website.
Also, the club he plays for Millionarios has possibly lost one player to Chicago, Rafeal Robayo, and another is also said to be going to MLS from the same club, Jaime Castrillon. MLS is raiding Colombia.
http://www.futbolred.com/liga-postobon/noticias/pretemporada2012i/a-ultima-hora-hanyer-mosquera-y-jaime-castrillon-se-van-para-la-mls-/10939389
Hanya Mosquera, who had already given themselves to Javier Alvarez, director team sports ‘ambassador’, contacted him to report that he preferred to go to U.S. football.
Jag kom, jag såg, erövrade jag.
Absolutely true
Revs just signed 2 this weekend (John Lozano and Fernando Cardenas) and I believe Dallas also signed another Colombian defender (or was in rumor to) as cover for George John possibly leaving. Insane the amount of talent that has left the Colombian leagues in the last 3 years. Obviously the money from Colombian clubs is REALLY bad, and its pretty obvious agents are getting better at selling a player to MLS coaching staffs. Does make you wonder however if there becomes a point in which the players we are buying down there are increasingly more marginal in talent. Hopefully Gavin is setting up different/other SA pipelines….
Even if we have a CB coming, I could still see us taking a flier on a good young defender (we should have pretty much pick of the litter outside Wenger and maybe Polak), or we could go BPA. That said, I wouldn’t be shocked if we traded out of the 8th pick for an intl slot/allocation money.
Robayo is no longer "possible"
http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2012/01/09/fire-bolster-midfield-colombian-import-robayo
Jag kom, jag såg, erövrade jag.
Haha
That wasn’t even the guy I was talking about!
http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/soccer/post/_/id/14178/fc-dallas-signs-blas-perez-and-hernan-pertuz
They (FC Dallas) signed Pertuz.
Rapids are also in on Jaime Castrillion, a very good 2 way midfielder who was one of the guys I was keeping an eye on when we signed Chara. With Pereja the new coach, I think Rapids are going to see a ton of turnover and be much more of a fast/free moving team then the hack-em and run, 2 dmids they’ve been playing in the past. With a colombian head coach, I could see even more head that way.
Thats what….5 or 6 signed this year, at least 4 last year…the drain from Colombia continues.
I think there are more Colombians than Canadians in this league now.
Jag kom, jag såg, erövrade jag.
Teams without Colombians
Are DC United, SKC and LA Galaxy.
Zaggy is right though, is now the time the Talent becomes diluted from there? Time to hit up other places? Or Mine it until we strip the cupboard bare?
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by Ryan Gates on Jan 9, 2012 10:10 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Well...
There still is absolutely some talent down there I’d salivate to see in Timbers green (Dorlan Pabon, MacNelly Torres, Luis Mosquera, maybe a few of the u-20 defenders), but especially in regards to role-players/solid starters that are the same here that we can get cheap-type players are certainly starting to dwindle. It will be interesting to see if we develop some more ties elsewhere.
Other than Gavin’s oceania contacts (which outside of foreign players in the A-league and the J-League are pretty worthless at the MLS level), he’s visited Gambia but other than Kalif I haven’t seen anything that interesting come up from there, and now with the Swedish club, but its obvious we need to keep finding new connections.
There are others
Spencer has contacts in the British Isles but other than the Gilbert Fiasco there hasn’t been anything that has come of it. Gleeson is probably the best we are going to get from New Zealand. The Timbers also seemed to have found a niche in Japan during the USL days but nothing else since the promotion.
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I think you mean Ghana, not The Gambia
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by Andrew Wheeler on Jan 9, 2012 10:47 AM PST up reply actions
If we get him, looks like a nice sign.
I like this signing – if it happens.
He would bring some mobility to our central back position. The one thing that bothered me last year is that there wasn’t much speed on the back line. Teams with more mobile forwards and/or played a more counter attacking style of play gave us fits. Hopefully Mosquera can help remedy that.
Quick question, does anyone have a break down of how many international slots we have? I thought some players from this year’s team were taken off the international slot count because they received their green card. Any clarification would be helpful.
International slots: not entirely clear to us
Mao and Kelly McLain on Soccer Made in Portland discussed this issue at some length a while back (starting at 46:40), and since then I haven’t heard any additional news.
Mao’s assumption was that the trades the Timbers made for international slots in 2011 had a yearlong duration, which reverts them back to the league standard of 8 in 2012. Here’s our international roster currently, as I understand it, with question marks next to players whose green cards were pending:
1. Alhassan
2. Chara
3. Danso (?)
4. Gleeson
5. Johnson
6. Marcelin
7. Nagbe (?)
8. Palmer
9. Perlaza
10. Valencia
Assuming those green cards have been issued, our international roster is at 8, which means the Timbers will need to trade for more in order to sign any additional players, which they almost certainly plan to do.
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by Andrew Wheeler on Jan 10, 2012 10:23 AM PST up reply actions
With the Possbility
Of Palmer and Johnson getting the Green Cards (length of stay in the USA) this could be as low as 6. If portland trades for International spots come Draft day this will tell you if they are at maximum or not.
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It did
The LA deal gave us that slot for 2 years. Therefore we currently have 10 slots and 9 (or Less) are being used. Totally forgot about that.
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I don't think we have 10 right now.
If that LA one was for two years, I think we’d have nine, because I think the deal we made with Seattle was for one year only.
When I write, I write for the Timbers. Contributing Editor of Stumptown Footy
by Andrew Wheeler on Jan 10, 2012 1:18 PM PST up reply actions
But I could be wrong.
Needless to say, I’m sure the FO has this all under control. They figured out the home grown player rules; they certainly have their finger on the international rules. There’s no sense in us worrying about it.
Of course, if I stopped worrying about it, I’d have to find something else to occupy my brain for the next two months. Nah, worrying is easier.
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by Andrew Wheeler on Jan 10, 2012 1:45 PM PST up reply actions
oops
I meant we have 10 or 9 players that need a slot but currently have 9 slots, 8 plus the one from LA which is for 2 years.
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Nagbe counts as a domestic player
He was a refugee, which means he doesn’t take up an international slot even if he doesn’t have a green card.
Incorrect
That was a big point last year, he does indeed count as an international. There were also rumors he wanted to avoid being based in Canada so it wouldn’t mess up his green card application. He also is getting married this year I believe (though likely after the season).
I believe refugee status makes a player eligible for the US National Team
but MLS has slightly different rules.
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by Andrew Wheeler on Jan 11, 2012 9:25 AM PST up reply actions
Thanks for the clarification...
I swear the MLS are run by former Eastern Block apparatchiks sometimes. I never seen a sport with more complex and convoluted administrative rules.
I thought that it was Palmer, Johnson, Danso and Alhassan who were trying to get their green cards. Plus with how many years Nagbe has been here – he has been in the U.S. since 2001 – I thought he would of already had a green card or some sort of long-term residency arrangement by now.
I know he had visa issues
Prior to the Super Draft last year he was in Canada due to said visa issues. I know he also is getting married and is close to having or at least starting the process of getting his Green Card. Again there has been no confirmation on this from the FO and all of this is speculation.
Having a single entity structure will cause some of these rules. The EPL does have similar rules but trades are not there to muddle the process up.
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I love the music that are in these highlight vids
“I’ll stop the world and melt for you” at the end of this one. What a riot.
We're going to turn it on, we're going to give you the power.
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