Business As Usual: Pepe Moreno To Stay With Once Caldas
by Abram Chamberlain on Feb 8, 2012 1:00 PM EST
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Personnel-wise, it’s been a disastrous couple of days for the New England Revolution. Rajko Lekic is off in Denmark, Monsef Zerka is apparently surplus to requirements, Milton Caraglio is in Chile, Re-entry Draft pick Danleigh Borman is in South Africa, and now news out of Colombia has told us that one of the Revs' "big" offseason signings has changed his mind and will not suit up for Jay Heaps in Foxborough. And you thought the Patriots were having a bad week.
According to Tarantela Deportiva, José "Pepe" Moreno --the supposed solution for the Revolution’s goal scoring woes from last season-- is going to stay with his home club of Once Caldas. Like with most MLS signings, there was not a whole lot of information about terms of Moreno’s deal other than the fact that it was a loan. And while it is not necessarily odd within soccer leagues for players to be recalled by the club that owns their contract, the fact that Moreno was sold to Revs supporters as a solution and then never showed up to play is frustrating.
In addition, being as no terms of Moreno’s contract were publicly discussed --as per league and team policy-- some supporters are wondering if there was ever actually a deal in place. The Revolution now will continue on in their pre-season with no true forward signed to the team outside of Zack Schilawski, and with most transfer windows closed it will be difficult for them to bring in any kind of proven goal scoring threat before MLS's April deadline.
However, being as there has been no official statement from the Revolution or MLS, and South American newspapers are not always the most reliable, the full facts of this whole situation are probably not out yet. Still, in a very slow news period for New England, this is not the sort of information that a club would want coming to light.
To me, this brings into question (a) the league and team policy of not releasing player contract information, and (b) the big hullabaloo made over getting a player on loan who may have had cold feet to begin with. While the front office restructuring has made it very clear who should get the blame on this PR and personnel disaster (team General Manager Mike Burns), it has unfortunately not done anything to show supporters how this problem will be solved. The season kicks off in just 30 days, hopefully by then we will have some answers.
Editor's Note: New England Soccer Today tweeted earlier that Once Caldas' official stance on the matter is that they are "not ready to comment at this moment."
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Ha
I moved to NYC back in July and I’m seriously considering just getting RB season tickets and trying to get myself invested in them. I’m a Newcastle fan through and through but being raise in MA my family has been season ticket holders since the MLS inaugural season, I had been probably 80% of their home games over the years. This is getting absolutely absurd.
I laugh not make fun of the club
I’m deflecting, almost like this is so ridiculous that I laugh because I’m almost waiting for the front office to say
“HAHA I kid, Jay Heaps isn’t really the coach. We actually hired (insert any coach here) and we’ve been quietly spending millions in the off season. We just wanted to mess with you all. By the way we have 3 new DPs and they are (insert players who have not played for 13 different clubs each over the last 5 years)”
Don't get your hopes up, pal
It’s been tough since I started covering the team, man. Real tough.
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Sign Sene
and one more forward instead. Not a lot of fans were excited about this signing (including me) but I agree with the assessments that this is unnecessary, unfortunate and unwanted and it hurts the already fragile reputation the Revs FO has. It also does hurt Moreno for backing out and Once Caldas for allowing it (it’s an extremely embarrassing and downright stupid lose-lose-lose situation). I don’t like Burns, but I doubt he made a mistake in paperwork; he’s being doing the Revs’ paperwork for years, there’s just a bunch of red tape and confusion that should be cleared up ASAP. I’m extremely disappointed to see no update or press release by the Revs yet…
Last I heard
Once Caldas had no freaking clue what was going on, so there’s that to consider. I’m all sorts of confused by this.
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if anything
Sene seems like our best option thus far, and one can only hope that he is one of the trialists that Heaps says the team is in discussions with.
by Corey E. Major on Feb 8, 2012 8:37 PM EST up reply actions
David Foley
I had high hopes for David Foley, who was with the PR Islanders last year. And I still have decently high -perhaps too high- expectations for Cárdenas (even if I always have to check to see if I’m spelling his name right). If Cárdenas, Rowe, Benny, and Shalrie can create chances, which I think all four potentially can, then goals should come. A finisher would be great, but if four guys are creating decent chances someone will finish them off…I hope.
by Abram Chamberlain on Feb 9, 2012 11:47 AM EST up reply actions
Foley isn't really a forward
I know he gets billed that way, but he’s really a left winger.
Can’t believe I haven’t read about the Revs pursuing Blake Brettschneider yet.
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by ChestRockwell on Feb 9, 2012 3:06 PM EST up reply actions
They might
They still have another session in Arizona later this month but the roster moves honestly should be coming to a close (they won’t). I also heard Jason Banton was released by Seattle. I say bring on Brettschneider and Banton for a trial!
Also Abram: I think this is what the Revs should do at this point: First trade Borman and Jaqua’s MLS rights to another team even just for allocation money, it doesn’t seem like they are signing with us (definitely Borman is out) so why not get something we can use? Next, as I said, sign Sene and make sure he actually wants to come! Then, assuming Moreno isn’t coming, make a new forward signing even if it is just a trade with another MLS team. That, combined with Sene, will definitely give us people more than capable of finishing the chances from the midfield (don’t forget about Diego as well, not to play every game, but to use sparingly)!
Breaking News: Brettschneider tweeted he will trial with Revs. There you go!
Working on the Blake thing
I suggest you check your email, sir
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HAHAHAHAHA
I’m done with this team. I enjoy you folks, but I can’t deal with this team anymore.
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Ha.
I’m not even mad. I’m actually GLAD this happened. Why? Because now they have to get their asses in gear, again, and find someone to replace him. They can’t sit in their offices and tweet about how he’s our new #9. He isn’t. He wasn’t going to be. And it’s some sick joke that they tried to sell him to us. Excuse me, in all fairness, they weren’t trying to sell anything is US – they’re too busy selling themselves to everyone BUT us. Now, they have to go and find someone else to come in and add 2 or 3 more goals to what is going to be a dreadful season. I can’t WAIT to see Benny’s attitude come 3 or 4 weeks into the season. We’ll be seeing that “FML” face much more often this year! WOOOO.
Rant over.
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