Biggest Winners and Losers from the Peter Stroud Transfer
According to many sources around the Minnesota Loons, the team has bought the contract of Peter Stroud from Red Bull New York.
The deal is for about $500k in General Allocation Money, according to the West Central Tribune, and it could help in getting a player who could fill the Designated Player slot that is open right now.
This slot was unoccupied after Lewis Morgan took a Targeted Allocation Money slot instead of the Designated slot that he occupied in the past.
Winners
Nate Worth
Why is he a winner? Mainly because it opens a gateway and a roster need for a Defensive Midfielder to replace Peter Stroud. The 18-year-old was a loanee of the Tampa Bay Roadies last season for New York Red Bulls II After that spell, the Red Bulls then bought out the contract from them.
In the final games of the season, he not only proved that he could perform in defensive duties but also started the counterattacks against both the Philadelphia Union II and Colorado Rapids II.
Academy
This would make it easier for the team to start projecting not only the players who have been in the system for years and for only a few years in NYRB II, but also those who have been in the system since childhood. This could also help with the morale of those who are about to start playing for the MLS Next Pro team next season.
Michael Bradley
This move cements his status as the frontrunner for the position of manager of the first team. Because of this hole in the roster, he could pick his player of choice to fill it. Not only that, but when he was a player, this was the position he occupied with the US National Men’s Team as well as in his club career.
Losers
Gustav Berggren
Why is he a loser in this move? He would’ve benefited the most from this. The main answer is that he didn’t perform well in the field last season, nor did he make a difference. At times, he seemed slow to react or had miscues in playing. He has only played 335 minutes since he was added near the end of last season. That’s an average of 56 minutes over a month and a half.
Jochen Schneider
This was another failure in his tenure as the Sporting Director, as the last signings didn’t pan out. The crux of what Julian de Guzman has been doing this offseason is to radically change the decisions made by Jochen Schneider, given that the Red Bulls agreed so quickly to this transfer when his value was $1.2 million, according to Transfermarkt.
This transfer was made under a stiff discount of about 40%. Unless this deal includes a percentage of future sales, I would say this was a way to dismantle the mess left by Schneider’s tenure.
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