Thursday, December 27, 2012

Earth to the Columbus Crew

SHORT STAFFED, 21 PLAYERS
Columbus still sits at the bottom of the list as far as players signed up for next year. This is counting Emilio Renteria whose contract only has a few more days on it. Other teams sitting on a roster of 21 players? New England, Colorado, Toronto, Montreal. Bad company as none of those teams will be in the top half of the table in 2013.

CURRENT ROSTER SIZE : TEAM
29 : LA*
28 : SKC*
28 : POR
27 : HOU*
27 : PHI
25 : SEA*
24 : CHI*
24 : SJE*
24 : GOATS
24 : FCD
23 : VAN*
22 : NY*
22 : DCU*
21 : NER
21 : COL
21 : TFC
21 : RSL*
21 : MON
21 : CLB

A TAD YOUNG, 24 YRS OLD
Median age of players on the Crew. Tied with Toronto and LA as the second youngest. Philly number one, 23. Crew planning a big old 'trio of locals sign' feel good here soon that will only drive median age even further down.

TEAM : MEDIAN AGE
NY : 28
VAN : 27
SEA : 27
CHI : 27
HOU : 26
MON : 26
COL : 26
NER : 26
SJE : 26
DCU : 25
SKC : 25
FCD : 25
GOATS : 25
RSL : 25
PDX : 25
TFC : 24
LA : 24
CLB : 24
PHI : 23

CHEAPEST, $60K
Crew currently find themselves at the bottom in median player salary, 60k. That's barely above the league minimum. All is not entirely lost here though as they are in pretty good company. Seattle, RSL, DC also find themselves down with them.

MEDIAN SALARY : TEAM
120,000 : Montreal
116,434 : Vancouver
112,496 : New York
111,563 : San Jose
108,880 : Chicago
103,525 : Houston
94,625 : Colorado
92,292 : KC
90,750 : Philadelphia
86,000 : Toronto
79,875 : New England
77,679 : LA
77,500 : Dallas
77,125 : Portland
76,667 : DC
68,208 : Chivas
62,500 : Real Salt Lake
60,000 : Columbus
60,000 : Seattle

LEAST MARKET VALUE
Posted this yesterday, Crew at the bottom in median market value according to Transfer Markt.

MEDIAN : TEAM
503,125 : NY
483,000 : SEA
442,750 : MON
402,500 : DCU
382,375 : SKC
362,250 : CHI
362,250 : COL
362,250 : FCD
362,250 : HOU
362,250 : LA
362,250 : VAN
281,750 : GOATS
281,750 : NER
281,750 : PHI
281,750 : RSL
281,750 : SJE
281,750 : TFC
261,625 : POR
241,500 : CLB

NO EXPERIENCE, LAST IN YR TO YR MLS MINS

33870 : KC
33427 : San Jose
33263 : Portland
32522 : LA
32110 : New York
31655 : Colorado
31447 : Houston
30502 : Philadelphia
29265 : Dallas
29152 : Chicago
28815 : Seattle
28598 : DC
27959 : New England
27833 : Montreal
27469 : Vancouver
27330 : Chivas
25847 : Real Salt Lake
23819 : Toronto
23001 : Columbus

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Other stuff that I won't list out, but will note; Crew 12th in returning goals (36 goals from last year) and 14th in returning assists (27). Crew have 13 players of 21 from USA, about league average.

Crew are far from a dumpster fire here (like Montreal and Vancouver seem to be), but they are starting from the base of the mountain. And doing so towards the end of Robert Warzycha's tenure kinda shoots up some giant red flags.

Still some time here before the preseaon starts for the Crew to get back into the game but it needs to happen soon.

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