Sporting Kansas City Continues Off Season Overhaul, Trade For Bobby Convey
by justinmayhugh on Dec 2, 2011 12:01 PM CST
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Yesterday, Sporting Kansas City CEO Robb Heineman hinted that the club would be trading for another player. Today, he made good on that talk, as Sporting Kansas City traded a 2012 international roster spot for San Jose Earthquakes midfielder/full back Bobby Convey.
The move continues Sporting Kansas City head coach Peter Vermes' push to provide depth and versatility, as Convey can play a number of positions. The also club traded for Chivas USA midfielder Paulo Nagamura on the 28th of November.
In Convey, Kansas City is getting a 28 year old, two-time MLS All-Star, and a player with United States National Team experience.
Convey has been the talk of a number of Sporting Kansas City fans as a possible move for the club, but for myself, I thought Convey's price tag would be too much for the team to go after him. Continuing the theme of this off season, I was once again wrong.
According to the MLS Players' Union, Convey made around $336K this season, which means he's quite an expensive pickup for Sporting. I'd have to imagine that he won't be getting paid that much in Kansas City.
Minus the financial aspect of the Nagamura trade, and now the Convey trade, you have to be excited about the moves Vermes has been making this off season. Nagamura can play all three midfield positions in Vermes' 4-3-3, and Convey can provide depth at the left back spot as well as out wide at the forward position, where Omar Bravo is the starter.
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You have to think Zusi has a starting spot as the primary attacking midfielder, and one of either Espinoza or Cesar as the holding midfielder. But I like this move much more than the trade for Paulo for two reasons:
It gives us depth on the left wing, which, as justin has noted, is a serious issue-Omar Bravo can play on the left wing, and that’s about it.
-Convey has been healthy and fairly on form for the last couple of years. Paulo …well, hasn’t.
Finally, this is basically a steal of a trade—it was blatantly obvious that Convey would not be returning to SJ next year, and so they had to sell low on him. Convey is expensive, yes, but I think he is much more likely to earn that salary than Paulo will. And all we had to give up was…an international roster slot. That we have ten of. For two years.
Good trade, PV. And if I were Roger Espinoza, I’d be seriously concerned about my job security (poor Roger—no fault of his own, really).
Terez A. Paylor gave his best guess on next years starters
“Just 4 fun: an early guess at next year’s XI: Nielsen; Myers, Collin, Besler ©, Espinoza; Nagamura, New DP, Zusi; Kamara, Bunbury, Convey.”
Intresting. He has Espinoza at LB instead of Sinovic, Moved Nagamura and the DP to the midfield with Cesar out and Bravo off of LW. Thoughts?
Does Terez know something we don't about Bravo?
Given SKC’s reluctance to let Bravo go out on loan this winter, I can’t imagine Bravo doesn’t start for SKC come opening day, and with Arnaud gone, Bravo is the obvious choice to step into the captaincy.
If I had to take a gander at the Starting XI as the roster currently stands, it would go:
GK: Nielsen
D: Myers, Collin, Besler, Convey
M: Zusi, Nagamura, Cesar/Espinoza/New DP
F: Kamara, Bunbury, Bravo
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