Sources: Philadelphia Union To Trade Kyle Nakazawa To LA Galaxy
by Scott Kessler on Feb 1, 2012 1:08 AM EST
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Another Philadelphia Union player is on his way out of the club, as Kyle Nakazawa will be traded, the Brotherly Game has learned.
Sources tell the Brotherly Game that the Nakazawa will be moved to the LA Galaxy in a move that one of the sources said will be announced tomorrow. The trade has been in the works since sometime last week.
[UPDATE: Philly Soccer Page is reporting that a source says that the Union would receive two second rounders and an international roster spot.]
The deal to send Nakazawa to California comes on the heels of the Sebastien Le Toux trade being made official by both the Union and Vancouver Whitecaps. Le Toux and Nakazawa were roommates during the Union's inaugural season.
Nakazawa became expendable to the Union after the team acquired Greg Jordan, Gabriel Gomez and other midfielders during the offseason. The 24-year-old seemed to have broken into the starting lineup at the end of the 2010 season, but never saw consistent playing time in 2011.
A native of Southern California, Nakazawa is set to return to the area where he grew up and began his path towards a professional career. The former UCLA standout started in 24 of 36 games he played for Philadelphia over two seasons with the club after he was drafted in the third round ( overall) of the 2010 MLS SuperDraft.
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Just to run with what's been going on of late...
Perhaps allocation money?
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by Scott Kessler on Feb 1, 2012 1:48 AM EST up reply actions
It all be interesting to see how a giant bag of cash will score goals for the Union next season
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I know it is sarcasm, but the team has signed two (and apparently three with Pajoy) forwards. Maybe it’s just as simple as the team feeling that Mwanga, Jack Mac and the new additions are good enough and ready to fill the hole vacated by LeToux?
I think it’s a bit early to tell if anyone (or group) is going to be able to fill the void…we’re going to have to hope the Union rookies step up like the Flyers rookies have or it’s going to be a very long season this year…
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Not to mention we spent last year complaining about the shuffling of lineups and not being able to gain chemistry between the team. Why do we think trading guys who played together away is going to be automatically fixed by guys who have never played together?
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maybe it’s that they don’t know what they’re doing and can’t figure out which of the young forwards to cut bait on despite having had the bulk of them for two years. Maybe the “youth movement” will continue with another 36 year-old Euro journeyman to stop the gaps, instead.
huh? Only Mwanga and McInerny have been with the club (is that “the bulk”?) and I suspect the team is high on both at this point still. Why would they “cut bait” on them — heck, maybe they think they are a better use of minutes going forward than LeToux.
Martinez, Hoffman and the other draft picks (plus Pajoy) are all brand new to the team, so I don’t see how they fit into your rant.
Yes, Mwanga and McInerney.
I guess the other forwards we’ve tried have all been flops and were already shown the door.
Not sure exactly why they’d be bringing in all of these new players if they were confident in McInerney or Mwanga. The point is that they had one proven forward and a bunch of unknowns and they went with the unknowns, probably because everyone in the complex has their favorite. Le Toux was an expansion pick. So, he didn’t have a champion on the staff.
And now they bring in yet another older journeyman (Pajoy) to stop the gaps, yet insist they needed to get rid of Le Toux because they needed to commit to “the future.” Huh? It really doesn’t feel like there’s a plan. It feels like Le Toux was let go because they want to keep throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. That’s the Nowak model. Works OK until it spectacularly doesn’t.
And it’s very, very hard to have faith in management if this was a move they reluctantly needed to make for financial reasons. If that’s the case, what the heck is Freddy Adu doing on the roster?
by tmu on Feb 1, 2012 1:34 PM EST up reply actions
This is great news for Kyle, who would have been buried on the depth chart here anyways. He could certainly use some mentoring from Beckham in how to find open space.
by sjm003 on Feb 1, 2012 7:09 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Nakazawa and LeToux were BFFs and roommates . . . coincidence?
I actually think this is a good deal . . . but there is no way this isn’t directly related to LeToux’s departure.
Yes, coincidence
There is a way that this is unrelated to his relationship with Le Toux, and that is that we have a ton of midfielders and Nakazawa wasn’t very good.
Agreed
Naka was a project, someone who had a pretty high ceiling but wasn’t hitting it. We don’t really need him anymore now that we have a bunch of younger high ceiling midfielders.
Its also not like he was amazing at set pieces either, maybe we’ll get someone who is better.
He was probably our best player at taking free kicks, but beyond that I don’t think there was anything Nakazawa was particularly notable at. He was roster filler/depth, which is fine, but no great loss.
With he and LeToux gone, I guess it will be mostly Adu or Torres taking free kicks now, which is fine. I never really understood why LeToux took a lot of the free kicks — he wasn’t particularly good at them and it would have been better having him available as a target for the guy doing the kicks.
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