K Edgar Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Young and Bahous returning... NVsoccer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolando Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Who are you waiting to hear about still? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Daniels, Manneh and Sellouf the only ones unconfirmed now. Everyone else returning or gone. Didic and Aparicio leaving are both big shoes to fill. Glad we don’t also have to replace Young. Hearing we may have picked up Sean Melvin to replace Baskett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aird25 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 1 hour ago, nolando said: Who are you waiting to hear about still? Sellouf and replacements for our best players Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolando Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 6 minutes ago, Aird25 said: Sellouf and replacements for our best players Well, hoping for the best. This league needs a strong Pacific FC, imo. Unnamed Trialist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Edgar Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Djenairo Daniels departing Pacific FC https://pacificfc.canpl.ca/article/thank-you-dj NVsoccer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aird25 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 19 hours ago, K Edgar said: Djenairo Daniels departing Pacific FC https://pacificfc.canpl.ca/article/thank-you-dj Not too surprising but if he was Canadian I bet he would have been given another season. Development was slow, but I did see some improvement. If we get Zanatta and Moore as striker replacements I think we'll be better off. I hope we keep Sellouf too toontownman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 NVsoccer, Aird25, aredding77 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masster Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Huge for Pacific that he is returning. If Sellouf can find some consistency, he could be the best player in the league. After being such a game changer off the bench, can he have the same impact as a starter and really carry the team? I hope they can extend his contract with a view to a sale, as opposed to just losing him for free next year. jdheid and Aird25 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdheid Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 37 minutes ago, masster said: Huge for Pacific that he is returning. If Sellouf can find some consistency, he could be the best player in the league. After being such a game changer off the bench, can he have the same impact as a starter and really carry the team? I hope they can extend his contract with a view to a sale, as opposed to just losing him for free next year. Yeah, he seems more than capable of playing at a higher level. He was really dynamic off the bench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aird25 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 I have very high hopes for Sellouf. At times he was the best player on the pitch by a mile. He just needs to do it more consistently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtlMario Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 ...and if does well they can always Sell him Ouf. 😁 An Observer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Has Zanatta incoming https://x.com/lanlivesport/status/1752690757104726373?s=46&t=KtwBDROwUH8sPUlYu2GlIA Aird25, NVsoccer, narduch and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_M Posted January 31 Author Share Posted January 31 pretty sad that at 26 instead of climbing hes dropped to a sub in the third tier of scotland...is this a player who has already peaked? had 8 goals 4 assists in the second tier in 21-22...anyway much needed move getting out of scotland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 (edited) Seriously doubt he was getting another fully pro contract in Scotland. The club that was interested in taking him on loan recently was Clyde who are bottom of the fourth tier and semi-professional. Even allowing for the fact it's Scotland's chimpion, the Daily Record, that is involved and they think British Columbia is his home town, I found this part a bit odd: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/hamilton-accies-ace-dario-zanatta-32011665 ...The 28-year-old has signed for an undisclosed fee, with add-ons and incentives attached to the deal for Accies... My understanding is that Accies were very much looking to get rid of him so surprised the few months that are left on his contract weren't just mutually ended. Guess the fee mentioned might be what is needed to pay the extra balance of his relatively high salary by CanPL standards. Edited January 31 by Ozzie_the_parrot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aird25 Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 3 hours ago, Big_M said: pretty sad that at 26 instead of climbing hes dropped to a sub in the third tier of scotland...is this a player who has already peaked? had 8 goals 4 assists in the second tier in 21-22...anyway much needed move getting out of scotland When Dario left Canada we only had 3 professional teams. He was close, but couldn't quite find a contract here. Now the landscape in Canada has changed and he's returning after ~250 appearances and 35+ goal contributions in the top 2 tiers of Scottish soccer and you find that sad? Stryker911, jordan and NVsoccer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Official from Hamilton https://x.com/theacciesfc/status/1752802968666022047?s=46&t=KtwBDROwUH8sPUlYu2GlIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Interesting that Pacific paid a fee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Contract was up in May, they had started playing him less. So the fee is surprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmen Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 6 hours ago, Aird25 said: When Dario left Canada we only had 3 professional teams. He was close, but couldn't quite find a contract here. Now the landscape in Canada has changed and he's returning after ~250 appearances and 35+ goal contributions in the top 2 tiers of Scottish soccer and you find that sad? Zanatta left because the Whitecaps wrote his contract wrong and failed to have him locked in to their system the way they thought they did. Lenarduzzi openly admitted they had to go back and rewrite a number of their academy contracts. Anyway, Zanatta had interest from Scotland and he was available for free so he left, not because he couldn't find a contract here. The Whitecaps wanted to sign him but couldn't. Stryker911 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Worth noting also maybe that when Dario Zanatta moved to Hearts in 2015 there were actually eight fully professional teams operating in Canada given FC Edmonton and the Ottawa Fury were in a D2 USSF sanctioned league at that point and there were three MLS reserve teams operating as separate clubs in the USL at the D3 level. There almost certainly would have been significantly more than eight in total if the CSA hadn't imposed the moratorium on further expansion into leagues like the NASL and USL back around 2010. There are reasonable arguments that can be made for why the emergence of CanPL was a good thing without outright rewriting history like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansem Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 red card, MtlMario, NVsoccer and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Edgar Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 who will be the starter? NVsoccer and narduch 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aird25 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 13 minutes ago, K Edgar said: who will be the starter? Gazdov, unless he screws the pooch. They're looking to develop and sell him toontownman, Metro and NVsoccer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_M Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 If theyre patient its one last shot for gazdov to step up and be a strong #1...otherwise its melvin whos been a solid pro...merriman will be feeling the pressure in his third season with two fourth place finishes and no finals appearances so cant fool around with the gk position NVsoccer and toontownman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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