Aziel Jackson

Tomas is a guy that's found himself on the outside looking in once we went to, you know, two strikers in Marcus and Kelvin.

Aziel Jackson has come in here and can play an attacking midfield role and has shown really good quality so far in training and probably hasn't seen the field as much as possible.

So we have a few guys who are ready to step up.

So, I mean, that's a coach-speak answer, but he certainly is identifying the guys that I would have guessed he probably also would have identified there.

Cam Cupcake is usually in the early part of the year.

And not only did Indy Vasilev get a call up right before we shipped him to Philadelphia, but AZ Jackson also got a call up right a few months before he went to Columbus.

So, yeah, but I'm going to drop a controversial one here in chat.

Let me know if I'm crazy here.

They likely loaning him somewhere.

AZ Jackson, a decision to be made.

Britton Fisher, who's on loan with the USL Championship with Hartford, I think he's having a pretty good year with a good USL Championship team.

I'm wondering if he's new center back depth in the same way that Morris Duggan was last year after he came back from his championship loan.

There isn't much else to do on the back line.

to really make an impact here.

But bringing in a player, for example, like an AZ Jackson, who can maybe get on the ball and help push this team up the field so we're not defending as much, you'd have to think there's maybe something he can do.

But unfortunately, the Galaxy score before Cameron Knowles makes any substitutions, and this one comes from pretty... open defensive positioning from our center backs.

Yeah.

To face Real Salt Lake, who Whitecaps beat on opening day 1-0, and the guy who scored the goal, AZ Jackson, is no longer with the team because he was on loan.

Real Salt Lake, always been a team that has made the playoffs in MLS.

you know what they're in that mix of that they're in the mix on 29 30 points fighting for the last spot but they haven't won in their last seven matches in all competitions

if you are aggressive early in the window, you can pivot earlier in the window and they've, they leave themselves no room for error when they try to do all their business on the back end while these other teams have players that have been in for six weeks now and are like fully integrated with their team.

We have Maurice Malone, AZ Jackson and Sherry and Valerius coming soon.

Right.

It's not, it's not helpful.

He talked a little bit about the guys he brought in.

The guys he brought in, Maurice Malone and Aziel Jackson and the guy who's not here yet, Jerrion Valerius, who's still going through the visa process.

Guys who might contribute, maybe not guys who are going to be nailed on starters right away.

There were a couple years ago when the loons brought in Joaquin Pereira and Jefferson Diaz and somebody else.

And...

I don't think they had that kind of window.

Aziel Jackson already, you've sort of seen that he's been a guy who's been coming on late in games, but especially now that Minnesota's playing with just one attacking midfielder, and it's Joaquin Pereira, who maybe is not a top, top, top tier number 10 in MLS, but certainly is an awfully good player in MLS.

Now that they're just sort of playing with one attacking midfielder, there's not a lot of spots right there for guys to play that position.