I sort of doubt the Whitecaps would be interested in signing a goalkeeper this offseason. With all that out of the way letвЂ™s finally get into this behemoth. There are three strikers mentioned in this article but if the next Cyle Larin is just over the hill then they probably donвЂ™t make as much sense to pursue. Trying to figure out which academy players were good was a bit like pre-1989 Sovietology at the best of times but the pandemic has totally destroyed any idea I have who is a worthwhile prospect. I also donвЂ™t have a very good sense of which players are coming through the academy who might be worthwhile. Like the rest of you, I just wait until a week before the draft and read how tall every player is in the mock drafts. But I have no idea where one would even begin to start watching NCAA soccer in Canada, let alone who the good players are. The Whitecaps have been taking the super draft more seriously in recent years and have snatched up a couple of good players, the most successful of which has been Javain Brown. I also donвЂ™t know who might be available in the MLS super draft.

I donвЂ™t know, for example, if any of these players are rabid anti-vaxers (I can guarantee nobody in this article is good enough to be worth putting up with that kind of nonsense). Firstly, my assessments are based only on what the players do on the field. There are also a couple of major limitations to my approach. These players are not only Canadians but I did focus more on Canadians than Americans. I.E relying as much as possible on Canadian talent. I was also cognizant of Axel SchusterвЂ™s stated desire to turn the Whitecaps into вЂњthe Athletic BilbaoвЂќ of MLS. The first three are had easily enough but combining them with the 4th one is where things get tricky The profile I was looking for was simple: young, cheap, domestic, able to make an impact in MLS. I then spent months watching as much of them as a person who doesnвЂ™t get paid to watch soccer could reasonably be expected to (if somebody would like to pay me to watch soccer then please get in touch). The players discussed in this article were first identified using data. This has been a much more long-term project. This time I wanted things to be different. I think I tried too hard to cover the whole world and as a result, I ended up talking about players I only had a surface-level understanding of. I have done articles suggesting players who would be good signings in the past and, looking back on them, I donвЂ™t think they were very good. If you do anything for five years you are going to get better at it. I have been writing for Eighty-Six Forever for five years.

So, I decided to look at some guys who could help with that. In the case of the 2020 Philadelphia Union and the 2018 New York Red Bulls, the quality of depth in their squads ended up being more important than their lack of star power. When you look back at recent supporters shield winners, one thing that really stands out for all of them is the quality of depth in their squads. In a weak-link game (a game where the winner is more likely to be determined by who doesnвЂ™t have the worst player rather than who has the best player) thatвЂ™s a bad thing. When Vanni Sartini had to turn to his depth players he was frequently having to lean on players who were out of position or who were lacking in ability. But one area that stood out right away was the quality of the вЂњguysвЂќ was a bit lacking. In the second half of 2021, the Vancouver Whitecaps looked like they might have a path to being legitimately good.

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