So we now have a squad, one that complies to MLS rules and everyone having 5 vowels or more in the last name.*
*Well it's actually shirt-name. We have a Rejato Caja but it says that on his shirt so I'm counting him, a Harouna Abou Demba too who wears Abou Demba. Everyone else fitting with nothing dubious going on. It was a challenge to get to this stage I'd say.
We're bad, 1000-1 odds to win MLS.
That's no surprise considering how few players have 5 vowels for this experimental restriction. Now I didn't use Genie Scout to put the squad together but I did peak at the team rating page just to see how bad it thought we were in comparison to the other MLS sides. We're not cut adrift, only very marginally the worst team, it was rating us 68.9 out of 100 and next up was 69.1. The top team is 73-something and while I'd be highly doubtful of us winning it, we could be ok if our tactics end up working. Good tactics normally punch above their weight.
Still don't have any of the Designated Player spots in my squad taken where you bring in a player on bigger money so maybe I could do that at some point which would obviously improve us. Don't really know how to go about it at this present time, 5 vowellers are going to be rare, and I'm confused as to whether a foreign designated player counts as a foreigner or just a designated player. Already used up our full allocation of foreigners so would have to juggle something.
So far we've had a 2 legged CONCACAF CL tie against Waterhouse from Jamaica. Won 3-0 on aggregate, looked comfortable but I think they're awful. Worryingly we lost a friendly in between those games against Birmingham Legion 2-0, albeit with our 2nd best XI.
Bradley Bourgeois has a fantastic name, has to be said.