Luis Gil to Seattle or RSL? Currently with Wizards, what is his value?

on Gil from a SoCal based soccer blogger/coach

http://blog.3four3.com/2010/01/02/report-u-18-national-team-camp/

who the hell is “Three four three fc blog”? I looked at the blog and see nothing that convinces me that the person has any exclusive insight to the deal Luis Gil might have signed. I didn’t see any source mentioned, so while it may be true and I wouldn’t blame a young striker with a lot of upside for wanting to join either the high profile Sounders with a quality head coach Sigi, or defending MLS champs with one of the MLS’s best ever strikers as their head coach.

The author almost literally says “Trust me or don’t, we’ll see who’s right.” Certainly seems like it could just be a cry for attention, which he seems to have received.

How did you even find this blog? Did you just Google “Luis Gil” and this is what came up or was it linked from somewhere else?

Has been waived. They wrote it on Feb 20th

Lopez has been out of contract since the end of season. Is not required by MLS rule to be waived.

I’ve been going through several different Twitter feeds and blogs and the closest thing I could find was a comment in the Ives post that purports to be from a friend of Gil’s:

I know him personally he told me that arsenal was low balling him with the money they had offered him the mls offer was better than theirs and he tpld me he told is agent that his choices were Seattle or rsl

But three.four.three.fc is apparently a clothing line designed by “people who worked in the soccer industry,” which itself is pretty vague. The blog is tied to that.

I would rather see a kid that young be allowed to play closer to home and finish high school. It sure would be fun to watch a young talent like that develop up close, but I doubt this is “set for life” money and I would rather see him develop in a way that is best for him.

Of course, if he is really saying he wants to play for Seattle, maybe MLS should grant him his wish.

http://www.torontosun.com/sports/othersports/2010/02/21/12972716.html

It’ll be interesting to see where he ends up… I’m sure he would get more playing time with the Wizards than he will if he goes to either the Sounders or RSL…
Especially the Sounders…. I mean currently the Sounders are pretty overloaded with people. It’s already a toss up as to who will be signed in the last couple available roster slots…

RSL might be able to use him… but developmental wise there are only a couple coaches I would trust to develop him, Sigi being one of those…. we will see in a couple days I guess

If I’m Seattle, I might be willing to part with a first-rounder. From the looks of things, our first-rounder this year might not even make the senior roster despite some decent pedigree. Ljundberg and Montero probably aren’t long for this league, so it would be great to have someone like that ready to make a contribution in a couple years.

When Davies decided to make MLS his league his rights were obtained for a 2nd rd pick.

I would be willing to give up a 3rd rounder now with a conditional pick in 3 years based on Gil’s performance

worries thatMLS will not develop Gil to his full potential, with a reliance on a physical and vertical game rather than possession and passing.

I think Gary needed to watch more Sounders games.

It is hard to really see any 16-year-old coming in and starting straight away so to find the development time we need to figure out where he can play right now. And since we probably won’t be in a position to simply hand out too much playing time for future development, we have to ask how many positions can he fill in for to get the game time he needs.

Can he fill in at CAM right now if and when Ljundberg misses some games?

Can he play at all on the wings of the Arrow?

Does he have the toughness to play a deep-lying play-maker?

I really just have not watched him enough to really tell, but I think the answers to these types of questions will help figure out how highly we should value him.