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What are we anticipating...on and off the field?

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What do we think? She's a good forward who scored goals at USC? Or am I just seeing her train with Hamm and Sarah Gorden and putting 2 and 2 together?

Link to video Real interesting to see what happens after this season

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Do you imagine anymore house cleaning?

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Nice profile on Kennedy from the Sporting Tribune: Fuller wants more after rookie year

I read a rumor in this community that Girma is going to Lyon. What other rumors are afoot? Especially in regards to ACFC signings?

And yes I know it’s all just rumors and you never know. But just for fun, throw out what you have heard.

With a key free agency window closed here's how ACFC's current roster compares to the rest of the league. Details here.

• Returning 20 players. Appears to be about the league average.
• Returning 68% of minutes played. Lowest in the league.
• Returning 23 goals scored and 82% of the players that scored those goals are returning. Around the mid-point of the league.
• Returning 14 assists and 78% of the players that assisted on those goals are returning. Below the mid-point of the league.
• Returning 156 chances created and 75% of the players that created those chances are returning. Near the bottom of the league.

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Since last we spoke...some serious house cleaning has been executed.

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The Equalizer profiles Alyssa and other forwards beyond Triple Espresso. USWNT forward depth: Who provides the extra shot after Triple Espresso?

Alyssa Thompson — Left-winger

The Angel City winger had some of her best games in a U.S. shirt this window, especially with her performance against England. A quick and mazy left-winger, Thompson is a proficient 1-v-1 artist who excels with her speed and dribbling to get away from players and looks to drive both in and outside the box. With a preference to cut inside, Thompson can look to deliver inside channel crosses too and in these friendlies she brought her newly improved skills forward.

Starting on the left in the England game, Thompson constantly pushed and pressed right-back Lucy Bronze, getting the better of her in many 1-v-1 duels. The constant feints and foot races against Bronze made it very difficult for the Chelsea fullback to mark Thompson, and though Bronze could stop her at times, Thompson delivered several crosses and passes into the box, as well as find spaces to get on the end of them.

The most notable of this was the chance in the fifth minute off Emma Sears’ right-wing cross which Thompson ran onto from the left-wing behind the English centerbacks. Her positioning was good and showed promise in her attacking the box. Since making her debut in October 2022, she’s been drip-fed appearances into the team but now she seems to have made a case for being included in future rosters.

Thompson’s data from the 2024 NWSL season shows a lot of promise. The winger raked up five goals and seven assists in her 26 matches played (2,144 minutes), where she ranked in the 88th percentile for assists per 90 minutes with 0.29 and 77th for touches in the attacking third (5.00 p90), but most importantly she’s registered 3.74 progressive carries (83rd percentile). 

A clear trend has emerged in Thompson’s game: she excels as a ball carrier and progressor, consistently positioning herself to score goals or contribute to attacking plays. While her inexperience occasionally shows in her decision-making, this is an area that should improve with time and quality coaching.

Hayes will undoubtedly value Thompson’s raw talent and athleticism, seeing her as a player with the potential to develop into a significant attacking threat. Whether as a dynamic option off the bench or a weapon to stretch defenses on the counter-attack, Thompson’s skill set fits seamlessly into Hayes’ tactical vision.

After her first goal for her country against Iceland last month, Hayes said, “I believe it does take time. Maybe she [Thompson] wasn’t ready before, but I can see from tonight’s performance here that she offers a lot for us going forward.”

Ok team, with Tweed and Hucles out along with today’s roster announcements, looks like ACFC is taking this off-season seriously. I’d love to get conversations going amongst fans about what else we’d like to see before next season! Ideas for coaches, GMs, other front office changes and, of course, new signings! I’ll start:

GET A NEW COACH AND GM ASAP (duh). Honestly don’t have any names in mind but this should be the #1 priority now, as it will help attract players to have those front office pieces in place. Personally, I love Casey Stoney, but I don’t think she’s right for ACFC. Our attack has struggled more than it should for the lineup we have and she’s a defensive-minded coach. However, players love her, I love how open she is about her thoughts on the league, and our defense could use the help.

SIGN AM/FORWARD CAROLINE WEIR FROM REAL MADRID!

• ACFC has been lacking attackers (and players in general) in the prime of their careers since the start. Weir is a fantastic all-around attacker, can play multiple positions, and is looking great since returning from an ACL injury last season.
• Her contract with Real Madrid isn’t up until 2026, but considering the club’s recent claim that La Liga is paying women “too much” and wants to cut funding to the women’s league, I’m thinking a lot of their players will be leaving once they get knocked out of the Champions League.
• She plays on the Scottish National Team and is besties with Emslie and Zelem so it’s perfect

SIGN CB LILLY REALE FROM UCLA

• Reale was the #1 ranked NCAA WoSo player this season. She led one of the best defenses this season and is also a major asset for set pieces, both taking free kicks and a prime target in the box for corner kicks.
• She previously trained with ACFC along with Reilyn Turner, and with no draft this season, I don’t think it’ll be hard to convince her to stay in LA. Also our CB depth is now lacking with the Nielsen trade and no more Curry.
• The one drawback I have is if Gilles really does come back from Lyon, Reale might prefer to sign with a team that would guarantee her more playing time (Chicago, KC, etc), and I wouldn’t blame her as one of the top college prospects. BUT at the earliest, Gilles would return in June so she won’t even be here the first half of the season. After that though, one of them would probably be benched.

SIGN A STARTING CALIBER GK. Would love suggestions on specific names, because I don’t know too much about the ones currently on the free agency list. Some thoughts I’ll throw out:

• Almuth Schult from KC. Was part of ACFC’s inaugural season but left when Didi became starter. Came back to the NWSL this season and took over AD Franch’s starting role. Tbh, don’t know if she’s significantly better now than when she was beat out by Didi, but she seems to be the top GK free agent
• Abby Smith from Gotham. She was on the SEI list until October, didn’t get a whole lot of detail but she had a long term knee injury. I was super impressed with her during the 2023 season, but Gotham signed Cassie Miller and Berger while Smith was injured, so she’ll probably be looking to move to get more playing time. The long term injury does make me a little hesitant though.
• Teagan Wy from Cal/U20 USWNT. Ok honestly maybe she wouldn’t be starting caliber yet and would make our GK lineup entirely made up of young developing players but I’m throwing her name out there anyway. She was very impressive in the U20 WWC, is on the shortlist for future senior National Team starting GKs, and will be heavily recruited by pro teams soon, if she isn’t already. She’s also great with her feet and playing out the back which is basically the one thing ACFC GKs have been missing. She’s from Orange County, so ACFC is close to home, and she was a backup to Angelina Anderson at Cal before Anderson graduated.

OTHER TOP COLLEGE PROSPECTS (limiting this to just seniors/grad students, otherwise this list could go on forever):

Kaitlyn MacBean, Forward, Penn State

• She’s 5’9”, is one of the top ranked forwards this season, was a redshirt senior, so likely finished with her college career, and she has a great name. Also Penn State players have historically made for great pro players.

Lexi Missimo, Midfielder, Texas

• Has been a standout attacking player the last two seasons, has trained with multiple pro clubs, including Man City, who (along with Arsenal) made her an offer to go pro out of high school, and has a long list of individual accolades. Her lifelong bestie and teammate, Trinity Byars, just signed with the Wave, so she might be tempted to go there instead, but LA would be the next closest and with no more MDH and Le Bihan, we could use an attacking midfielder more than the Wave. There are also rumors that she could stay near family and go to Dallas Trinity, but I think she could get offers from considerably higher caliber teams.

Justina Gaynor, Midfielder, Michigan State * Honestly don’t know too much about her but throwing her name out there because we need midfielders. She played the most mins on a top team this season and her sister Celia was drafted last year by Chicago and is now playing pro with Fort Lauderdale in the USL Super League.

Quincy McMahon, OB/Winger, UCLA

• Tbh this is a super biased shoutout because UCLA is the college team I’ve watched the most, but every time I watch their games, McMahon is a standout. Solid defensively but super effective in the attack, reminds me a lot of Vignola. Our depth at outside back has historically been lacking due to injury, but we will definitely need to sign more now that ACFC has let go of Curry and Spencer, and with the retirements (or soon-to-be retirement) of Mathias and Ali Riley.

Would love to hear other people’s thoughts and ideas for the upcoming season! If nothing else, maybe we can get some rumors/manifesting started👀👀👀 (Also I’m so sorry if the formatting is terrible I don’t post much on Reddit and could not seem to get bullet points or bold lettering to work)

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The polls we have been posting since the season ended tallied a couple thousand votes. Thanks for participating! Here is the final tally of the results. Which result is the most surprising? Which one do you disagree with the most? Drop your thoughts below on how your fellow ACFC fans voted.

MVP: Alyssa won with nearly 60% of the votes. Claire finished second with 34%.

Defensive PoTY: This was the closest poll. Sarah won with 50% of the votes. Madi was a very close second at 47%.

Rookie of the Year: Madi was the clear winner with 82% of the votes.

Best Free Agent Signing/Trade: Katie won easily with 52% of the votes. MDH and Rocky tied for second at 20% each.

Most Memorable Performance/Play: Press scores after returning from injury vs the Courage was the clear winner with 50% of the votes.

Highest Priority Need This Offseason: 50% of the votes were for the midfield. Coaching came in second with 26% of the votes.

Departure/SEI That Had The Biggest Impact: Endo’s SEI had the most votes at 49%. Paige and Savvy were a distant second at 25% each.

Should ACFC Re-sign the Following Free Agent:

Madi: 93% Yes

CP23: 80% Yes

Didi: 33% Yes

Jazz: 31% Yes

MDH: 28% Yes

Katie: 5% Yes

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Any minute now, the front office will announce that the 3-clap has been future endeavored as well...🤞🏽

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Madison Curry leaving to start the off season was not only on this fanbase's free agency's bingo card...but now we hate bingo.

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