Thanks to the 26 people that voted. No trolls were detected. Hartel is Player of the Match with 96%. Goal of the Match is Hartel’s first goal, outside the box, with 73%. Bonus is a bit of fun on players as manager.  
  
The bonus question asked of the players that played, which one would you choose to take off roster to be manager all of next year. This is very much a ridiculous scenario, but I think it sets up some notions of who everyone finds as a decent leader which might sit in the back of minds as we get into the winter roster build debates. I fully expect some nonsense voting given the absurd nature of the setup. I’ll give an attempt at reading tea leaves, so jump in with alternative takes.  
  
Bürki received the most votes at 41%. I suspect this stems from a combination of considerations like experience, age, a clear leader as captain, a realist, contract status, and his cost against team salary cap. Morales received 27% of votes and has similar experience and age considerations, but doesn’t have comparable hits to roster construction with about 1/10 the base salary of Bürki. Klauss has 18% of votes and I figure his experience and rapport with teammates might build out trust; he’s in his late 20’s, so nearing borderline comfort age-wise. As for Jeong at 9%, he’s one of a couple national team players and maybe some thought of “let the kid lead” version of “let the kids play”. Totland down at 5%, I suppose is similar to Klauss without the price tag and lacking much play time while Wallem is around.   
  
Context: This was inspired from an observation during the match in which Klauss appeared to give McSorley an earful following a missed attack opportunity. Recently, McSorley commented on learning a lot from Klauss. Also, there’s obviously a lot of questions around manager for next season and contracts.


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