New York Red Bulls: Tyler Adams is a massive loss, but don’t bet too much against them

MLS All-Star and New York Red Bulls star Tyler Adams is officially off to pursue his dreams in Europe. As big of a loss as this is for the Red Bulls, do not bet too much against them, they might be okay.

The New York Red Bulls and Tyler Adams have been together a long time. From his New York childhood to academy standout to first team stardom. Now, Adams is off to the Red Bulls’ sister club in Leipzig in Bundesliga.

Adams is already on the Men’s US National team.

The loss of Adams is terrible for the Red Bulls here in New York. He is almost irreplaceable. The loss of Adams can for sure not be compensated for overnight.

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He is as elite a player as it gets. He is young, quick, athletic, but is such a smart player. He used all those tools to be a staple in the New York Red Bulls midfield the last two seasons.

His talent might not be able to be replaced, but the show must go on in Harrison.

The thing is, and this is not a knock on Adams, is that the New York Red Bulls might be just fine despite the loss.

After all, this is the same team that found MLS defender of the year Aaron Long seemingly out of nowhere.

This is the same regime that traded away Sacha Klijestan and acquired an elite defender in Tim Parker in basically the same offseason.

The Red Bulls just broke the record for most points in a regular MLS Season. I’ll even argue this is the most difficult the MLS has been to play in ever.

The team is talented. The owners are smart. The academy is forever growing.

Tyler Adams might be the best to ever come out of it, and as I said, that is fine. He deserves to go elsewhere, he owes New York Red Bull supporters nothing.

Look at it this way, we all know how good Adams is. Being still a teenager on the US Men’s national team is all the proof of that.

But, what we also know is that the Red Bulls still won two Supporters’ Shield without him.

They still didn’t win the ultimate prize with or without him. Red Bulls still have never won the MLS Cup. Even Adams in his tenure could not lift that curse.

What the real story is, is that the Red Bulls are a club. They have great players, elite to beyond elite at that. This includes the still active Bradley Wright-Phillips and Red Bulls legend Thierry Henry.

They are the reigning Supporters’ Shield champions and have made the MLS Club playoffs nine consecutive seasons.

There is a reason for that. The Red Bulls know how to create their own talent. They have a lot of stability in the front office. They have a state of the art arena.

They check all the credentials it takes to be a world-class sports team.

Yeah, they lack an MLS Cup Championship. That is the biggest on only gap on their resume as a team, but they still have a lot of things other clubs do not.

Like, for example, the ability and resources to help produce the Tyler Adams’ in the world.

In zero ways does Tyler Adams leaving the New York Red Bulls help them. That would be a difficult narrative to defend.

What does remain true though, is this club’s ability to recover from losses like this. Their ability to constantly contend.

The only reason why the club is always so shattered when it chokes in the playoffs year after year is that they are always in them.

My best guess is that the Red Bulls are going to need some time to get another talent like Tyler Adams on the first team.

My best guess is that it might even take the Red Bulls spending a significant amount of money and getting really creative to get talent to fill his void on the pitch.

However, they have earned the trust we should all have in them.

The Red Bulls already made more moves beyond transferring Adams. They will let players walk, bring players back, and bring fresh faces in, just like they always have.

The New York Red Bulls do not need too, nor can they replace Tyler Adams overnight. They do not even need to keep trying to make more players like him.

They need to stick to this formula that has gotten them this far. Adams was not the talent to get them over the hump and get a championship banner in the rafters of Red Bull Arena.

No one knows what that is yet, but I’m sure no one can wait to find out.

The loss of Tyler Adams to the New York Red Bulls is huge. Losing him because he is “too good for MLS” might even be worse.

But, talent comes and goes with this club all the time. And if the recent 2018 season showed us anything, they still have A LOT of it.

The Red Bulls might be down, but they are from out. You could bet against them to be as spectacular in 2019 as they were in 2018, just don’t bet too much, because that is far from a guarantee.