Welcome to the latest edition of Hot Take, in which a Hudson River Blue contributor takes a highly subjective stand on a topic and gives you their deeply biased opinion.
As you likely heard by now, Taty Castellanos is heavily rumored to be leaving NYCFC shortly. It has felt as though whispers of “is this his final game for the club?” have surrounded every match he’s played for NYCFC since the MLS Cup Final. The speculation is now at fever pitch, no doubt fueled by the player himself telling TUDN’s Michele Giannone that his future could be decided within days of NYCFC’s win against New England, and more recently Fabrizio Romano tweeting that he is expected to join La Liga side Girona.