Comments about ‘Real Salt Lake's Joy leaving team to be with daughter’

We will miss you pal. I wish you all the best.

Very tough situation for Joy. Hopefully things will work out for him in Europe. Still, it's sad to see him go!

Yes, we will miss Joy's sense of humor. Perhaps his funniest joke was how he pocketed that $126k while players like Yura made half that amount, all the while recovering from one injury or another, or just sitting on the bench because we already had a better left back in Wingert. I'd bet he only played in a third of all the games he was here for, and he was exceptionally ordinary in those. If there's one positive to come out of his stay here, it's that perhaps we will scrap this idea that any American who's even milked a cow in Europe has "experience" we will pay a premium for.

Any player that would leave a team to back to be with there daughter is doing the right thing.

...by Joy's play. Sure, he was great with the fans, and did a beer tasting competition. But, Beltran and Wingert always had the edge on him.

Plus....I didn't like the way he wore his socks. :)

Best of luck for Ian, he was a great guy; always willing to give a fan his time.

As long as he doesn't sign with the galaxy or rappids next week, I'll think he's a class act. I hope he doens't pull a Fisher on us. But I actually believe Joy. Good luck, thanks for what you did for RSL.

If he does get all the money allowed him in his contract (the article seems to support this) then he did play a great joke. Why didn't we cut the strings in the offseason and have time to acquire someone else? I know the summer transfer window is upon us, but seriously talk about taking the team for a ride. He waits until he gets healthy and collects the checks.

To those bashing on Joy. He was our starting left back the entire offseason until his injury. Beltran came in for him, and was awful at first. Joy was trying to recover too quick (the doctors for this team seem to have a habit of doing this) then Beltran stepped his game up. Joy, in my opinion, is still better than either Wingert or Beltran, but you cant justify replacing either of them when they are getting the job done. Show the guy some respect, he was worth the money we paid him, we just got a steal with Beltran...

Sad to see Ian leave but best of luck for he and his daughter. Too bad we didnt get to see more play due to injuries. Great teamwork from all the guys!

Well it would be nice to get a true forward who was consistent. Yura is hardly that and leaving. Findley is good in spurts, but that doesn't win a championship and Espindola is played in a wide position, too far away from the goal and at times played near our defense versus America. Kreis has to figure this out, we need a real striker!

Please, pull this article out, try to be a little more creative... write about Movsysians rol now on...