Today’s News, Thursday , Sept.03

[denime]

Mornin'


Reds hit the links for charity (http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20090902&content_id=6754508&vkey=news_t280&fext=.jsp&team=t280)


Casey trade was TFC blunder (http://www.torontosun.com/sports/soccer/2009/09/03/10729076-sun.html)


The Kick about: Of Two Minds (http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20090902&content_id=6753770&vkey=news_t280&fext=.jsp&team=t280)


SUNSHINE (http://www.torontosun.com/sunshinegirl/) :D :yum:

[London]

didn't casey refuse to play for toronto??

for some reason, i think that happened?

[keem-o-sabi]

Coed Girls 1 (http://coedmagazine.com/category/girls/daily-snapshot-girls-2/) & 2 (http://coedmagazine.com/category/girls/miss-coed/) good day at the coed office

[Ossington Mental Youth]

pretty sure he asked to be traded to his home town, i remember that but i cant find any articles

[ensco]

^classic uninformed TFC article. MLS trades are mostly about clearing roster spots for signings - they're rarely value-for-value type moves. Afterwards Mo said Casey wanted to be moved. Casey is from there, so it made sense, but you have to take whatever Mo says about player moves with a grain of salt

The real story: Mo moved Casey to make room for...get this.... an aging English striker that was warming the bench at PNE. The guy was practically in a nursing home. The real question was, could the creaky old codger that Mo had found handle the transatlantic flight over? (No reporter ever sussed out this key angle.)

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[Oldtimer]

If MLS want to do well in international competitions (e.g. CONCACAF CL), they will need to raise the cap. Here's an interesting study:



Money buys soccer success: study



Twelve of the 20 soccer clubs that spent the most money on players in Europe's five biggest leagues went on to win the title over the last four years, and 90 per cent of the top-spending clubs in those leagues have gone on to finish in the top three, according to research published Wednesday.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2009/09/02/sp-soccer-success-study.html

[Lucky Strike]

didn't casey refuse to play for toronto??

for some reason, i think that happened?

That's what I remember; and the article also mentions the turf didn't do him any good either. But I forget though, how was he acquired in the first place? Was it the expansion draft?

[Oldtimer]

That's what I remember; and the article also mentions the turf didn't do him any good either. But I forget though, how was he acquired in the first place? Was it the expansion draft?

He was brought into the league by TFC as a discover signing. :(

[ensco]

^Are you really unhappy? If we'd kept Casey, there would be no Dichio.

[Oldtimer]

People forget why roster moves were made in the first place.

[CoachGT]

Jarrod Smith was a striker????

[trane]

I hope that the writer is not serious when he says Joseph who? He must understand that that Lapira was a highly toughted player and that he is now overseas. I am not a Mo defender, but the trade makes more sense in that light.

[MG42]

I hope that the writer is not serious when he says Joseph who? He must understand that that Lapira was a highly toughted player and that he is now overseas. I am not a Mo defender, but the trade makes more sense in that light.


I still don't get why Lapira left to go to norway

[CretanBull]

^ More money & the chance to play in Europe

[rocker]

Lapira had a Euro passport too I believe, so it was easy for him to make the move

[Brooker]

fucking dreadful article about Casey.

just goes to show you don't have to do research, or hell... even know what you're talking about to write in the sun.

[scooter]

mornin d

[Darlofletch]

If MLS want to do well in international competitions (e.g. CONCACAF CL), they will need to raise the cap. Here's an interesting study:



http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2009/09/02/sp-soccer-success-study.html

well yes, spending money's great of course, but for an alternative view, here's two articles published yesterday, i don't even have to go back to august.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8235070.stm


"Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie has admitted the club came close to going into administration "a couple of times". Pompey, who were bought by Sulaiman Al Fahim last week, have sold a series of star names in the last few months in an attempt to balance the books
Storrie said Pompey had been living "way outside our means".
Asked about going into administration, he told BBC Radio 5 live: "On a couple of occasions it got very close." "

and

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/sep/03/west-ham-financial-crisis-37m-loss

"The shocking extent of West Ham United (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/westhamunited)'s financial crisis during the Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson era has been laid bare in the clubs's accounts, which have been obtained by the Guardian. The documents reveal a business strategy that, in the opinion of the club's finance director, Nick Igoe, was "fundamentally flawed".
The accounts set out a loss of more than £37.4mfor the year ending 2008, which was covered by an injection of £30.5m of cash from the holding company of the former owner, Gudmundsson, and £17m of new loans negotiated with the banks in January 2008"

So let's not get too crazy, i'd rather have a mediocre league than nothing.

[Carts]

Jarrod Smith was a striker????

He pretended to be... But his girlfriend was a perfect 10...

He at least scored there! Hey-Oh!

Carts...

[C.Ronaldo]

when are these actually bankrupticies going to happen though?
I haven't seen a team in EPL fold yet.


that would be fun to see.




well yes, spending money's great of course, but for an alternative view, here's two articles published yesterday, i don't even have to go back to august.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8235070.stm


"Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie has admitted the club came close to going into administration "a couple of times". Pompey, who were bought by Sulaiman Al Fahim last week, have sold a series of star names in the last few months in an attempt to balance the books
Storrie said Pompey had been living "way outside our means".
Asked about going into administration, he told BBC Radio 5 live: "On a couple of occasions it got very close." "

and

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/sep/03/west-ham-financial-crisis-37m-loss

"The shocking extent of West Ham United (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/westhamunited)'s financial crisis during the Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson era has been laid bare in the clubs's accounts, which have been obtained by the Guardian. The documents reveal a business strategy that, in the opinion of the club's finance director, Nick Igoe, was "fundamentally flawed".
The accounts set out a loss of more than £37.4mfor the year ending 2008, which was covered by an injection of £30.5m of cash from the holding company of the former owner, Gudmundsson, and £17m of new loans negotiated with the banks in January 2008"

So let's not get too crazy, i'd rather have a mediocre league than nothing.

[lintberg]

JohnMolinaro (http://twitter.com/JohnMolinaro)just back from BMO. Danny to travel to Colorado. Robo update on Friday. Sun was out but it was a bit chilly down there today.3 minutes ago (http://twitter.com/JohnMolinaro/status/3737217083) from web

[johnmolinaro]

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2009/09/03/sp-tfc-robinson.html

Robinson could sit out Rapids game with ankle injury. Dichio to travel to Colorado. Will he play?

John Molinaro
http://twitter.com/JohnMolinaro

[Cobblers]

Dichio to travel to Colorado. Will he play?



(insert sarcasm here) you mean he can handle the cross continent flight and the altitude???

[Super]

didn't casey refuse to play for toronto??

for some reason, i think that happened?

Casey's wife is from Colorado. That's why he requested a move to Denver.

[wzhxvy]

A bit chilly how John ? :-)

[johnmolinaro]

A bit chilly how John ? :-)

Resulting from the ice-cold, steely gaze of a man under pressure....

Honestly, I feel so sorry for him, in spite of everything that's transpired between us the past two weeks.

John
http://twitter.com/JohnMolinaro

[wzhxvy]

Fair enough John...I can speak for myself that I know what it feels like to be under extreme pressure, with your job on the line, your value being questioned, and internally you are questioning yourself and your self-worth...I understand all that, but IMO how you act in those situations is the real testament of your character...not saying anything specific about CC but based on the other DD thread...I have my guesses.

[Redpunkfiddle]

Resulting from the ice-cold, steely gaze of a man under pressure....

Honestly, I feel so sorry for him, in spite of everything that's transpired between us the past two weeks.

John
http://twitter.com/JohnMolinaro

Boo-ya! Crunch time. This is the stuff that legends are made of. Redemption time.

Call it an opportunity to rise to the occasion. He has my hopes now. He'll have my sympathy then.