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The focus on young players means that Dallas is almost always: promising, a team of interest and optimism, but I wouldn’t go betting anything much on them.

Currently, they’re second from the...

Herdman and staff have done a truly admirable job getting us out of the death spiral. Of course it’s MLS and especially anything can happen with this match, but if we expect to hang around in the...

After Philly’s loss at home to Seattle yesterday, we’re alone in 4th place in points and in winning percentage. Before the season began this was not what I expected 1/3 of the way into the season...

Bernadeschi is seventh in the league in key passes, one behind Paintsil and two out of third place:
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Prince (who at Orlando somewhat oddly crowned himself and declared “I am the king!”) is now tied for 8th in league scoring with Gazdag, Giakoumakis, and Brian White.

Best #10s in MLS:

https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/360-view-ranking-the-best-no-10s-in-mls

I’m assuming so given he had three matches with Atlanta’s NextPro side.

Maybe too quick to start but it sounded like Herdman wants to get him on the pitch asap… wouldn’t he surprised if he gets minutes in Orlando.

Good points. It will continue to be difficult to sign our first choice players if we are not doing right by the players we don’t want. Another MLS club for Ayo is looking out of reach, but one would...

Since the purse strings were tightened we haven’t used a buyout. Given the overall state of the roster, using buyouts would be an enormous aid to the capacity to rebuild. And we are not talking about...

It was the hope that he could play Insigne’s role asap.

That’s fair. The U-22 initiative, because it’s so restrictive and is set within a web of restrictions, encourages higher wage, higher ceiling/sales players. I’m not sure we should he taking a flyer...

Yeah, I saw that. Speaking of judgement, that was a crazy call. But then our academy has been a maze of bad judgment calls. It seems Herdman won’t stand for that… a good sign, let’s hope.

Sounds better than my condensed, half quote above of (almost) the same moment… but what does it mean? He’s okay to have around but at least one more season away from playing in the league and even...

I agree with this. Herdman has been quite open all along so far, more than most. He lets us in on his thinking though not at the expense of firstly motivating his players.

Sure, man, but everything that happens in a football team involves judgement… it might be said that making innumerable judgement calls is the reason people are hired to run the clubs. Doesn’t mean we...

Is Thompson’s contract up at the end of this season? Given how much Herdman can use a RCB who can get forward, I’d continue with the experiment at least while Thompson doesn’t count against the...

Or maybe not entirely shocking given how much Columbus is putting into their Champions Cup. Still, unexpected that it’s us with more wins.

Apparently they see Etienne as a left wing first and then attacking midfield and left wingback. Filling in for Insigne and then for Osorio when he’s with Canada this summer. At the moment, Osorio...

And from the other side, if people want to do a bit more reading:

https://www.barrietoday.com/columns/playing-field/column-toronto-fc-runs-roughshod-over-upstart-rovers-8649363

The highlights:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm5mA4SDcg4

Davidson’s article.

I didn’t know Dumitru was 17. He looked very composed.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/toronto-fc-puts-semi-pro-013322809.html

I’m sceptical. I didn’t see enough there… but difficult to tell in that match.

About Cash Money, I’m of the mind that, yeah, he’s too small and slow to play much in MLS. Despite the goal and the nice strike I can see why he’s not gotten a start before this.

Difficult to say, the levels were so different. 5-0 was Spurs vs Marine. One loses track of the score after awhile but it was fun in the stadium, most people seemed to be enjoying it, cheering for...