Today's News,Thursday,Nov.24
Perfect time to invite China over for a friendly on Feb 29!! More likely to get the 73rd ranked team here and get a fantastic crowd than number 72 Austria. Look out Austria!! We're nipping at your heels!!
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^^^^^^^^^^^ do people from china support there teams??
if so, this could be the biggest (visiter)home match in Canada, there are alot if people from china in canada
the chinese league is also corrupt as shit
^Yes London, it would be a huge game. Ossi, does them being corrupt help or hurt us getting a game with them?
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they do, but the hardcore ultras (construction bricks shower, flares, flipping visiting team bus over etc..) can't get out of the country, lolOriginally Posted by London
all the ones here will be relatively tame and repetitive chants
if we and voyageurs bring our top game, quality can still overrun quantity
It probably means nothing to is, but if you see guys in the stands wearing dark glasses and talking on cell-phones during the match, combined with some mystery "mistakes" by some Chinese players, you know the fix is in.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
The stadium would even more red than the Peru match..
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Hopefully this is the reason he hasn't laced em up for Canada yet
http://www.centerlinesoccer.com/san-...pansion-draft/
Jesse Marsch wants to sign Nana Attakora
According to the article, it is San Jose that is intent on re-signing Attakora.
Regarding the Brian Ching controversy, it will be interesting to see if he actually retires now. If he does, the joke's on Montreal, as they would have wasted a valuable pick out of spite.
For Montreal's sake, they better hope that Houston wants Ching back (as a player) badly enough to part with Hainault, or that Ching is willing to play for another MLS club that is willing to part with assets.
In retrospect, it was a risky move by Marsch because there were several other younger talented players available that would have likely been willing to report to Montreal.
Houston has already indicated they will be negotiating for his rights. It has already appeared to pay off. To what extend is yet to be seen.
montreal called houston/chings bluff, no player in their right mind wants to retire until they know it's their time. ching honestly looks like he's enjoying himself when he plays and still has a year left in him to be a major offensive threat before his abilities start to wane. to retire would mean basically giving up the game he loves because he doesn't want to play for the impact, but maybe montreal knew that.
maybe the reason why they took him was because they knew what he means to the franchise and fanbase. the bigger the response from the fans, the more pressure it puts on the FO to get him back by any means necessary.
i'm not saying they shouldn't attempt to get him back, but the last thing you want to do is trade away for a player who only has a year or two left, tops. maybe montreal were hoping that by taking the franchise player they could use the outrage to swing an unreasonable deal which sees them getting a lopsided trade. any of the stuff suggested are all plausible outcomes, either he plays for montreal, plays for houston or retires prematurely (which would be a damn shame).
If one considers Ching's salary, I personally think it would have made more sense to nab a younger striker like Omar Bravo. Alternatively, midfield stalwarts like Grabavoy or Quaranta are players that would have benefited a young expansion team as well.
Considering the available options and the risk vs reward factor, I'm not sure Montreal made a wise move in selecting Ching.
Salary is not a consideration here. Ching will not be playing in Montreal.
This is going down the road of the "Mo - McBride to Chicago" standoff. Eventually the league will have to dictate the terms of a deal.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Maybe...what is definitely going to happen is Montreal will squeeze something out of this deal, even if it's something as simple as allocation money.
Agreed, although Houston has already stated that they will not be lured into overpaying to reacquire Ching as result of Montreal's maneuver.
So the questions is, if Ching doesn't retire, will the inevitable return (be it allocation, a player or draft pick) be more beneficial to Montreal than one of the other notable players that were available for selection?
Time will tell.
Another Dwayne De Rosario story. Take it for what it is.
"De-Ro still wants your respect"
http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/new...respect-soccer
Maybe that was their plan from the start??
He sounds really unhappy with how Soler treated him.I just woke up one morning and I was supposed to go to my daughter's graduation, and they called and said, "We traded you for Dax McCarty." I was like, "OK, I'm not a rookie. I was at training in the morning, you could have simply pulled me aside then. It's not like you just got a call and said 'OK, we want to trade him.'" You have to be building this up, and you have to let the player know, especially a player that's been in the league for so long. And that's a big problem that I have with a lot of these teams who don't respect their players. And I felt really disrespected in New York by the way that was handled. It was handled very unprofessionally for a club that's trying to be a mega club and they're treating the players like that. That's just unbelievable. I would have appreciated it if they'd called me in and told me to my face, but to get a call in the morning -- for me, I've never experienced anything like that.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
Houston won't give up Hainault for him. That would be like giving the kidnapper everything they want.
"Kidnapper" that's funny. Houston left Ching unprotected, no kidnapping happening there.
Soler's turning out to be just like MoJo. he tried to get Tim Ream to sign an extension on the team bus lol
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
DeRo just sounds like a bitter individual all around in that article.
Sorry was reading this off my phone and got it confused with the anelka to china rumor
I disagree,DeRo is a veteran in this league and he deserves more respect from technical stuff in MLS.
Just like he said,he is not a rookie,there are better ways to let him know.
FGS even TFC gave him a note about trade and did not play him one game before trade,RPNY move was unprofessional indeed.
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