Looks like St. Louis will finally be joining MLS.
https://twitter.com/stltoday/status/1161777897994096640
Looks like St. Louis will finally be joining MLS.
https://twitter.com/stltoday/status/1161777897994096640
TORONTO FC, 2017 MLS CHAMPIONS!!! (Still the greatest in league history!)
Atlanta wins Campeones Cup. An Mls team finally beats a Mexican team in a finals. Still annoyed about Delgado s missed shot costing us the champions league
Well done Atlanta winning this game where Toronto was totally outclassed last year by it’s Mexican opponent, moreover, the fans in Atlanta actually turned up, over 40000 in Atlanta for this one tonight , last year in Toronto barely what 18000 or so showed up. It might have been a made up cup but both teams came to play in Atlanta in a well played and pretty exciting game.
Huge night for MLS tonight
Games like this don't mean anything, unless you lose...
A lot of talk earlier this year about MLS vs other top 15 leagues in the world in that that 11-15 range like Liga MX, Belgium league A etc. Liga MX is rightfully ahead of MLS, but it's now a legitimate competition. You generally don't know who is going to win.
MLS will have 28 teams by 2022 vs Liga mx with 18. MLS is making a real improvements and if they make further advancements in the next CBA, that could be another huge leap forward to being a top 10 league.
I respect LIGA Mx so to win this trophy is huge. If anything, it's respect... it makes winning this cup, MLS cup, and champions league an even bigger deal. The perception of MLS globally and in the continent is important.
Great game and win the biggest club in North America
Latest scuttlebutt is
St. Louis announced Tuesday
Charlotte North Carolina within weeks
Sacremento by the end of the season
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Betting now is Vegas for the 31st team as the guy who owns the NHL team there is the likely point man.
Last edited by OgtheDim; 08-16-2019 at 09:28 AM.
But... but... They said they're only going to 30 teams...
40
Pro Rel of a sort within that 40
Vancouver finally moving past the 80's.
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/mattpentz/status/1162410815330422784
Maybe. What happens if Bruce Wilson wins the Sporting Director role?Originally Posted by OgtheDim
All 4 One (TFC Pravda TV Edition) gives us 9 minutes of Ali Curtis
Of note:
"I didn't expect Sebastian to leave, for Victor to leave, for the VDW situation"
Last edited by OgtheDim; 08-16-2019 at 01:43 PM.
IJust watched this. It severely pisses me off. All this “playing the victim” crap, Manning is crying this same song too.
The team decided to go into the final year of significant contracts with world footballers, who don’t act or think like North Americans do in other sports about playing out the final year, unless they are in severe decline. What Seba did, what VV did, is market practice and was predictable and was knowable.
Manning should have known it, Bez should have known it, and Curtis and anyone else interviewing for this job should have known it.
Everybody involved got caught with their pants around their ankles, but nobody is man enough to say they thought they didn’t need a belt.
Do your job.
Last edited by ensco; 08-17-2019 at 04:26 PM.
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
It says more about how naive this front office is in terms of understanding how football contracts work overseas. Just because Bradley knows the North American mindset doesn’t mean players like Giovinco doesn’t. Vazquez on TAM money in hindsight was unsustainable and one big contract away from being poached.
I don't always agree with Ensco but. Refuckingtweet.
I'm telling you dude, as much as Vanney's choices can piss me off, he's not the poor coach we're seeing under this guy. I just smell "shirker" all over this dude. Very high on himself, very high on his own potential, very unwilling to take an iota of blame for basic common sense decisions.
Yeah
(FYI jloome has some history with this kind of read. He had Earl Cochrane pegged early, based solely on body language.)
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
More unsaid than said in that video. Interesting.
I don't know. But you have high emotional intelligence or something - you are good at this - so you may very well be right.
Its also American. They are taught that everything America does is better. So have natural blind spots, because if you are the best why learn what anyone else does.
Totally. Totally totally totally.
He's so fucking corporate. And proud of it. Gives me the heebee geebees...
How did he do that
https://www.google.com/search?q=Gus+...XyQz-2O-IH9vM:
Just fire the guy already. What is wrong with their ownership group? It’s hard to believe any of these guys are actually successful outside of this club. They consistently show such poor judgement.
Mavinga & his family involved in a car acciendent, luckily it seems like they're all okay:
https://twitter.com/Chris_Mavinga/status/1163273145110990854
He may well be in a catch-22 here. Play the guys the GM brought in knowing full well they aren’t good enough or go against the GM and play the guys you feel give you the best opportunity to win, knowing that also puts your job at risk.
I only get more puzzled by this team as the season goes on but fully agree something isn’t right.
I want Harry Potter back.
Oh, and Tim Leiweke for a cup of coffee to secure our next Giovinco.
MLS expands to St. Louis (28th franchise). Team will begin competing in 2022.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/mls-...is-debut-2022/
So folks, we are going to have 7 games between Sept 07 and 29!
It will be fun to seek how CV manages the situation!
With excuses. Plenty of excuses.
This All for One format is great for championship teams ...the TFC 2017 ones were good, the Raptors' ones this past spring/summer were out of this world amazing, Academy Award winning, go watch the playoff editions if you haven't , I am not kidding!
But this format really really sucks for a team like TFC 2019, where management has a credibility problem, has never found its footing, and has dissembled a lot (eg “player coming in two weeks” every two weeks, weird stories about talent identification that don’t stand up to scrutiny, the Pozo own goal at the January deadline, and of course the lack of readiness for the potential departure of the top players)
This just made everything seems worse than it may even be. The guy did not land whatever he was trying to say, and came away looking like a guy with a very thin resume and a very big opinion of himself that is not grounded in real accomplishments. Duke soccer being treated like Manchester United , Jesus H Christ, I am trying to picture Seba's or Jozy's or Michael's reaction to that.
The one thing I agree with - Hagglund for Gonzalez was a sweet piece of business.
But just cancel this effing series until the playoffs. I'm begging you.
(When Bradley was 22, Curtis' age the last year Curtis played at Duke, Bradley scored 18 goals at Heerenveen and was sold for $3M to a Bundesliga team. It was one of the biggest transfer fees ever for an American at the time. Make a movie about that!)
Last edited by ensco; 08-20-2019 at 08:23 PM.
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
The slow death of the last 18 months has been debilitating to all patience with fluff it seems.
One thing I would suggest to Manning is we NEVER do a shirt making video ever again - seems a curse.
I understand this club has to put something together in terms of media consumption but this is All for One format is just sad and pathetic. It’s waxing poetic over garbage.
I also find it funny that an executive who leaves the appearance of being late on his assignments is spending his time on this. Is the staff playing to his ego featuring him for the sake of kissing ass?
He should stick to press releases and actually making quality signings (before it’s six months too late).
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