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Your Boy Fancy posted:I don't understand You've become ArsenalMLS. Enjoy your above average finishes for the next 10 years without winning anything meaningful.
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Your Boy Fancy posted:We keep getting younger and signing Africans instead of getting older and signing Americans The pendulum has swung too far in this direction, it appears. They had already used all their international slots, but got one back when they put Alhaji Kamara on injured reserve...however, they just filled that slot by signing Iggy, so now they can't bring Kamara back from injured reserve until they get rid of an international player. http://www.blackandredunited.com/2016/7/29/12329762/dc-united-trade-kennedy-igboananike-chicago-fire-mls-transfer-rumors
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whypick1 posted:Maybe Olsen picked up that brain-altering parasite you get from catshit Well, RFK does have problems with infestations of feral cats and racoons.... Real talk, I can't believe it but, I'm going to miss that poo poo-hole
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TheNakedJimbo posted:The pendulum has swung too far in this direction, it appears. They had already used all their international slots, but got one back when they put Alhaji Kamara on injured reserve...however, they just filled that slot by signing Iggy, so now they can't bring Kamara back from injured reserve until they get rid of an international player. Nothing of value was lost. Kamara is destined to die in a football game and I'll be damned if it happens on my poo poo heap team.
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Your Boy Fancy posted:Nothing of value was lost. Kamara is destined to die in a football game and I'll be damned if it happens on my poo poo heap team. Whenever anyone plays at RFK they die a little, at least inside.
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Shrapnig posted:Whenever anyone plays at RFK they die a little, at least inside. I think you've mistaken that for your dreams of relevance, friend
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Jul 30, 2016 13:29
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joshtothemaxx posted:I really hate Charlie Davies, but he doesn't deserve cancer Existentially, no one gets what they deserve. If most of us got what we deserved, most of us would be dead or imprisoned. Charlie Davies is a son of a bitch. He drove drunk after a drunk driver killed his friends and nearly killed him. He did not get what he deserved. Nor does he deserve cancer. Knowing him, he'll survive. The son of a bitch is a fighter. He will overcome, because he's too much of a bastard to die.
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joshtothemaxx posted:I really hate Charlie Davies, but he doesn't deserve cancer Christ, I thought I was having a traumatic year
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Jul 30, 2016 21:55
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Glad Fernandez still has 'resting awkward tight pinched smile' face.
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USMC_Karl posted:Whelp, Castillo is officially going to Turkey. Kind of a drag, but I think FC Dallas will be able to handle things without too much of a hit. https://twitter.com/SteveDavis90/status/759871998428274689 Well poo poo
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Yeah not quite sure how to feel about that, it's good that he's coming back and all but I'm curious as to why the deal fell through.
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Probably because, holy poo poo, there's some serious civil unrest there and people are losing rights left and right. Or he didn't like the food.
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Was Taters posted:Probably because, holy poo poo, there's some serious civil unrest there and people are losing rights left and right. Some Turkish guy made fun of me on an FCD fan page when I said there was a zero point zero chance I'd take a transfer to Turkey right now. He wasn't even a fan of the page or anything; he must have just been trolling Facebook for people who were saying mean things about his country. Ryan Hollingshead is really an unsung hero of this team; his versatility allows him to contribute so much. He started out playing right wing last season, then moved to left back for the rest of the year, played right back in that game against DCU where Dallas was missing seven starters to international callups, and played left wing in Fabi's absence yesterday. He's all-around quality.
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Was Taters posted:Probably because, holy poo poo, there's some serious civil unrest there and people are losing rights left and right. This is soccer we're talking about. The issue is more than likely money based.
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Tigren posted:This is soccer we're talking about. The issue is more than likely money based. It could be, but Mario Gomez hosed off 2 weeks ago himself saying it was about the unrest. http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/21/football/mario-gomez-turkey-coup-football/index.html
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Was Taters posted:It could be, but Mario Gomez hosed off 2 weeks ago himself saying it was about the unrest. Wow, I hadn't heard about that. Way to go Mario.
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TheNakedJimbo posted:Some Turkish guy made fun of me on an FCD fan page when I said there was a zero point zero chance I'd take a transfer to Turkey right now. He wasn't even a fan of the page or anything; he must have just been trolling Facebook for people who were saying mean things about his country. I've had Hollingshead on my fantasy team for two or three seasons now because he is cheap but always gets playing time and occasionally gets many points. I think he will be a starter for whoever is missing for a while before someone poaches him.
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MLS franchise fees are going to be upped to $200M. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-01/buying-an-mls-franchise-just-got-a-lot-more-expensive
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quote:With a target of 28 teams, league officials are talking with a number of prospective cities, including Sacramento, Detroit, Cincinnati, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, Charlotte and Oklahoma City. Fucks sake, why?
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CaptainYesterday posted:ESPN ratings for MLS are up 32%. Not a typo. Thirty-two percent. this year’s Major League Soccer matches on ESPN and ESPN2 have delivered an average audience of 312,000 viewers lol
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Tigren posted:Wow, I hadn't heard about that. Way to go Mario. Turkish sources are claiming it was FCD's greed that killed the move: https://twitter.com/KHeneage/status/760226833258414080
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Was Taters posted:Turkish sources are claiming it was FCD's greed that killed the move: I'll bet you this isn't greed, just knowing how Turkish teams work. You better get that money all up front because once the player is gone, they'll just start delaying payments.
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Yeah even if Trabzonspor is good for the money, I wouldn't want to do business in Turkey if I was MLS. With the poo poo going down in Turkey there is alot of uncertainty and dick waving between the USA and them which could end with them getting kicked out of NATO and embargoed while their El Presidente continues the slide into autocracy. Also if I was Castillo I would probably hold out for somewhere slightly less lovely, ffs last season a team's bus got shot up by masked gunmen while traveling in bumfuck nowhere Turkey. Also the decent foreign players in the league like Gomez and Atiba Hutchinson are jumping ship.
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B.B. Rodriguez posted:I'll bet you this isn't greed, just knowing how Turkish teams work. You better get that money all up front because once the player is gone, they'll just start delaying payments. This all makes me wonder what Calvinball rule Dallas was trying to sidestep by insisting on a staggered loan/purchase.
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Tigren posted:This all makes me wonder what Calvinball rule Dallas was trying to sidestep by insisting on a staggered loan/purchase. I'm pretty sure the staggering was on Trablsakjdfjh's part. You see this kind of thing with clubs who don't really have any money. You'll see a €10m transfer to Italy, but the deal is structured super crazy with payments going on for 20 years. Maybe only 500,000 is up front and then they pay 250k per year. I think Dallas realized they weren't ever going to get their full value for Castillo and are pulling the plug.
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B.B. Rodriguez posted:I'm pretty sure the staggering was on Trablsakjdfjh's part There's a lot of wisdom in this post. I'm just a bit confused because the wording of the tweet made it sound like Trabzonspor wanted to pay up front and Dallas wouldn't let them. The league takes, what, 25% of the money when a player is transferred; maybe they keep less than that from a loan, and Dallas is the first to figure out that you can end up with more money by going loan -> sale? If the league doesn't take a cut of loans at all, then the difference between sale and loan->sale could have been half a million dollars. I'm not sure scuppering a deal over half a million bucks is that great a move, unless you don't particularly want to lose the player anyway, and would just barely be willing to sell him for $3.5m net but definitely not for $3m.
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African AIDS cum posted:this year’s Major League Soccer matches on ESPN and ESPN2 have delivered an average audience of 312,000 viewers Anybody got numbers on MLS Live?
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no self respecting person pays for mls live.Shrapnig posted:Fucks sake, why? less discussion about expanding the league beyond its negligent untenable levels for $200 mil and more tasty talk about facebook posts from some random dude from turkey and fantasy soccer lineups.
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TheBoyBlunder posted:ESPN is reporting Philly is in "advanced negotiations" to get Bedoya by Wednesday. https://twitter.com/JeffreyCarlisle/status/760305608847339520 Hilarious.
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Maybe this'll be the year the Union win a trophy. It'd be funny as hell if it was
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Shrapnig posted:Fucks sake, why? MLS is a Ponzi scheme that will need more and more new clubs to pay expansion fees so the league can stay solvent. Much like the European Union adding refugees.
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So Vancouver are returning garbageman Jordan Smith to the trash where he belongs, but I hear Saprissa don't want him back lol
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TheBoyBlunder posted:ESPN is reporting Philly is in "advanced negotiations" to get Bedoya by Wednesday. Chicago is first in allocation, though. Philly is second. So if Bedoya is determined to go to Philly, best case scenario for the Fire is getting TAM from Philly to switch spots, then moving back up to the first spot after the Bedoya deal. In other news, Chicago is signing striker David Arshakyn, Armenian international and terror of the Lithuanian A Lyga.
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African AIDS cum posted:this year’s Major League Soccer matches on ESPN and ESPN2 have delivered an average audience of 312,000 viewers we're at nearly two (2) % of NFL ratings, its a pretty huge breakthrough!
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