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Ciprian Maricon posted:Fancy, make the DC post already so I can start complaining about our bad and dumb team DC United has my favorite lovely journeyman MLS'er in Neagle.
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I find the Xbawks/Microsoft sponsorship for the Sounders to be pretty solid. Seems pretty unique and they seem to show up alot in the background of random microsoft commercials due to it. Also screw Valdez I am happy we have Bruin.
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thelazyblank posted:Minnesota has set a new record, being the first team to allow 5 goals in back to back games. And their keeper is now dead. rip you posted too soon they let another in in extra time.
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I mean Minnesota looks like they have maybe 3 decent players in Molino, Ramirez, Schuller and alot of trash, the problem is that their good enough players on a normal team are the best performers on this team. Also if I was Molino I would be depressed, he is too good for this lovely team.
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Mar 13, 2017 01:07
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Dallan Invictus posted:This is really the main lesson that should be drawn from today. Why didn't they hire Savarese again? Or Sigi, or Kreis, or Petke, or any other MLS coach who was out of work at that time who had done anything remotely useful in the league.
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Seltzer posted:I'm still confused as why he traded Collin to us for a dishrag when he was a proven above average MLS center back. Then replaced him with guys who were just outright bad like Mateos.
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I saw this video at work and couldn't stop laughing, please help taxes are really boring.
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Shrapnig posted:They're actually saying Del-ta. lol
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Crazy Ted posted:I think Heath has a big problem on his hands. He signed Demidov to be the captain and the leader of his defense, but it's clear that the guy is just too slow to deal with the more physical attackers MLS likes, given the way he had his rear end handed to him repeatedly over the first two games. Demidov was benched tonight, and the defense looked quite a bit better. They did allow two goals, but one of those was due to a comedy backpass attempt by Schuller. I like how 2 of their three "big" money signings are some of the worst players on the team.
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Hello Towel posted:Yup. There are legitimate questions whether that money would be better used to shore up a pretty bad back line. But he's been one of my favorite players for a long time so I'm personally pretty pumped. Is the hope that Schweiny can play as a #10 in this league? I mean he probably can, plus having Dax an Juninho behind him running around breaking up plays this might not be the worst move and should make up for the fact his motor isn't what it was a few years ago, if he plays well Chicago would have probably one of the better midfield in the league.
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Shrapnig posted:Who would even suggest he would play as a number 10? He's been a holding midfielder for a decade.  everyone online seems to say he can't run anymore and they already have at a pair of d-mids who for MLS are pretty good. I mean he hasn't been a #10 ever, yet this is the league that had Colorado decide Jermaine Jones is a #10 and that Kevin Doyle the store brand Robbie Keane can be a play-maker on a playoff team. Keeps him closer to goal making it more likely he will score and thus make everyone happy except people spergin about MLS being a retirement league because like 5 old Europeans play here now.
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Seltzer posted:Presented without comment No MLS just because Lletget is loving one of the new power rangers, don't please no...
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Crazy Ted posted:There's been one constant in those three games where they allowed 4+ goals: Demidov starting at CB. Demidov is hilariously bad and is a strong example of Minnesota having no loving clue what their doing and I honestly look forward to their tire fire DP signings, its too bad they weren't in the league last year probably could have sent them Valdez.
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Crazy Ted posted:Nah Minnesota has a clue as far as the domestic or from-elsewhere-in-MLS players go - the NASL players they brought up have been fine for the most part. Molino has done some good things. Venegas has done some good things. Saeid and Warner have been effective in spurts. It's just that their imports have all been useless or just about useless. Alvbage? Terrible before he got his knee gash. Demidov? Single-handedly responsible for about five goals against over the first two games. Schuller? Crap all year so far and was subbed out at halftime last weekend. Kadrii? Had one decent game but was worthless and subbed out at halftime yesterday. Calvo? Part of that great 1-2 center back punch with Demidov. Thats sort of just confirming what I meant when I said they had no clue what they are doing from a talent acquisition perspective, the guys they had sitting in their laps as NASL dudes and random MLS journeymen like Warner are "ok" not good, but not the problem with the team. When they went out to grab guys from international leagues they picked up a ton of lovely players, who at best look like they are just being played out of position (Calvo) and at worst are a worse center back than a loving NASL bench dude. Dallan Invictus posted:I applaud their commitment to reflecting local heritage by bringing in a ton of players from the Scandinavian leagues, but it's worth remembering that those leagues are, at best, a sidegrade to MLS (aside from certain overrated youth prospects in Football Manager. Yeah the Nordic Leagues are not very good, MLS still has nothing on the big dogs, but compared to any random second or third tier European League no one outside their country watches I would be willing to bet on MLS.
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Dallan Invictus posted:It could be a win-win move where each team is filling a weakness with a surplus player, but IDK whether Columbus actually needs someone in Manneh's role or not. Maybe this is their way of realizing Higuain is dead (last week is an outlier), and that they are gonna move Meram too the middle, Manneh and Findlay would both be fast as gently caress and make things awful. Plus with Jacobsen injured and Teibert being bad, if Tchani gives a poo poo like he did in 2015 their midfield should be pretty dangerous almost like having Koffie back, who I think the Whitecaps really missed last year. http://www.sounderatheart.com/sounders-trades-transfers-rumors/2017/3/30/15130524/derlis-gonzalez-transfer-rumor-sounders-paraguay Also I think the Sounders like spending money.
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shirts and skins posted:Shipp I guess? Sort don't think we would go to a flat 4-4-2 though, probably just drop Shipp and slot in this guy Derlis at RW, which looking on his FIFA card is his position Honestly the Sounders need more fast players, and other than wanting a right back better than Fisher blowing money on a young DP sounds better than bringing in Honda.
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The Rapids have no idea what they are doing and last season was a fluke.shirts and skins posted:Yeah I tossed that together really half assedly. I agree about the pickup, seems like a good move but I feel like the Sounders need depth at fullback more than anything else. This will be easier with Fisher and Evans back, but they could use some help all the same. I would love for the Sounders to pick up Abdul Salam from SKC, he had the second most assists for a fullback last season other than Jones, and we should move before SKC realizes playing Zusi at right back is a bad idea and Vermes remembers he already has a better, cheaper and younger fullback on his roster. Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Has any player had a smoother transition from US lower-tier soccer to MLS than Christian Ramirez? He is white-hot right now Alonso maybe?
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Breaking news we have discovered irregular heart problems are contagious, patient zero Eddie Johnson has been taken into custody by the CDC. Seriously though Dempsey, Wynne and now Moor all within a year seems high?
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LA Galaxy was so jealous of Wondo they got the MLS store brand version.
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Look at Portland outspending Seattle #builtnotbought
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TheBoyBlunder posted:So Pablo Mastroeni has admitted the Rapids are punting on this season *already* and looking to 2018. I thought the plan was "OH gently caress PAREJA LEFT... ERR WHAT DO WE DO KNOW, PABLO YOUR TURN"!!! At least Ben Olsen is consistently "adequate" with his lovely journeymen pickups, Colorado probably have the worst front office since they managed to get fleeced by loving Minnesota United. Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Apr 29, 2017 |
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Jermaine Dildoe posted:Toronto just won five games in a row for the first time in team history Honestly it seems like Toronto finally figured out buying a bunch of lovely 30+ Euro garbagemen every transfer window to plug holes left by other declining lovely 30+ Euro garbagemen wasn't a good model for a stable lineup., Just acquire a bunch of Canadian and American players who have nowhere else to go and they will put in ~effort~. Then paper over nepotism hires like Zaveleta by employing an actual good and cool player in Giovinco to drag the team to glory. Edit: You agree it seems. Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 04:54 on May 11, 2017 |
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Arquebus posted:Well, you know what they say about glass houses... They don't burn down so light all the fires you want?
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I was hoping the Rapids would sign him, he has past it flop signing written all over him. Also Flacco might be out https://twitter.com/Aleespitia2015/status/871953043482333185 I mean its not a huge loss, but he played fine the last couple of games. Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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Star Man posted:I'm going to laugh if this is the universe that the Colorado finally gets rid of Pablo and somehow acquire Ben Olson and the only thing that improves is DC, because that's the only thing I can think of that can make the Rapids even worse. Face it if Pablo or Olsen get fired Kinnear is gonna be target #1
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https://www.soundersfc.com/post/2017/07/01/seattle-sounders-sign-27-year-old-dutch-fullback-kelvin-leerdam We hopefully just fixed our right back issues that have been loving this team all year.
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I personally love the LA meltdown almost as much as I like Seattle's marginal competence. I still am baffled as to how lovely Movsisyan has been in MLS, he was an exponentially better striker in Russia than Martins, but has been exponentially shittier in MLS. Like is it just he doesn't give a poo poo in RSL and a move elsewhere would make him decent? Also lol the Sounders are sitting on the most allocation money in the league. Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Jul 7, 2017 |
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camoseven posted:Yep. $700k of it is incentives, but Twitter says they're stupid easy (literally "play one game for Orlando this season" easy). Dom Dwyer gets lost in Disney World tour and dies.
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I know Liga MX and EPL does better in ratings, but aren't the Bundesliga ratings somehow significantly worse than MLS? I think a big part of the current crappy ratings is because ESPN and Fox are pretty terrible broadcasters and their stable of MLS announcers ranges from okay to awful, NBC seems to do a better job with the premier league, Liga MX just has a captive audience of millions of first and second gen Mexican-Americans no one I know who isn't Mexican bothers to watch their games though.
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I am happy Neagle is back on the team, he isn't great but he was not the problem with the 2015 shitstorm in the summer.
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shirts and skins posted:Probably not, unless we're about to clear out Shipp for space. This looks like a hometown favor to me, maybe his last stop before retirement. I mean we only have Bruin and Morris for forwards on the roster so he is probably #3 on the depth chart there.
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Xylorjax posted:Actually, it was because the BPB guy's voice sounded like he had a frog in his throat the whole drat game, and because the sideline guy kept talking about things like Jordan Morris's cultured left foot, but y'know, whatever. I heard that left foot comment and was like... have you ever watched him play?
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TheBoyBlunder posted:Yup. link to story. That explains Gabby Torres so much, he was a loving nightmare in FM yet utter poo poo in MLS, ditto those crappy argentinian D-mids a few seasons ago.
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TheBoyBlunder posted:Rapids interim GM Padraig "football manager" Smith and chief business officer Wayne Bryant published an Op-Ed in the Denver Post about their vision for the team. Your signing Dom Kinnear.
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Gigi Galli posted:I shouldn't say the revs are terrible to watch, they're fine at home, entertaining even, though I haven't seen anything post-Jay obviously. I dunno. Anything outside of Boston city limits is not a solution; if that's never going to happen then the team needs to move for real. It's stagnant. The Rev's have a bunch of mostly solid mls based players. Their scouting is utter poo poo though so whenever they try to sign an international they either get a guy who is underwhelming like Kouassi or actively poo poo like the center backs you picked up this season. DC United is like the guy who in senior year of college thinks he needs to get D's from here on out to graduate and keeps cobbling together barely adequate coursework just enough to keep him from failing. Except his plan is finally falling apart because the professors are sick of his bullshit and told him to step his poo poo up, but he has coasted so long he has no idea what he is doing anymore.
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TheBoyBlunder posted:The Rapids are a terrible team and played a terrible game last night. (Repeat 4 more times for the remaining four games this year) They are also finally mathematically eliminated. About time. Noo not the Store Brand version of Robbie Keane!
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I found the connection between all three of the wooden spoon contenders this year, Marcelo Sarvas has played for each one.
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Gigi Galli posted:What do you guys think will happen now that the us won't be in the World Cup? There must be a correlation between mls attendance and profits and the USA being in the tournament right? I feel like more people give a poo poo in World Cup years, or immediately after. I think the MLS is lucky that the TV rights aren't up for re-negotiation for a few years since its linked to the USMNT. In regards to the league, I don't think there is a talent dilution. In the last few years the teams have honestly gotten much better than they we're in say 2018. Its pretty loving telling that other garbage CONCAF teams are doing fine with their MLS players, like half of Panama, Honduras and Costa Rica play in this dumb gay league and they just did what the US couldn't. The fact is the US turned out a generation of lovely players from the late 80's and early 90's who weren't as good as guys like Dempsey & Donovan. Our youth teams played like poo poo and didn't qualify for things and while success at a youth level doesn't necessarily translate to success at the senior level, we had an entire generation of youth players wasted. Its pretty telling of the mid-20's guys on our roster only Yedlin actually made the jump to test Europe instead of staying around the MLS. I guess for lack of better word MLS has sort of indirectly made the US worse, it gave us a way deeper pool of "okay" players, but it acts as a safety blanket so fewer guys make the leap to Europe to try to be true difference makers ala Dempsey or some of those older guys from the 2000's-2010's. I think with the MLS academies and poo poo the current U-21 guys look a hell of alot more promising, its just frustrating they never got shots with the senior team because Klinsman and Arena were so intent on shoving washed out guys like Wondo, Zusi, Jones, etc. onto the roster, or if they did pick young guys alot of them flamed out like loving wasting a roster spot on Zardes. We could have qualified if Arena wasn't retarded and actually rotated his squad and played with some defensive midfielders instead of having Bradley run around like a headless chicken behind 2 MLS wingers with and shielding our bad center backs.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I hope it dies and we get a normal league like any other country. I doubt the Costa Rican Super League or whatever the gently caress gets over-the-hill star players from Italy or England but they don't seem to have problems beating Trinidad. I feel like this is a dumb take because both guys who scored for Panama play in MLS, along with like half of all these CONCAF sides bar Mexico. It's just the US hired an idiot for a coach and the US players themselves seem to not give a poo poo. Like the US could have beat Trinidad, they should have loving beat Trinidad. Bruce could have at least ground out a draw if he actually rotated the loving squad, we would have been poo poo at the World Cup, but we probably would have made it if he didn't leave Bradley in front of a lovely back-line to run around like a headless chicken, because Bruce wanted to play 3 wingers in a 4-1-3-2.
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