I was at the Chicago Fire vs. Orlando, Open Cup game last week at Toyota Park. There was an Orlando City FC fan sitting behind me and we talked a little. Cervando Corrasco has been traded to Orlando from Kansas City and this fan thinks that if Orlando FC gets an NWSL franchise , Alex Morgan will come play in Orlando.
A fan blog posted this on the 20th based on a conversation with OCSC brass at a game: http://otowns11.com/2015/07/20/orlando-city-likely-to-add-nwsl-womens-team/ And then these two "official" reports came out the very next day: http://equalizersoccer.com/2015/07/21/orlando-city-sc-issues-statement-on-potential-nwsl-team/ http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nation...lize-on-u-s--s-world-cup-title-213933319.html OCSC won't actually say they're in talks to get a NWSL team, but for all intents and purposes it seems like they're deep in the process.
Niki Cross will retire following Saturday’s match at the Washington Spirit http://keepernotes.com/2015/07/29/niki-cross-announces-retirement-2/
There's also talk of an Atlanta team. If there is expansion, I wouldn't think they'd add two teams in the same region. But who knows?
I kinda wish we hadn't brought up expansion in a player transfer thread, though I understand considering "trading Alex Morgan" easily evolves into "hey her husband got traded", (we have an expansion thread that's already covered most of the various expansion issues,) but I could easily see them putting two new teams in the same region at once - in fact, I could especially see it for an independently-owned team that would need the benefit of having a bus-able match.
It took a little doing, but Portland FINALLY got Sanderson's rights: https://medium.com/@ReignFC/trades-...actions-with-boston-and-portland-2a3d6fcb4f64
Haha, I can't believe all they got was a second round pick from Seattle which could turn out to be 17th/18th over all. - Also, I hope the 1st round pick we traded to Portland was ours and not the one from WNY.
The Seattle article says "Seattle’s 2016 first-round draft pick". Normally when it's not their original one it'll say "a 2016 first-round draft pick."
From the article: "Reign FC acquired the rights to Sanderson from the Boston Breakers in exchange for Seattle’s second-round draft pick in the 2016 NWSL Draft.' WNY would not have needed to give up Mewis for Sanderson, then. Portland has Long, Zerboni, Shim, Farrelly (who Riley likes) and Heath in the midfield, and Morgan, Sinclair, Ayo, and Taylor up top. No gap for Sanderson to fill, whatsoever. OTOH, there's this: Because Portland is the Evil Empire / Death Star / Black Hole for the league, everyone will play there!!!!!1!1!!!
Neener neener neener? Have fun Some journalists,blogs,desperate forums,that think they know things and really don't 👍🏽.I was always going to the Thorns 🌹 #Haterz👀— Lianne Sanderson (@liannesanderson) August 6, 2015
I really don't get that tweet. Where was the hate? All I saw was speculating even from the journalists. And believe me have have little love for that lot but I saw no hate. We in this forums did what fans do, we speculated the heck out of what little information we had. That's what invested fans do. Why would she think people were hating?
I don't get her attitude during this whole thing. Not to turn this in to a gender thing... but her attitude seems a lot like that you'd see in male professional sports. I guess that's a sign of progress, though?
I'm guessing that Riley's thought is "It worked for me before, so it has to work again, right?" Yeah, the Independence got demolished by FCGP in Year 1, but they did take WNY all the way to penalties in Year 2. I disagree with him, though. The game has taken quite a few steps forward even in the short time since his Independence days, and what worked for him then may not work for him now.
Yeah, this makes no sense. How did Boston only get a second rounder when Seattle flipped her for a first and a third.
i'm thinking this is for next year; my gut says Zerboni hangs 'em up at the end of the season - marriage and step- mom- hood is in her future.
By Seattle throwing in another 1st round pick of their own. The Reign essentially ended up with a 3rd round pick and a better positioned 1st round pick and gave up a 2nd round pick.
likely because she made it clear to boston that she wasn't going to play for them and wanted to be traded to portland. i think they probably just had to take what was offered.