News: MLS Wars Episode VI: Return of the Other Teams' News Thread

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It's an all-black shirt with a tri-color orange "V" across the chest. Houston's new kit reveal.

 

I like it. I think that would look good for us... oh wait, we already have a new kit

 

They get this and we get Unicorn Shit?

 

At least we can appreciate the fact that ours is unique. Maybe one day it will be collectible like those fringe ones from NASL.

 

Those Colorado Caribou shirts are classic. So stupid that they're cool.

For years there was an actual genuine fringed Caribou jersey - 10 shirt no less - on the wall at Force Soccer shop outside Akron. It belonged to George Nanchoff, who owned tge store and bounced around the NASL for a decade.

Can't tell you how many plots we hatched to grab it but it was hanging on a wall about ten feet up.

Anyway, there's a difference between being odd and/or quirky and being just bone ass ugly.

 

I knew it was Colorado but I couldn't remember the name of the team.

There is no way to get it anymore?

 

Somebody told me they closed it.

However, im not sure thats true.

He also had another store in Cleveland which I know is still there.

The Akron store was at 1562 Akron Peninsula Rd.

 

Just listened to Harry Shipp's interview on Extratime Radio. Wow, brutal to listen to. Life long Fire fan, never even thought about leaving. Parents canceled their season tix and are getting rid of all their Fire shit. Dude sounded legit crushed. Feel bad for him.

 

Feel bad for him but seems like a bad move by Bridgeview so it makes me smile.

 

Yes, but if you want to be a pro player, it comes with the territory.

 

Couldn't agree more.

HOWEVER:

This is a team that has serious credibility problems. The fans are abandoning them in droves. The disconnect between the Fire and their customers is profound and growing.

One of the only real connections was this young kid who grew up a rabid F*re fan, and whose bedroom at home is still covered floor to ceiling with signed shirts and memorabilia.

Fire Juniors. Notre Dame. Long public fight with the league over whether he qualified as a homegrown. Great excitement when they finally got him.

He was real, he was theirs, he was one of them.

He admits that when he heard he'd been traded he broke down sobbing.

How do you suppose that plays with a fan base that is already pissed off as all hell?

Anyway, what difference does it make, really? They aren't going to be replacing him with someone so much better that the fans will son forget.

Of course this is a business, but the F*re is an outfit that needs to build credibility and trust with its fans worse than it needs to replace one marginally talented player with another one.

Let alone "allocation money". Unbelieveable.

Any competitive advantage they may (or more likely wont) gain from a fringe deal like this - it's not like the kid is °Will Trapp - is way, way overshadowed by the bad blood they've engendered.


Don't get me wrong: I detest those ass clowns and am always happy to see them screwing up, but it's bad for the league to have crickets chirping in the stands at Bridgeview.

 

We could find ourselves in a similar situation. While I don't see us trading Trapp he is in his last year of contract. Team may not offer him enough money and he walks to Europe. While that is different then outright trading someone he is still out local boy who we didn't pay enough and now he is in Denmark or wherever.

 

Apples to oranges. They traded a kid who wanted to be there. If Trapp leaves, it's on his own terms. I fully expect Wil to go overseas after his current contract expires- he loves Columbus and the Crew, but he has never made it any secret that he wants to play in Europe.

 

One point of disagreement. If he wants to go to Europe, I'm not sure any amount of money would keep him here. Or should.

 

Well, kitchen hasnt been signed yet by anyone, so I'm not sure the market for trapp will be there, unless he's going to the second division somewhere, or a country like portugal, holland, belgiun, etc

 

Not exactly the same situation you are right. I was just driving at the point he could easily say the team wasn't willing to pay him the money he wanted so he left. Easy to see how the fan base will react to that.

 

Agreed.

Now it may be that the kid wants to go anyway and not much short of eleventy=seven jillion bucks would keep him here. We don't know.

A lot will depend on the situation, obviously. If he says, as a lot of guys have before him. "Look, I love Columbus, love the Crew, blah, blah, blah but at my age, young, single and what not, I think I want to take a stab at Europe" I can't see much of anyone being angry about it.

As long as the Crew makes a valid, reasonable offer to him, we'll be disappointed but probably not homicidal.

 

Of course. And we'll hope he succeeds.

 

I can just see it now. We offer way below what he would like. That gets out and fans go into an uproar. It would be Kamara times 10. Hope it doesn't happen.

Back to Chicago I wonder if the new NASL team has a real shot at taking over that market.

 

The Fire is a clown show. The main question about the trade is how much better does he make Montreal. I believe the top 3 teams in the East are NYRB, CLB, and Montreal (with New England maybe lurking). Where does Shipp fit in?

Will he be a difference maker? Will the addition of Shipp to Montreal's midfield make Donadel's face look any less punch-able. Doubtful on both. But it will be interesting to see how Shipp plays surrounded by actual pros for a full season.

 

About as much chance as the Xoggz had of keeping the Columbus market. Though Chicago is large enough that there may well be room for both. However, even if the F*re are terrible, who would you rather see in an opponent's shirt: Kaka or Danny Szetela??

 

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Trapp is gone; it's a matter of when, not if. Doesn't he already have a EU (greek) passport? My guess is two years max.

I'm going to ask a stupid question: does it actually make sense for a player to sign a contract which would require a transfer payment (from which they can get a percentage, right?), over just going somewhere on a free?

 

Often the player gets a piece of the transfer money.

 

okay, but does it make sense, financially, to actually sign a multi-year contract in order to illicit a transfer fee?

Or are you more likely to get a bigger contract on a free?