Matias Almeyda gets rock-star reception at rainy Earthquakes fan event https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019...ck-star-reception-rainy-earthquakes-fan-event Whitecaps' Dos Santos looking for the right ingredients to create a champion https://www.standard-freeholder.com...pion/wcm/a1acd362-e306-4988-bb1d-b2e904516f52 After relying on stars, Claudio Reyna is ready to let NYCFC play its kids https://theathletic.com/778518/2019...io-reyna-is-ready-to-let-nycfc-play-its-kids/ Caleb Porter ‘feeling alive’ again as he returns to MLS as new head coach of Columbus Crew https://www.oregonlive.com/timbers/...o-mls-as-new-head-coach-of-columbus-crew.html Orlando City focused on building culture during preseason training at IMG Academy https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/orlando-city-sc/orlando-city-img-academy-preseason/ DC United sign midfielder Antonio Bustamante to Homegrown deal https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019...-midfielder-antonio-bustamante-homegrown-deal Section 8 elects new leadership amid tensions with the Chicago Fire https://www.chicagotribune.com/90minutes/ct-90mins-nicole-hack-interview-20190120-story.html D.C. United Fans Worry About the Team's New Broadcasting Deal With FloSports https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com...he-teams-new-broadcasting-deal-with-flosports Crew signs Aboubacar Keita to Homegrown contract https://www.massivereport.com/2019/...w-aboubacar-keita-mls-homegrown-contract-2019 Marc Rzatkowski joins New York Red Bulls preseason https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/01/21/marc-rzatkowski-joins-new-york-red-bulls-preseason Atlanta United waiting on 'better deal' from Newcastle United as Miguel Almiron transfer saga continues https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/spo...s/atlanta-united-waiting-better-deal-15708041 Film in His Blood, a Soccer Revolution in His Plans https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/sports/napoli-aurelio-de-laurentiis.html A Look at USL League One in 2019 https://www.themaneland.com/2019/1/21/18190761/a-look-at-usl-league-one-in-2019
I'm going to hope that that woman is intentionally aiming for meaningless banalities, because the alternative is that she's a blithering, babbling idiot.
I tend to think that she's handling the situation well. When you're in the middle of negotiations, you don't show your hand and blab details to the press. If I was the Chicago Fire FO, I'd try to get things resolved. That team needs all the support it can get.
https://www.sacbee.com/sports/mls/article224873330.html Sacramento might have found the last piece to the MLS puzzle.... a billionaire
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I wonder if Grant Wahl will be asking Don Garber if he knows why people refer to Burkle's plane as "Air F*ck One", of if the rumors about teenage girls being "entertained" by Ron or the one Gawker reported about Burkle paying Paris Hilton an absurd amount of money for a handjob, which seems like a terrible waste of money but who am I to judge? Yeah, I'll just bet Don is "excited" about Burkle getting involved - he's looking forward to the plane rides.
1.96 Million Votes Received in 2018/19 Cityzens Giving Campaign This year’s campaign once again distributed $500,000 donated by City Football Group and its partners to six urban soccer projects run by young people, for young people.
https://theathletic.com/780496/2019/01/22/mls-salary-budget-questions-gam-tam-dp-rule/ A Really good breakdown on DP Rules, GAM & TAM from Paul Tenorio. A couple key points: "The designated player charge is actually pretty simple math. The league takes the payments over the course of the entire guaranteed portion of the contract—salary plus transfer fee—and averages them to determine the budget charge. So backloading a guaranteed contract to push more money to the later years would not have an impact on the players’ budget charge at front end of his contract. If, for example, a player made $700,000 in 2019 and then $4 million in 2020, $4.5 million in 2021 and $5 million in 2022, that player’s budget charge would be $3.55 million per year, the average of those four salaries and still well over DP level." AND "Does a transfer fee have to be spread out over the entire contract or can it be all put in year 1? -@collinsolberg A team can pay the full transfer fee up front in that first year, but for same reason as above, that has no effect on a player’s budget number. So even if Atlanta paid all $15 million of Barco’s fee up front, that $15 million still is divided up over the length of the guaranteed portion of his contract, not just in the first year of the deal."