2020 Other Teams News thread

SJ defense has stepped up. Held them scoreless for 13 minutes. Really a good spark for them. Only 13 though, 7-0 60th minute.

 

Four times. Three via shutout.

 

7-1. Dubious penalty, converted by Wondo.

 

What a tease. No goals in the last 25 minutes.

 

So, who still wants the great Almeyda or Arena as head coach of the Crew?

 

Me!! Short of Crew landing Bielsa, I'd still love Almeyda as manager of Columbus Crew. I hope to live to see it some day.

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Good to see that the Quakes are the only team that matters to @hangthadj.

 

I missed this in May but it is resurfacing again now...
Rio Tinto CEO quitting over company's Aboriginal cave destruction

Real Salt Lake's communications department can't catch a break right now...

 

...and we were right. Canadian teams in the US. Vancouver at Portland, TFC at UConn, and Montreal at RB Arena...

https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2020...son-match-schedule-released-through-september

 

A sponsor's missteps on another continent are the least of their problems at the moment. There was a media piece saying the asking price for the 3 teams, stadia, training ground and academies was $500 mil. That's actually not very expensive.

 

That is incredibly low.

 

Yeah, it should make it possible to get rid of Hansen without too much trouble. When the NBA wanted to get rid of Stirling, they were lucky Ballmer was willing to overpay by so much.

 

Eh. I dunno about that.

NWSL teams (Monarchs) go for 1-2 million. The USL 2 affiliate is probably only worth around 5 mil. 7 tops.

All the value is in RSL. $492 million give or take.

St Louis paid MLS an expansion fee of around $350 million. Which leaves the stadium, and $150 million or so is a reasonable price for what it is.

Overall, price seems about right.

 

I guess I'm just looking at potential value. Half a billion is a Powerball ticket and given the potential revenue of the stadium alone, not to mention the SUM money, that seems low.

I know your logic here is better than mine, but I'd really like to think that the entry fee for a FULL American Soccer franchise system and the lands they play on is higher than that. Is it bad that I only get emotional when it comes to franchise valuation?

 

Wil Trapp is now a 78th minute sub for a now winning Miami team. So glad we moved on from him.

 

Yeah, saw that, too. Ouch.

 

Gonna be tough for GGG to call in an MLS benchwarmer. The move down there was widely seen as his big chance to reassert himself. Instead he seems to have dug a bigger hole.

And with Tyler Adams maybe getting healthy in Germany, Jackson Yueill absolutely exploding in SJ and some others, the coach suddenly has better options all around.

I love Wil, always will, but it appears that his star is not in the ascendant. Too bad.

 

I'll admit, I would have loved to have had his career... Even if that's all there is.

 

Boy, has this post aged well.
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=4186674

 

I'd just liked to have been the guy that married my high school math teacher.

 

I agree! He deserves part of the blame with the Quakes! They’ve been terrible, and I think the coach deserves blame when a team is terrible.

I’ve been consistent about this whether it’s the most successful coach in Crew history, Greg Andrulis, Robert Warzycha. Sigi, Berhalter, and Porter.

I’m consistent whether it’s a manager from Roma or Benfica as well. Blame lands with the manager.

It’s puzzling why so many fans are so much more loyal to a manager than the players. But, as Mendoza said, the fans aren’t very knowledgeable.