I am amazed that the club doesn't see the areas of need to this day. I actually started making a montage of how many times (it's quite a lot) that opponents dribbled around our midfielders like they were children, or embarrassed our center backs, but is it worth my time? Everyone should see it. I feel like the club is ignoring these areas of need just like they ignored Pajoys legendary and record setting offsides stats. There were games where you could go minute by minute and see Pajoy have 10 touches, 2 positive, 6 offside and 2 just lost possession and fans and staff supported him as a hold up guy. That's the level of head-in-sand we have now for our midfield to our backfield quality.
Why wouldn't they? How many MLS team owners ALSO own the stadium in which the team plays? Not 100% sure but can't think of any.
Isn't it most of them at this point? Hasn't that been the recent model? Atlanta for sure. Weren't all of the recent stadia built by and owned by the clubs? Nashville, Columbus, Cinncinnati, Austin, Minnesota, LAFC? KC? I'm not sure what the exact situation is in Ft. Lauderdale but I seem to recall that when they renovated Lockhart they had taken over the site. Miami is building the new stadium and I presume they will own it. It's all about the real estate at this point. That's why they're all willing to invest in building these places.
Looks like you're right about some but not all listed. Some of them benefited from public funds and are operated by the club who leases the stadium, like Austin (see below). However Minnesota was 100% club financed. From Wikipedia: FC are the operators of a newly built stadium at McKalla Place. The stadium is near The Domain, a large shopping center complex. The stadium, built on public land and owned by the City of Austin, was privately financed by Two Oak Ventures. The lease was signed on December 19, 2018. The stadium seats 20,500 fielded its first Austin FC game on June 19, 2021.[27][28]
It's not the ownership of the stadium (real estate) that matters, it's the access to the ancillary income. And I think at this point every MLS team except maybe Chicago has that. It's the concessions, parking, and revenue from other events. Since MLS does't have a major TV contract (even after the Apple deal), the access to this money is what makes an MLS team a viable business... Now, in DC United's case there's also some surrounding real estate opportunities that they control but, in general, for MLS, the big issue is controlling all sources of revenue from the stadium.
given that there's no parking revenue from Audi Field I would imagine that the estate stuff is quite important for DC United
Goff says Nicolas Frutos will remain as an Asst. Coach along with Ashton and someone Rooney will bring from England. Frutos is a holdover from the brief Losada tenure. I know nothing about Frutos' capabilities, but I think it wise not to jettison coaches who know the roster.
or it could be bad if you want a fresh pair of eyes to evaluate things without being influenced by others' potential biases.
From Goff's injury report: Steven Goff @SoccerInsider · 4m D.C. United injury report for match at Minnesota on Saturday Out: Hamid (hand), B Smith (knee), Perez (foot), Kamara (glute). Questionable: Alfaro (ankle), Canouse (thigh), Gressel (glute). #dcu #mls Maybe the new assistant is Peter Nowak and the spankings have begun, certainly explains Kamara and Gressel.
So is this not more injuries and more important injuries now than when Losada was coach? Not to beat a dead horse.
Canouse, COA and Hamid are hurt every season now, and apparently so is Perez, but no one cares about that. Gressel's injury might explain his drop in form, hopefully he recovers completely.
We don't need to worry about Gressel anymore... D.C. United is trading wing back Julian Gressel to Vancouver Whitecaps for up to $900,000 in general allocation money, sources say. Probably the first of several #dcu moves in coming weeks. #mls— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) July 15, 2022
This is an odd decision. The only reason Gressel wasn’t performing as before was the team quality was overall bad and tactics were bad. We better be dumping the actual bad players on this team or else this is another player who has asked to leave.
strike that, the team didn’t even tell him he was traded before Goff posted a Tweet. Great club we have here, really swell folks. So we accepted 50% value for Gressel, are we really broke?
We can get some vague moneys for our losery players. Or if you’re going to get rid of gressel then at least also take an international slot or draft pick, ********ing something