I mean, it seems awful to run players through yet another competition during what would otherwise be a badly needed rest period.
Metro basically incapable of paying a boring game this year.
Too soon
The difference between the boosts provided by Clark and Messi is that nobody thinks of watching Messi as doing a good deed or eating their...
Look, Bild once called the Metrostars the worst club in the world, so I think the choice is obvious.
Yes, but just imagine the attendance if these games were properly marketed!
We've had this one before, I think? And someone guessed Slytherin FC.
I remember an announcer during the 96 Olympics saying that a single player for Argentina (Zanetti or Ortega?) had more first division professional...
That quote doesn't mean that MLS doesn't want to "improve the national team pool as it's good for their league business wise." It simply means...
I mean, the narrative is correct. MLS absolutely wants to keep a lid on the market. They also want the flexibility to spend money freely where...
Classic boring scoreless draw in Harrison.
Counterpoint: MLS is the future and, increasingly, the present. MLS is Godzilla and almost all of the other leagues on the planet are Tokyo.
Bigsoccer is the void. Nothing that is said here matters or has any impact on what Don Garber and his billionaire bosses do. Their rules might...
It's sort of silly to try and rate leagues based on the results of a relative handful of matches when most of those leagues are broke and...
90% of prospects will turn out to be much worse than "mid." That's how it works.
We could go to a 3-5-2 with a MAHER midfield as a tribute to Johnny's birth name: McKennie Adams Hoppe Ebobisse Reyna It's a bit funky, but then...
Man: Take this object, but beware, for it carries a terrible curse... Homer: Ohh, thats bad. Man: But it comes with free frogurt! Homer: Thats...
I'm thinking here of the difference between attacking a team with everyone back in 50 or 60 yards of space vs. everyone back in 20 yards of space....
Is the best way to beat those bunkering teams to try to find a killer pass in a congested final third, or is it to transition more quickly so that...
I think this is true, but then we should play differently in different scenarios. Continuing to throw our standard 4-3-3 out there against...
The "comparison" is that Kareem pointed out that fans who complain about lazy athletes are clueless.
Sorry, but this is nonsense. The fact that the Open Cup is too broke/poorly organized to have teams that entered actually show up to play or...
I've seen folks mentioning that Musah was fasting, but I didn't see him sluggish or lacking energy. Quite the opposite -- he kept working harder...
One of the reasons that you hire a search firm is to limit the number of leaks about who is being approached. That said, there were still leaks...
There's a large space between "Reyna is better" and "Tillman ain't it." I inhabit that space. Tillman's a good player, and he'll eventually be...