Are you watching the Cincinnati game? Tigres are repeatedly getting caught playing it out of the back.
I'll take your word for it. Didn't watch games today but watching highlights now. Was that 1st Cincinnati goal was because Tigres was trying to play out the back? That Crew vs LAFC first goal....playing out of the back.
Nick Cushing has landed his first post-NYCFC coaching gig, returning (on an interim basis) to his old gig as manager of Manchester City women's side.
Joey Saputo firing his coach who is playing the first 7 games of the season on the road and has a terrible roster because his owner won’t shell out any money is par for the course for CF Montreal. Worst coaching job in the league. 1904160031706161516 is not a valid tweet id
Saputo is too cheap to own a MLS club in 2025. He spends all of his time/money on Bologna in Serie A. He should sell his MLS club for a fortune and run a CPL club for peanuts. I remember an interview with him around 10 years ago where he claimed CF Montreal was at a distinct disadvantage in attracting players due to 1) weather 2) language 3) high taxes. He never misses a chance to complain.
https://bsky.app/profile/tombogert.bsky.social/post/3ll4xmypsoc2u Spend on transfer fees for DPs since the summer of 2024: Atlanta United: $44m Austin FC: $29m FC Cincinnati: $28m CF Montréal spend on transfer fees for DPs since 2014 (!!!!!!!): $0.
The sad thing is that teams don't have to spend money on transfer fees to be competitive in MLS. Montreal were one of the best teams in MLS in 2022. With a smart GM/SD and good scouting, sustainable good teams can be built. For all of the money Atlanta has spent on transfers what have they won since Tata left? An Open Cup in 2019...and that's it. Simply spending won't lead to results. FC Cincy has been a big spender since they entered the league and they have one shield and several wooden spoons to show for it. Saputo has a lot of excuses. The language is a barrier? Go recruit in Ligue 1 and 2 then. Recruit players from Belgium. MLS pays as well if not better than many of the teams below the very top in those leagues. Philly barely spends money and they have been consistently competitive since 2017. You have to be smart, prudent, consistent, and intentional with how you run your organization though. Also, Montreal is an amazing and beautiful city. Sure it's cold in the winter, but so are lots of places in the world..... Sure it's not for every player, but there are enoiugh good to very good players in the world who would love to play there.
He should but putting no effort in MLS still brings in profits. Bigger than anything he can get in CPL. He has it made; spend the bare minimum, develop players to sell for profit, rack in MLS revenue shares and laugh all the way to the bank. This is the part I don't like about MLS. Too many owners that just don't care cause they still make money eitherway. But instead of getting rid of them they keep on expanding (expansion fees) giving those owners an even bigger excuse to never leave. And those owners also control, since they are the majority, how MLS should move forward. No wonder they want to continue with the slow but steady pace for another 20 years.
They are just that, excuses. He doesn't spend much on his Serie A team either. The money he spends it's from players sold. But he has to perform there. He doesn't do it in Montreal because there aren't any consequences (I sound like a ProRelite but it's true). So many things he can do to improve Montreal but he is just not interested. As you said, you don't need to spend on transfer fees. There are many free agents that he can get/could've gotten. James Rodriguez was one of them. Rondon and Idrissi that ended up in Pachuca were free agents and Pachuca just like Montreal isn't known to pay big wages. And many many more players available for free.
This. There is a solid fan base. They have an awesome goal celebration. The food is incredible. The city is unlike any other in MLS. It's a city that is easy to fall in love with. They need an owner who cares.
Quebec City blew my mind when I went there for the first time a few years ago. Unlike anywhere else in North America, even more so than Montreal.
Doesn't Montreal have large areas that are Anglophone? I understand that Quebec's primary language is Quebecois French, but there are portions of Quebec that are primarily English... Also, as you mention, there are lots of good international players come from French speaking countries. And.. Finally, it wasn't too long ago that the Canadian national team was pulling heavily from Quebec. If Saputo invested any money into youth development, it wouldn't be that hard to create a pipeline of Franchophone players to fill Montreal's roster...
I think the western part of Montreal is an English speaking enclave. They're both cities that get a lot of English speaking visitors so most people you interact with speak English. It's probably quite tough to get by without understanding English unless you live in the sticks.
RSL owner David Blitzer apparently in advanced talks to sell the team (and the Royals) to the Miller family, who previously owned the Utah Jazz.