Thursday 12 June 2025

That’s the badge of Motor Lublin, a member of Polish top-tier competition the Ekstraklasa.

 

Motor Lublin. They placed 7th in the Ekstraklasa this past season.
They were terrible for the past couple of decades, prior to winning promotion in 2024.

My partner is from Lublin and we will be visiting relatives there in July.

I will be at their stadium Arena Lublin in about three weeks.

She does not want to go (it's just a friendly), because of the "hooligans" (it was a pretty rough crowd...back in the 1980's-90's).

 

Of course the MIAMI owner where the weather is mild expects a shift.... ROFL... Get serious bro... you live in a bubble

 

Also constant use of "international calendar" and "FIFA calendar". Must be news to Brazil, Sweden, etc. that they aren't part of FIFA and don't exist on a "FIFA calendar".

Once again, when people use any sort of "this is how the rest of the world does it" reference they really mean "Europe" and by "Europe" they really mean "England/Germany/Spain/France/Italy".

 

If they move forward with this, it's really only going to benefit a handful of teams. If it even benefits them. It's also going to wreck the three Canadian teams. Combine the crappy weather with the fact that the CSA is not going to drastically alter their transfer windows for the three MLS sides over the CPL, and this is going to be a disaster. Not to mention, where and how are they going to fit in all of the rescheduled games due to inclement weather? Where and how does the US Open Cup fit in?

This is going to lead to MORE midweek games, not less. Plus it's going to lead to the handful of teams clamoring for it still missing out on player signings and overpaying for players. The teams refusing/resisting selling players now, are still going to be refusing/resisting to sell players with a schedule shift. Why? They don't plan ahead. Most teams do not succession plan. If they did, like clubs in SA do, when the transfer windows are wouldn't matter.

This also goes back to the majority of teams in the league still not having identities and playing styles. If they did, more teams would know what types of players they are looking for and need in order to be successful. Instead we get this underpants gnome approach to roster building.

 

Also when this came up a few months ago and was tabled Garber admitted at that point they hadn't yet talked to sponsors or the players union. Do we really think that 6 months later all those people are on board? The union itself is a massive renegotiation of the CBA to get this to work.

Mas is talking out of his a$$ to try to shift the conversation the way he wants it to go. The reality is MLS would lucky to be in position to make this shift before the 2030 World Cup, only to have to turn around and shift back to deal with the winter 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia.

If they were going to do it the time to do it was next year with the World Cup. When they completely missed that window this idea should have died or been reset to 0 and a new 5-10 year plan created. Instead it feels like a handful of owners are determined to push this through half-a$$ed at its going to crush at least half a dozen clubs.

 

It sometimes snows here in Texas in April.
But who can predict that year after year.

 

It'll be neat to go to a Rapids game in January when they handout free tote bags to the first 1,000 fans and everyone walks out at the end with 5 tote bags.

 

Only 5? Messi must have been in town.