Sigi Schmid has passed. Just 65. I didn’t realize he’d been so ill. RIP
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He was waiting on a heart transplant.Comment
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Yeah. So he had heart failure and likely other organ failure, probably for a while. Very sad.Comment
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Ciman to Toronto, presuably to platton with Moor in a back three with Mavinga and vdw but our roster is so weirdly lopsided that who the hell knows (we are currently carrying five guys who can play as defensive wingers - Morrow, Morgan, VdW, Auro, DeLeon - and I i know we had crazy injury problems last year, but this still seems excessive). We have one senior roster spot open and probably need three more signings (GK/MF/F) so odds are both Jon Bakero (an intl slot) and one of Hagglund or Zavaleta make way.Comment
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Tim Bezbatchenko to leave TFC to run Columbus; Ali Curtis likely to replace him.
Guillermo Barros Schelotto returns, to manage LA Galaxy.
San Jose brings in a winger from Villarreal via Boca on loan; DC brings in Lucas Rodriguez from Estudiantes on loan and likely to buy, having had to pay the standard $50K ransom to Atlanta for his discovery rights.
Michael de Leewu leave Chicago for FC Emmen.
Alejandro Silva likely out the door from Montreal to Olimpia in Paraguay for a few million.
Vissel Kobe (aka Iniesta, Villa, and Lukas Podolski) are going to preseason tour over here v Columbus, LAFC, Orange County FC, and TFC.
RSL re-signed Albert Rusnak, and lent a defender Mike Petke fell out with to Orlando.Comment
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Schedule's out. No more 3 games against your rival; you play everyone in conference twice and the other conference once for 38. Rivalry week is mid-August.
Atlanta gets 17 games on national TV; RSL one. 4 games on Fox itself; DC vs LAFC in April, Atlanta v Orlando in May, v. RBNY (right after the WWC final finishes) in July, and v LAG in August.
Montreal got for $4M Canadian for Alejandro Silva.
A few Scottish teams are interested in son of Harkes.
USMNT v Ecuador in Orlando 4/21/22 and Chile in Houston 4/26 likely.
ASG in Orlando 7/31.Comment
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NWSL draft is tomorrow.
RSL re-signs Luke Mulholland; Philly Ray Gaddis.
Mark Geiger retires from refereeing to run the referees.Comment
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The weirdest story from the NWSL draft was Sky Blue using their top pick on a player who'd previously said she wouldn't play for them>
The weirdest story of the MLS draft was Philly's new technical director trading all of their draft picks to Cincinnati for about $150K in allocation money.
Cincinnati is aiming to have their own 2 team in 2020.
Minnesota is trying to bring in a right back from Reims.
Colorado signed Benny Feilhaber, and traded Marlon Hairston to Houston for $175K in allocation money; Houston sent Chris Seitz to DC for a second round draft pick and signed Tommy McNamara.
The Coach of the Year award will be named for Sigi SchmidComment
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USWNT got hammered by France Saturday and beat Spain 1-0 today.
Tim Howard is retiring after this season.
FAO ursus-there's a 4th division team starting play in NYC this hear. Half their games at the Gaelic field in the Bronx, half on Randall's Island.
Chicago brought in a winger from Poland and the Galaxy brought back Juninho. Cincy signed Roland Lamah, ex-Dallas. Toronto shipped out Victor Vazquez to a Qatari team.
Sacramento's expansion effort finally found their billionaire they needed.
Aurellien Collin signed for Philly.Comment
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Will have to check that out. NYU now plays at Gaelic Park (joining longtime tenants Manhattan from up the hill).Comment
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TFC trades Nick Hagglund to Cincy for 300K of allocation money and swapping allocation order spots.
Landon's unretired again. This time, to the San Diego Sockers.Comment
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Almiron finally looks like being gone to Newcastle for $27M.
DC have pretty much signed Leonardo Jara from Boca and will probably have a friendly v Swansea (shock) this summer.
Minnesota sent up to a million of allocation money to SKC for Ike Opara.
Vancouver re-signed Felipe and Yordy Reyna, signed a Brazilian winger from Austria Vienna, are working on signing a center back from Tunisia, rolled out new uniforms, and lent Anthony Blondell to a Chilean team I will not attempt to spell.
Beckham FC want to renovate Lockhart Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale and make it their training facility.
The CPL announced Volkswagen as a sponsor and will kick off April 27; Hamilton v Toronto. Directly against TFC v Portland. Oops.
NYCFC's Villa replacement is spending about $9M to import a Romanian attacker, Alex Mitrita.
Matt Polster left the Fire for Rangers.
Nate Jaqua has been spotted He runs 100 mile races for fun, and wins.
Colorado turned down $3M from a Championship team for Kellyn Acosta.
The guy bringing the USL to the East Bay in 2021 has trademarked the name East Bay Tempo FC.
and nothing better happen for a week cause I'm gone.Comment
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Did Beckham FC get a stadium yet?Comment
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Almost, I think is where they're at right now. The inevitably NIMBY court challenges look like they'll fail.Comment
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My thoughts exactly. I'd start one myself, but I'm too out of touch with MLS now to make an apposite pun in the thread title.Comment
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Giovinco is off to Al Hilal in Saudi Arabia for a “nominal fee”Comment
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He didn’t want to leave and is pissed at TFC. I don’t know why they’d unload him now. He’s not that old.Comment
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So is this Almirón lad the real thing, then? I must say I am very much looking forward to us selling him to someone like Wolves for forty-odd million in eighteen months time.Comment
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Almiron can definitely play.
Reed, my understanding is that Giovinco wanted a multi year contract for at least his current league leading USD 7+ million a year. Toronto weren’t willing to make that kind of commitment.Last edited by ursus arctos; 31-01-2019, 21:11.Comment
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Las Vegas Lights plated Toronto in a pre-season friendly and stuffed them 5-1 (although I am fairly sure it wasn't the full team).Comment
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300K and the top allocation spot for a reserve CB is insane. This has to rank very close to the top of all-time worst trades in MLS. And I say that as a huge Nick Hagglund fan.Originally posted by jefe View Post
Unloading Giovinco was, sadly, the right thing to do. He wanted at least $7 million/year for three more years, at which point he would have been 35. TFC offered him (it seems) about $5M/yr (unclear if it was for 2 or 3 years) which in MLS terms would have been insane. He turned it down to play in Saudi. His call I guess, but anyone who says TFC did him wrong is totally out to lunch.
TFC are calling people offering season tickets and telling them the announcement of a seba replacement will happen this week.Comment
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