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    #26
    LAFC bought a defender off of Louisville City.

    Yamil Asad, surprisingly, appears to be ending up at DCU. $500K of allocation money to Atlanta and $300K to Velez Sarsfield to loan him, with another $700k after the season if they want to buy him.

    Utah Royals got $2M for 3 years from their new jersey sponsor.

    Andres Romero retired from Montreal after wrecking his knee.

    Orlando loaned in an Egyptian CB from the Egyptian league, who used to be on loan at Columbus but only played once.

    Charleston's preseason tourney is going to be on beIN sports.

    USL's first D3 team for 2019 is in south Georgia, the next one announced is going to be out West.

    And surprise surprise, Sydney Leroux traded to Orlando Pride.

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      #27
      Originally posted by imp View Post
      It's now up to TFC fans to come up with a chant along the lines of "The Wiels on der Van go round and round and round and round..."
      No.

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        #28
        FOOTBALL (Well Concacaf anyway) STARTS AGAIN IN TWO WEEKS.

        And we have a home game against Colorado in three weeks. It is minus ten out. I have no idea how this is going to work.

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          #29
          I forgot to post this a couple of weeks ago, but for anyone interested, here's something I wrote for the official MLS site about Ezequiel Barco.

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            #30
            Originally posted by Anton Gramscescu View Post
            FOOTBALL (Well Concacaf anyway) STARTS AGAIN IN TWO WEEKS.

            And we have a home game against Colorado in three weeks. It is minus ten out. I have no idea how this is going to work.
            Sounds like you need some divine intervention. Maybe Inca can bless the thread?

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              #31
              Originally posted by Anton Gramscescu View Post
              No.
              You are no fun.

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                #32
                USWNT v Mexico at Estadio Dynamo Houston 4/8.

                Ricardo Clark reappears, in Columbus.

                DCU sends 50K of general allocation money to Seattle for Oneal Fisher and takes its part in the PEAK MLS trade: $225K of general allocation money to Toronto for $337,500 of targeted allocation money.

                Gero's new team Las Vegas Lights today 1. revealed their uniforms of black, blue, and pink, which have a smiley face on the inside if you do the Ravanelli thing after you score, and 2. every time they win at home and score 3, each player gets $100 in chips to a casino sponsoring the team.

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                  #33
                  Originally posted by Anton Gramscescu View Post
                  No.
                  DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT

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                    #34
                    Originally posted by jefe View Post
                    DO IT DO IT Oh-o. DO IT DO IT Hey-eh.
                    "Looking through the morning dew..."

                    The Las Vegas Lights new shirt:

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                      #35
                      I kinda like it ^. I just hope the away kit is the same style, but in pink.

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                        #36
                        Originally posted by jefe View Post
                        DCU sends 50K of general allocation money to Seattle for Oneal Fisher and takes its part in the PEAK MLS trade: $225K of general allocation money to Toronto for $337,500 of targeted allocation money.
                        I feel sorry for the poor bastards (GMs, club accountants, and maybe some journalists) who have to understand what the fuck that means. Imagine you're the player explaining to your family you just got transferred. "So how come you're moving to DC, Oneal." "Uh, mom, it's kinda complicated..."

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                          #37
                          Originally posted by Gerontophile View Post
                          I kinda like it ^. I just hope the away kit is the same style, but in pink.
                          The GK jersey is solid pink.

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                            #38
                            The MNT finally have games made official. v. Paraguay in Cary NC in March; away to Ireland and France in June.

                            Saturday, 3/24, friendly: San Jose Earthquakes v. Club Leon (a/k/a Team Landon exile) at Avaya.

                            Nashville SC sold so many tickets already for their USL home opener, it's been moved to the Titans' stadium.

                            Bobby Boswell's retiring.

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                              #39
                              Jefe, I need a call on this one: http://www.marca.com/futbol/athletic...2498b45d1.html. Bullshit, or TFC's weirdest signing since Mista?

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                                #40
                                Originally posted by Anton Gramscescu View Post
                                Jefe, I need a call on this one: http://www.marca.com/futbol/athletic...2498b45d1.html. Bullshit, or TFC's weirdest signing since Mista?
                                Real, and you're spending a bunch of your TAM to buy him down. He's one of 2 or three at that level your front office wants to bring in for depth/CCL purposes. You also snagged a keeper off RBNY for a 4th round draft pick.

                                Could be worse, Minnesota's still trying to import 2 or 3 starters with a month ish to kickoff

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                                  #41
                                  The keeper's been announced. I'm to be honest a bit surprised we'd go beyond signing Aketxe, van der Wiel and Auro (Brazilian RB, also announced) because we're running out of spots. Unless we've decided not to re-sign Hernandez.

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                                    #42
                                    Forgive the following self-centred ramble. It has taken me two months to process winning the championship. It was weird for me because no local team I cheer for has ever won anything. But I think I have pieced together really why the whole thing felt so good. And the reasons really is the very, very specific back story.

                                    So lots of people can point to the fact that the Championship was a re-match. That it was revenge (Bradley prefers "redemption" (see about 1:36)) for that fucking horrible fucking game when those fuckers from Seattle parked the bus for 120 minutes and then won on penalties. And yeah, there was a bit of that, for sure. Though to the extent it was about that, I would say what was more meaningful was the revelation in September or so that the team had targeted the Supporters Shield at the start of the season (something not a lot of MLS clubs do) because to make sure that no matter what happened, they ended the season in Toronto. In front of us. And the reason they did that - so they said, and there's obviously some mythologizing here - was because of the way the fans supported the team at the end of '16. Yeah, we should have beat Seattle, but there was absolutely no finger pointing or recriminations. none.

                                    And to understand *that*, you need to go back in time another two weeks.

                                    The 2-0 win against Seattle on December 9th may have been the best game TFC ever played (seriously, they were incredible). But it was not the *greatest* game we ever played. That game was November 30, 2016, at home against Montreal in the eastern final. That was the night the fans went from loving the team to wanting to marry the team.

                                    Remember, just 2 years before we were fucking hopeless (and 4 years before, famously, we were the "worst team in the world"). Even 12 months earlier, with Bradley and Giovinco in the team, we got our ass handed to us by the Impact in the first round of the playoffs. Sure, we all supported the team, but below the surface there was always that feeling of "oh christ how are they going to fuck it up this time"? And believe me, when we went down 3-0 after 55 minutes in Montreal in the first leg, we all had that thought again. Yes, we'd played superbly dispatching NYFC 7-0 in hte previous round, but all that giddiness disappeared pretty quickly in the Big O. Somehow, somehow, the team clawed back two goals, and so the return match was a real nail-biter.

                                    In Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby talks about things that make a perfect game: rain, atrocious refereeing decisions, lots of goals, coming from behind to win. The Eastern final had all of that. And when Nick Hagglund jumped about eight feet in the air to head home the goal that made it 5-5 on aggregate, the stadium absolutely exploded. It was utter pandemonium. The two goals in extra time (Cheyrou, Ricketts), the ones that actually put us in the final, were pretty good too. But that was the goal that made everyone believe. The moment when we went from loving them to wanting to marry them.

                                    And so, sure, we didn't actually care about that loss in the final in '16 because just ten days earlier they'd given us a perfect night, and won the greatest tie in the history of MLS. Against *them*. And because of that, the team played the greatest season in MLS history, just to play the final in front of us again. And they won. And it was the sweetest thing ever.

                                    But it took a specific series of events to make it that sweet. That run, that wait, that specific series of wins and losses, were necessary. if we'd won the eastern final against Energy drink or the Crew or someone else, it wouldn't have meant nearly as much and we might have been bitchier after the final and things might have turned out quite differently. Hell, if we'd won in 2016, it wouldn't have been as sweet because it came too easy. if we'd won this year against a different opponent it wouldn't have been as sweet because we really needed to see that son of a bitch Ramon Torres lose. Change any part of the sequence and the story become less compelling.

                                    Life doesn't give you many perfect stories. This was one. I loved it, but I'm a bit sad too, because we'll never have one like it again.

                                    CONCACAF starts in 4 days.
                                    Last edited by Anton Gramscescu; 16-02-2018, 09:27.

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                                      #43
                                      Chicago v Portland doubleheader 3/31 at Toyota Park.

                                      Canada v Germany women's friendly in Hamilton 6/10

                                      San Jose cut Simon Dawkins.

                                      RBNY finally got the young DP they were chasing from Huracan for months.

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                                        #44
                                        Toronto may have signed Aketxe but no one is sure. A Ghanaian side linked to Feyenoord but located literally in the middle of nowhere says we have signed some 21-year old midfielder who was *definitely* wanted by some team in Kuwait and though no confirmation from the club all of a sudden it feels like 2009 again.

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                                          #45
                                          Reason number infinity why FIFA can go fuck itself if they want us to play fall-spring. At the Colorado-Toronto CCL QF, it was so cold the stadium beer lines froze.

                                          In one of the other quarters, Jordan Morris did his ACL on Central American artificial turf, out for the season.

                                          Crew moving debacle aside, the Austin USL team still says they launch next year.

                                          Philly did a deal with Levi's to be the Union's "Style Partner". So the staff have to wear jeans on gamedays.

                                          Post cereal people become an MLS sponsor.

                                          Starting in 2019, the Gold Cup goes to 16 teams.

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                                            #46
                                            NASL had their injunction appeal denied. And have cancelled their 2018 season. In related news, the San Diego expansion team? Will join the USL in 2019.

                                            Portland are bringing in a Honduran striker to their reserves for now, with plans to bring him up in either summer or next year.

                                            LAFC are loaning in a Colombian U-20 midfielder from Independiente de Medellin, and chasing another guy from Braga.

                                            One of Washington Spirit's home game sites is listed as TBA for August, v. Portland Thorns. They're talking to DCU about playing it at Audi Field.

                                            SKC re-signs Tim Melia, Ike Opara, and Daniel Salloi.
                                            Last edited by jefe; 28-02-2018, 00:47.

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                                              #47
                                              They should play all their games at Audi Field.

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                                                #48
                                                Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
                                                They should play all their games at Audi Field.
                                                They've thought about it, but they're not sure if they can pay the rent, plus there's the problem of shoehorning in their home games along with DCU's on non-Nationals game days.

                                                Montreal's new CB signing did his Achilles, out for several months.

                                                Seattle signed a Korean CB from China.

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                                                  #49
                                                  Morroco? Really?

                                                  http://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-worl...orocco-sources

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                                                    #50
                                                    Electing an asshole as President has consequences.

                                                    The United bid is kind of a joke anyway, travel between the venues is going to be brutal.

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