Being there last week I thought it was pretty damn loud. Believe BMO also holds about 10k more (50% more)
I was out earlier and just watched it. Man Meram, tough time to have your shittiest game. Steffen deserved a win for his playoff heroics.
Cincinnati, Detroit, Nashville and Sacramento have been named finalists for two expansion spots. Presentations will be made Dec 6 and final decision will be made by the end of the year.
I think Sacramento is a lock. Probably will be Nashville. Wasn't expecting to be part of the finalists for this round but if Phoenix doesn't get a franchise next round, MLS is taking a shit on what could be a very lucrative market.
Ohio is about to lose their team and Michigan doesnt have one. That's about 6% of the US GDP compared to 1.5% for AZ. 7% of the US population vs 2.2% MLS will 100% be putting teams in Ohio and Michigan next round They cannot have such giant population and economic centers uninterested in MLS tv games I think in the future North Carolina and AZ make sense
You don't think the logic of this argument is kind of faulty if they let a team leave Ohio for a state that already has two MLS teams?
Demographics are not on your side either. Can’t imagine they don’t make it one east of the Mississippi and one west each round.
Not that I even agree with evaluating locations based on state metrics, but since 2010 AZ's population has increased 4.4 times (539k to 122k) as much as Ohio and Michigan combined. And fwiw, Phoenix MSA has added 469k of that, while Detroit has added 1.4k and Cincy has added 51k.
If Columbus ends up moving to Austin then they'll have to add another east team to even the conferences out. I think all four of the cities up for vote this year will eventually get in, just a matter of when. I also don't believe MLS will stop at 28 teams when there are markets willing to fork over $150+ million to join the league. They'll be at 30 or 32 eventually.
I really screwed the pooch thinking I’d found a nice little grassroots project down here. Miss you and happy for your success.
Trouble getting a work visa for England apparently. I'm sure RBNY will wait to see if they change the homegrown transfer fee rules before even considering anything with Adams. There's a proposal to give clubs 100% of the sale on homegrown players. They get 25% now
25% is ludicrous. I can certainly see some teams crying foul over 100%, though, as some areas/regions aren't as talent rich as others. Here's a somewhat dated chart of homegrown player usage by team
It was 75% not 25%. The need to up the GAM/TAM portion though above $650K. I think they will ultimately when they up the GAM/TAM for regular transfers.
Major League Soccer announced on Friday that the Board of Governors approved an increase in the amount of Targeted Allocation Money (TAM) available to each club. Following the 2017 MLS season where each club received an allotment of $1.2 million dollars of TAM, all 23 MLS teams will continue to receive $1.2 million of TAM per year in 2018 and 2019. MLS clubs may pull forward and use immediately the $1.2 million of TAM designated for 2019. MLS clubs also will have the flexibility to spend up to an additional $2.8 million of TAM, on a discretionary basis funded by the team, per year in both 2018 and 2019, which will further enhance the quality of play across the league. This injection should increase a teams ability to build their rosters with increased flexibility and help add high-quality players outside of their Designated Player spots. Announced in 2015, Targeted Allocation Money is a strategic investment that provides every team with increased resources to add, or retain, players that will make an immediate impact on the field. Through the increased investment, teams have signed impact players such as Victor Vazquez, Roman Torres, Ola Kamara, Yordy Reyna and Alexander Ring. The mechanism has also helped retain Homegrown Players such as Wil Trapp and Gyasi Zardes. About Targeted Allocation Money: The minimum salary budget hit for a player who is bought down with TAM is $150,000. Discretionary TAM cannot be traded. Targeted Allocation Money may be used to sign new or re-sign existing players whose salary and acquisition costs are more than the maximum salary budget charge but less than $1.5 million. Clubs may use up to $200,000 of their currently available Targeted Allocation Money to sign new Homegrown Players to their first MLS contract, subject to League review and approval. Targeted Allocation Money cannot be used on a Homegrown Player previously signed to MLS. Targeted Allocation Money may be used to convert a current Designated Player to a non-Designated Player by buying down, on a prorated basis, his salary budget charge to at, or below, the maximum salary budget charge. If Targeted Allocation Money is used to free up a Designated Player slot, the club must simultaneously sign a new Designated Player at an investment equal to or greater than the player he is replacing. Targeted Allocation Money and General Allocation Money cannot be used in combination when signing or re-signing a player, or when buying down the budget charge of a Designated Player. Either Targeted Allocation Money or General Allocation Money may be used on a player in a single season, not both.
Inexplicable from Schmetzer. Probably the worst performance by any player in any sport from lodeiro. Sub on fucking Morris when we have absolutely zero midfield.