MLS Thread: Enter Zlatan

[Savant]

Shipp to Seattle should be great. Provides an attackibg option off the bench that they've been missing.

Bruin is replacing Valdes. Shipp is replacing Ivanschitz.

 

[Gecklund]

Bruin is replacing Valdes. Shipp is replacing Ivanschitz.

We need someone better than Ship to replace Ivanschitz. I think shipp is more of an attacking option off the bench. We need a good starting winger.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Juninho returns to MLS and joins the Fire on a 1 year loan with an option to buy. Greg Garza also loaned to Atlanta

Would rather have had him back than the 10 games Jones will actually play in...

Do something, Galaxy

 

[Brock Anton]

Apparently Donovan might not be done. He's been offered a 2-year DP deal with RSL.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Landon does things on his terms...I see that as an empty 'we tried' gesture from RSL.

 

[IHaveNoCreativity]

Apparently Donovan might not be done. He's been offered a 2-year DP deal with RSL.

That's hilarious, Link ?

 

[Fro]

Crew are supposed to name their DP2 next week...there was a brief rumor that it was Donovan...but several of the beat guys are saying it probably isn't...but yet no names are out there other than Omar Gonzalez...but that too has been shot down...

 

[Fro]

update

 

[Brock Anton]

RSL have signed 22-year old Slovakian attacking mid Albert Rusnak as a DP from Groningen (rumored to have spent a $2.5m fee). Looks to be a decent signing, and the age is a big plus.

 

[Brock Anton]

LA are reportedly making a hard push for Jonathan dos Santos.

 

[kingsboy11]

LA are reportedly making a hard push for Jonathan dos Santos.

There's been rumblings of bringing him over since we've brought Gio over. Definitely something I can get behind.

 

[Luigi Habs]

They're also after Romain Alessandrini of Marseille

 

[Brock Anton]

According to ESPN, San Jose are looking to sign one of Darwin Quintero or Salomon Kalou.

 

[phisherman]

http://www.tsn.ca/tsn-and-mls-extend-broadcast-agreement-1.647228

MLS will be on TSN for 5 more years. Playoff ratings probably helped with the decision since there were rumours of TSN not extending and CBC trying to bid for the rights.

 

[Brock Anton]

Jesse Marsch leaving RBNY to take the job at RB Salzberg. Chris Armas will take over as head coach.

 

[Brock Anton]

If Beckham was smart, he'd scrap Miami and go all in with San Diego.

 

[Ugmo]

Jesse Marsch leaving RBNY to take the job at RB Salzberg. Chris Armas will take over as head coach.

This is actually a really interesting rumor from a US Soccer perspective (if it is a rumor and not confirmed - haven't seen a confirmation out of Austria yet) because that would mean Marsch has impressed Red Bull enough that he's rising up their ranks (keeping in mind that Salzburg is the next step below Leipzig). Theoretically he could eventually end up coaching in the German Bundesliga.

 

[kingsboy11]

If Beckham was smart, he'd scrap Miami and go all in with San Diego.

Rumors going around the Chargers will play at Stub Hub center with the Galaxy which means they'll share the field with them during the end of the MLS season. Actually kind of pissed now that they'll likely mess up the pitch with football lines.

Speaking of Beckham, it's been a decade since he signed with the Galaxy. I was very young and had only been playing soccer for a few years, but I knew who David Beckham was. Certainly was a big reason that I continued playing and following the sport.

 

[Ugmo]

Wouldn't Stub Hub be ridiculously small for the NFL?

 

[East Coast Bias]

Marsch stays with RBNY.

Team never ceases to amaze me. Always something.

 

[kingsboy11]

Wouldn't Stub Hub be ridiculously small for the NFL?

It's about a 1/3 of the size of an average NFL stadium. No one in LA is going to show up if they put them in a regular football stadium. If they put them at Stub Hub center then it'll look like that some people actually care.

 

[Ugmo]

It's about a 1/3 of the size of an average NFL stadium. No one in LA is going to show up if they put them in a regular football stadium. If they put them at Stub Hub center then it'll look like that some people actually care.

Why even move if no one in LA even cares about them? I'll never understand that stuff. Although I'm still mourning the loss of the Nordiques...

 

[kingsboy11]

Why even move if no one in LA even cares about them? I'll never understand that stuff. Although I'm still mourning the loss of the Nordiques...

http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-chargers-move-elliott-20170112-story.html

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-chargers-to-la-plaschke-20170111-story.html

These articles sum it up pretty well. There's no real good reason for them to be here.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

This is going to be a disaster.

On the bright side the Galaxy retain scheduling priority and they're insistent on there not being football lines on the pitch for soccer games...but Carson itself is laughably ill-fit to host MLS games as it is, the thought of the NFL there makes me laugh/cry.

 

[Brock Anton]

So preseason starts in like 10 days and the Revs have 16 players and exactly zero center backs. This club is a ****ing joke.