Tim Ream made 423 appearances for Fulham and Bolton - a good chunk were in the Championship but that's a good league fairly comparable to European first divisions outside the big five. That's a really impressive club career.
Cherundolo got screwed in this comparison because he spent his whole career in 18-team, 34-game leagues instead of the Champo marathon!
I have been preemptively complaining about this in the USMNT thread. Gregg has been living in Chicago for years already & he was certainly in convo with folks in the Fire org. And based on how Mansueto empowered Heitz & how he tried to woo Curtin, it’s clear that Mansueto wants to hire one key guy who will shape the club too to bottom.
They definitely aren’t getting the big name Mexican clubs deep into the tournament except for Club América, but we had some barnburner type games in the round of 16. It’s been fun even if the wins and losses haven’t shaken out the way the suits want them to.
You’re a valued member of SoSH because you’re capable of enjoying 10-man Cruz Azul equalizing against Mazatlán in stoppage time. Unfortunately I can’t get to your level, although most people call me a MLS sicko for even having the Apple TV package.
The crowds have gotten smaller with the short notice midweek knockout games, but regular season games have bigger crowds!
Their next window is a Nations' League window, so he will be cap tied if he plays, which is what seems like it's gonna happen.
Esmir has played for the full USMNT in January camp, so I think any sort of appearance (Nations League or otherwise) would exhaust his one-time switch.
The Crew are so good, and they're so easy on the eyes. The inevitable Columbus-Miami playoff game is going to be an all-timer.
Fire Twitter is breaking down the playoff chase tonight. Didn’t realize that the Revs have 2 games in hand compared to all the other teams at the bottom of the table - 10 to 8 for Chicago, Montreal, Nashville, Atlanta, & Philly.
Thanks. Also some deep discounts on national team jerseys. Looking at the Italy marble pattern away one…
With yesterday’s 1-1 draw, the Fire are out of the playoffs. Doesn’t matter that they had the easiest remaining schedule, they still found a way. That’s 7 years running.
It's just really impressive work in a league with a lot of parity and an extremely forgiving playoff qualification format. It's simply not easy to do what Heitz and his predecessors have accomplished.
Miami's roster construction has been so impressive, especially coming out of the salary cap penalties they faced for the egregious salary budget shenanigans of the previous administration. I believe I read that Miami's points per game has been even higher when Messi was out. Messi has been predictably amazing, but I think it shows that the overall roster is strong enough that with only a little lucky random variance in a medium sample size they can be just as good without THE star player.
Aside from the West Coast / time zone issue, I wish generally that there were more day games on Saturday to give fans a few more options to watch games or even multiple games throughout the day. Games kickoff during my son's bedtime routine instead of during his afternoon nap! I get that the league wants some consistency around timeslots and they are trying to build up their Saturday night pre-game + whip-around show + post-game content, but one of the perks of having such a giant league with so many teams is that you can spare a game or two for the afternoon.
