Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Yanks, Manchester City awarded MLS expansion team
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posted 2 days ago by Gamingboy to other sports, soccer, the empire's alliances, yankees
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Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber announced today that a partnership of global sports powers, Manchester City Football Club and the New York Yankees, has acquired the League’s 20th expansion club. The new team will be named New York City Football Club (NYCFC) and expects to begin play in 2015.
Wait, I thought Manchester United was the Yankees’ fellow member of the Legion of Doom, not Manchester City!
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< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 > Last ›But if he gets and stays healthy, it should be a positive move for both player and club. I think that Rossi could learn some stuff from Montella.
D'oh!
Similarly, a lot of folks on the internet have been deluded into thinking Lewis Holtby is coming to Spurs for free. I'm sure Herr Holtby's agent would disagree with that. I ahve to say that my big fear now that Spurs have Holtby is that Arsenal will get aggressive and go for Isco. Because Isco is pure ####### class. I'm crossing my fingers he ends up at Barca or Real and not on another PL team.
Also, I forgot to respond to this: Not sure what this means re: the Moutinho or Sissokho rumors, though. Not much, I think. The way I read the tea leaves, I doubt Huddlestone, Parker, or Livermore have much of a future at Spurs beyond this season. Parker might not actually be sold, whereas I think the other two will be, but he'll be 33 at the start of next season. His contract runs for another two years, but I have to think his involvement will continue to decline.
That would leave Spurs quite light in the middle if Dembele gets banged up again and/or Sandro has any sort of significant injury layoff. Even with Holtby coming in, I'm sure Villas-Boas will want to continue to get younger and more energetic in central midfield - especially if he has designs on fielding a true 4-3-3 at least some of the time in the future.
According to transfermarkt, Sissoko's contract is up at the end of this season. I think I see a pattern emerging here...
Can't sign Sissokho until he's linked to Liverpool.
Giroud seems to have done ok so far. Chamakh always looked too mechanical. A tall guy playing soccer.
I read somewhere that Spurs were trying to loan Livermore out. It was probably a garbage rumor but every rumor is garbage out there until it happens.
I guess the clause in Rossi's contract regarding United's first option to buy has long gone.
Bwahahahaha!
I think he will get loaned out. With Parker back and Tom Carroll the apple of AVB's eye, Livermore isn't going to get to play much. He needs games. QPR, if Harry and Levy are still talking, makes a lot of sense.
I hope Levy sends him a package with one of those "You've Been Had!" cards from Ace Ventura inside.
We'll see. I think that stuff gets overblown a bit. We were still doing business with West Ham at the peak of the Olympic Stadium nastiness and, if we ever have a player Chelsea or United want again, I don't doubt they'll make their play.
Don't worry, Jermaine Jenas is back!
I smell what you're steppin' in here, although my concerns have been somewhat mitigated by the return of Parker, who was quite durable for Spurs and West Ham before overdoing it at the Euros last summer. Dembele is absolutely the one guy Spurs cannot do without right now, but that's not a problem that can be solved by hanging onto Livermore. Whether he stays or goes has little bearing on how badly screwed Tottenham will be if they lose Dembele again and haven't added another midfielder besides Carroll who can create and run around a bit.
Depth is good, but I guess I feel like it's better for the club if Livermore can go out and get a bunch of games in the Premiership under a guy he played very well for last season. If unfortunate circumstances align such that Livermore would have been desperately needed at Spurs, then they are really up a creek regardless.
Will it be difficult for the FA to amend the rules given the EU's regulations with respect to "restriction of trade"? I don't really know enough to say. I have provisional sympathy for the next club to be snookered in this way, but this whole thing was easily avoidable from United's perspective. Either quit lowballing your young talent and pay him what he's worth or sell him before the contract expires. Simples.
Still don't see why United isn't in on M'vila or Sissokho.
So from what I remember Debuchy was pretty good going forward. I don't remember much about him defensively - other then when Spain beat that weird double right back of Debuchy/Reveilliere in the knockout round. He's also pretty short - Newcastle is a long ways away from the Allardyce days.
raphael honigstein ?@honigstein
plenty of question on Holtby to Spurs. some quick thoughts
he's a no10 who can play deeper but isn't quite ready for that yet. ok in wide positions but not really at his best there
his main problem is inconsistency. not always at the level that we saw from him v Arsenal at the Emirates and for German U21 (excellent)
don't see a way for him to play for Germany at the moment. but that doesn't really matter, think of Mata / Spain
here's the important bit, imo. because he's free, it's really a no-brainer. at, say 70k per week, he basically plays for free for 2 years ...as Spurs will always be able to sell him on for 6-7m if he doesn't work out.
the potential is there. but not a world-beater yet
by the way, I factored sign-on fees into the 70k wages, for argument's sake
Indeed. I was amazed they didn't get a good, physical box-to-box type guy in the summer. Wenger seemingly just can't resist the siren song of Abou Diaby.
The series of Football Manager posts he did on Run of Play should have netted him a ####### Pulitzer. That stuff was genius.
I heart our Liverpool supporting posters here, but that is funny.
I don't know what it says about me that I probably read those about two years ago and I still remembered the name of the team.
It makes you realize how big our economy is. Lots and lots of people, pretty high average income. When you look at the Deloitte money league, the big clubs would remain on the top even with American clubs around. But US teams will supplant a lot of the top 20, and fill in a very large proportion of the top 100.
Where do they get the salary data? That info seems a lot less available for pretty much all teams besides the US ones (mainly due to players unions).
It's odd to have such long gaps in time between the finals and the other knockout rounds.
It's more of a function of major US sports having a de facto monopoly on the sport, so the revenue gets split among about 30 teams. Whereas there are hundreds of top flight teams, and many significant second and third flight teams making money in football.
Using Deloitte's money league figures from 2010/11, they estimate the top 20 teams make about a quarter of all European football revnue, with €4.4bn. So football in Europe makes about about €18bn, almost $24bn, or more than MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL combined.
And that's just club level. Throw in the money generated from international competitions, and it's simply no contest.
Spurs playing a strong team with Bale included but I'll have to settle for radio coverage.
And that revenue is nowhere near enough to cover their spending. Profit, they've heard of it.
That was a special goal from Orlandi in the Brighton-Newcastle game. Special celebration from Gus as well.
No radio. Reading a play by play.
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