Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Yanks, Manchester City awarded MLS expansion team
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posted 3 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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Oh yes there is! Maurice Edu is going to Bursaspor on loan!
Hilarious. I wonder what "dealing with it internally" means. LFC without Suarez right now would not be such a good team so I don't think there's much Rodgers can say to him or threaten him with.
February 2nd it is. And if we end up with some kind of "Groundhog Day," situation, at least it will be in a bar!
"Behave, or we'll sell you to United."
Just gotta figure out which poseur shirt to way...1976 Torino? 1967 Partick Thistle? 1961 Spurs? Cosmos? So many hipster douche choices!
This is the kind of thing that annoys me. He took a dive, it was obvious he took a dive, BR denied the obvious dive, Suarez admits the obvious dive, BR says he'll be punished for the obvious dive he said was not a dive, on and on and on. Maybe BR will punish Suarez by moving him from the position he's been leading the league in scoring from in favor of a guy that had a purple patch for Bolton a couple of seasons ago.
Oh wait...
edit: for clarity
What is Spanish for, "Enjoy coaching Scunthorpe Senor Brendan"?
Actually, if the weather doesn't get any warmer, I'll be wearing about two dozen sweaters.
I just happened to have a quote on that subject stashed away:
Source
EDIT: And no, I don't actually have an extensive library of snarky quotes about players. I have no clue why I found the above noteworthy at the time. Probably I wanted to torment some Liverpool fan, one of life's small pleasures.
EDIT: No reason why we couldn't build one.
Disco Benny has some new disco boots.
Sandro slowly transforming into BA Baracus?
Yeah, that sounds useful.
I am confused. Did Suarez confirm anything that the entire non-visually impaired world didn't already know? Does Rodgers not watch film?
The point is he's made LFC and Rodgers look foolish as they've been aggressive saying the diving tag is unfair. All that work they've done putting pressure on the refs to give him a break has been crapped on.
I wouldn't say a top four finish is "slipping away" - they'll clearly have to add another good central midfielder for depth, and the downgrade from Sandro to Parker shouldn't cripple the club. But we'll see. This weekend's game will be a good test. Barring new injury news, I'm assuming we'll see a 4-2-3-1 with pretty much all first choice starters, just Parker subbed in for Sandro, at home against the best club in the league. If Spurs can hang with United, I'll be reasonably confident they're good enough to play for 3rd/4th.
As they note, the averages are thrown off by a few clubs (particularly in Italy) that include ridiculously expensive VIP ticket packages in their data. Milan win this with a 5000 euro ticket that the Yankees are jealous of (when we lived there, these were "only" 3000 euros, and widely thought never to be sold for that price).
One weakness of the survey is that it doesn't account for differential single game pricing depending on the opponent, which is becoming ubiquitous in the leagues surveyed.
Seems a bit less likely that Vigo could get away with that (given their relatively remote location), but then if they surveyed prices for a match against one of the Big Two (or Depor), anything is possible.
I see what you are getting at, but as noted above LFC and Rodgers looked foolish for defending that nonsense in the first place. I think they would have been much better off admitting the Stoke play was ridiculous and wouldn't be tolerated and then note the changed behavior as a result (and it has changed, no doubt).
Whatever the case, there is nothing Rodgers is going to do. Suarez is their best player by a wide margin and can basically write his ticket out of there should he choose.
The 4th spot is an interesting one. I personally thought the Spurs were looking very strong, but obviously Sandro's injury changes things. Still though, Arsenal is flawed and pretty mediocre honestly (they are averaging just one GPG if you take out the ridiculousness of Newcastle, Reading, Southampton and the Adebayor-misdemeanor driven Spurs game). Everton is good but extremely thin and dealing with a Croatian Fernando Torres (Jelavic has been awful this season). Liverpool has a shot I guess but 9 points is a good amount of points to make up in 16 games.
Should be interesting for certain.
Does Adebayor stay on or is Dempsey/Sig an option?
Yeah but I haven't seen them with the words "done deal." The timing is good for both teams, which adds to believably. Of course that cuts both ways.
Sneidjer can be a very good player but where does he fit in short term, much less long term?
I could be wrong, but the simplistic reading of the Sneijder situation is that Liverpool will take him, but only on their terms. More explicitly, Sneijder is going to have to take a rather large wage cut if he wants to come to Liverpool. Given that it seems Sneijder isn't too keen on his other options -- play in Turkey, collect a paycheck at Inter under Stramaccioni, who doesn't appear to rate him -- maybe there actually is a decent shot of this happening. As far as where he fits -- Liverpool aren't exactly brimming with offensive talent. At least in games where Liverpool can be expected to dominate the ball, he slots in as the #10 behind Suarez/Sturridge/Borini in a 4-2-3-1.
(This shouldn't be taken as a commentary on whether I actually want them to go after Sneijder. I can see the case for trying to grab a player who was world-class not all that long ago at a cut-rate price, but I wouldn't be crazy about having an injury-prone 28yo on big wages.)
This statement could have been said about Joe Cole (although he was never world-class).
I thought the on, off, on again, off again saga ended up off. Can't say I paid much attention though.
Is the backline settled? I presume Assou-Ekotto returns at LB at some point.
As for Sneijder, meh. Its encouraging that BR knows a 10ish type is a critical need but Sneijder really only had a brief period of true brilliance. But I'd much rather watch him in an attacking role than all the guys that rotated there this season. He might help Suarez and thats the main thing. I'm assuming its only for a loan. If its not I wouldn't go near him.
SG - I'm expecting Benny back in for Naughton this week. He was fit for the FA cup, so a return to starting this week would be a reasonable timetable. It seems like Dawson might be nailed on next to Vertonghen, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Caulker either.
That's official. I find this one perplexing as Southampton had finally found their legs in the PL. I guess maybe they'd been working on this awhile and it's "poor luck" for the chairman Soton had been playing well when they finally got their man. They outplayed Arsenal at home and then drew at Chelsea. I can only hope Tottenham do as well!
As expected, out for the season. No mention of a timetable for a return or how serious the injury is. I will just cross my fingers he's good to go by August.
Fernando Llorente is heading to Juventus. Kaka looks close to heading back to Milan. Gianfranco Zola's name is coming up in the Chelsea manager rumor mill. Victor Valdes will not be returning to Barca next year, which seems surprising to me. He won't be going to Bayern if that's what he's thinking. According to Spurs ITK, Spurs are interested in M'Villa but QPR are offering him crazy wages. I suspect he ends up at Loftus Road.
Weird timing. This feels like a combination of Blackburn sacking Big Sam and Tottenham sacking Big Martin Jol so they could land Juande Ramos. For Soton's sake, I hope Pochettino is more successful than Kean and Ramos.
Adkins should definitely start going by 'Big Nige' now, though.
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