Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Yanks, Manchester City awarded MLS expansion team
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posted 4 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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Europe: Peasants!
I feel kinda bad for Denmark. Their team is solid but that group seems impossible for them.
Surely by that point Kuyt's better off going back to Feyenoord.
America: Yawn.
Europe: Peasants!
Kind of a strange joke for this thread, no? I think the Euros are being universally anticipated in these parts.
Kuyt to Fenerbahce is strange but if they want to pay his wages, good for them. I loved Kuyt's quote that he wanted to play for a team with big ambitions in Europe. Heh. Anyway, I like Kuyt--he got the dirty work done but that role probably fit better on the Dutch national team than for Liverpool.
Even with Cahill out Rio Ferdinand isn't an option, I guess. I wonder if Terry had been the one to break his jaw if Ferdinand would have been an option?
He said he wanted to but he'd have to take an 80% pay cut to do it. Refreshingly honest, really.
Rankings that I really disagree with, me marking over or underrated.
#12 - Ribery (overrated)
#14 - Sneijder (overrated)
#18 - Muller (overrated)
#28 - Mario Gomez (underrated)
#38 - Sergio Ramos (underrated)
The last two seem particularly egregious to me. They're two of the best players on top-5 teams in the world. Muller had a great world cup but was a part time player for Bayern Munich this year. The top 2 are above a ton of players they have no right being above.
#13: I'd love to see Gomez on a team that created a lot fewer chances for him than Bayern (he scored as many goals in six years at Stuttgart that he has in three years at Bayern, though, so that's neither here nor there). I am generally never impressed by him, but then again, I don't really like the Bundesliga, so it's entirely possible that I haven't seen enough of him (or that he struggles against tougher opposition or something).
Sneijder has been pretty bad the last year and a half, sadly. He's part of Inter's problems at this point.
I don't believe this. In fact, in soccer, I don't think this is possible. You cannot consistently score goals at the highest levels of competition unless you're a great goal scorer. He had a poor final, but he was money in the Champion's League. And I think he is one of Bayern's best players, rather than a player living off of others.
I'm sure of it. Also 25% of the England squad is now made up of Liverpool players. It also means a Lescott / Terry partership and they have been shakey everytime they've played together.
He had a poor semifinal versus Real Madrid as well, where he was very, very wasteful.
I suppose you're right, but I've seen 10-11 games in which he has played and he has never played well, not once. Some of those games, like against Austria in the 2008 Euros, he was comically bad.
Hopefully soon! They want a lot of money, though, if the rumors are to believed. Spurs have been chasing him for a couple of years now.
Watching Dos Santos play for Mexico makes me want Redknapp to get the axe sometimes. Can he really not find a use for him?
Fenerbahce was in the quarterfinals of the Champions League not that long ago. 08, I think.
When, realistically, is Liverpool even going to be back in that competition?
What's up with Junior Hoilett? He seems like a player who is definitely good enough to play for Canada yet Canada didn't call him up.
Wonder if Big Soccer crashed due to the teeth-knashing load being exceeded.
He's their Timothy Chandler. Holding out for England.
I knew that list was a joke when I saw Xabi Alonso was at #34. He should be top fifteen at worst.
Apoel could use him, too, I guess. It's pretty clear he's going to Fenerbahce for the cash and I have no problem with that. He's on big wages so his options were limited if he wants to play and still get paid and Turkey looks like a pretty great place to spend a couple of years. I actually don't think Liverpool are so far away from being a good team again and if Liverpool had Kuyt in their plans he wouldn't have been so keen on leaving. Like Spurs did with Crouch last year, I have a feeling Liverpool told him if you don't leave prepared to get familiar with the bench.
I knew that list was a joke when I saw Xabi Alonso was at #34. He should be top fifteen at worst.
They should probably just rename it the 40 most famous players at the Euros 2012.
And hey, can't have too many LFC players on the team.
All that said, I still believe that Hodgson has decided that he can't have both Ferdinand and Terry in the squad.
Hodgson and/or the FA appear to be seriously caught up over appearances and "respect". Their failure to reach out to Carrick, Micah Richards and Ferdinand is only weakening the team.
I'm surprised they didn't call up Smalling. Specially since he can cover at RB if needed also.
Wasn't he ruled out due to injury?
edit: google tells me that he is injured. As, of course, is Michael Dawson who would have slotted in nicely in Cahill's place.
Not having Carrick is kind of a killer. Parker is good, but Carrick is better, I think.
Evans isn't English. He is from Northern Ireland.
EDIT:
I knew he had been injured, wasn't sure if he still was.
Damn it. That NI flag looks too much like England's at whoscored.com. They need to throw a big green stripe on their or something. Caulker it is then!
Maybe this is what you were getting at but what strikes me as weird is that it's Ferdinand, not Terry, who is being punished by being left off the team. I think there are some valid reasons (I wouldn't trust Rio for three games in eight days, I wouldn't trust him for three games in thirty days), but it's certainly odd.
That's how it looks to me, which is why I think it's weird. There seems to be no situation the FA can't #### up. It's kind of hilarious. It's like they're run by a committee of 10 Bud Selig's after each of the cloned Bud Selig's has downed a bottle of scotch. Isaiah Thomas couldn't do a worse job!
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