MLS Offseason 2018-19: #SavedTheCrew

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Nico Gaitan to the Fire?


FC Cincinnati passed on Wesley Sneijder, but are rumored to be close to a deal for Anderlecht's Kenny Saief.



Toronto is expected to announce Alejandro Pozuelo today.
 

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News on two forwards born in New Jersey:

Jozy Altidore, whose contract expired at the end of 2019, extended his deal through 2022. I can't wait to find out what he's making. He's become increasingly injury-prone, and was paid a huge premium on his last deal.

Giuseppe Rossi is training with LAFC.
 

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Well, well. I turned on the CCL stream of Atlanta United in the 15th minute to find that they're up 2-0 on Herediano. That brings the aggregate to 3-3, with Atlanta having the edge on away goals.

 

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Gonzalez Pirez with a great header off a Barco cross to make it 4-0. It's night and day compared to the performance in Heredia.
 

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And a good night for MLS in CCL gets better. SKC just scored in Toluca in the 8th minute, giving them a 4-0 aggregate lead and an away goal. Toluca need five now to advance.
 

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SKC has 56% possession at HT and has looked very comfortable passing the ball around. They've been able to slow the pace of the game so the nearly 9,000 ft elevation at Toluca shouldn't be too much of a problem in the second half. I know Toluca isn't that great at the moment, but I've watched a LOT of CCL over the years and I've never seen an MLS-LMX matchup that felt this easy before.
 

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Damn, I went to bed before Toluca fans started sarcastically oleing SKC!


An obviously terrible record, but all three wins are in the last 12 months:



The quarterfinals:
New York Red Bulls vs. Santos Laguna (MEX)
Houston Dynamo vs. Tigres (MEX)
Independiente (PAN) vs. Sporting Kansas City
Monterrey (MEX) vs. Atlanta United
 

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Thread about whether or not MLSHQ will allow LA Galaxy to play fast and loose with roster rules:

 

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As if we needed more reason to hate the denizens of Yankee Stadium, turns out the NYCFC Supporters Club are a bunch of fascists.

The two season-ticket-holders I know for NYCFC have both explicitly avoided the Supporters Section over these concerns. Another friend mentioned:

I moved out of the section over so much bullshit. Club clearly doesn’t know how to handle supporters groups. They let the third rail advertise themselves like Girl Scouts recruitment in the stadium which never in my years have I seen happen. They ignore complaint after complaint of violence or threats these far right guys have made. When other groups have tried to meet their ridiculous quota to become official they blocked them but turned around and accepted NYCSC... talking to one of their heads in fan development he came from working for Philly and was just shitting on people from NY... great person to have.
There was already a lot of class-warfare stuff between NYRB (original team, very hispanic fanbase, plays in a much rougher neighborhood) and NYCFC (blue-bloods with a lot of money, most ticketholders are whites coming down from westchester). If this behavior continues, so will that bifurcation and the trend in that direction.
 

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Wow, I didn't think it would end this way, but good for the league to hold the line:



(That being said, a few reliable reporters are saying that some GMs were hoping LAG would be allowed to bend the rules, in the hopes that such an action would discredit the entire weird MLS rules system and ultimately lead to something simpler and more normal.)