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@DiceElDani @sgevans The NYT hired a number of mls reporters. What are they covering?

@sgevans Maybe it’s because thy are worried about only covering the stars instead of the actual league.

The rest of the soccer world must be sitting back and laughing at the MLS right now. In the US, we’ve become more obsessed with the drama of post-game media availability and who faces the fire in the mixed zone than actually analyzing the 90 minutes on the pitch. When the biggest headline after a 4-3 Derby collapse is about which player stood at a microphone instead of why they conceded four goals at home, we have a problem. Is this really the slippery slope we want to go down? Less football, more theater. It’s embarrassing. #MLS #InterMiamiCF #FloridaDerby #ThisIsFutbol #SoccerAnalysis #NuStadium #DiceElDani

@MLShater @USMNT @realsaltlake The World Cup will have far fewer designated players per game than MLS does…

@USMNT @realsaltlake Now do it when time and space is compressed (he can’t)

Another goal for Diego Luna in a @realsaltlake win! 🌙

@TaylorTwellman Taylor is lacking self awareness here.

Weak. How

@THEChrisKessell You’re not new here Chris, of course it’s what he’s saying - and bragging about it

So MLS is signing players based on how they think it will effect ratings as opposed to if they will make the teams better? Is that what this is saying? I hope that isn't what this is saying. sports.yahoo.com/articles/mls-c…

@MLShater @usmntonly Because Winning doesn’t matter that much?

@usmntonly Why is there always so much space in MLS

DIEGO LUNA FOR RSL 🇺🇸

@AlexiLalas Lex likes guys whose performance meets his perception of their “pedigree”

He's not a lock. But I think it's undeniable that he's endeared himself to Pochettino because of his work, attitude, personality, and performance.

@jonathanstoop @USSoccerColl Prepare to be disappointed.

The San Jose Earthquakes are the best team in MLS right now with the lowest squad value in the league. San Jose's squad is valued at $25.3M (per Transfermarkt), the league average is $53.7M. 69% of their squad is American, the highest in the league, with the majority sourced from NCAA. 10 of their 12 core Americans aged 20-28 came through the college pathway. 7 arrived directly via the draft across 4 consecutive cycles. The combined value of that 12 player cohort: ~$15M - some MLS clubs spend more on a single player. The cost efficiency is impressive but the real point is the squad's shared context. Many of San Jose's players came through overlapping pipelines and development environments - same draft cycle, California colleges and hometowns, integrated via the 2nd team. They have shared developmental DNA. This level of squad cohesion has real on-pitch impact and is a clear competitive advantage in a league where most clubs have little to no domestic core or shared backgrounds. The results are a significant enough for every MLS club to re-think how they build teams in this league. The dominant model - DPs on enormous salaries, internationals recruited at a premium, the domestic market as squad filler, draft picks as currency - optimizes for expenditure and acquisition at the expense of cohesion. A team with shared DNA is very different than a collection of talent.

@MulattoOrfeu2nd @ManagerTactical There will be no they.

@mthead141 @ManagerTactical So like it said, they’re going to Vegas

You can’t defend MLS’s closed franchise system and then get angry when they move a team from 1 location to another. The system you support enables that, unfortunately. It sucks for the fans of that franchise but that’s how it works when you have franchises instead of real clubs. The Whitecaps 🇨🇦 will head to Las Vegas 🇺🇸, It’s going to happen and honestly… it’s a good thing.

@MulattoOrfeu2nd @ManagerTactical The license will be used to operate a team in Las Vegas

@MulattoOrfeu2nd @ManagerTactical There is no they, there is only a license

@AlexiLalas Here Lex is blaming the rest of the world tather than holding the organization trying to control those pathways accountable

It means pathway to "the highest level" is relative to talent, but also to timing, circumstance, connections, nationality, representation, and many other things that have nothing to do with kicking the ball. It means I believe there are other American players who could do this.

@realEstateTrent Take Monday off

Going on my son’s class camping trip next weekend. I’ve never been camping in my life. What do I need to know?

@SamOgopogo @frankmSounders One club and one license to operate a team in a closed system

@frankmSounders And yet here we are. Don’t think Renolds has the capital to pull it off. Not sure he’s interested in owning two soccer clubs.

Ryan Reynolds came to the rescue of Wrexham's football heritage. Question is whether RR can somehow be part of the solution for saving the Whitecaps from leaving his hometown, Vancouver. It's too strong a soccer city to find itself in this predicament.

@BradWCAttorney @3YearLetterman @JamesMelville Daydream Believer slaps

@JamesMelville Are we still pretending like the Beatles were good? Good Vibrations was a banger but the rest of their songs suck.

The Beatles The Rolling Stones Oasis JK Rowling James Bond Billy Connolly William Shakespeare Football clubs Wimbledon Georgian architecture Crisps Cheese Pubs Tea Strawberries Fish & Chips Gun control History Accents Pessimism

@MarioALNG @MicheleG3 Mmk

@mthead141 @MicheleG3 Cause your team is mediocre just like you. No point in winning when the prize isn't like UCL.

Remember this tweet after you get mad again when an MLS coach/front office/player/etc. complains about the disparity in roster competitiveness between MLS & LMX (e.g. Cherundolo 2022). Sometimes what MLS teams do against big MX teams is a sports miracle.

@MarioALNG @MicheleG3 Makes no sense to be honest. Winning matters so much that I stopped supporting a team that didn’t have to try

@mthead141 @MicheleG3 Read my first reply.

@robdarke @HPbasketball If the intent is to create competition for the worst record the. There will be no unintended consequences

@HPbasketball What unintended consequences would come from draft order from worst to best record? As far as I can tell, tanking has never actually worked well for anyone, so it’s strange why everyone thinks it’s done in a massive conspiracy theory esqe way to warrant massive sweeping new rules

I have defended the decision to try and address tanking because I think it was toxic this year. But pretty much every system will have unintended consequences that will be devastating. That's just undeniable.

@MarioALNG @MicheleG3 ??

@MarioALNG @MicheleG3 How does limiting spending maximizes profit profits?

@MarioALNG @MicheleG3 It didn’t matter to the mls team I supported. You sure you got it?

@mthead141 @MicheleG3 winning doesn't matter according to you. Got it