2017 Roster Discussion
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Next year, I wouldn't be surprised to see us line up in the 4-1-4-1 (defense) / 2-3-5 (attack) formation favored by Pep.
In attack, which is ideally where we spend most of the time, even when pressing up the pitch:
(Current)
Johansen
Chanot Brillant
RJ* Iraola Mata
Harrison Pirlo Lampard* Mendoza*
Villa
(Future, replacing *)
Johansen
Chanot Brillant
Afful Iraola Mata
Honda Pirlo Harrison Horgan
Villa
I'm probably dreaming.
In attack, which is ideally where we spend most of the time, even when pressing up the pitch:
(Current)
Johansen
Chanot Brillant
RJ* Iraola Mata
Harrison Pirlo Lampard* Mendoza*
Villa
(Future, replacing *)
Johansen
Chanot Brillant
Afful Iraola Mata
Honda Pirlo Harrison Horgan
Villa
I'm probably dreaming.
Or drunk. But the self-awareness is cool.
Ha, I'm guessing you're kidding but I wouldn't be surprised if we borrowed from his playbook at all, given how vertically integrated CFG seems to like it.
Come on, man. You can't still be drunk. It's HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION!
And that's actually what ManCity fans will be stressing in 10-15 years....
MLS eventually becomes the biggest soccer league in the world along with China and India...
I mean, isn't that the entire reason that CFG invested in MLS in the first place?
CFG saw the $$ put up for our big 3 sports and got drunk at the thought of their direct deposit accounts....
Cable sports bubble is going to burst relatively soon imho. In the next 5-10 years, more and more people are going to be cutting the cord. Can't expect the lucrative payouts of the last 10 years to continue forever.
Just think with VPN you can watch every almost MLS match for $70 a year with MLS Live except the ones on Unimas, Fox Sports, and ESPN because they still have those rights.
TV packages still allow customers to get better pricing than having to buy every networks individually.
I think we'll still have TV online for sports and live events (award shows, concerts, etc.) which will be sold through a network provider.
Cutting the cord means each channel loses out on pennies on the dollar from being bundled. When they have actual subscription packages they get the whole kit and caboodle of the fee. They'll do just fine - people will always pay for the sports they want to watch.
So is there a hope in hell we'll see the return of Yes to Comecast ??
Tell that to the NFL and Premier League, both of which are seeing double digit decreases in viewership.
ESPN has lost over 10 million subscribers in the last three years to cord cutting and nearly a billion dollars of yearly revenue. That's not even including the advertising hit that they will take as they progressively going to be in fewer homes which is a huge part of the revenue.
As a cord cutter, I can tell you I don't pay for anything to watch sports.
ESPN is losing so much revenue because they tied themselves into idiotic contracts with too many NCAA football conferences for too much guaranteed money. The Big 12 & SEC networks are a tremendous drain on them because they're too much of a niche within the sport. Now they just added the ACC to the list. Expansion on their part is leading to their demise.
With the NFL, unless somebody is interested in watching every possible game, their network doesn't really make sense since there's already 5-6+ games on network tv each week. The NFL will still get revenue from the network stations - and a sh!t ton of it - but they're going to lose out on the extra $ from the full-league package. Now if the networks stopped carrying the games then the NFL network would make a killing. At the same time, the marketing ads money to the networks will stay high and that'll go back to the NFL, so they aren't going anywhere.
The issue is (much as with music downloads) when it's so expensive and inconvenient for people to get what they want, they'll find other ways to do it. Whether it's streaming or downloading from P2P sites.
As companies realized an easy to access and unpackaged product would sell well (like iTunes did) it'll change it all. There's a few companies out there already wading into it but that's neither here nor there for the Roster discussion thread so....
Who replaces Lampard in Midfield? Has to be TMac for me.
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