2025 General MLS Transfer Thread
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Wow, that's a nice addition for Ronnie to work with. A bunch of MLS clubs continue to make very ambitious moves. Yet, still nothing from the organization that supposedly has the best scouting network in the world and whose stated goal is to "compete for trophies every season".
Vancouver brought in someone yesterday. So I think every team in the league has now made significant roster addition aside from David Lee’s New York City
best scouting network means they will sign a lot of prospects. you don't really need to scout impactful players. you just need some money, some ambition, and some good negotiation skills. Lee fails. but we still have time. we could sign someone in the next few weeks and they'll show up 2 months into the season cause of visa issues.
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But it's CFG , I know there are salary rules but we have to have pretty much the most money in the league should we choose to spend it.
we did spend it. just on prospects instead of proven players.
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Atlanta might be a problem this year, and Ronny Deila could have quite the return to MLS.
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🔴⚫️ Atlanta United named Chris Henderson sporting director, then Ronny Deila head coach this winter. As far as key signings so far... 🔜🇨🇮 Emmanuel Latte Lath ($22m + add-ons) ✅🇵🇾 Miguel Almiron ($10m + add-ons) ✅🇵🇱 Mateusz Klich (trade) Insane offseason. [contains quote post or other...
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Atlanta is one of those fanbases that early on I was really annoyed of because their fans felt so entitled coming into the league and just being so good and expecting to basically have won everything. And then they did win, and then they had a period of bad times... but their fans still keep showing up in huge numbers and I realized I was just envious of that sort of support. So to see this sort of investment by them makes me happy. I hope we smash 'em, but I also think if they do well I'd be happy for them.Atlanta might be a problem this year, and Ronny Deila could have quite the return to MLS.
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🔴⚫️ Atlanta United named Chris Henderson sporting director, then Ronny Deila head coach this winter. As far as key signings so far... 🔜🇨🇮 Emmanuel Latte Lath ($22m + add-ons) ✅🇵🇾 Miguel Almiron ($10m + add-ons) ✅🇵🇱 Mateusz Klich (trade) Insane offseason. [contains quote post or other...
it also helps that their stadium experience is fun, entertaining, and best of all for families, cheap compared to many others, like us. but yea, i agree. they have fans that show up. filling a huge stadium consistently. what a major market sports team should be able to do.
Yeah, that's all part of the same package of I guess why I'm envious.
For all NYCFC games are fun, I don't think we can really say the stadium experience is all that great. Sometimes they do those things outside the stadium or have an "experience" inside but those are rarer now than they were in the first few seasons. The new stadium at least in principle looks like it'll have more involved but...
yep. you're probably right that things will get better with our own stadium since they'll be able to control everything and not have to work around baseball stadium schedule, staff, etc.
i don't think we'll have trouble filling a 25k stadium even if they didn't change anything from how they are doing it now. but if they improve the experience with fan fests every home game and keep the concession prices consistent with the surrounding neighborhoods, that will make it an even hotter ticket, which will help the team gain a larger fanbase. i think a lot of americans go to sporting events for the experience more than the game itself. think of baseball and football, they are there to hang out, drink, tailgate, etc. some don't even watch the game! being limited to ~ 100 minutes for a game, maximizing the stadium experience will help bring in fans and once they enjoy going to a game, they'll buy merch and maybe even start watching from home and become interested in the actual playing.
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Their fanbase is legit incredible. This is Big Club Stuff:
(Not to say NYCFC fans wouldn't do stuff like this -- the reception for Taty outside Yankee Stadium after his last game was incredible. But to have people at the airport is sensational)
Aw man, that's amazing. I hope he's gonna hang up that giant poster/card thing bc that's awesome!
Last year word was Cucho bought a new home in Columbus and was expected to stay for the long haul. Things change. Tough break for Columbus who will make a profit but lose a lot of goal production.
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Success in this league is so fleeting. Zelarayan, now Cucho.
but we have top, south american prospects and the algerian ronaldo!
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When you average 50,000 fans a game, you can afford a $22 million striker. Good for them, good for MLS. Ronny is going to have a hell of a team down there this year.
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