IT’S STILL REAL TO ME DAMMIT
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IT’S STILL REAL TO ME DAMMIT
I don't know about you but this was this morning 5/13/21 and it still shows the WLT format. Its on google chrome and windows 7 so I'm not sure.
Switched back for me, too. They're gaslighting us. Meanwhile, the Doyle article still has the Cincinnati record in W-D-L.
MLSPA salary data is out. Have at it folks. But word of caution (cribbing from the Athletic’s explanatory notes and analysis):
We really don't have a ton of terrible contracts. Gudi is making too much, but aside from that, we seem to have done a lot of good business.
Yeah. I think the biggest complaint from the forum is not that the club is spending its money wrong, but that it's not spending enough. Truth be told, we're spending like a mid-table team with maybe one aging star in Maxi, and last match showed that even he is not indispensable. If Maxi retired tomorrow and his salary were scrapped from our books, Medina or Parks would deputize as a 10 and we would be solidly mid-table and quite inexpensive to run. It all makes sense from a biz perspective, it just sucks for fans.
This is paywalled, but...
www.socceramerica.com
Interesting analysis of the MLS salary list.
In 2016, MLS had 7 players making $5M or more (3 of them were on NYCFC).
In 2021, MLS has only 3 players making $5M or more: Vela, Chicharito and Higuain.
But, in 2016 there were only 23 players making $1M or more, and in 2021 that number has tripled to more than 72 players. So mega-salaries are on the decline (arguably that's basically due to NYCFC), but there are a lot more pretty damn substantial salaries.
Who has the most players making $1 million?
SKC has 5
4 teams have 4 >$1M players.
Dallas, Minnesota, RB and SJ trail with one each.
NYC is not in the article but we have 2: Maxi and Medina.
The article goes on to discuss transfer fees/acquisition costs, but I don't want to give away too much of a subscription article.
MLS salaries: 'Millionaires' list triples over last five seasons
The team with the most "millionaires" is a surprise: FC Cincinnati, MLS's worst team in 2019 and 2020 and last, so far, in 2021.
www.socceramerica.com
Interesting analysis of the MLS salary list.
In 2016, MLS had 7 players making $5M or more (3 of them were on NYCFC).
In 2021, MLS has only 3 players making $5M or more: Vela, Chicharito and Higuain.
But, in 2016 there were only 23 players making $1M or more, and in 2021 that number has tripled to more than 72 players. So mega-salaries are on the decline (arguably that's basically due to NYCFC), but there are a lot more pretty damn substantial salaries.
Who has the most players making $1 million?
Cincinnati with six.
4 teams have 4 >$1M players.
Dallas, Minnesota, RB and SJ trail with one each.
NYC is not in the article but we have 2: Maxi and Medina.
The article goes on to discuss transfer fees/acquisition costs, but I don't want to give away too much of a subscription article.
Why can’t we have someone who can drop a pass like this one?
Someone mentioned that after every season that Caleb Porter won MLS Cup his team has missed the playoffs. That might continue again this season.
And if DC-ORL result holds (0-1 through 82'), we'd drop to 3rd behind NE (11 pts, 6 played), ORL (9 pts, 5 played), NYC (8 pts, 5 played).
Well, the Crew’s new new logo is much better than the old new logo. Still think the circle one is infinitely better than the new new one though.
I fucking love the new power rankings writer.
I think I watched the go-kart video 27 times.
Classic change it to something much, much worse overall so that there isn't too much angst over the final change.
This is brilliant. Calls into the question who is actually making these rankings decisions. I see this as an amazing protest against the league by one of their own writers. The LAFC write up had me laughing.
An excerpt from the Athletic Zlatan
article. It’s pretty funZ
“Zlatan spoke up and said something along the lines of: ‘In games like these we need to have more bite, we need to be nastier. Like Kevin,’” says Perry Kitchen. “And he pointed to me, over in my direction. I was like, looking around, to my left, to my right, making sure there wasn’t a Kevin on the team. I said, ‘Are you pointing to me? My name is Perry. It’s right above my locker.’”
“Yes,” replied Ibrahimovic. “You are Kevin.”
article. It’s pretty funZ
“Zlatan spoke up and said something along the lines of: ‘In games like these we need to have more bite, we need to be nastier. Like Kevin,’” says Perry Kitchen. “And he pointed to me, over in my direction. I was like, looking around, to my left, to my right, making sure there wasn’t a Kevin on the team. I said, ‘Are you pointing to me? My name is Perry. It’s right above my locker.’”
“Yes,” replied Ibrahimovic. “You are Kevin.”
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