It's closer to $200 more per game than $100 per game and there is absolutely nothing they could serve that would make up for that price. I don't know of a restaurant in the city where you could spend $200 per person without booze.
At market price, you could probably eat your way to $200 though Alaskan king crab legs.
That's 6 orders of king crab at the Bronx Joe's Crab Shack -- which I guess is probably about the amount I could eat, so yeah!
Perfectly stated. Most fans fall into this middle ground, it is the nature of humans. The extreme ends of the spectrum get the attention, make the noise, write articles, do podcast and websites, but it's the middle group of fans that all teams need to pull in and keep. That is why most public statements tread this ground.
Not even close to what the Jets FO owes me and other fans........
this is also true
I've enjoyed MLS since 2006 and now enjoy it even more.
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OK, I was generalising. No doubt there are some fans like that. But I think that the majority of NYCFC fans are now following MLS for the first time, having been turned off by the ridiculous way in which the league came on the scene -- garish uniforms, stupid team names, altered rules, owners owning multiple teams.
Many soccer fans in the U.S. looked at that mess and said "get the F outta here". We just ignored MLS while continuing to enjoy our favourite clubs from England or Spain or Italy or Germany. The term "Eurosnob" was created to insult such fans; but fans of European clubs didn't consider that an insult. We understood that, when some new thing comes along vying for our attention, it is up to that thing to be interesting enough to merit this attention. People who want to call us "snobs" simply for liking something excellent and ignoring something sub-standard are simply lying to themselves. But they were perfectly entitled to their little fantasy.
By 2006, when you came aboard, some of what had made early MLS so awful had been remedied. The Miami Fusion and Tampa Bay Mutiny had folded, taking those comical names with them; and the San Jose Clash and Dallas Burn had changed to more serious names. The count-down clock had been removed; and teams were beginning to get their own ownerships -- or, in the bizarre parlance of MLS, "investor/operators".
Which brings us to the observation that the league still has its flaws, chief amongst them being its single-entity structure. Please note that a fan of an MLS team has no responsibility to be an apologist for the things that still make MLS a bit cheesy, namely single entity, the bloated playoff system, the salary cap, "Real Salt Lake". There's even still one instance of an owner owning multiple teams: AEG; the Galaxy and Houston. Soccer fans who continue to dismiss MLS on these bases have a valid point.
Still, the league has made enough progress for it to have begun attracting quality ownership groups such as the Sounders' group and CFG. The league is also legit enough to have attracted interest from Barcelona, even if the talks revealed that the parties could not actually do business, because MLS's single-entity structure does not allow for the existence of "clubs" in the traditional sense.
But perhaps the league is getting there. If CFG decided that it could operate within the goofy world of MLS, then maybe there is hope that one day single-entity (that court-approved scheme to rip off the players) will go away; maybe there is hope that the teams can become actual clubs that are competing against one another for players' services. This would allow players to be paid according to market value, and would allow for the signings of world-class players of the calibre who nowadays consider only the top three or four European leagues. As salaries rise, the better owners (such as ours) will have the advantage that they righfully deserve in return for their investment; and the bad owners will be forced to sell their clubs to owners who are rich enough compete. This will elevate the league as a whole, such that it will naturally attract people who just like good exciting world-class football.
This is the way forward; and our team's ownership is in the vanguard. The founding of NYCFC might be a turning point in the league's history. If all goes well, our team will represent a step towards shedding that which stunk about early MLS. In football as in all other matters, New York City leads, and everyone benefits.
You seem like a nice enough guy and you're a really good writer but you have a tendency to take your own path and apply it to all with your generalizations. While I agree there are many NYC fans following MLS for the first time, it has nothing to do with the reasons above. A large number of current fans were quite young in 1996. When they came of age, quite simply, there was no club in NYC. Red Bulls never caught the attention of NYC proper for a variety of reasons. People now feel they have a club of their own that merits their attention, time & money. I agree that the league is still flawed and I think down the road pro/rel will be a thing but not expecting it in the next 20 years to be honest.
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Speak for yourself. if you are not demanding, you get nothing good in return. pressure brings results
DavidVilla
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We wouldn't have enough allocation money or w.e tf it is to sign a 4th DP.
At first, I was bothered by the same thing. Not a single acknowledgment at the disappointing performance this season. But then I thought about it more, and realized that it's just a marketing email. Some PR person wrote it. Reyna probably didn't write a single word of it.
And some of you really drink the damn Kool-aid. If you think this season was great, then you need to get your head out of your ass, and learn a thing or two about how good soccer is played. We've had a pathetic season. I'll definitely renew, but I don't need to lie to myself about how they performed just so I feel good about spending more money on them. They will get better, but they sucked a big one this season. End of story. Don't sugarcoat it.
Has the team underperformed? Yes, absolutely.
Was I expecting this when I signed up?
Yes, because going into the season we didn't have the necessary preparation to have a successful season. We put together a team in months. Whereas there are teams who were together for years.
we waited for our dp's to give us life in our midfield. We got them and we didn't really make the most of it because lampards situation is stupid. He gets hurt every time he looks in he mirror.
There has definitely been improvement since day one. But I think most of you expected too much from the start. Yes we have a good foundation, and mistakes were made by kreis and the players. But what can you do? We're not in a perfect world and the ball is indeed round meaning it can roll in any which direction.
Next year and the coming years will be better. Remember, we have Jacobson starting, nothing is possible with him in your lineup. There's no hope with him on your roster.
Was I expecting this when I signed up?
Yes, because going into the season we didn't have the necessary preparation to have a successful season. We put together a team in months. Whereas there are teams who were together for years.
we waited for our dp's to give us life in our midfield. We got them and we didn't really make the most of it because lampards situation is stupid. He gets hurt every time he looks in he mirror.
There has definitely been improvement since day one. But I think most of you expected too much from the start. Yes we have a good foundation, and mistakes were made by kreis and the players. But what can you do? We're not in a perfect world and the ball is indeed round meaning it can roll in any which direction.
Next year and the coming years will be better. Remember, we have Jacobson starting, nothing is possible with him in your lineup. There's no hope with him on your roster.
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