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https://x.com/LFCYussef6/status/1792021476721209853 Safe to say yes will be in the friendly squad.

Has come off the bench to score against Chicago. I believe he may have even shouted “Screw you Fotmob!” as part of his goal celebration

On the other hand, he might be thinking that he could coach these players better than the suicidal way that Courtois appears to be, as the entire team looks out of sorts

Supposed to make an appearance tomorrow. Has still not signed a new contract, but club remains hopeful. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-united/oli-mcburnie-and-daniel-jebbison-set-to-make-sheffield-united-returns-but-not-to-join-the-list-of-bramall-lane-farewells-4633529

Valour and Montreal should explore some kind of relationship. Maybe 2 for 1 therapy sessions for their fans?

I don't know if this horrid result by Montreal is good or bad for Forge who visit CFM on Wednesday in the V's Cup, they are in complete disarray and I am hoping that will continue and Forge will have a chance at a shock result!

Got to think Marsch is keeping close tabs and perhaps not too impressed with the Montreal brigade, at least for today. Certainly food for thought.

Bassong starting for KC v Austin. Afrifa on the bench for KC. Farsi starting for Columbus v Chicago. Russell-Rowe on the bench for Columbus. St. Clair starting for Minnesota v Portland. Oluwaseyi on the bench for Minnesota. Crepeau and Miller starting for Portland. Pantemis and McGraw on the bench for Portland.

I am not complaining but what the hell are Montreal doing in this match?

Bombito starting for Colorado v RSL

Uhhh…. Maybe it’s on him. I find it quite interesting to watch a debate over who to blame for someone’s own problem. He’s the professional. He needs to take personal responsibility for his own situation. Perhaps either or both clubs could have done better to help him but frankly, we have no idea what they did good or bad. We do know by his weight gain that unless he has a freak medical condition, he certainly didn’t live up to his own part of being a professional.

Arfield on the bench for Charlotte v LA Galaxy. Hiebert starting for St. Louis v Cincinatti. Kaye starting for New England v Philadelphia.

I've no idea if these games will end up on either of the big Canadian cable sports networks, but what I do know is that these friendlies are not part of the Copa package. Completely different entities in charge. TSN would be smart to show one or both, of course. Regardless, I'm confident that this match will be available to watch in Canada (as we already know OneSoccer has the Netherlands match).

Probably going to end up on DAZN

Because Westhead eagerly announced the friendlies, when he would never do so if TSN were not involved, not being interested in journalism beyond his company's interests, that is what I understood: it is part of the Copa package. I am pleased to say I booked and will be in Bordeaux for this match.

Played 77' minutes in 3-1 win today. Nothing noted when he came off. They will play in the semi final of the Conference League playoff in the week.

Second goal in two games wasted by a team that can’t hold a lead to save their lives. Has Davies outgrown Bayern Munich?

NGL all the talk about the CSB being cut-off seem rather silly to me... Does anybody really think that the CSA didn't at least made a serious attempt to go ''Hey guys, we could definitely use more money for some of the options for coach! Do you think you could return a chunk of money from the CSB deal? After all, if the CMNT does well it will probably benefit you as well... No? Ok, we understand'' before getting too far into the philanthropic options? Dunno, that seem extremely unlikely to me. After all, you are better off only taping your donors when you have absolutely no other options. If the CSB wanted the credit to finance the new coach all they had to do was say the word but they didn't. Honestly, the sense I get is that (and I am not saying its conscious) is that the real reasons some people react so viscerally here is that they do not like being reminded about how how the CPL is propped up by national teams money and/or they'd rather the MLS clubs did not exist as such, or at least they are frustrated at how much more media and public attention they are receiving. That donation outlined the importance of the MLS clubs for the national program and Canadian soccer as a whole at this point in time, the fact it was needed vividly illustrated the financial challenges caused by the CSB deal and that the sacrifices made by other chunks of Canadian soccer to help the CPL, while needed and justified, are very real and substantial and the federation, through OKing MLS in the official job title, showed they are accepting the MLS clubs will stay around for the time being. Some react badly to it because it's a powerful reminder of several realities they don't like , and I get that (I am firmly against the MLS clubs being forced in but I do think the CPL deserve more attention and obviously everyone would love for us to not have to make some of the financial choices we have to), but those realities won't disappear if we ignore them. The federation has to function with the cards it has, that's why Blue has been brought in.

Nice finish. He really seems to be making positive steps this year Pretty excited about this guy Also curious what secret conversation Farsi was having with him.

Admission is usually $5 or $10. Alliance was free but this week Centennial College dinged me for $6.50 for parking whereas last week the backway gate was open. There are special nights for some clubs where kids wearing their club kits (I suspect they mean their own youth teams) get in for free.

We were resting guys and preparing for CF Montreal!🤣

Basically I struggle to see a setup that would give Forge better ods against an upset then right now. We have our three best strikers off injured and three other key offensive pieces in the midfield off on injury and Saputo being Saputo has created two massive twins PR crisis who have distracted the team overall and have had an especially big effect on the one among our three best players who isn't injured. Not taken anything away from Forge, mind you, as anyone can only play against who they face and they have done what they needed to get the result in Hamilton but that is very much the kind of mess that actually does not make a CPL club victory a shock for anyone like me who is quite familiar with what's going with MTL, altough it would still be very much an upset. As to whether tonight is good or bad for Forge I'd lean toward bad myself. The other horrendous result we got this year saw us bump back well and win the next year and last year's game against Vaughan was in even worse circumstances in term of circumstances on the pitch but there was a sense of ''common, we are an MLS club so lets show it!'' in the time that helped turn things around in the to at least some degree (obviously Forge is better then Vaughan but the same thing could easily happen).

No more goals, but lots of action and drama in this one. A fun game to watch.

final score 2-2

Oh boy. Cavalry with one of the worst giveaways I've ever seen gift York a goal.

St. Laurent to Ahuntsic (C. Robillard) is not " on the complete other side of the city", It's barely a 10 minute drive.

Came to type the same!

Coello trying his hardest to get Montreal back in the match but Vilsaint misses the chance

What makes this all the more bizarre is he scored 3 goals in 3 games to start this season. I don’t even necessarily think it was a weight thing but maybe both parties saw the relationship going nowhere in the future

Away friendlies (and neutral ground friendlies) have always ended up on OneSoccer. I presume that part of the CSA's negotiation package when these things are signed, is to own the rights to the broadcast within Canada. This may be one of the terms of the Canadian Soccer Business deal.

Forge really were out of sorts today and full marks to Vancouver who took advantage of it, Forge were a mess defensively on both goals conceded and really should have done better with their possession, the Vancouver keeper made a couple of game changing saves as well! I didn't think this would be an easy match for Forge and was proven right early on although it looked like if Forge equalized it would be their match to win but stout Vancouver defending and a rather predictable Forge attack allowed them to take their chance on the counter! A lack of experienced striker hurt Forge and I wonder how far ahead Bobby was thinking in resting Hamilton and Choinere with the V's Cup match in Montreal looming? VFC look a good side and I think they will be competitive in most matches this season, they have some depth as well! A glorious day down at THF in the sunshine was only partially ruined by the result, it looked like a decent crowd for a long weekend although I am sure I will read otherwise!😀

Agree about Neuer. It's not often that one can accurately say in a top-flight match that 75% of the goals allowed were primarily the fault of the keeper, but one can on this occasion.

Surprised. Especially the Sunday game, 3pm EST on a Sunday in June. TF1 has the rights. In Netherlands, the public NOS has theirs. I appreciate Netherlands is a harder sell as it is mid afternoon EST on a Thursday. But what else would they have at that time? The Sunday, Lions play at home on the 9th, think it coincides; the Stanley Cup finals will be on by then.

FFF owns this game and will sell it off to the highest bidder. In some regions, UEFA-based friendlies are packaged together and sold to broadcasters as such.

Although I'm not ecstatic about this hire, I think to be fair to Marsch we can't use the 2 friendlies or Copa America to assess him. He will have had little prep time to evaluate the players in the program and implement his tactics.

What is so great is that he is shooting with his right more and more, which suggests if he's inverted, he can still get to the endline and cross in with his wrong foot. Essential skill to have if most of your attack will turn in onto your good foot. Here are full highlights, finally got to watch. Neuer was a total disaster, I think Germany have to seriously consider putting Ter Stegen in goal. He does not have the same winning mentality, nor the leadership, but he has the skill set and Neuer is in serious decadence.

https://x.com/rwesthead/status/1776282854017699933 That smells like TSN interest in these friendlies, to me.

I would be pleasantly shocked if TSN picked this up. They have shown zero interest in picking up any friendlies to promote Euro or Copa.

Davies' goal from today

Yes, he is in the outside left of a midfield four. Looks like a 3-4-2-1 formation

Going to tonight's game at BMO Field

Maybe it's mainly on the young guy himself? If you want to be a pro athlete it's probably best to avoid having a waistline that resembles the Michelin man. He's still young enough to turn it around but it's really up to him in the first instance to get back to being the sort of player that a CanPL or MLS club would want to have around.

I know, you're just wrong. The Whitecaps don't have a history of players showing up out of shape. This is on York for failing to prepare a young player to step up to the next level.

he also got the hockey assist on the 1st goal, with a nice cross

Don't want to pretend to have any knowledge I don't but am definitely hearing rumors around town among the soccer community that there's some movement happening in Kelowna and the city is talking to league and perspective owners about a new stadium not at the apple bowl and in a pretty awesome spot

CSA has committed to provide financial support to Project 8 by the way

This is what we have to contend with next month and honestly if we can get a result against a team of this quality I will be pleasantly surprised

Netherlands friendly is confirmed on OneSoccer.