shamrock

Fair enough. Ironically Chelsea is playing good now with academy players, I prefer this team way over Mourinho's bought together team.

If only Chelsea hadn't violated financial FairPlay rules, he'd probably be ours by now.

Sometimes a new environment gives a player new energy. Let's hope he breaks into the team down there.

Yeah at some point $$ is going to count as well. But MLS is growing every year and I would argue the level is going up not down because of it. BTW please answer this question: What is harder, beating 6 teams or 12? Just curious...

Well it's hard to say at this point since we've only seen 1 game between a USL team and a CPL team, but yes I disagree.

More teams = more competition

The Eredivisie Clubs getting Chelsea and Man City loanees aren't complaining. They raise the level of the league. Sometimes, if they are just beneath the level of their parent club, they can even sign such players after a loan.

I don't like the two game final format. It should be 1 game. Like the Champions League Finals or MLS Cup for that matter. If the Champions League gets in the latter KO stages, I only watch the second game. In the first game, both clubs will always try and prevent damage. That first one is boring most of the time and typically ends in 0-0, 1-0, 0-1,1-1. Then in the second game, both teams have to go all out. So why not skip that first game all together? Yes it would have given Calgary a huge advantage but didn't they deserve that with two regular season titles?

So, we haven't in fact seen any transfers so far have we? We've only seen players cut, but not that they're going to other clubs. I wonder if we'll even see an inter-league transfer this offseason. And Yes I do know the transfer season hasn't officially started yet, doesn't mean there's nothing happening.

Yeah well if you want to increase quality of play, you need to cut players every season and replace them with better ones. They did part one, let's see if they succeed in part two.

Well, the players released are the ones you'd expect. Big pay disappointing performance: Tony Tchani, James Marcelin, Randy Edwini-Bonsu Not playing much: Ajeej Sarkaria, Bruno Zebie, Dylon Powley and Philippe Lincourt-Joseph. Probably other options: Oumar Diouck. So I wouldn't read too much into it. Of course there's gonna be players that don't like the coach, but there's also going to be players that do like him. Most of the time, it has to do with the (lack of) Playing Time they're getting.

You wish. USL Championship has 35 teams, CPL 7. That alone is a HUGE difference.

Saarbrücken loses the derby against Elversberg (3-0). They are now their fiercest competitors trailing 5 points. Froese played 56 minutes. Boakye played 70 minutes at Bonner SC, beating them 2-4.

Funny soccer way has him as a goalkeeper. Usually they have this sort of info right (or just not available). EDIT: my mistake they have another category named unknown which is shown above the goalkeepers.

Apparently he's a goalkeeper. Nice find! There were 12 players on the bench for that game, I don't think he'll be playing soon. But a decent level though.