Reign

15 hours ago, SkuseisLoose said:

I thought piette was one of the few good players out there. Seemed to win every tackle.

I’m with you. I thought he was the only mid fielder that actually did his job that game. He shut down a lot of plays and made some huge tackles. We know he isn’t a dynamic passer... that isn’t his job tho. Kaye,Oso,Arfield were horrible. 

19 minutes ago, Ansem said:

England is winning 6-0 against Montenegro.

All 3 changes have been made

Tomori remained on the bench

They obviously aren’t worried about us or Ivory Coast stealing him. 

18 minutes ago, Obinna said:

Unshackle Davies and watch him "cause havoc", as Berhalter would put it.

Davies Unchained 

Out of curiosity I just did some quick math on David. This calendar year he has scored 27 goals for club/country. A David hat trick against the USA for a even 30 would be great haha.

This kid is drastically improving in front of our eyes. 

Was roster announcement postponed again ? 4pm est almost.

Seattle would be ideal if he does come to MLS. Not to far for me I catch games now and again. He would be dominant in the mls. 

2 hours ago, deschamp86 said:

A team's best players usually want more money. If they are the best players on the last place team, they could very well be bench players on a top team. No use paying starting money to bench players if they want to improve

That is a good point.

1 hour ago, mtlsab said:

A couple are leaving from HFX

 

Makes sense they were the worst team in the league, but to me they are losing some of their better players. Should be a interesting off season for HFX.

Skublak is out of HFX too.

Rumour that HFX isn’t paying a 5% increase on Simmons contract, and that’s why he is leaving. 

Kind of worrying that they are losing two two of their best players and money issues is the only rumour so far. 

Roster coming today ? Maybe ?

I feel like this must be a loan move. Cruz paid $4M for him according to transfermarkt. Giving up on him and that money that soon would seem odd to me. 

Davies with his second start in as many games against VFL Bochum.

That thing is embarrassing. Literally get a similar trophy made in my city for $100... what a miss.

I’m going with a 2-2 draw in Hamilton.

1-0 win for Cavs in Calgary.

Man this kid is going to smash the Canadian transfer fee record. No reason for Gent to sell him for less than 25-30M. 

32 minutes ago, Lansdude said:

Goal for David today: http://www.proximus-sports.be/nl/voetbal/jupiler-pro-league/video/24863/goal-eupen-0-1-sv-zulte-waregem-45-larin

Match is at half time, might see more.

Am I missing something ? That is a Larin goal.

Hmm... if the plan was to start crepeau, I wonder if there is any chance we see Carducci. I doubt it, but I personally think he would do fine. 

That header. Wow

2-1 Cavs.

1 hour ago, Dominic94 said:

Honestly he’s not wrong, Belgium got good fast.

 

With a half Canadian league and more teams coming, it means more places and minutes for CDN players. 

 

Another team means 1k minutes for a U21 player, the whole limit is similar to the German setup and look at fast and well that worked. 

Theres actually a lot of good prospects with the MLS teams that we know about but they just aren’t playing, if they had a chance at regular minutes, where would we be ?

theres talent that we haven’t yet found and when they get minutes they’ll grow. We just have to give chances so yes this could happen fast.

I don’t think we are in the position to compare ourselves to Germany and Belgium, two of the best footballing countries in the world. Belgium got good fast because they completely re structured the way they developed talent across the country at all age groups. Of course we are going to naturally grow and create better players, but  a player like Tomori would be a star cb in then MLS. So us having cbs in the MLS that hardly get minutes and tomorrow coming in and being a star the gap is still wide.

15 minutes ago, Macksam said:

Pretty soon players like this will be obsolete to us.

A top tier EFL Championship CB ? I hope you are right, but I don’t think that is pretty soon. 

Yeah no problem with this thread. I keep opening the Potential roster thread to see if the real roster has been posted yet haha.

7 hours ago, Lofty said:

Would be interesting to know whether the league as a whole is in the red or black in year one. Surely Valour, Forge, and HFX are in the black. If not then I would be very concerned about long term viability.

The other 4 definitely look iffy based on attendance numbers thus far, although in a new venture one would hope they have planned for that. However, do the various sponsorship deals take them into the black? Would be nice to know.

With WFC being community owned, we might get some transparency on those numbers, for Valour at least.

I would say Cavs are up there with any team for revenue. Average around 3500 attendance, but the ticket prices are much higher then most the league. 3500 tickets at spruce is probably good for 5K+ elsewhere. Then you factor in the major pay days from the whitecaps and Impact games. Also they own their venue so no rent, all beer/food sales is straight in their pockets. 

15 minutes ago, Dicdan said:

maybe VAR can be useful for next season for both CanPL and VCup

No VAR. Apparently the biggest issue halting expansion is stadiums. Let’s not bring in VAR which needs more infrastructure and money. Don’t worry about VAR any time soon.