What a missed opportunity for the Colorado Rapids to transform into Denver FC or Colorado United. Won’t someone think of the consultants?

MLS teams are historically skeptical about hiring directly from USL (or CanPL) without a spell as an assistant on a MLS sideline. Pretty wise from a career building perspective.

Nah. They’re just being polite.

Such an excellent graf in a well-taken piece.

It’s just a collection of people who coach soccer teams.

It’ll get done because everyone’s going to make a lot more money, but MLSPA is wise to make sure it works through the details and maybe picks up a couple things for its members along the way.

Vancouver gave up the horrible second goal and just wilted after that point. Bit of a shame, really.

That was such a horrific turnover from Cubas. Vancouver running Inter Miami off the park and hands them a second goal instead. Just brutal.

If MLS thought this was a huge win to chop time off the deal and reconfigure the money, it wouldn’t surface on a Friday afternoon, FWIW.

MLS / Apple revised deal feels a negotiation around Apple’s reported opt-out clause (after 2027 season aka middle of calendar transition) to keep the agreement in place. Apple needs content for medium-term (while limiting downside risk) and MLS can’t really go to market without proof of concept.

Real ones know off-salary budget payments are part of MLS lore … and never involve planting trees.

Toronto knows they can spend the $8m in the market, right? Difficult to imagine any European team coming close to that number in this case.

Interesting (to me at least) that the Revs are linked to Matt Turner right around the time two supporters’ groups are asking for a new sporting director and a new head coach.

Inter Miami should have called MLS on Monday, explained the situation, and then offered the fig leaf of a minor injury to try and wriggle out of it. Might have worked, might not have worked. The no-call, no-show situation really didn’t leave MLS with much choice here.

Your articles always inform and entertain. Great fit with the Athletic. Congrats on the new deal!

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1, even if it’s messy. 2 implies agreement. 3 is lame.

Barnsley fans are going to be really confused when they realize Jonathan Lewis is a winger and not a number nine. Which is odd because Dane Murphy tried to sign him in 2020.

Litera Workshare Compare (or your doc comparison software of choice) for the win. Thanks for doing this!

Normal club stuff. Nothing to note here.

Not exactly a surprise to see MLS move its productions from NYC to (presumably) a more cost effective and efficient location in Stamford. The wrinkle is they have to make the production feel just as big (or bigger) in the new space.

Real ‘Cristiano Ronaldo might sign with Sporting KC’ vibes to these Neymar rumors. #MLS

10 percent of the cash fee for internal transfers is a huge step forward for the players. MLS and its players have been fighting players getting their share of outgoing transfers about this since the start of the league.

Not exactly the time I’d pick to inject additional variance into the outcomes!

Can only imagine the response when SKC asked for a fee and Chivas said … sure?

Montréal definitely going to end up on the Revolution’s Christmas card list this year after taking enough of Vrioni’s salary budget hit to allow Revs to open a Designated Player spot.

I’d get pretty ticked off if a tracker took my lunch money most years, too.

It’s like they took the ridiculous fee for Driussi and decided to pay it forward for some reason.

Tanner’s pretty smart and delivers great ROI on that academy, but it’s fair to wonder whether turning an off-brand Red Bull model up to 10 with Red Bull already ahead on the curve is too clever by half.

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