even counting the wildcard round, only 1 lower seed has advanced so far this year (skc)

Yeah Home field matters

Union 10-1-6 at home and 5-8-4 road

There are others more lopsided

Not sure what else they are supposed to what they are doing now.

Hate three game series and everything on apple though.

Guy. Literally nobody cares about the Supporters Shield. The league results aren't even shown in a single table. LOL Supporters Shield.

The FA Cup is a competition in England that literally everyone can enter and qualify. if the 2p2 all-stars want to form a team and wear Yeezy's and skinny jeans we can theoretically qualify for and participate in the FA Cup. It has no basis on how teams finished in the league. It's not a playoffs to determine at champion at the end of a meaningless regular season. Also pretty much nobody cares about the FA Cup anymore. Offer a team a league title or the FA Cup and they'll laugh at you. Most big teams don't even take it seriously until like the last 2 rounds. You don't play 38 games in England, every other team in the league home and away to determine your champion via the FA Cup. I can't believe we're having this discussion or making this comparison. When is the Supporter's Shield parade? I must have missed it

The Supporters Shield is indeed a legit trophy. In leagues around the world the overall leader in points is considered the true champion. And the winner of it is presented the trophy with a celebration ceremony. A parade is needed? Lol

In American pro sports that’s not how things are typically viewed. But there are indeed many soccer purists that consider it to be the true champion.

The MLS Cup is just simply an additional trophy with playoffs after the season that Americans are used to.

Honestly your posts are rambling and bizarre and I didn’t read that long incoherent paragraph.

But feel free to come up with something different for MLS Cup. Is all this rambling because SKC beat St Louis? It’s a knockout tournament dude lmao

Again you’ve proved to be clueless which is why it’s easier to just lol smh at you.

No it’s not about skc beating St. Louis. The whole format is insanely dumb

And I lol and smh at you

Unless you propose a new format, what exactly is it about a knockout tournament that is insanely dumb?

It has been dumb with regards to long layoff but what would the new MLS commissioner LFC_USA propose?

The floor is yours

No dumb tournament at all. Single table regular season. Champion determined by playing every team home and away.

If you absolutely insist on having 2 divisions then have an MLS Cup between the winners of each division.

Having 2 divisions where more than half the league make the playoffs, where team with negative GD make the playoffs is insanely dumb. To have your dumb playoffs take 2 months stretching across multiple international breaks is done.

All of these things are contrary to what makes soccer such a great and compelling sport. But America gonna America

Thanks for specifying what you would propose and I mean that sincerely

The main problem with you propose however is that midway through the season 80% or more of the league is playing for nothing

There would be no relegation battles. And there’s no trying to jockey up spots for Champions League/Europa berths.

They need to avoid having such a long drawn out playoff schedule though, that is incredibly stupid. And the Apple deal turned away many casuals

Neither conference winner gonna be in the finals. Looks like #3 v #3 if LAFC holds on.

had no idea they were that deep in the playoffs because like none of the games have been on tv


looks like cincinnati blew a 2-0 home lead to the crew, and as a result the final will be in columbus next saturday. thats gotta sting

Is final at least on normal TV?

I stopped watching that league, I’m not cheap but I’m not paying $15 a month or whatever to watch MLS soccer lol

MLS has the Balloon d Bobby Orr winner (or whatever that is) and feels like it’s going backwards

yeah i'm cheap and also don't want to pay $$$ to watch mls lol


luckily it looks like the final is on fox

Scheduling is brutal and will probably always be an issue for MLS.

There's basically 0 chance I'm ever watching MLS when it's late season CFB unless it's Montreal or maaaaybe Messi. Although maybe the novelty of the latter will wear off a lot next season.

At the end of the day Messi is just a little dummy running around in a pink shirt

Came here to back read through all the MLS Final chatter from all the MLS Stans and supporters of this wonderful regular season and playoff format...

Oh you could have come back to address the huge flaws in your proposal

But perhaps another day

so they can't withdraw (yet?), but if i know mls like i think i do, they'll keep trying to

kind of seems like a win-win; hopefully the smaller teams who are trying to win start shipping every year

was trying to look up what teams signed which players over the off-season and noticed that the new season is actually starting on wednesday lol, with messi fc, naturally

ugh

lol

mls goes through lolhio

anyway ... signings!


atlanta
Stian Gregersen (D) - Bordeaux - $2m
Bartosz Slisz (M) - Legia Warsaw - $3.5

chicago
Hugo Cuypers (F) - Gent - $14m

colorado
Zack Steffen (GK) - Manchester City - undisclosed
Djordje Mihailovic (M) - AZ Alkmaar - $3m
(didn't montreal sell this guy for way more not long ago? lol)

dallas
Enes Sali (F) - Farul Constanta - $3.2m
Petar Musa (F) - Benfica - $10.8m

la galaxy
Gabriel Pec (F) - Vasco da Gama - $10m

lafc
Hugo Lloris (GK) - Tottenham Hotspur - free transfer
Omar Campos (D) - Santos Laguna - $5m

miami
Luis Suarez (F) - Gremio - undisclosed
Julian Gressel (M) - Columbus Crew - free transfer

montreal
Matias Coccaro (F) - Huracan - $2m
Josef Martinez (F) - Inter Miami - free transfer

nyfc
Agustin Ojeda - Racing Club - $7.5m

nyrb
Emil Forsberg (M) - RB Leipzig

orlando
Nicolas Lodeiro (M) - Seattle Sounders - free transfer

portland
Kamal Miller (D) - Inter Miami - trade
Maxime Crepeau (GK) - LAFC - free transfer
(new canmnt just dropped?)

seattle
Pedro de la Vega (F) - Lanus - $7.5m

loltfc spotlight
Ins
Deybi Flores (M) - Fehervar FC - undisclosed
Outs
Michael Bradley (M) - retired
Franco Ibarra (M) - Atlanta United - end of loan
Cristian Gutierrez (D) - out of contract
CJ Sapong (F) - out of contract
Greg Ranjitsingh (GK) - out of contract
Tomas Romero (GK) - out of contract
Themi Antonoglou (D) - out of contract
Victor Vazquez (M) - out of contract

bold move as the worst team in the league to do basically nothing but dump a bunch of players, lets see if it pays off for them. guess this will be a rebuilding year, hopefully their meaningful prospects get some run

lolvwfc spotlight
Ins
Fafa Picault (F) - Nashville SC - free transfer
Bjorn Inge Utvik (D) - Sarspborg - undisclosed
Belal Halbouni (D) - 1. FC Magdeburg II - free transfer
Outs
Thomas Hasal (GK) - out of contract
Simon Becher (F) - AC Horsens - undisclosed

picault was a useful player last time i noticed him a couple years ago, and hopefully the new defenders will bolster things. wish they'd done more to improve, but not much lost replacing the backup keeper and an extra forward who also barely played, so overall it could be a step up


any other big moves out there? loads of free transfers and undisclosed fees, not sure which other ones are relevant. also, anyone know anything about these signings? some decent fees there, which hopefully represents some quality

hype!

this is a list of MLS transfers in & out:

https://www.espn.com/soccer/transfer...ague/usa.1/mls

there are a kazillion of them. many unknowns and retreads. a couple other dudes I have actually heard of not on 72off's list:

Billy Sharp - from LAG to Hull City
Miles Robinson - from ATL to CIN
Sam Vines - from Antwerp to Crapids

I'm gonna have to mashMGM Sporting to ship the whole competition at +3000 iirc

Montreal actually spent $2M on another guy, Yankov, from the Russian League. No idea if either are any good, but fans are going crazy b/c Saputo actually spent something. Those two $2M transfers and the 2nd and 3rd biggest in MTL history, to give an idea of how little they spend. The Josef Martinez signing seems really bad, unless his salary is miniscule (which I doubt it is). I think he'll be a TAM/GAM player, which usually means like the 4th or 5th biggest salary.

Nothing like taking a month out of the middle of the season. Montreal only even has 4 months where the average monthly high temp is >17 Celcius, and you're taking one of those away.

Re: TFC, 2 years ago they had the most valuable roster by a good margin and last year were 2nd (only b/c of Messi). This year: 3rd from last. Not sure what they're even doing there. YHTSI

My player to keep an eye on: Max Anchor. He's a 19 yr old GK, 3rd on the depth chart for VWFC, but can't think of a better GK name than Max Anchor.

you know anything about any of these guys signed from mexico or south america? or the euro ones too i guess


mls is so funny with half the teams run like this

and yeah josef prob on tam/gam wages, unfortunate as he seems quite washed up. hasn't really been the same since that knee injury in 2020, was somehow quite bad on messi fc last season. seems old and busted, but it'd be cool if he turned it around in montreal. at least long enough for them to sell him for a fee lol

MLS HYPEEEEEE!!!

The annual part of the year where I pump myself up for MLS before being reminded about 2 months in how dumb this format is and how nobody cares. But for now I've lumped on Orlando City to win the Supporters Shield at +3000. Muriel is so so so so good and is still in shape and form for a big time team in Italy and joins an already really good and well balanced team. Obv lol Messi All-Stars is the play but after them Orlando is worth a punt.

Actually have some optimism for my local Red Bulls with the Forsberg signing. Another mega player who's only 32. And if Vanzier can survive being racist for the first couple months they could be fun to watch. I'll def be going to some games.

Guy I'm most hyped to see is my LPF transfer dude Pedro de la Vega in Seattle. I'll be tuning into some games on the most unwatchable pitch in MLS that isn't a ****ing baseball stadium to watch him.

All of my hype depends on T-Mobile giving me free MLS Season Pass again.