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I agree that there should be two teams there, I just got the sense that it was a dig at the Red Bull market. Of course the incumbent team is also misnamed.-QG
I was listening to an Ian Holloway interview (I love this guy) and he was talking about what Charlie Adam was worth to Blackpool and he said $49MM because that's what it would cost Blackpool to be relegated. I was curious as to where he came up with that and found that the average league payout per team from 2007-2010 was about $40MM (mostly from television revenue I believe). That's just the league payout as well. I imagine there is advertising, ticket sales, merchandising, etc. losses to take into consideration, especially for a club like Villa.Seeing those figures makes me understand why Villa was willing to pay a little extra.Edit: I believe those values are all actually in pounds.
My favorite was Eddie Pope
Exactly.Play wherever for a few years while a real, soccer specific stadium gets built in a good location. Sure it'll cost a mint, but it would be a great place to see a game.
Yes, it is a dig at the market. They should be the NJ whatevers, just as the Giants and Jets shouldn't be NY-anything if they both play in Jersey.QuizGuy66 said:
No halfway decent available venues here. Stanford is in a better soccer configuration than 1994 but lacks luxury boxes. Oakland and AT&T are occupato. The Stick is the stick.
I know... it's terrible. The Bay is a mediocre soccer town anyway. Lots of foreigners (euros) and some latinos, but not enough homegrown nor foreign spirit.When we gonna meet up at Mad Dog?
If the Cosmos launch and become a hit, I would totally be on board for Red Bull to rebrand as NJ. Once the nets leave, I think that will only leave on pro team in the state that uses the name NJ.
The Rose Bowl will only host one game, the final. if it is US vs Mexico, should be a enormous crowd (90+% Mexican of course)
will either of these be DP level signings?Ted Lange as your Bartender said:
Damn. I wanted to catch a double header. Maybe I can convince my peeps to make a trip out to someplace (we're all in Cali except one guy in Peoria) to see a double header.
NJ Devils, fwiw.and further fwiw- I would happily... no, GIDDILY... jump on the Cosmos bandwagon after all these years following a pretty pointless professional exercise.
yup, thats the one team I was talking about. When are the Nets leaving?
Pretty sure it's next year.And again- I haven't really been following it, but I do know there's a Russian billionaire on board with the Nets. It would be chump change for him to throw his lot in with the Cosmos... and then we'd maybe start seeing some Chelskea type action in Brooklyn.
No - Ives tweeted he thought the number was ~ $450k for the pair of them, which would be a great deal given Mondragon's vast experience and Valdes' age combined with some caps for the Colombian senior national team.
excellent. This should allow Phili to go after a DP in the summer transfer window should they choose.
Meant to say Shouldn't be two teams there at RBA, I mangled my post
. I usually still call them the Metrostars in protest 
My point was that the Red Bulls are well situated in the Harrison/Kearny/Ironbound area and it's about the best location for a soccer team to be based in the market. I do think that putting a 2nd team in Queens would be far enough away that it wouldn't cut into the gate for the Metrostars all that much. They'd be better off NOT starting out in the New Giants Stadium before then assuming they are going to Queens - a delay would be a better option (not sure what would be a logical choice otherwise given the other venues are for baseball).
Um, there's this team with 3 Stanley Cups that would disagree.That said, they totally should rebrand as RedBull NJ or hell harken back to the old days and market them as RedBull Metro. The Jersey guy in me is pissed off to no end about that. Especially when the team is based there specifically because of NJ's soccer fan base and the history of the area (like 84 or so US World Cup players from the area - though that's a rough estimate
) -QG
Oops, misread your post - though you were saying the Red Bulls would be the only one with NJ if they rebranded.The traitorous Nets will be ending the world's longest divorce in 2012 supposedly (i.e. 2012-13 season).-QG
I'll be in sec 111Aohhhh... I've got to remember to do this. My usual game-going gb is out of town unfortunately... and he's the one with the car to get us there too.QuizGuy66 said:I'll end my Hippling by noting that I ordered up my US vs Argentina tickets today
-QG
-QG
probably univision for me.
I've ordered from this seller in Bangkok a few times. I don't think he does custom lettering but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to ask. Excellent communication and fast delivery. He even reshipped a three shirt order at no charge after the first attempt got lost/intercepted by customs.The one thing that impressed me about Risa's storefront is that he sells a small number of seconds at discount. I suspect most other sellers would just ship those and charge full price.
Good no-call by the lineschick in the Wolves-Pool game. Cute too
on both counts Let's see Liverpool stick this lead out now
"Camp Cupcake"...Some of these guys seem to have bright futures with the USMNT at least as spot-contributors. Maybe not in the near future, but down the line perhaps. Guys like Juan Agudelo, Omar Gonzalez, Brek Shea, Teal Bunbury. Tim Ream has been pretty highly touted, but the only times I really got to watch him play in MLS, he looked average - but again, he's young. His career highlight, for me, is getting absolutely smoked by Bobby Convey in the MLS playoffs....he made Ream look like a traffic cone. (ETA - obviously I have hopes that these guys will be more than spot-starters for the USMNT, but I like to temper my expectations on the young guys)There's a couple of classic USMNT re-tread type players on the team, the fringe World Cup/Gold Cup players...Dax McCarty, Matt Pickens, Nick Rimando, Marvell Wynne. Meh.Bedoya still has some promise, and I thought Mikkel Diskerud was somewhat impressive in the last friendly (I think it was the most recent one). There was some discussion in here about Eugene Starikov, the Russian-born guy who played college ball in the US and now plays for Zenit....I'm interested to see him. Jeff Larentowicz is a bit older than you'd expect for a guy who could make his debut, but I've read a lot of people who have been clamoring for him to get at least a friendly call-up for awhile now.Really those top 5 guys in the first paragraph, Diskerud, Starikov, and Larentowicz are who I'll be watching closely today.
Hope you see this in time Floppo. The US game is not on Univision. It is on Telefutura
Very
BTW, I am one of the guys who loves Ream. I know the play you are talking (which was horrible) about but you should not let a brilliant season in which he played every minute of every game, as a rookie no less, be darkened by one bad play.
Well, I prefaced it by saying that the "times I saw him play", which was only a handful of games, really. I know he's been praised all around, and I hope he turns into a defender that the US sorely needs. It's hard to not envisionVery
BTW, I am one of the guys who loves Ream. I know the play you are talking (which was horrible) about but you should not let a brilliant season in which he played every minute of every game, as a rookie no less, be darkened by one bad play.
. The only thing that'd make it more apt is if Convey had scored in the opening 10 minutes....
