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Capacity will be a shade over 62,000
62k- nice size. big, but not cavernous- especially with the steep seating. that place should be a cauldron. well... as much of a cauldron as tepid spurs fans are capable of making it.
I would put it quite a bit higher than that. He's probably got a massive buy-out, and the Glazers are for-profit owners. In retrospect, I imagine they deeply regret firing Moyes. The only way I see it happening is if Zidane will take the job. Not because I think he's a great coach (I have no idea) but because he's probably the only galactico manager available who could enhance the brand by replacing Mourinho.shader said:
I don't know... there is one manager out there who is perfect fit for "for profit owners"... top 4 and cl rd of 16 every year.
Great news, but I'll believe it when it's official.
This does not affect him at all. See my previous post.
Awesome news!
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Current summary of rumors:
Precourt to take his franchise to Austin
Jimmy Haslam (Cleveland Browns owner) to buy "expansion" franchise
Crew players stay in Columbus, and Haslam keeps the records and brand
Potentially no interruption of play in Columbus
12:26ET Edit:
Haslam to be majority owner with unknown minority partner.
Minority partner potentially has land for a new stadium.
Announcement pushed to today due to leaks, Crew/MLS initially planned a later announcement
13:10ET Edit:
Massive Report, The Athletic Columbus, and several Columbus news outlets reporting announcement coming soon
looks like 4:15 (eastern?) is the announcement but the deal may not yet be complete. We might get some indications though since this caught like wild fire and may have forced their hands to say something.
it is an exciting day for me as a neutral. For those hard core Crew fans there since 1996, this has got to be a near miracle that they may escape the worst punishment in US sports.
From Precourt's statement, do you think your first year will be in 2020, the year before the stadium is set to be finished or do you think it will be more 2021? I feel like with today's news and the likelihood that Austin will be an expansion side in all but name, they likely won't be able to start next season.
at this but damn this reads funny
From what I believe, a lot of that is dependent on whether there's a temporary stadium location in 2020 that meets MLS' needs (i.e. at the University of Texas). No way 2019 happens.
I probably should not
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This is fantastic. Cincy vs Crew is going to be the best rivalry in the MLS soon
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Current summary of rumors:
Precourt to take his franchise to Austin
Jimmy Haslam (Cleveland Browns owner) to buy "expansion" franchise
Crew players stay in Columbus, and Haslam keeps the records and brand
Potentially no interruption of play in Columbus
12:26ET Edit:
Haslam to be majority owner with unknown minority partner.
Minority partner potentially has land for a new stadium.
Announcement pushed to today due to leaks, Crew/MLS initially planned a later announcement
13:10ET Edit:
Massive Report, The Athletic Columbus, and several Columbus news outlets reporting announcement coming soon
That’s almost unbelievable - I would think even 1 worker death here in the US during building a stadium would cause controversy - how is this possible?
I don't follow it much at all but I did see one outrageous stat from qualifying.
The US Women is you just unfair how much talent they have compared to the rest of the world. We get #### on big time for a lot of things but one thing we should be proud of is revolutionizing the sport for women. We are for the most part so far ahead of other countries. There's European clubs with a mens league squads but no women's squad. My AC Milan are working on setting up a Women's squad. For some reason the first season for them was post poned but I think that had to do a lot with the ownership issues.
it's part of what makes it fun to watch too... get to watch a team play at a more "pure" level. but yeah, these regional games are not terribly competitive (which makes that loss to Mexico in the last couple years that much more shocking) and certainly far less interesting.
Having watched them over the years, and especially lately, they may very well be. The 99 group was heads and shoulders above everyone else in the world but the pace and finishing of this group is fantastic. The rest of the world has improved meaning the US needs to be better to repeat. This team is as much fun to watch as the 99 group was.
That would be amazing.
France was pretty clearly the best team in Pot 2 (with England, Switz and Italy), so that was just bad luck, a group of death draw. But who could foresee Holland beating Germany 3-0? I didn't watch the game or read anything about it, so have no idea. Maybe Germany just doesn't care about this "competition"? The other 3 teams in Pot 3 were Poland, Iceland and Croatia. Just based on recent history - the past 3-4 years - drawing Holland from that group doesn't seem too bad.
The idea of the nations league is to separate the minnows from the second tier from the top teams.
I watched a bunch of the Germany v Holland game... Germany dominated a lot of it, but was wasteful. Netherlands also had a bunch fo great chances and put three of them away. it wasn't a oneway rout by any means- but Germany seems to be stuck in the high-line defensively that worked so well in the WC and got opened up repeatedly.
