designated-player Stories - Sounder At Heart
Explaining the Sounders signing of Alvaro Fernandez
A lot of these issues have been addressed in comments, but figured it would be worthwhile to get as many answers in one place as possible. The most basic facts are these: Alvaro Fernandez is currentl...
Stuck in Last Year's Thinking - MLS Still Targeting Wrong DPs
IMScouting is saying that MLS is targeting the following 5 players for the Secondary Window this summer - Thierry Henry, Robert Pires, Patrick Vieira, Ludovic Giuly and Camel Meriem. If we assume that...
What the new DP rule means
By now you are probably familiar with the gist of the new DP rule, in particular you've started dreaming of a Juninho, or a Deco, maybe an Henry. All of the speculation will be about players that are ...
Financial Impact of the DP
With MLS having very closed finances, and Forbes only doing a report on the 2007 revenue streams, judging financial impact is rather difficult. The sole set of numbers that can be looked at are ...
Designated Players - worth their weight in meh
Once upon a time I critiqued the man who is now the manager of SBNation's soccer network and his stance on the DP. I ran some with or without you numbers and titled it really poorly. I was learni...
Missed Opportunities
On May 26th, 2009 the whole world found out that this player would be available on a free transfer: For those of you not familiar with him, Juninho Pernambucano is probably the world's best free k...
Freddie speaks up, asks for the impossible
Freddie asks for something we'd all like to see: A good example is Paul Scholes who I personally saw as the best player in United for many years. He never got as much media attention as he maybe deser...
No Tougher Test - SSFC @ Houston Dynamo
Let's test something this week. Sounders FC has a recent (last 5) form of 1-3-1 (0/8) and Houston has a 2-2-1 (7/7) form in the same stretch of league play. Recent form would make you think that Hous...
The Designated Player - MLS needs more
Not just because stars sell (see the 80s/90s for NBA, 90s for MLB), not just to improve overall quality, but the fact is that there are Europeans that want to player soccer in America, to live here. ...
Designated Player Value in MLS 2009
It looks Seattle is likely to add some depth at the Forward position in June. Yes, this is outside of the transfer window, no I can't yet say who the player is. The player would be rotational (meani...
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