international-talent Stories - Sounder At Heart
Filling Team Needs
Sometimes the question you ask leads to an unexpected answer. In my efforts to suss out the status of LWB Jared Karkas and LW Mike Fucito I made an unexpected discovery. Now some readers may have known this already, but the Sounders have a Senior Roster spot available. Why is this an unknown? ...
Hanauer "Don't read anything into it."
Really? Don't read anything into the Chairman of a English League Championship club showing up less than 24 hours before a game in England but at a charity event in Fremont? Seriously? You don't think that we'd look at that roster. Adrian, you don't think we would notice that a young American...
Expanding Major League Soccer Now
This relates to my previous posts on the level of available talent (Internationals and CONCACAFs) that MLS ignores in order to keep costs down, as well as my post on what MLS can be in 5 years. You see Major League Soccer is currently accepting bids for its two team expansion for 2011. There are...
For the Fans and For the Players Supporter's Groups Matter
Soccer/Football/Futbol is different from most professional sports in America. Most clubs don't have cheerleaders, they don't need public address announcers or reader boards telling fans when to clap their hands. Ideally, they don't even need a marching band. In Seattle's case we are going to...
Building a Cup Winner
Quite simply it happens by accepting change, by finding the players that you value more than the other General Managers. It happens by admitting that you may have made a mistake, and recovering from it. Today we have learned that Hanauer might be looking at dealing of talent, and possibly draft...
Bring 'em back home
I have already shown that MLS is missing about about two full teams worth of players just from its inability to adequately scout and sign vast swaths of the planet, in this case primarily Brazil, but also Asia and the Arab world. But the fact is that there is a wealth of talent that would be much...
The Transfer Window is Now Open
Oh, and Happy New Year! Well, not only should we be keeping track of the rare "Frees" but the fact is that the Transfer Window is open. While most FAs will recognize that it closes on January 31st, England (maybe others) will keep it open until 2 February. One of the key teams to watch for sales...
Premiership Centerback Available?
Calum Davenport, former Spur and current pouty Hammer, is on the outs. It sounds as if Zola wants to get something, but what kind of market is there going to be for a player with a broken neck a year ago and an attitude problem now. Davenport played U-17, U-19, U-20 for the English Men's National...
Mapping MLS for deficiency in international signings
First, there is a wicked cool website out there that has a map of MLS, USL-1 and USL-2 on it. It does a great job of showing where the teams are, and where they aren't. Secondly, there is this handy map from MLSnet.com concerning where the players are from, it does not include three of Sounders...
Searching for the Free
This is my first project for you the readers. I'm going to start it off, but this will take effort from more than just myself. Quite simply what we have here is a quest to find those players who will be available on Free Transfers this January. These are the guys who could be had at merely the...
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