Finally picked up the pen this year. Check out my most recent piece here! www.fiveboroughfooty.com/articles/the...

Stop using clean sheets as a goal keeper metric. Sincerely, Anyone with a brain that watches soccer.

images you see before you fall headfirst down a flight of stairs

🚨🚨 If Santi is gone, I have thoughts: 1. Santi going for $17m makes him the 5th highest outgoing transfer in MLS history -- Great business for David Lee. 2. Pascal now has the opportunity to acquire two DP centerpieces to build around. Good news all around in my eyes.

WE OUT HERE 👋

A new little piece about the new NYCFC coach Pascal Jansen. Enjoy!

Sources: NYCFC will name Pascal Jansen their next manager. @fabriziorom.bsky.social first reported. Jansen leaves Hungarian giants Ferencváros after just half a season, with City Football Group buying out his contract. www.givemesport.com/nycfc-to-nam...

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Let's go fellow sickos

Just a quick business trip to Miami to start the season

Draft list finally out www.mlssoccer.com/superdraft/n...

In honor of Fallout winning best adaptation at The Game Awards last night, here is @theoutfield.nyc contributor @aleckossoff.bsky.social getting lit up

Squabble up? More like gobble up amirite? 🍗🍗🍗 I’ll see myself out thanks.

Starting a wish list here for the open NYCFC head coaching job. Comment below your wish: 1. Pep Guardiola (he clones himself and coaches Man City and NYCFC)

Saying the quiet part loud.

Tonight wrapped a season in which I covered 16 NYCFC matches + 4 NYCFC II matches and published 45 game-specific articles for @hudsonriverblue.bsky.social Thank you to any readers of any of that coverage. We are always posting offseason or not, so don’t be a stranger: www.hudsonriverblue.com

More than $20m worth of spend on guys who either aren't going to figure at all, or only in desperation time.

oh boy.

goal saving tackle from Haak.

Day 1/1 of asking NYCFC to join Bluesky so I can put out their starting XIs.

Any former red bull player at CiTi Field "covering" the game should be booed on sight. This is a PSA.

dear mr/mrs god of soccer, please allow NYCFC’s offense to return today on gameday, the holiest of days amen

👀👀🏟️🏟️🗽🗽 <— soon

trying to minimize my political footprint on here, but very grateful that this ghoul isn't going to be the AG of the USA.

Comes as no shocker to anyone. As we reported for @theoutfield.nyc back in May 2023, Etihad Airways was pre-approved as the naming rights sponsor BEFORE the stadium was even announced in November 2022. www.theoutfield.nyc/p/welcome-to...

Well this is interesting. You take this all day right?

As thrilling of a match Kosovo v Lithuania will surely be today, I do really miss the MLS playoffs

Josh “Alonso Martinez” Allen New Yorkers born to score

The #MLS Cup Playoffs power rankings from J Sam Jones on MLS.com: 1. LAFC 2. Orlando 3. LA Galaxy 4. Sounders 5. #NYCFC 6. Minnesota 7. #RBNY 8. Atlanta Thoughts? www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-cup...

Just so I'm following...we're nominating a suspected pedophile and sex-trafficker to be the Attorney General of the USA?

Need a big one next weekend.

I am playing around with a simple model of team chemistry that uses a running total of how many passes between players there are, and then uses that total to measure how much a team's starters have played together. Here is NYCFC since 2017:

Issues with CiTi Field for the first home playoff derby in club history is kinda a tragically sad and embarrassing story. I’m sure all roads have been looked into, but this is pretty unfortunate.

so is FIFA/MLS ever going to address John Herdman using drones to spy for *perhaps a decade*, demoting staff that refused, and lying openly about it? or continue allow him to work while falsely accusing opposing coaches of punching children? would be nice to get a firm answer on that tbh !

Ohio has a non—election related reason to hate those coastal elites.

HT: This game is going as expected. Cincinnati has the better chances, but not scoring should be a huge boost. We need to figure out how to beat their counter-press. 👀 on Santi because he’s currently struggling with being man marked. Expect to see small changes to exploit that.

Per @glenncrooks.bsky.social: Tayvon Gray did not travel to Cincinnati with the club for personal reasons. Prayers up for him…hoping everything is ok.

So nice we had to do it twice. Let’s win a game today. #coybib

Trying this thing out for a bit.