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Elite new MLS name just dropped

Trying to get from "Jorge Mas wants his MLS team to play in Libertadores" to "Inter Miami play a midseason make-up friendly against an Ecuadorean team in Puerto Rico" but my red yarn supplies are running low

Outstanding draw for Barcelona, should be favored until the semifinal against Bodo/Glimt

The Premier League landscape has changed. The rise in physicality, duels and man-marking has meant that there are spaces to attack on the transition once you win the ball in midfield. Arsenal or Man City will be champions with more than just control. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

Got to hand it to the machines, they've got an eye for a good quote

Props to whoever did the new Champions League format for coming up with a draw format so pointlessly convoluted that it's physically impossible to read how it works without falling asleep. The MLS roster rules guys must be so jealous right now

Saw a video where Jack McGlynn said midfield is the hardest position because it’s the most running. Fortunately he’s figured out that part is optional

THE START OF EVERY JUVE SEASON: mckennie is on his way out, the manager doesn’t rate him, MLS return incoming? AT SOME POINT AFTER THAT EVERY YEAR: il colosso di texas has done it AGAIN

I was skeptical of the new Champions League format but if Inter, Dortmund, Juventus and PSG go out to Bodo/Glimt, Atalanta, Galatasaray and Monaco I will be forced to concede that it is the greatest idea in the history of sports

"Dortmund are in disarray" feels redundant, let me know if they're ever in array

This continues to be incredibly useful as a fan of an MLS club to keep up with other clubs and happenings. I'd have no idea about non-#NYCFC stuff without something like this.

This trend is interesting, think we've seen it in the Premier League too. It'd be cool to see more analysis but my gut says it's a bad idea — the goal threat from counters is usually an order of magnitude less than on the initial set piece

Expected goals are everywhere now, but there's so much more we can do with them. Here's how futi turns basic xG into team-level metrics including deserved results, projected points and projected finish.

Found an excuse to make some flashy dataviz to display how different the points distribution in the 2025/26 Premier League is compared to recent seasons.

Not a single MLS GM could think of a reason other than age and salary that they might not want to sign Cristiano Ronaldo

The World Cup is at risk over $625 million in federal U.S. government assistance for an event that's expected to earn FIFA $10.9 billion. I see a potential solution here

This is really nice from @futi.live open.substack.com/pub/futiapp/...

I've been subscribed to this for a few days now and find it quite useful.

Breaking 1000 subs for this in four days is cool but hearing from friends that it's helping people discover their work is cooler

Can't stop thinking about this kid celebrating a Barça goal against Levante by throwing the horns down, causing the Spanish announcer to break into English to talk shit about a college football team thousands of miles away. Just a beautiful, spontaneous moment of pure sports haterism

Testing a Premier League version of the newsletter and Youtube transcription is fighting for its life with the Scouse proununciation of Dewsbury-Hall

⚽Call for Abstracts ⚽ The abstract submission for the Leuven Institute of Sport Science’s #FootballAnalytics Symposium closes this Thursday, Feb 26 @ 17:00 CET The symposium is on April 23rd. Speakers include @unravelsports.bsky.social and Pascal Bauer (DfB) www.kuleuven.be/liss/events/...

This looks extremely good

Austin’s opening day tifo looked sick but knowing the background makes it even cooler

The Sunday night column is back! Matchday 1 saw LAFC make a statement, Cincy dive into The Discourse & plenty more around MLS. Including a performance for the ages by the wrong guy late on Sunday night. tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/lafc-send-a-...

Coaches are going to bring on their 60' subs before halftime

True, they’ll probably issue at least a one-game suspension to the ref

Tottenham must be so confusing for people who think managers matter

"MLS is not a walk in the park, not everything is Alice in Wonderland" is one of the funniest Did Not Do the Reading quotes I've ever heard

Touching Raygun homage from Eze

Texas catching intercontinental strays damn

It’s a risky strategy, Forsberg tends not to show up around kids

John, in his spare time, built one of the most useful tools I’ve seen for following MLS. Now imagine how good @futi.live, which he’s been working on for a year, is gonna be.

The only pregame show I need

Credit to Juventus's kit designers for creatively evoking their heritage as Club That Does Crimes

A few days in and I can instantly tell this is going to be a daily read for me. Encourage all #NERevs and #MLS fans to subscribe. 10/10 recommendation

Here's the current list of sources: johnspacemuller.github.io/mls-daily/ Let me know who's doing the best coverage of your club: beat writers, blogs, newsletters, podcasts, videos, whatever. Not everything is technically feasible but I'm trying to get the good stuff

There are simply too many MLS teams, which makes this absolutely essential stuff for anyone interested in the league.

Pretty cool that over 600 people signed up for this off a few screenshots and I genuinely hope all of you will yell at me when the first one goes out in an hour about how to make it better

been getting the previews for this and it's outstanding

As a beta tester: this is so, so good. Sign up to keep up with a sprawling MLS.

My MLS season preview

While there could be a few more changes, this incorporates all the recent moves (Salloi, RBW, Dorsey, Carmona, Elie). This season has the highest roster turnover since I started tracking this prior to the 2019 season, but there are no statistically significant differences in any of the seasons.

Following MLS is harder than it should be, so I made an automated daily newsletter that rounds up high-quality coverage from around the league. I'll tell you all about it tomorrow but you can sign up in advance here: tally.so/r/eq6DQx

Here it is, my favorite column of the year: the 2026 Tiers of MLS! All 30 teams, ranked by tier, with about 9000 words of analysis on why it’ll work — and why, quite possibly, it won’t — for each. tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/ranking-all-...

Wild to see MLS saying stuff like this while barely even making their own fans aware the season starts this week

The 2026 MLS season starts in three days. After scrolling past list of games... this is what's on Apple TV's MLS homepage to preview the season.