perfect metaphors don’t exis—

You get this player for nothing + I’d imagine you don’t get him as a DP as the press release doesn’t mention it and his salary is in the TAM range. Hard not to take this bet as the over is on the floor. Fine move, needs context around it though

What a banger of a squad. Two-man deep at basically every position except maybe goalkeeper, could still get better if they can find a solution for Kellyn Acosta. I am not fully aboard the Bamba train, but it’s not like he’s totally awful, especially with a DP-not-on-DP-money like Zinck (and Lod)

james cameron every few years

You know what's gonna hurt a lot more than not winning another Super Bowl? Watching your woman leave you for some skinny nerd in an indie band.

Travis Kelce, look at the example of your friend Tom Brady. Listen to @solomonmissouri.bsky.social. Hang it up and go home to the fine, rich woman who loves your goofy ass. Do not say this year was a disappointment and you want to end your career on a high note. She is the high note.

Fun fact: in Italy this movie is synonymous with Christmas Eve. It’s shown every year and it’s now a nationwide tradition. Funnily enough it is shown on Silvio Berlusconi’s channels

A dark day for Russian propagandists, as Kremlin military bloggers finally begin to admit that they have retreated from Ukraine's town of Kupyansk. One of the highlights: "the information-psychological operation about Kupyansk, we defeated ourselves, and not the enemy."

Folks calling Rudolph a system reindeer, ball knowledge is at an all-time low

We really have to stop talking about how much public services ‘lose’ and should more accurately talk about how much they cost in comparison to other public services. I suspect the usps is a relative bargain.

Here's a network of some better known players in the dataset — you can see a lot of club and national team relationships

I calculated a soccer-specific chess rating for 4,400 online games between ~100 players' accounts Top 10: 1. Marten de Roon 2. Yussuf Poulsen 3. Antonee Robinson 4. Stefan de Vrij 5. Borna Sosa 6. Christian Pulisic 7. Michael Olise 8. Kevin Prince Boateng 9. N'Golo Kante 10. Josip Stanisic

Massive massive signing. What a great reload by this club. Also you have to imagine they have a solution for shipping away Zanka lined up, couldn’t imagine paying whatever they are for their fifth CB at best. Even if he hadn’t been so clearly a bad contract through the year

The HIP rule, at least under the terms announced yesterday, isn't even half-baked.

The ESPN FC top 50 is here and we need to talk about the sudden conflict of interest the league has created with the high-impact player rule. With coaches and GMs weighing in on these lists, they can influence whether or not their players can get a bag. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Still baffling why he has basically been rented six months for staying on the bench. Would be curious to see how his value shifted in six months and see how much of a loss/profit Charlotte made

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

It's fair to point out that sometimes the inexperienced folks just needed a shot: Adrián González came from the Spanish 2nd div. Seb Hines was in Orlando City's youth set-up before transitioning to the Pride as an interim. Bev Yanez is on her first head coaching job. It's just not often the case.

This IMO gets at a big problem: there isn't a lot of proven, elite coaching talent in woso due to the lack of resources. The pool is shallow, and it's going to take a long time & focused effort to expand. Until then, inexperienced folks or questionable CVs from broso are going to get gigs.

Dude did a fake presidential run to build interest in a media company, accidentally became the president, accidentally committed a bunch of crimes because he's stupid, then had to try to become the president a second time so he wouldn't go to jail and it worked

We, as a nation, have invested more and cared more about women's soccer than any nation on the planet, but our soccer inferiority complex is so strong we've just unabashedly cowered in front of Europe the second they decided they'd pay attention.

So we've now outsourced the valuation of players for an American soccer league to European media. Looking forward to mediocre English players making more than their superior American equivalents!

Nor is there any good reason why the NWSL couldn’t have just made a Designated Player rule even if it didn’t want to use the term. There’s no shame in not attempting to invent something.

hey NWSL teams if you need someone not doing anything but checking this weird sum of accolades and awards and tell you an easy "yep" or "nah" to know whether the person you want to spend a lot of money on qualifies or not, I am available. i am terminally online, which should be the main requirement

How did they manage to make a rule that’s harder to track than the MLS ones?

Labour hate working people

Wait they are actually making start moves I was not ready for this

☘️ Wilfried Nancy’s Celtic through five games: Avg. possession: 67% Shots for/against: 83–61 xG for/against: 12.63–6.03 Goals for/against: 6–11 Big chances missed: 12 Wins: 1 The performances have been significantly better than the results.

If MLS had pro/rel Johnny Kenny would have put this shot on frame

Why didn't Wilfried Nancy kick this ball into the goal? Simply not up to the job

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

fucking AMAZING

It is officially a travesty. Players in Serie A who had more g+a than Pulisic in 2024/5? Three. 2nd in assists last year. Currently 2nd for goals. Plenty of Serie A players on this list who are not as good as him in the same league.

The 5 best players on the team are all injured and they're still going to have a winning season. It's fine.

Packers having the ultimate “sometimes it just ain’t your year” year, sucks

Weston McKennie constantly helping Juventus despite Juventus spending each summer trying and failing to chase him out the door is an incredible bit

I graded every MLS team’s Superdraft. It took me longer to write than the entire draft took to take place. open.substack.com/pub/500wp90/...

Viewing the MLS SuperDraft through the lens of the Colorado Rapids is hilarious: Acquired every single Philadelphia draft pick through 2027 for $350,000 GAM. Acquired TFC's #6 pick in exchange for a video analyst. Forced to draft their own Rapids 2 player. Drafted 3 strikers in the 1st round.

What if the biggest mystery to be solved was finding out that Sogut was actually smart all along?

This should be plastered all over MLS spaces on social media bc it is the only sensible way to talk about Inter Miami and their salary cap work:

Alright since everyone’s talking about Miami and how they’re managing their cap situation, here it is! Diving into how they can keep Tadeo Allende and the Dayne St. Clair signing, here’s Inter Miami’s 2026 off-season preview (sort of). For FAM:

Fantastic piece of journalism by the AP. A map of the 145 Russian sabotage and disruption incidents across Europe. These are not random acts. "Russia wants to drain Europe's investigative resources with its sabotage campaign, officials say." apnews.com/projects/rus...

I think Dr. Sogut might’ve just crushed it in the superdraft? Not sure about Emojong but Markovic & Aman are very highly rated by other MLS front offices and the Maryland guys are well regarded, too.

I hate to give him a swelled head but @mattdoyle.bsky.social's newsletters can give you a pretty good perspective on the MLS news cycle. Like, say, today's headline regarding a San Diego-Houston transaction

Did a quick update on the money spent by #FCDallas on this post…they spent nearly $1m in GAM (spread between 2026 and 2027) on picks. Bold.

Welcome to the beauty of the MLS SuperDraft. If you told me beforehand that the #1 guy for the preeminent publicly available draft board got picked at #40 I’d say “yes, that is absolutely possible! MLS teams do not scout the college game as much as they could so they could definitely miss on this!”

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Inter Miami is a lot of things, but what most people wouldn’t guess is that they’re a good draft team. But Bright is not an accident and this guy seems like he could follow his footsteps

For a team in dire need of almost everything like STL, you go best available above fit. Not that he isn’t a good fit, he is. But like this team has a lot of fits bc they have a lot of holes. He fills one!