i know this a ENGLISH SOCCER or football thread....
but i am amped for the start of the 2010 MLS of the USA.....
As Jaffa said, all soccer is welcome! I'm looking forward to the start of the MLS season as well. Even before the season starts, Columbus begin the first knockout round of the CONCACAF Champions League. Apart from losing striker Alejandro Moreno to Philly, we have the same squad that won the league in 2008, plus one or two new faces. I think we'll be competing for all the silverware again this season. Most importantly, it looks like we'll be able to re-sign Schelotto for another season. And we have new shirts!
Some significant
vocal unrest among the United supporters against the owners - that's something new to me.
It's also hypocritical. Fans seem very excited or at least trusting when a mega-rich owner buys a club and does whatever they want with it, as long as they see results. But the second things look shaky they attack "foreign" ownership etc etc (what about Ken Bates?). I'm not supporting the Glazers here, but why is their ownership a problem all of the sudden? I have not heard much unrest from United fans before, when they were winning trophies right and left....
It looks like Babel
has to go since Rafa has lost his confidence, but there's no guarantee we'll be getting anyone to replace him...Kenwyne Jones is a player I doubt we'd have considered a year ago, but now he seems a good option. He may make a meaningful contribution, but Liverpool can't afford top four players anymore - so how can we call ourselves a top four club? Especially if we don't finish in the top four?
I read this weekend that Beckham may be hanging up his boots after this summer's World Cup – if there's any truth in that I don't know, it may be nothing more than tabloid tittle-tattle but he will be 35 in May so he's certainly got fewer playing days ahead of him than he does behind...
If the rumor has anything to it, it may simply be referring to Becks retiring from England...with his dead ball skills I'll bet he could be a useful player in the MLS into his 40s. Plus, he has an option to buy an MLS franchise as part pf his contract deal....Beckham the player-manager?