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Manager salaries are hard to know but a quick Google suggests Pep was making $25 million a year approximately, which I think is about 12 times higher than Berhalter’s salary. So no. Also, like, obviously his resume is wild but it’s also playing with cosmically well-funded clubs at the top of their leagues. Only so much of that would carry over to a national team setup, particularly one that’s mid-tier relative to other World Cup level teams. Probably would be smart to maybe poach someone who’s worked in coaching with him before though—aw damn it’s Reyna again. I think one of the many things the /r/ussoccer crowd has wrong is how much interest that top-tier managers will have in the USMNT job. Pep’s not walking through that door. Zidane’s not walking through that door. Unless, maybe, someday, one of them is nearing retirement and likes the idea of a pet project. I’d like to think the current crop of the roster would attract a more qualified outsider than, say, Jurgen Klinsmann, but realistically how high can we expect here?
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NHL Anti-Thread: Bad Business Decision Aggregator
Digby replied to The_Admiral's topic in Sports In General
Yeah, I think there's an assumption that a big market means four or five pro teams, and in practice it's rare for that to work and rarer still for all four to be thriving. That should be the exception and not the rule. (I'll crosspost this to the OAK/TB baseball thread now.) -
I really like the pairing of the off-white shirt and dark green shorts, and I think overall Portland looks good back in their "traditional" color scheme instead of leaning so far into red/black, but I simply cannot move past the gaudy tattoo graphics. Points for creativity, but it's hideous.
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Yeah, what a surprise that he also presided over a locker room where David Villa sexually harassed a 20-year-old intern for months and nothing came of it at a team or league level. (Austin's still paying the guy, too. $10 says Precourt thinks this is all a witch hunt.)
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We were also delightfully and blissfully starry-eyed about westward expansion when teams moved to LA, whereas anyone paying attention now can see the Vegas population boom as unsustainable and that this all will be a weird bubble when looked back upon in 100 years. Will at least be interesting engineering as each new, redundant giant venue in Vegas comes up with new technology in water recycling.
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This seems to suggest no change in the color options, which is disappointing. I understand the need to keep it limited when the replica shirt printing business was distributed around to local shops around the UK, but seems antiquated now in the time of e-commerce and centralized production and every other league being able to allow seemingly infinite colors to match the kit design.
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That’s not bad! A little boring but boring goes better with a wide range of designs. Better to keep focus on club brands rather than the league. Nice change of pace from some of the garish league fonts like MLS and the usual lower English league choices.
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I guess the colors are similar, yeah, though I usually think of Pumas wearing all-white kits? That particular one though I see what you mean.
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RSL’s new away (worn at home, natch) looks great with navy shorts. It’s a natural but pretty unique combination. The mustard gold looks really nice as long as it’s broken up by a complementing color like this.
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new Berhalter-Reyna incident report just dropped https://www.espn.com/soccer/united-states-usa/story/4900039/us-soccer-says-gregg-berhalter-eligible-to-coach-mens-team-after-investigation Nothing new on the Berhalter incident from 30 years ago, all parties involved are satisfied it didn't happen again and was handled appropriately; Gregg remains eligible to be rehired (whenever they hire the other two bosses who will decide). Reynas look increasingly unhinged, however, though nothing they did rises to the level of extortion or bullying, according to the investigators. Just run-of-the-mill psycho soccer parent stuff. Have another juice box lady, sheesh! Also, this is charming:
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I think we have enough years under the belt with both Tampa Bay and Miami at this point to conclude that maybe Florida just isn’t a good MLB market. I know both teams have not done themselves any favors but…you’d think if there was some latent pent-up demand for being a strong MLB market we’d have seen a glimmer of hope by now.
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Love me some vertical integration!
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LAFC go to Costa Rica and beat the mighty Alajuelense 3-0. Literally historical quality.
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Yeah, it’s the Reds for me (sorry).
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Admire the commitment to the Portlandia-worthy bit from Portland pro soccer this year, I guess.
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But even in the 70s... the team struggled with attendance and a crappy stadium and were the subjects of relocation rumors all the time. How times have changed!
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Dog on the pitch! This won't ever happen in Leagues Cup I bet.
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I’m annoyed by Austin as the annoying little brother team nowadays the way Seattle was in like 2011, so that’s hilarious. Don’t know a lot about xG and such but from what I did see of Austin last year (admittedly not a ton but) it seemed like they were way overperforming. The wackiness of early round CCL seems like a logical place for mean regression.
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Yeah, there's definitely only so many new markets you can get to (it's why the league leaves itself open to the Pyramid Scheme jabs), and even with those the luster will eventually wear off. I'm old enough to remember when even NYCFC was doing 50% better numbers attendance-wise. Maybe they've figured out sustainability on the roster sheet in a way NASL never did, but the business-side sustainability remains a question mark I think.
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Also worth noting Oakland has never been a big attendance draw since even before the slow destruction of the Coliseum. They had good numbers during the late 80s, and middle-of-the-pack numbers during peak Moneyball. Otherwise pretty consistently near the bottom. They’d probably never top the list but it’s still a rough history, especially compared to the same time that the Warriors and Raiders were famously well-supported in the same location.
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Lol I feel like the Prem just changed it. Agree on the need for more colors but a different typeface feels more likely to be a downgrade.
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https://theathletic.com/4279165/2023/03/06/mls-st-louis-expansion-garber/ For subscribers, interesting piece on how MLS needing its classic clubs to get better (business-wise) in the wake of the new trendy success stories. Though you could also look at it as the two originals in last year's top ten attendance are LA Galaxy (who still outdraw LAFC) and the Revolution (who still play in Foxborough), so let's be careful about leaning into the easy narratives too much.
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United weren't THAT bad -- I mean they were lose by three bad but not lose by seven bad. I've thought Liverpool are "turning the corner" many times this year so they'll probably get wrecked by Real Madrid again, but seems like Nunez and Gakpo are finally asserting their places and talent.
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Congratulations to Kei, I guess?
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Did your high school copy a pro or college team?
Digby replied to Maz's topic in Sports Logo General Discussion
Mine did not, but they have been embroiled in a Culture War Logo Appropriateness imbroglio amongst the townspeople as long as I can remember, so not sure what the bigger L would be.
