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Just a few things of note to consider before the expansion draft today. 1. Expansion teams have right to negotiate player contracts. Yes some players up for grabs today are out of contract and were unprotected for a reason by their clubs. Portland and Vancouver can still pick them and will have the first right…[continue reading]

By Geoff Reid Group A Inter Milan vs FC Twente from the San Siro, Milan The pressure is firmly on Inter and manager Rafa Benitez in this one. The defending champions are going through a rough patch as every club does during a season, and the club have dropped to sixth in the Serie A.…[continue reading]

Tomorrow is the 2010 Expansion Draft for the Portland Timbers and the Vancouver Whitecaps. I got fellow WVH writer Chris Thomas (aka Brookhattan on twitter) to do a mock draft here. I took Portland while Chris tackled Vancouver in this draft. We did this draft earlier today and there are some surprise picks in this…[continue reading]

By Geoff Reid The group stage is almost wrapped up in this seasons tournament, some teams have already qualified for the knockout phase and looking to be top seeds when the draw for the last 16 takes place, while others will be scrapping for their lives to make it into the next round. Group E…[continue reading]

Now that the 2010 season is over its time to start looking ahead to the MLS SuperDraft. It seems as though the league is wasting no time looking at possible Generation adidas candidates this year. The always informative Steve Goff has posted a full list of targets by the league. This list goes pretty much…[continue reading]

Below is the full list of exposed players for this week’s expansion draft. COMPLETE LIST OF AVAILABLE PLAYERS FOR THE 2010 EXPANSION DRAFT Chivas USA Borja, Carlos Bornstein, Jonathan Chijindu, Chukwudi Espinoza, Rodolfo Galindo, Maykel Gordon, Alan Kennedy, Dan Lillingston, Eduardo Maldonado, Giancarlo Mayen, Gerson Padilla, Jesus Romero, Osael Saragosa, Marcelo Trujillo, Mariano Zotinca, Alex…[continue reading]

The trade season is about to get going here. The league has announced a trade between the New York Red Bulls and the expansion Portland Timbers today. The Timbers have acquired defender Jeremy Hall in exchange for a third round draft pick in January’s SuperDraft. Hall played 37 regular season games and made 31 starts…[continue reading]

I never touched on some of the big news from last night. Mainly I wanted to enjoy the game as much as possible without having to sit down and write anything on here. I’m lazy what can I say. Still the league announced some fairly decent sized changes for the 2011 season. With two more…[continue reading]

I won’t go into why the Colorado Rapids won their first MLS Cup last night, nor will I go into why FC Dallas came away empty handed and heartbroken. No I’ll leave the massive amounts of recaps to those who get paid to do it. All I can do at this point is be happy…[continue reading]

It is finally here, the game we’ve all been waiting for since March. The 2010 MLS Cup is here and honestly I couldn’t be any more excited for this one (yes having my local side being in it helps). Having two clubs in this game that have yet to win a MLS Cup is pretty…[continue reading]