Dec
16

Evening Links and Thoughts: Coaching Searches

Evening Links and Thoughts: Coaching Searches

Its hard to believe that three clubs are still without a head coach this evening. Well one has an interim head coach but two big time clubs in Major League Soccer end the day without a lead boss, which could be setting them back a bit for the upcoming month with the transfer window opening…[continue reading]

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Dec
08

Evening Links and Thoughts: Potential Markets for MLS


Forgive me for the slow day, I’ve honestly just needed a little time away from the keyboard to focus on other things today. Blame the holidays if you will but sometimes a guy just needs a day off. Anyways, I did find one thing tonight that caught my eye and as you all know I…[continue reading]

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Dec
07

Evening Links and Thoughts: New York Hires GM


Erik Soler was formally introduced as the new general manager and sporting director for the New York Red Bulls today and while the hire on paper seems okay I still wonder where this club is actually going. Soler, the former IK Start man has some connection to Major League Soccer. From Robbie Russell who use…[continue reading]

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Nov
25

Evening Links and Thoughts: Off Until Friday


I wanted to post about the expansion draft but since Turkey Day is tomorrow I am going to just hold off until Friday to do it. Not to mention my normal day job has been killing me with work this week so time hasn’t quiet been there. Also, I had been hoping to show off…[continue reading]

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Nov
23

Evening Links and Thoughts: NASL, Donovan and more

Evening Links and Thoughts: NASL, Donovan and more

So the news came down today that the TOA league would be dubbed the new North American Soccer League. Yes the return of the NASL is possibly more about the name than the actual league here. The TOA group went for name recognition right away with this choice. The league has nine clubs now that…[continue reading]

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Nov
18

Evening Links and Thoughts: MLS Cup Hype


Consider this the Evening Links and Thoughts for the night. I’m a bit busy at work at the moment so things just didn’t come together like I wanted today. Plus I’m still in shock over the Henry handball from the France-Ireland game earlier. Evening Links and Thoughts appear on WVHooligan typically each day (Monday –…[continue reading]

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Nov
17

Evening Links and Thoughts: Expansion, Crew and more

Evening Links and Thoughts: Expansion, Crew and more

By now we’ve all seen the lovely quote from MLS commissioner Don Garber yesterday about future league expansion. “We’ve had productive conversations with Montreal to be our 19th team,” said Garber. With all the issues going on with the USL/TOA crap you have to think that Montreal owner Joey Saputo is trying to figure out…[continue reading]

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Nov
16

Evening Links and Thoughts: Garber, Detroit, and more

Evening Links and Thoughts: Garber, Detroit, and more

I’ve spent a good portion of the day collecting my thoughts on a couple subjects and then it happen to be the same day that MLS commish Don Garber had his State of the League address. Yeah, let’s just say some of his comments just made my head go nuts (and your’s too judging by…[continue reading]

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Nov
10

Evening Links and Thoughts: TOA, Crew, and more


Today has been a day to say the very least. The news from the TOA group that they are forming their own league certainly took over a lot of folks reading and writing today. I know it did for me as I am still going to be talking about it tonight and maybe more for…[continue reading]

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Nov
09

Evening Links and Thoughts: Monday Madness


I won’t lie to you all, I’ve had a case of the Mondays. As much as I want to post a big long edition of things tonight I just for the life of me don’t have the time to do so tonight. Instead I have a couple links with very short comments on them. McCarty…[continue reading]

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