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The world juniors within the past 10 years have brought the tournament to Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, and the USA outside of rotating it with Canada. They also are an example for how it’s setup by having a host city! In life is it’s better to try something and if it fails - it fails. You learn from your mistakes, adjust or never do it again. Butt you can’t fail without trying. How do they/we have it all figured out that it won’t work. We gotta kill the passive mentality as Canadians that we can’t do shit on our own. I hate it.

He’s on a DP contract. Absolutely no way in hell the revs would be willing to trade for Jozy on his existing salary. They also already have 3dps in Gil, Buska, and Bou….and have turned down transfer bid for a few. Jozy has to get bought out, and then will subsequently sign for 300k or less with possible incentives. They are building a team for a good run in CCL.

My other point is that if it can’t be hosted solely by a few Canadian cities, then at least make the tournament more localized to certain parts of the countries and rotate it. West (Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, California) Northeast (Toronto, Montreal, NY, NJ, Philly) South (Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, Charlotte) Make it easier for fans and players.

Is the sum factor based on the ability to sell tickets? I think other than the obvious juggernauts in Mexico and USA, without double headers the results aren’t impressive. And there’s gotta be the argument that Mexicans and Americans will travel in drones for these games in major Canadian cities like Toronto and Montreal. I don’t want to see the bullshit of split hosting and we only get 4 games in Canada. I think we’re ripe for hosting this, and I’ll be honest to say I’m not excited for the America and friends WC hosting in 26.

Can’t be a trade, so I’m wondering when the buyout gets announced.

Watching the AFCON in Cameroon, and it got me thinking about how Concacaf is the only federation that doesn’t/hasn’t fully hosted its continental tournament in another country outside the USA. I've heard the reasoning being maximizing revenue for the competition. However they neglect their very own mandate of growing the game in other countries. Canada’s recent WCQ games held in Toronto against Panama, Honduras, and El Salvador and seeing the drones of fans that showed up to support their respective countries (in a pandemic), mixed in with our recent success had me thinking, is it time for us to host the Gold Cup by ourselves. Now before there’s any backlash from the westsiders, please understand my thinking. A lot of the negative reviews about the Gold Cup from the players has been solely around the travel demands of the tournament, where teams are travelling across the country through various timezones. It’s also harder for fans to follow their teams at reasonable lengths. No other continental tournament does this. What if our proposition was to maximize the diversity of our most populous provinces/cities and play games in stadiums across the EST & CST time zones. The Gold Cup is typically played in 16 host cities, Euros is 10, Asian Cup 4, AFCON is 4, COPA America is 7 (all averages). I would propose these stadiums: BMO Field | 30K State Saputo | 19,619 Tim Hortons Field | 23,218 Olympic Stadium | 56,040 TD Place Stadium | 24K Lamport Stadium | 9,600 * Mosaic Stadium | 33,350 * IG Field | 33,134 In this case it would remove the common practice of the double header games/prices, it would allow for strategic placing of teams, while making it easier to travel from Toronto to Ottawa or Montreal to Hamilton for teams and fans. For example (based on Gold Cup 2019): (there maybe an argument for stadium size, but looking at past attendances it's bloated because of the double header be paired with a bigger drawing team) Group A Canada vs Mexico at Stade Olympique Group B Haiti vs Costa Rica at Stade Saputo Group C Jamaican vs El Salvador Tim Hortons Field Group D USA vs Panama at BMO Field Trinidad and Tobago vs Guyana at Lamport Stadium. We may not ever see a World Cup hosted solely by us for obvious reason, but maybe its our time for the 2025 Gold Cup! Thoughts?

There what Jamaicans say "tryin a ting" 🤣 Seems so sketchy....but I want the appeal to be successful for our sake and theirs

Happy to see him get some minutes under him in what was an unexpected call up. He was probably the most least prepared guy coming into this game.

Great reason, but give me something else.

Yes we did know. https://www.canadasoccer.com/news/canada-to-face-guatemala-in-florida-ahead-of-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers/

That person should know that training matches don’t get FIFA points.

Wow no var review. Shocking.

Moving on upp, we’re finally getting a piece of the pie!

Horrible window of game play, but our best window yet as far as points. The gods are definitely on our side.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's recognized this. Man does it so much in MLS like guys don't switch teams often.

Could we see Canada field a B team in the CNL, in order to play the likes of Brazil in friendly? I think that’s the only way this works.

Watched Rangers vs Ross County today, ….my lord is all I’ll say. This is a good move to stay in Europe and move up a league. But if it doesn’t come to fruition, then I hope he has a breakout year in the better league with the Caps.

is this tactics, or what! who's reporting the right things!

Yea Isak isn’t worth that release clause. He’s to hot and cold. And we can’t take another Pepe deal. Being an Arsenal fan, and as much as I rate JD, I don’t think he’s the striker for Artetas system to take us into the top four. Hes in the mold of Lacazette, and we need a big striker who’s good aerial, but can also play between the lines. Vhalovic was it, but we see how that went. Now comes the panicking buying - just don’t want that to be JD.

https://football-talk.co.uk/168135/arsenal-eyeing-late-swoop-to-sign-47m-jonathan-david/ more Arsenal rumblings… however there’s only smoke if you hear Arsenal doctors flying to Canada to do his medical.

Ahh there’s Waldo! I was waiting for him to appear. 🤣

I don’t know when Tissot was class…but brother here is a list of left backs (you can google if you don’t know their names) that are better than Tissot. Zorhan Bassong Cristian Gutierrez Raheem Edwards Diyadinne Abzi Kwame Awuah Ben Paton Ryan James ….oh yea Gareth Bale isn’t the same player anymore.

Does anyone think he can play in the centre of a back 3 in replace of Vitoria? Miller-Kennedy-Johnston

I think Millar will start. No way Cavallini pairs with Larin to start...his most likely game to start would be El Salvador.

I don't see us playing a 3-4-3 against the USA. Would leave us too susceptible. I see us deploying a 4-3-3, or maybe the revolving 3-5-2 but still, this will be a midfield game. ----------------------David------------------------ Millar---------------------------------------Buchanan -------Kaye------------Osorio--------Eustaqiuo----- Adekugbe----Kennedy--------(Johnston lol) ----Laryea -----------------------Borjan-------------------------- - I'm praying Staq is available for this game. - I don't think Vitoria will be suited for this game for several reasons. The speed of their attackers and midfield, and pitch attributing to that. Reason why I put Johnston unrealistically there....but what if lol. Henry could start only to do what he did to Lozano to do to Pepi and come right off.