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Expected goals stats…. I feel like the ones who love these stats, have never played the game. You can’t play moneyball with soccer.

Would be stupid to sign him knowing you got Jimenez, Akinola, and now Hugo. They need a superior upgrade not a question mark. I love Cavallini though.

With the new stands what will the capacity rise too?

what is this in reference too? They got "left out" of the Leagues Cup to the die hards like you and I who know these things. But do you if the CPL was asking to be included?

Whats the affinity of open-ended stadiums? Can't we just have one that is fully closed?

This is underrated news. Holy shit, hopefully I can finally watch a Pacific FC home game and not feel like its Rogers TV recording U10 soccer.

3 if you include Arfield 🤪

There’s facts, and then there’s fantasy. You can’t dismiss them to fit yours, his or my sentiments. The reality is the CSB has a lot of power, and have important figures and federations on their side.

Difference between Laryea playing on a dodgy pitch and a nice one. He’s a dangerous option in the final third especially with VAR.

Great result. Great performance boys. Let’s make history

Cavallini has looked good, but clearly doesn’t have the fitness.

Alistair and these throwing man. Go down the line if there’s no option.

Larin is everywhere but where he needs to be.

David is dropping a little tooo deep for my liking. I understand, but we don’t got nothing up top.

Cap #98 for Captain Atiba!

The amount of podcasts, shows, know it alls that have sprung up in the past year….I’m feeling inspired to start my own. Maybe I’ll get a onesoccer gig.

Do you know when the exemption/sanction agreement ends or needs to be renewed? USSF might be the only one to say yes. Concacaf has been wanting Canada only. Fifa will go with what the powers say below. CSA has to do the wishes of the CSB. This could get interesting.

The reality is the CSB brokered a deal that says they run the CSA.

Thanks @Ansem. I forgot that I’ve failed to mention that the direct say of the Canadian clubs playing in MLS is solely on the CSA. The fact that the CSB control the CSA now, makes things verrryyy interesting. Its all about them being sustainable right now to show those clubs “look times up”. People like to compare NHL, or NBA, MLB but they aren’t part of a governing body. They make their own decisions, and what we could see is that the decisions are made for TFC, Whitecaps, Montreal at some point. Funny thing is I’ve heard Montagliani make mention of this before, just didn’t think it was something that could really be invoked.

Comes into play in 2024, was launched in 2021? Reason for the death of the Concacaf League. Just take it in, and realize how Canadian clubs will be screwed.

Lol this is possible, but the odds are 1000000000 to 1 on that happening. Its more likely that there will be just CPL teams representing. Especially next year with everything that will be going on. Anyways I’ve derailed this thread. I hope any new expansions clubs have adequate stadia. That should be the first requirement before the money.

Based on the link above, the first and many iterations of this tournament will see 2 CPL teams in the league, and 1 MLS team. Not one MLS team will be built or is ready to win the SS, MLS Cup, or Leagues Cup.

Different ball game. With this notion, I feel like all these Toronto teams (albiet the NHL) need to change their name to Canada Blue Jays, Canada Raptors since they represent the nation and no other province can have a team in these leagues. We are all "ok" with these teams playing in the league because its all we know. We don't have the option too know better, or support our own product. That's the American control on the Canadian market but reality is we are the ones consistently producing the talent. It took 30 years for us to return to the World cup, coincidently it came in parallel with substantial investors and our very own professional league after 20+ years. No one is talking about exploding anything, I think thats the wrong words to use, but hey I get you gotta exaggerate your point. The two can coexist but at what cost? You can't foresee it now, but I can just in simple regards to how many Canadians are playing in the continental game (CCL). That makes a massive difference in development when have to go play in certain countries for qualifying for one example. Oh yea and co-existing in the Canadian Championship isn't really a thing.....there's what 4 games played between CPL vs MLS? One off determines the measuring stick?....

and NHL saw high viewership when what....the Canadians teams were playing each other consistently.

I see this mentioned a lot. We have the best of both worlds, but we will now be missing out heavily on the continental game, and will essentially have our "lesser" clubs waving the flag for us. The financial playing field is based on the American game. I don't think every club needs to be on the fake parity game that MLS likes to play. (As you can see TFC team salary is stupid high) I just think the "rivalry" isn't real until its real. Kinda like the Caps rivalry with Seattle and Portland.