Monthly Archives: January 2008

Brad Guzan remains with Chivas USA

Chivas USA goalkeeper Brad Guzan isn’t leaving the team and MLS just quite yet.  Guzan was about to make a move to England to play with EPL team Aston Villa on a $2 million transfer, but a work permit was denied.   Now Guzan says he is excited to remain with Chivas USA for another year.
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The Juice is leaving MLS for Fulham

Eddie “TheLa casinos es un de los juegos que podemos jugar en cada de los casinos. Juice” Johnson is on his way out of Kansas City - on his way to London - to Fulham.  It is a continuing transformation of Fulham into the US National team.  Johnson joins Kasey Keller, Brian McBride, Carlos Bocanegra, [...]

Houston Dynamo losing strikers

The defending champions Houston Dynamo are losing strikers left and right.  Paul Daglish was released at the end of last year.  Nate Jaqua is supposedly looking for a job in Austria and it was just announced that Joseph Ngwenya is on his way to Austria.
Ngwenya has just signed a deal with SK Austria and keeps [...]

Wizards look to change formation and Fulham buys the US National Team

Along with the recent departure of Nick Garcia, the news that Jose Burciaga Jr is going to Colorado for more draft picks reveals signs that the Wizards will be looking to play a new formation.  The lineup will feature 1 defender (who needs more than Jimmy Conrad anyway?), 6 in the midfield, and 3 strikers.
Jose [...]

Ruiz and Garcia on the move

Carlos Ruiz on on his way out of FC Dallas and going back to his first MLS team the LA Galaxy. The Galaxy paid an undisclosed amount of allocation money as well as a 2nd round draft pick to bring Ruiz back to LA.
The Kansas City Wizards have sent a quality defender, Nick Garcia, [...]

Eddie Johnson on his way to Fulham?

Is Eddie Johnson on his way out of Kansas City to play for Fulham?
The Daily Mail reports that Eddie “the Juice” Johnson has left the US National team training camp which is a sign that a deal with Fulham is near.   Johnson has had an up and down career recently with the Kansas City Wizards.  [...]

A reminder of where MLS fits into this world of soccer leagues

So we’ve already heard about Twellman’s transfer to Preston North End not once but twice.  Now Twellman is mad about the situation he’s in.  Preston is willing to buy Twellman from MLS for $2.5 million but the offer has been rejected.  When Twellman asks the Revolution about it, they say MLS has rejected the deal.  [...]

Could Seattle call their team the Emerald City Greens?

This sounds just crazy - more crazy than Figo coming to play in MLS.  AOL Sports has a story about Seattle possibly choosing the dumbest name ever for their upcoming MLS team that will begin play in 2009.  They claim that the Emerald City Greens is a potential name for the new Seattle team.
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Twellman stays (again), but Mathis is headed to Europe

Just a couple days ago I wrote about MLS rejecting a bid for Taylor Twellman.  Well they’ve done it again.  This time Preston North End has offered over twice their inital offer.  They upped the $800,000 up to around $2,000,000 and the MLS has again rejected this offer.  Preston have no intentions of going any [...]

Brad Guzan is another American goalkeeper in demand

It would be hard to argue that American goal keepers are the hottest soccer export going out of the United States and thus out of Major League Soccer.  Brad Guzan is the next potential target for big European clubs to take away from MLS.
Yahoo! Sports reports that teams such as Celtic, Liverpool, Arsenal, Olympiacos and [...]