Hayden Phillips

Cairn ‘22 ⚽️

[JⓂ️🅰️ @J_Nole22]

Jayden Daniels when he sees a 4 year old kid celebrating their 5th birthday

[Hayden Phillips @hrphillips21]

Just want to make the point that Messi did the same thing as Balogun in the group stage against Algeria and he stayed.

[Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP]

There really aren’t any rules. You just go to court. If it fails, go to court again until a judge says you’re all set.

Want a 7th year?

Sure

Broke rules?

Ahhhh, it’s fine.

There AREN’T any rules.

[Philadelphia Soccer Now @phlsoccernow]

Jay Sugarman summarized: We’ve been almost number one before so why try harder

[Todd Lewis @ItsAToddLife]

Philadelphia Union Principal Owner Jay Sugarman said it was a collaborative effort to move on from Bradley Carnell.

Also admitted that they knew bringing in a lot of new players this offseason that it would take time to gel, but they don't believe they saw that gelling.

"Well, as you know, we work collaboratively and try to make sure we're taking as much information as we can before we make tough decisions. So this was a consensus decision that we needed to move in a different direction.

We certainly hoped throughout the entire first half of the season that we'd see the progress we wanted to see. We knew coming in that we had a lot of new players and that it would take time to gel. We just didn't see that gelling happen between the players, and we saw a bit of a loss of confidence. That's a hard thing to turn around."

#doop

[Jonathan Tannenwald @thegoalkeeper]

Sky Sports in Germany (@SkySportDE) reports that Thomas Müller’s people approached the Union.

Ernst Tanner says on the record that it would be “absolutely unimaginable from a financial point of view”:

https://t.co/yQrlrlsV0t

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

BETWEEN THE LEGS GAME-WINNER IN OVERTIME 🤯

Penn State beats Michigan in a thriller 🏒

(via @PennStateMHKY)

[Hayden Phillips @hrphillips21]

So who called the play on the lone Penn State INT? You had 2 RBs combine for over 200 yards and the passing game has been pretty garbage all year.

[Hayden Phillips @hrphillips21]

There’s literally no chance Saquon isn’t at least mentioned for MVP #Eagles

[Hayden Phillips @hrphillips21]

Saquon Barkley for MVP

[José Roberto Nuñez @JoserNunez91]

I missed this when it aired, but on the Halloween edition of Futbol Americas, Herculez Gomez (@herculezg) and Sebastian Salazar (@SebiSalazarFUT) discussed which MLS teams are the league’s worst spenders, with the Philadelphia Union among those mentioned.

Salazar shared:

“The fans are intense in Philly. I know it’s a little bit off the beaten path; they might not be as big as the Flyers, the Phillies, or the Eagles, but Union fans care. Andre Blake cares, Herc—he was on this show at the beginning of the season, practically begging ownership to spend money.

After years of punching above their weight, of Jim Curtin dragging more out of the Union than you’d expect, he’s rewarded with ownership giving him just the 26th-highest budget in the league. And what happened? The Union missed the playoffs.

Shame on their ownership, and a challenge to Union ownership: You cannot pretend to be Major League and spend just $13.81 million on your entire roster. Shame on you. Union fans deserve better.”

You can catch their show on ESPN/WatchESPN.

#doop #espn #futbolamericas
📹: ESPN+

[José Roberto Nuñez @JoserNunez91]

An unreal 24 hours for Andrew Rick.

I knew this save was special; it was unreal to see it on SportsCenter.

PICKLE.

#doop #nycfc

📹: ESPN

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔴 Kompany on people who said Bayern job was bigger than him: “I'll tell you something in a quick way just to prove a point”.

“I was born in Brussels, my dad was a refugee who came from Congo”.

“What are my chances of even playing in the Premier League, winning something as a player, playing for the national team? The odds were 0.000 something. Now I'm a coach”.

“Do you just stop believing in yourself and what you can achieve because of what other people say?”.

“The mentality is to keep going and in the end if you fail you fail, if you succeed you succeed. but you can always become better”.

“Online you can always find stuff so I really don't take it personal”, says @iMiaSanMia.

[Philadelphia Eagles @Eagles]

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[José Roberto Nuñez @JoserNunez91]

Richard Leibovitch, the Union's Vice Chairman and Alternate Governor during the townhall, spoke about comments he has seen and heard about spending:

"There’s this myth that behind closed doors, Jim and Ernst go to Jay and say, 'Hey, we really want these guys. Can you put in an extra $5 million? We’re going to get these two guys or this one guy, and it’s going to be the difference-maker.' And Jay says, 'No, I don't want to spend the money.'

That is a myth, okay? And I want to dispel it right here, right now.

In the six years I’ve been involved in ownership, I have never once heard Jay say no to what these guys want to do.

We invested heavily in Ernst and Jim, and we have a great team that we respect greatly.

The only question we ask is, 'What does it take to win?'

That’s all we care about. As an owner—though I’m probably more of a fan than an owner—do I think it would be cool to get Griezmann to come in right now?

I hear the LAFC rumors and all that. Wouldn’t it be great if he came to Philadelphia? Absolutely, that would be wonderful.

But I need this guy (Ernst) to come to us and say, 'Hey, this makes sense. This fits into our system. This is what it’s going to cost, and this is what’s going to help us win MLS Cup.'

If he did that, we’d sign on the dotted line."

#doop #mls

📷: Arel Capital

[José Roberto Nuñez @JoserNunez91]

Curtin all but confirmed the move during tonight's town hall. It's a long quote, but it carries a very nice sentiment towards the Venezuelan who is on his way to Corinthians of Brasil and Carranza, who joined Feyenoord earlier in the season.

"Every insttance is going to be different, and I agree that the ultimate goal is winning. That's what makes us happy. Those guys won us a lot of games—they won us a Supporters' Shield, an Eastern Conference final, and got us close to an MLS Cup. It still kills me every day that we didn't get there. But if you think about where those two guys started, José came from one of the worst neighborhoods in Venezuela. He was a real bargain; I think he cost Ernst $25. A real bargain.

When he first showed up, I have to be honest, I thought, "Who is this kid?" He was so out of his depth and overwhelmed. If you remember, COVID happened right before he played, and we threw him into that one game against LAFC. Rocky status, with the bloody nose, he comes off the field. We still have all these great memories. So, when guys move on, I don't think you can look at it as the end.

He said himself that he wants to come back here and retire someday.

There's love on both sides. I get that it doesn't help us win tomorrow's game, but as we sit here in the middle of a transfer window where hundreds of players' futures are hanging by a thread—where they're going to be, where they're going to live, whether it'll be life-changing money for their families—I'm not just speaking about José; I'm speaking about hundreds of players right now.

I still like to focus on the fact that we did something good with them. They're part of our family forever.

The highs, the great wins, the tough, heartbreaking losses—they're still one of us.

Even Carranza, he was a teenager sent to Miami, and the next week they signed Gonzalo Higuaín. Guess who's not going to play for Miami, guys?

Julián was stuck. He was in a bad spot. In some way, we reached out and saved him. Ernst did a creative deal for a very low fee. We ran with him, and he scored a ton of goals.

These ideas, and the two players you brought up, are ones we love and will miss forever. We'll be friends forever.

José is still here for now, and crazy things happen, but look—these guys are still part of our club. I still think the right thing for them in their careers at this time was to move on. And guess what?

There will be the next guys."

cc: @tombogert, @Tiagobrandao_8, @MACEDO88FUTSHOW

📹: @Silly__Jilly/@totwag

#doop #vaicorinthians #siemprevinotinto #lavinotinto

[ge @geglobo]

Corinthians acerta contratação do volante venezuelano José Martínez por R$ 10,9 milhões

📷 Reprodução
https://t.co/wEmjFkt7f5

[Mark Kelkenberg @MarkKelkenberg]

…and I don’t want to misrepresent what to expect from him offensively because he’s known for his active nature in the midfield rather than his goal contributions, but here are a couple clips to show examples of his positioning in the attacking half, and his pressing efforts, both resulting in shots.

[Mark Kelkenberg @MarkKelkenberg]

To help with the clarification, Philadelphia Union’s new signing Danley Jean Jacques is more of a box-to-box midfielder (8) than he is a defensive midfielder (6), though he can play both. I expect him to be on either side of the diamond.

#DOOP

[MLS Transfers @MLSTransfers]

Source: There’s heightened interest from Real Sociedad in Jack McGlynn. They think he could be a player for the future.

PSV has been scouting Jack for over 2 years and there’s more interest from Belgium and England.