USSoccer

If Chuck can play, DCU have a really good attacking group. Pontius, Quaranta, Najar, Dax and Chuck? I'm going in for Direct Kick this year, too. They got Josh Wolff too I believe. As much as I enjoy making fun of Wolff, he's a good MLS player.

If Chuck can play, DCU have a really good attacking group. Pontius, Quaranta, Najar, Dax and Chuck? I'm going in for Direct Kick this year, too.

No one anywhere else is picking up the Najar thing. If he held a presser, someone else should have that up. I think that Honduran site is making stuff up.

http://www.dcunited.com/press-release/2011/02/dc-united-statement-on-charlie-davies I think it would be a fantastic move if he's healthy enough to play, which he should be, since he's been in some reserve games at Sochaux.

I am*. They traded two younger, happier (and likely healthier, despite Carroll's current injury) strikers for one. When on form, Torres is the best involved by far -- when in form, he's the best in the world -- but he hasn't been at his best for a long time. Will he ever be again? I have no idea, but it certainly looks like he's lost a step at this point (perhaps he'll regain it, he's by no means old). His finishing was still pretty clinical this year, but everything else . . . Carroll's fee was rather exorbitant, but his wages will be much less than Torres, so some money was saved there. They also had really no choice but to overpay. Oh, I didn't dig up our earlier conversation, but just for the record before the new players debut: after only four games Dalglish has Liverpool in seventh, the highest they've been all season. Subjectively, they've also played a much more aesthetically pleasing style. Liverpool has already reaped dividends from the managerial switch. *I should say I am from an unemotional perspective. Today was good business. But losing Torres -- previously my favorite player -- sucks. It's too bad they couldn't have pulled off a move for a central defender so that Carra and the Greek guy who's terrible don't have to play anymore. Oh, and Charlie Adam. Would have been a nice complement to Gerrard (the other guy who's hurt all the time).

Villa's kit is pretty badass. He's going to wear the #13 shirt.

Liverpool fans ought to be ecstatic at their day today. Gaining basically Carrol (even at that ripoff price) and Suarez for a guy who hasn't been in form for over a year? That's just smart business. EJ went to Preston on loan, which is a good move for him. I still feel like he could play a role for us, even just as depth. Boss is also trialing at a Norwegian club, and assuming Traffic doesn't eff up this move, our best CB prospect should finally be getting some burn. Also, Freddy Adu was loaned to a 2nd division Turkish side. That's basically like playing USL.

The State Dept is supposed to be calling Soccer House at some point next week. I doubt they play the match in Cairo. It either gets moved or postponed. Fulham absolutely hammered Spurs today. 4-0 was actually a generous scoreline for Tottenham. It could easily have been 8-0.

I don't know about this move. He's not going to play much there at first.

Soldier Field will never get field turf. The park district value the 3 season revenue international soccer brings.

As someone who thought during the 3rd quarter that Cutler should have been getting treatment even if there was only a 1% chance he could come back, I'll admit I was dead wrong in jumping the gun with limited info. A grade II MCL is pretty painful. I've had one, and you can't plant, cut or explode off that leg at all. You don't need surgery to fix it-rest and rehab is usually enough-but unless you have a brace and are doing something that doesn't require a lot of movement, you're pretty limited. The team should have definitively told the sideline reporter or the press he was out instead of questionable, and should have done more to get ahead of the narrative. That's a PR failure. That said, I'm not at all surprised people are just running with the narrative. We've seen it with Wood, Prior, Sosa, Zambrano, Grossman, Benson, Aramis, Soriano...this city eats it's own. I fully expect Cutler to get the Grossman treatment next season, and if he starts slowly, heaven help him.

What the fans and media did to Rex during and after 2006 is going to seem quaint after this shitstorm ends. It almost doesn't matter what the truth is, because the narrative is already out there, and there's plenty of media and portions of the fanbase that don't like Cutler.

Hanie shaved before his postgame interview.

FWIW, the narrative is already starting. Urlacher and Smith both get peppered with leading Cutler questions.

Yeah, the game was probably lost in the 1st quarter. They were bad.

Hopefully the Cutler hate that's coming doesn't obscure the fact that the coaching staff came out with a crap gameplan, had Collins out there as the #2, and called that horrid end around on a 3rd down when a run would have done.

Yeah, that ended up being huge.

That's twice against Green Bay that they call timeouts after calling the right play, and coming back with a terrible play.

Such a terrible play. Terrible decision by Martz.

Damn. What a waste of a great defensive effort.

Holy Christ, what a terrible play

Nice clock management, Lovie, et al

Fake rally?

Just sneak it. If you can't get half a yard push, you deserve to lose.

That's a disgraceful call.