With Christmas just two days away it might be a little late to do much Christmas shopping, but that doesn't mean you can't think about what you would give friends and family as presents if you could give them anything you want.
You could also think about what gift you would give your favorite MLS team if you had Santa's ear. Would you wish for Marcelo Gallardo's contract to be torn up if you were a D.C. fan? Would you ask Santa for some salary cap relief if you were an LA fan? What about the Columbus Crew? What do you give the team that has everything (Supporter's Shield, MLS Cup and the USA-Mexico qualifier at Crew Stadium). Looks like the folks in Columbus can get fruit cake.
Think about it. What one thing would you give your favorite MLS club for Christmas if you could give anything you want? Let's hear some gift ideas.
Fire away.
I want to give John an MLS Encyclopedia so he can get his facts straight.
Signed,
– Chicago Fire
Ives- Merry Christmas, thanks a million for the site and all your hard work.
MLS-
1. SSS for every team that doesn’t have one and grass for all stadiums.
2. Mouth Muzzles for all players wasting all that energy on refs (play the game)
3. All players get some work ethic
4. Houston is excleded from all this, they are all hacks so they get nothing but coal.
FSC- new commentators for games
MNT- BB to become an intern for Man U, at least something to put on his resume.
US- a soccer for dummies book & a ticket to any major soccer game to understand why the world loves this game
SBI Mafia- May all these gifts become true and all the best in the new year.
Give the Earthquakes some luck in the upcoming year, they will make the playoffs with it!
Jloome-suck it hater. Our avg attendance was middle of the pack in MLS, not under 10k. It was between 14k and 15k. MLS Cup champs!
Columbus gift wish list
1.Chad Marshall comes back
2. Local Owners
3. Roof
4. Paved lot
for MLS:
Every team to have a SSS, and to never have to play on gridiron lines again.
For LAG:
to get Beckham back in time for the season and suck just as bad again in 2009
A team in Miami
1. Expedient recovery of Ljunberg!!!
2. Ivan de la Cruz for Sounders FC
For DC:
(1) – a healthy Benny with new ankles
(2) – a new stadium
(3) – the return of Ryan Nelson (or at least Bobby Boswell!)
Grass at BMO
AJ had it right. All other DC concerns, and they are many and varied, pale before a soccer stadium in DC.
Christmas has come early for the Galaxy. They just hired a Jamaican Keeper, Donovan Rickets, who appears to be legit.
Maybe the front office will also be able to claim that “Donovan” is still on the team in an effort retain season ticket holders.
More $$$ for salary cap to the teams! Some of the players on these squads should be playing men’s league soccer on sundays, not MLS!!
Two things for RSL:
A striker who can finish
New jerseys (preferably the special Green color ones we used earlier this year!)
For MLS:
Send Becks to AC
I want Seattle fans to look at the track record of MLS expansion teams and stop thinking that they are Seattle and that means they are going to win it all within a season or two.
Signed- San Jose, Toronto, RSL, Chivas, ETC ETC.
For Columbus: An MLS-2, since the city is either too small or not soccer-supporting. How else do you explain season averages of less than 10,000 per game, as reported in the Columbus Dispatch.
For New England: A soccer specific stadium, if it can provide proof that it’s really drawing 17,000 a game.
Anyone who saw fewer than 5,000 fans sitting in that immense, line-strewn monstrosity of as stadium during the playoffs knows the real answer is….MLS-2. No team around as long as this one, with a history and squad equal to this one, draws 5,000 if it’s going to succeed. Ever. Move it, move it down, or lose it.
New York – I hate New York. They’re already getting the shiny stadium, and if I HAD to wish them something else, it would be a decent midfield playmaker and holder.
Chicago – I hate Chicago. And they’re deep, so I hate them even more for making it tough to pick a gift. How about 17,000 season ticket holders?
DC United – A way out of the Gallardo and Luciano Emilio DP deals, plus Peralta actually playing like he cares or gonzo, one or t’other. What were they smoking, anyway?
Toronto – Grass, and a striker who breaks Lassiter’s goal record (and before some lifelong MLS devotee chimes in that it’ll “never happen”, pray that Theirry Henry doesn’t sign before age 36, as he could pot 40 in this league. Hell, if they play Huckerby upfront, he’ll probably break it.)
Los Angeles – Hahahah. Where do you start? A defense. A defensive playmaker. Another striker. A top goaltender. Managemetn that knows something about football, not just ‘marketing 101.’
San Jose – I hate San Jose, because they stole Huckerby from Toronto. Having said that, it’ll be a miracle in this economy if its stadium goes ahead by 2011, so let’s wish for that plan to stick.
KC – A magical pass to help every KC fan see past the delusion that just because Lamar Hunt owned it, Kansas City must be a soccer town. They’ve had two decent attendance seasons, everything else has been in the 8,000 – 11,000 range. Again, why anyone thinks this makes sense, when the team was obviously fudging the numbers, is beyond me. This is not a major league town, unless they were to….I dunno,….create an MLS 2. Move it, move it down or move it out.
Chivas USA – Do us all a favour and move it to San Diego or St. Louis now, instead of after five years of breast-beating and gnashing of teeth.
Houston — A soccer specific stadium and more national tv exposure. What else should I wish them, a championship? Meh! They keep winning the damn things.
Dallas – A bucketload of cash to keep Kenny cooper, a certain Mexican striker, and for a truck to hit Jeff Cunningham, so that the rest of us never have to fear from this egomaniacal cancer of a player again.
Seattle – A healthy Freddy Ljunberg. HAHAHAHA!
Merry Christmas. Bah Humbug.
A reasonable salary cap, at least double, and better marketing and TV deals for the whole league. Basically I want a better quality of product for the loyal MLS fans and more exposure to the beautiful game in the United States.
For RSL: a young and exciting forward for a DP like Reinaldo, who MLS lost to the A-League. Dammit you cheap MLS bastards! And a right winger would be good too.
I would give MLS a marketing team and budget. If it wasn’t for the Beckham signing, people wouldn’t know we have a league…
DC:
New ankles for Benny and a new defense for the whole team!
For the Chicago Fire:
Under Study for Blanco
Rolfe to play Forward
A new coach and Front Office
Orange Line Extension to Toyota Park
oh and for Twellman to break his leg
For FC Dallas, Kenny Cooper extension and a no deal for Borgetti…not that anyone cares about FCD…Dallas included.
Paul Scholes all wrapped up in a DP bow for a July opener of Red Bull Arena.
A SSS on public transportation… if that fails: a center defender, a DP, or an MLS Cup. Is that too much to ask?
For my Wizards:
1. Demolition of Bannister Mall and breaking of ground at our SSS site
2. Zinedine Zidane, as is.
For my RBNY:
I’d get them Deco, Arteta, or Javier Morales
…obviously our biggest need, quality ATTACKING MIDS.
For Houston
1. Downtown stadium
2. Top end striker with pace
3. New keeper with agility
For the Rapids: A front office that actually knows what they are doing. It would also be nice if Santa brought us an owner that cares more about the team that he fully owns, not a team in London that he has a 12% stake in.
An MLS team in the Southeast to give a present to.
For the H:
Simple… A stadium,the Cougar stadium can barely hold us anymore, and hasn’t for a while. A keeper with promise and a speedy defender, Santa can choose but along these lines and it would be great…
Merry X-mas Ives and everyone that forms part of this mob… Let’s bring out the egg nogg…
some common sense for Osorio and Agoos, before they lose Matt Kassel!
hmmm healthy Ben Olsen
fountain of youth for good ol’ Jaime
For the Crew: A wrecking ball so they can tear down that ridiculous stage in the North End. I really hate that thing.
@B.A., you said it, a healthy Benny for DC would be the merriest of presents! I’d take a stadium on the Metro and another Jamie Moreno season-after-bad-injuries-comeback-at-MVP-form-and-lead-us-to-the-cup season.
But I’m not greedy.
dc united gallardo transferred to argentina
la beckham transfers to italy
Bill Archer, Sounders refreshments coordinator
Yea I’m going to have to go with a Soccer Stadium in DC. If Gallardo is healthy he is pretty nasty. As a result, I am going to be overly optimistic and say that he is going to shake his injury problems in ’09.
“Orange Line Extension to Toyota Park!”
i second that
Grass at Qwest Field for my Sounders.
Shunsuke Nakamura as a second DP.
There is only one present i’d like to get and i’d share it with the whole league.
Profitablity
An SSS for DC.
Damian Manso (Liga de Quito) or Chaco Gimenez (Pachuca) for DCU.
Galaxy to be relegate!
Real grass in Qwest Field for the Sounders and a speedy recovery for Freddie Ljungberg.
Andriy Schevchenko for Chivas USA
What I would get my team, the Chicago Fire, for Christmas? A stud replacement for Wilman Conde (who I’m sure is gone), and if that replacement happens to come from in-house like CJ Brown or Lidier Marmol, then I hope they bring “it” like Conde did last year. Also, keep them free of the injury bug as well.
“Lionel Messi to Houston.”
You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.
I’d give my team double the salary cap moving forward.
Id give the LA Galaxy defense a clue.
Korea’s Ahn to MLS? I dunno how I feel about that one.
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/si_soccer/~3/IAWUKWfHMz8/index.html
Someone else said Zidane to RBNY…I agree with that one.
Is there anyway Ives that MLS can ask congress for a bailout?
For TFC
1. Grass @ BMO
2. A big central defender in his prime
3. Depth
4. Nutrilite Canadian Championship