Category: MLS

  • State of the Roster, 1/30/2011

    This offseason has contained a lot of turnover in the D.C. United roster; gone are the older players who where trying to help United stave off the inevitable rebuilding process. I don’t think that the current D.C. United roster is going to be the one that we see on opening day, but if the season…

  • Supplemental draftology: Blake Brettschneider

    So, that was a supplemental draft.  In a similar format to the Re-Entry Draft, the Supplemental Draft was done over conference call, with teams tweeting out their picks as much as a round before the official @MLS_Insider account announced them. D.C. United finally drafted their forward: they drafted Blake Brettschneider out of the University of…

  • A Developer in the District Courting D.C. United?

    Well, here we go again.  There is more D.C United stadium news coming out, but this time it has specifics (in the District) for the first time since the Poplar Point collapse.  The Washington Post is reporting that there are two specific sites at which D.C. United is looking. The first is at Buzzards Point…

  • Kitchen, Korb, and Willis: What’s Next?

    The MLS Superdraft went a little differently than people expected.  Firstly, Darlington Nagbe didn’t go number 1. Neither did Perry Kitchen; instead, Vancouver went with Omar Salgado, the long-term prospect who supposedly has the highest ceiling out of any of the forwards, but can’t play until September (apparently).  Then Portland snapped up Nagbe, who they…

  • D.C. United is Taking a Forward

    D.C. United is going to be taking a forward in the upcoming SuperDraft; the only question is which one.  The release of Pablo Hernadez was a good move; between Hernadez and Danny Allsopp, United has cleared $467,000 off of its books.  Now, they have acquired a couple of forwards through the Re-Entry draft, but neither…

  • If you can’t build it, join it

    News came out yesterday that the new mayor of Washington, DC, Vincent Gray, has all but promised that no public money will be used to help build DC United a stadium.  This all but guarantees that if United is to have a new stadium in the metro area, it will have to be a part…

  • Rodrigo Brasesco to DC United?

    Tribal Football is rumoring that defender Rodrigo Brasesco from Racing Club de Montevideo is set to move to DC United on a loan.  They are basing this rumor off of a report from the Uruguayan site tenfielddigital.com.uy.  Racing Club de Montevideo plays in the Uruguayan first division, having been promoted from the second division in…

  • Allsopp returns to Australia (and runs his mouth)

    Former DC United forward and whipping boy Danny Allsopp has returned to his former club, the Melbourne Victory after stints in Qatar and Washington, DC.  He said that “when things didn’t quite work out overseas” he was “pretty desperate to come back” to Melbourne, which is where he has had all of his success.  He…

  • Flurry of news roundup

    Well, well, well.  Twitter has been busy today, with lots of moves (and non-moves) announced. Andy Najar signs a multi-year deal: Obviously great news for the club, keeping Najar around for at least a couple of years.  However, I have a nagging feeling that once this contract is up, he will move overseas somewhere. Pat…

  • Trading Perkins and Olsen’s Strategy

    On the surface, it doesn’t make much sense for DC United to trade the veteran Troy Perkins to Portland, handing the keys to 19 year old Bill Hamid.  Even after the year that Perkins’ had, he’s still a fringe international.  But, as anyone who’s been following DC United knows, its all about the youth movement…