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Good to know that fouls that occur after a shot has been taken are now given as PKs. That’s never been the case in MLS, so good to know that it’s different from Oct 24, 2026 and onward.

A very 2024 Sounders second half, with lots of danger and possession around the box and no player with the ability to beat a defender on his own.

It’s incredible how much more effective Morris is as a forward in the right half space than as a winger in hell on the left wing with Nouhou.

That was as much of an absolutely-nothing-worked half as we’ve seen from the Sounders since the losing streak. I’d expect quite a few tactical and personnel changes at half.

Posh soccer specific stadium expectation: $5 beers! Posh soccer specific stadium reality:

Jordan Morris playing as a 2nd forward running in the right half space has been so, so good. He’s making this attack work right now.

RIP sea arch. I’ll always remember that December morning when it was just you and me watching the sun rise

Sounders needed +9 from this 3 game home stand and got exactly that. The stretch run gets more challenging- 5 of their final 7 games against teams above them in the standings.

I like what I’m seeing from Caden Clark. His off ball runs have been persistent and good.

No, Adrian. Bad changes suck. Moving the club to a small suburban stadium sucks, and the fanbase doesn’t want it. I’m not interested in becoming the Renton Business Park Sounders.

Tonight is as much of a must-win game as the Sounders will have until (if) they face mathematical elimination. At home, vs a conference opponent in free fall missing 10 guys, with the annual business meeting in 3 days. Win, or the conversation becomes extremely awkward this week.

Just in case the FO’s decision to punt all year on the winger position needed to be more thoroughly exposed, here you go.

The Sounders in 2025 had their highest-scoring, most fun offense in their last decade on the backs of a dynamic and deep winger corps. They declined one (Kent), sold another (Georgi), and lost Pedro to two long-term injuries. And then didn’t replace any of them. Nuts.

A warm body to compete with Seb Gomez I guess. Maybe they get lucky and he shows more than that.

Progress for the Sounders. They desperately need a LW signing, but Joveljic immediately helps. Defensively, it’s going to be tough with Yeimar and Ragen both out. And Jordan Morris played, didn’t get hurt, and didn’t get put on the left side. Progress.

Sounders stopped the bleeding in two ways tonight. That’s a good day

On the plus side, the Sounders signed a 27-year-old striker. On the negative side, they extended their declining #10 through age 34. In the new salary cap, that might be a good trade-off. Let’s see if they can fix their biggest hole at winger and go outside the league to cap this window.

The Sounders field a starting lineup with a combined salary of $1.8 million, the salary of a single max-TAM player in 2026. Congrats, Adrian! You did it! You found the most efficient roster-spend starting 11! Come collect your prize.

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What makes Sounders discourse so pointless and confounding is that any argument leads to the same conclusion: there is one way to fix this and it’s to spend money on good players. Unfortunately there is only one person who needs to hear this argument and he doesn’t seem interested.

Adrian apparently hates losing, but unfortunately he hates losing a lot less than he hates using his money to try to win.

The transfer window has been open for over a month by the way.

Through a mix of procrastination and bad luck, the Sounders are at the point where all three of their DPs under contract really shouldn’t be DPs anymore. ~7 of their top 10 salaries are imbalanced relative to health and production. This team is on the path toward a full tear down and rebuild.

I dunno man, I think a TAM signing or two might actually help the team more than the veteran backup goalkeeper having a good showing as the squad is eliminated in the Leagues Cup group stage.

Stu Hawkins with a crazy trivela that should have been an assist to DeRo

Well, that was a spririted match between Tacoma Defiance and Chivas. Though lacking quality, the development side played with real energy. Unrelated, you know what would be great? The Seattle Sounders signing some new adult players so that they didn’t look dead on their feet half the time.

Tacoma Defiance leads Chivas!!!

Can they sign a winger now please? Better late than never?

GOAL is reporting that the Sounders’ competition for Tengstedt is Trabzonspor and PAOK Saloniki. www.goal.com/en/news/surp...

The FO has been aiming at these just-out-of-budget level players for several summers now, and has come up empty each time. But they can't afford another miss this year.

Hugh Weber, the Seattle Sounders’ and Seattle Reign’s president of business operations, is leaving the organization to become the CEO of the Edmonton Oilers. More from me and Scott Soshnick at @sportico.bsky.social: www.sportico.com/personalitie...

Old players $500 New players $0 Rent $800 Barge $3,000,000 Real Estate $500,000,000 Staff $300 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my soccer team is dying

Forward wouldn’t be my top position to target unless they can move Morris or Moose, but it’s nice to see them at least thinking about an international TAM-level signing. In ~1500 minutes in Serie A in the ‘24-‘25 season, his numbers don’t pop, but 🤷‍♂️

Robbie Keane after scoring a goal:

The craziest part about this is the Sounders had been REALLY good at adding high-quality foreign talent. There’s no competitive reason why it makes sense to just quit doing that. It’s not as if their hit rate on domestic additions has been better.

The reason that “spending doesn’t correlate to wins” has always been a fatuous statement for the Sounders is that while it is true for MLS in general, it’s never been true for the Sounders. This team’s success has always been built on significant, targeted spending from Dempsey to Lodeiro to Raul.

This lineup has very “US Open Cup Round of 16” vibes to it, but outside of Ferreira (who the fitness staff seemingly doesn’t trust to play a 3-game week) there aren’t many options. Also, Nouhou being captain is bizarre.

Nouhou captaining a 3-1 collapse after captaining the worst 5-1 collapse in the 50 year history of the Sounders-Timbers rivalry has many people asking- is it time to rethink Nouhou as captain?

I hope this stretch isn’t the end for Schmetzer, because while he’s had his struggles, I think this is mostly on an aging and neglected roster.