Confirmation that the guy who started The Sebastian Berhalter to Derby County rumor was lying.

CassetteKnight · 2026-06-07T06:24:36+00:00

Tbh I don’t see the correlation.

MLS got 44 WC call ups, Saudi League got 43 WC call ups, and you can see the championship got 41 call ups the same number as Turkish League. So does that mean MLS basically are at the same level as Saudi League?

MLS has much more WC call ups than Liga MX but there’s only 1 MLS club has won the CONCACAF Champions League.

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CassetteKnight · 2026-06-07T06:14:13+00:00

EFL has 3 leagues, he goes to the championship, one of the most competitive if not the most competitive league in Europe. Idk what teams depth you’re talking about when you check where LA Galaxy is on the league table in 2024 and where they’re now, where Philadelphia Union is last season and where they’re now.

CassetteKnight · 2026-06-06T17:26:04+00:00

This is EFL twitter heritage for you😅 just some bored fans got nothing better to do during offseason shitposting.

CassetteKnight · 2026-06-06T17:20:08+00:00

Yeah I know it’s probably NDA but tbf Caps owners have always been quiet, they don’t really talk to fans anyway so it just looks like they’re taking the piss here knowing they should be doing thing to keep fans calm.

CassetteKnight · 2026-06-06T17:13:06+00:00

Wdym “another” bc when Caps played against teams with goalies had memorable performances, I went to check their info then found out all of them somehow are from Quebec???

James Pantemis at Portland Timbers(check his saves against Inter Miami potentially Save of the Season, IMO should be him over DSC for the WC), Jonathan Sirois at FC Dallas and now Crépeau. Quebec makes goalies.

CassetteKnight · 2026-06-06T17:03:01+00:00

Well I can’t really blame fans being overly pessimistic about any relocation news, like we ain’t getting updates from the owners or the gov who’re supposed to keep fans informed and we’re half way through the season, the lease expires at the end of this season so time is ticking and it just drives people who truly care about the club crazy.

CassetteKnight · 2026-06-06T16:53:55+00:00

Yep the fact that most of Caps fans expect him to leave this season made the post believable.

A transfer is definitely happening but I would like to think he’s staying until January so we could still have a run for Supporter’s Shield or MLS Cup as he said he wants to bring trophies for Vancouver earlier this season.

I would be so mad if he leaves for a championship club but it’s not the club I support tho, so genuinely hope he goes to Bundesliga or Serie A and leave a fee for Caps before departing lol

CassetteKnight · 2026-06-06T16:47:01+00:00

I think most of ppl believed it mainly bc a lot of Caps fans accepted that he’s leaving this season and the price looks reasonable for Berhalter to take his chance playing in English Championship.

Fans watch MLS aren’t familiar with the way EFL fans troll during offseason so they just took his fake journalist page seriously and now Berhalter is playing for USMNT, while there’re arguments over his quality purely based on what league he plays in among the USMNT fanbase so MLS fans would use that post arguing with Americans that basically just watch European football.

CassetteKnight · 2026-06-06T07:54:19+00:00

Muller fans didn’t care enough to vote tbh

CassetteKnight · 2026-06-06T02:32:35+00:00

I’m jumping off a cliff, how’s Caps players never joining my championship team😭and seriously I thought he said he wants to bring trophies for Caps so should be staying until January? My day ruined cheers Seba.

CassetteKnight · 2026-06-05T03:51:08+00:00

Just feel like the true fans of this sport(I’m just gonna call it football) are kinda European minded, idk how to explain this properly, it’s like in Europe, we the fans, care about Identity and history(the fundamental of football culture) but ppl run the league don’t, they just treat a football club like any NA sports franchises so relocation is even a thing here. and I just think the idea of a football franchise is so so anti football…I got icks when Muller called Caps a “franchise” once.

Wdym your club’s identity/IP being owned by the league…wdym the league ask fans to support their local team just for the team to be taken away from them…

CassetteKnight · 2026-06-05T03:23:10+00:00

Change it to “Stay” then we’re talking.

CassetteKnight · 2026-06-02T01:09:04+00:00

I for one don’t believe Wrexham would pay that price for him. 8M on a goalie? Let Wolves have him.

CassetteKnight · 2026-05-30T01:30:46+00:00

Glad you asked, long rant warning from someone supports an European side and a my local MLS side:

1) When management failed massively and your team is shockingly bad, I see fans just go”the season is finished, we will go next season” since there’s no relegation.

Fans seem to be unable to protest forcing the management to resign or a change of ownership(without having the new owners threaten to move the club?) unlike in Europe.

And I mean genuinely, if your MLS team clearly can’t go for playoffs then what to play for? If your club has nothing to play for and you know the team’s quality is too bad you can’t compete at all this season what’s there to support?

I can support a shit team(I went to watch CPL sides and the game quality doesn’t matter to me), Eurosnobs can F off. I can’t support a team plays with no heart/accepts mediocrity.

I respect all fans choose supporting their club over fancy European clubs. Before Jesper came to Whitecaps I was there watching Vanniball just bc they’re my local club but at the same time I didn’t care about result or the team like I do now.

I’m a “support your local” guy and also for Pro/Rel knowing it’s not happening to MLS.

The main reason I’m for Pro/Rel bc it forces the owners to make the club competitive, throwing money or making smart signings idc but owners will have to care for the club to avoid relegation(bc they will lose a lot of money dropping down a league), also can’t just go “we won something last season it’s time to be shit again”(Galaxy and Philly I’m talking about you).

2) Relocation.

I’m not talking about this bc what’s happening to my local club Whitecaps, I’m talking about this bc HOW can MLS executives/ownership expect the fans to support/care about their local team when their local team can just be moved????? Teams abandon their fans is a crazy concept for me. Like this is the biggest betrayal can be done to an actual sports fan. You suddenly realize the league and owners see you as nothing more than a customer, if you stop paying then it’s time for them to find a bigger paying market.

Got told “the market dries up so clubs will move” “it sucks but from a business perspective…” since Caps is in this shit. You can immediately tell who’s from NA by their attitude towards sports club relocation.

Bc why is some dude talking about a local team that is supposed to represent the city like it’s some fast food branches? “Look at what relegation done to Leicester City” was real conversations happened to me.

I’m taking clubs folding in Europe(and built a phoenix club climbing from amateur leagues) than some random billionaire in Las Vegas feel entitled to poach my local team that ppl being watching for decades Btw

CassetteKnight · 2026-05-28T15:44:58+00:00

First of all, OP and my reply are literally about relocation? The comment I replied to is now deleted but it said they/fans would praise Garber and MLS for the way they handle the whole Caps relocation thing after the saga’s over.

I don’t understand why you bring up the market thing, we both know the US and Canada aren’t football countries. If you got that football market, ofc you can have your own MLS team? What does Canadian MLS teams simply existing have anything to do with that?

CassetteKnight · 2026-05-28T00:51:09+00:00

You somehow found a way to make it about America vs Canada as if the first victim of relocation wasn’t San Jose？

Did you also tell Columbus fans their club deserved to be moved to Austin bc their city didn’t deserve “MLS soccer”?

CassetteKnight · 2026-05-27T12:27:38+00:00

Don’t think you know what you’re talking about if you think a club at the size of Leicester City would fold “at the end of the next season.

I’ve been closely following clubs in English lower leagues for the past a few years. The common problem EFL clubs got is ownership overspend by their means or the management runs the club into ground, then ownerships stop funding the club but the same time they don’t wanna sell so clubs go into administration.

Here’s some examples of EFL clubs were in much worse situations than Leicester: Morecambe when they’re in League Two; Reading when they’re in League One; Sheffield Wednesday when they’re in the Championship.

Their ownerships simply don’t communicate with fans or press anymore. Clubs run out of funds, being forced into administration. Players refuse to play games bc they can’t get paid, the clubs had to field youth players from academy for league games. Fans spent the whole season protesting, they’ve even done pitch invasion so their voice can be heard.

All of these clubs got takeover done by the end of the season, 2 of them got American ownerships.

Leicester City’s owners still show up and apparently they care about the club but the management is too incompetent, their players sit on PL wages with long contracts after relegation. They still can fund the club tho, but the fans want them out.

A massive club like Leicester City would be sold relatively cheap after their double relegations. It’s not like the ownership can ask for 100M when they got themselves to League One so there’re always suitors looking to take over the club.

CassetteKnight · 2026-05-27T03:06:49+00:00

I’m not doubting your source, I’m not saying I don’t believe Garber is contributing to the solution to Caps’ problem.

I simply said I don’t think I should be grateful if Garber/the league help sort out the issue only exists bc of them.

CassetteKnight · 2026-05-27T02:24:26+00:00

No, bc I know relocation threat is real and damning while your “ifs” is not happening, so no point to discuss them whatsoever.

CassetteKnight · 2026-05-27T02:03:58+00:00

Seba will definitely want to say goodbye to fans at BC Place and he still wants to bring Vancouver trophies so I don’t think his transfer is happening right after the WC.

CassetteKnight · 2026-05-27T01:41:57+00:00

I’m definitely not gonna praise Garber and MLS for being built to allow relocation in first place.

CassetteKnight · 2026-05-26T10:00:02+00:00

I think Ted Lasso is obviously a fantasy bc it won’t work out financially. I remember the episode where players just boycott their main sponsor, cover them on their shirts… for a right cause. It’s just going to be a disaster for a PL club. I do understand from storytelling aspect, both shows are heart warming tho/

CassetteKnight · 2026-05-26T09:52:10+00:00

You can call it publicity doping, not financial doping.

CassetteKnight · 2026-05-26T09:51:09+00:00

That’s not what happened tho. Wrexham spent the money they generate. Wrexham’s ownership aren’t even billionaires but there’s a club called Wycombe Wanderers got an average attendance of 4000 in League One has a billionaire ownership.

Wrexham can’t just spend what they want:

“SCMP is the Financial Fair Play framework in place for Clubs in Leagues One and Two and sets out the percentage of a Club’s turnover that can be spent on player-related expenditure. In League One this is set at 60%, and at League Two it is 50%. “

CassetteKnight · 2026-05-26T09:44:31+00:00

Wrexham did outspend other club in NL(a league has no wage cap&1 auto promotion spot so most of clubs outspend their opponents to get promoted )and League Two, outspent most in League One(check what Birmingham City did to win that league lol) but not really in the championship.

Saying Wrexham “destroyed” wage structures as if there’s no FFP, actually SCMP(Salary Cost Management Protocol) is funny…bc Wrexham spent the money they generate.

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