The Thread That's on Indefinite Loan to Manchester City (The 2015 Major League Soccer Thread)

[LL!]

Orlando City vs New York! Yay! Gooooooo Kaka!

[Your Mom]

This is boring

[GoGo Yubari]

Not anymore!

[LL!]

KAKA! EQUALIZER!

[Colly]

That barbershop-esque national anthem effort before this game even had an American crowd chuckling. Awful.

[Rafael]

That n.2 pick that came off the bench, pretty good player. Mix is class.

[GoGo Yubari]

This GIF of Oba Martins' goal celebration is my everything tonight.

[Rafael]

man, I miss Oba in Newcastle.

[TCO]

I don't, he was shit. 1-0 down to Arsenal and the tit took a penalty with his weaker right foot and missed.

[Colly]

Oba didn't have a weaker foot...

That said he was horribly inconsistent, but less so than Cisse so I'd have him back if he wasn't in his 40s.

[HailtotheYo]

OBA

Not sure which of the expansion clubs I liked more. The contrasting styles were really evident and if Nemec had any touch at all he'd probably had a brace.

[Toe]

Clint Dempsey was a boss, too. Sounded so looked really good.

[TCO]

Oba didn't have a weaker foot...

That said he was horribly inconsistent, but less so than Cisse so I'd have him back if he wasn't in his 40s.

He was very much left footed but fancied himself as two-footed. Which is worse than being completely one sided.

I'd rather Cisse, he's inconsistent but he's a better striker than Martins ever was. Less prone to a worldy but still more complete a player.

[MDK]

This GIF of Oba Martins' goal celebration is my everything tonight.

Kane is moonlighting in goal?

[Toe]

Who would you rather have as your big name DP? David Villa or Kaka?

Both are players that have been all-world at previous points in their careers. I'm not as informed when it comes to football, so I'm interested to know what people think.

EDIT - I think Diskerud and Lampard could be dynamite together.

Edited March 9, 2015 by Toe

[TCO]

I'd rather have David Villa in the MLS. He still seems to have the legs and he'll score goals for fun if he gets the service from Lampard and Diskerud.

It's six of one really, Kaka ought to be amazing there too.

[HailtotheYo]

I'd take Kaka simply because a dynamic playmaker/football intelligent guy like he is simply can't be found anywhere like a guy that has the ability to turn and shoot. Kaka will make the ST of Orlando better. He'll make the midfielders better. The opening match exemplified it. He set up directly, or started the plays that got Rivas several chances. He opened up Molino and got him up to "1st division" speed and allowed Ramos and Shea's overlapping to be effective.

A guy like Villa doesn't bring up the level of your team in the same way that Kaka does. Over half the match Villa was invisible. He didn't do much to help anyone out. Mix was 100 times more impactful (even without the goal) than Villa was.

[Toe]

I can't remember his name, but one of Columbus's goal scorers celebrated a goal by recreating the old logo with 2 fans. It was glorious.

[Rafael]

It was Kei Kamara. And it was lovely.

[HailtotheYo]

Kamara is freaking awesome.

Also, I really really really hate Alan Gordon