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  Jason Maxwell

  10 months ago

  Its actually 2 wins in 4 games since he took over, and technically for teh first win Clavijo was still head coach but was in Uruguay dealing with a family emergency so Smith ran the team that game. It wasn't until the week following that win that Clavijo resigned.
  
  And I doubt Arsenal will ever own the Rapids. Due to the "single-entity" legal structure of Major League Soccer nobody "owns" the teams, each "owner" is actually an investor in MLS LLC which is a single company. Think of the teams as the branch office of MLS LLC in each city. You have the Denver office (Rapids) the LA office (Galaxy), etc.
  
  Even if that were to change KSE has sunk a lot of money into the Rapids and into building their stadium and I don't see them selling out to Arsenal. More likely is that Kroenke continues his take over of Arsenal and then merges both ARsenal and the Rapids into a "Soccer Operations" department of KSE or something.
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  Phillip

  10 months ago

  Seriously?
  
  Colorado has been awful for the last # of years.
  
  Stan cares less about this team than he does anything else.
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  John

  10 months ago

  The facility KSE built for the Rapids is by far the best soccer facility in the country. I see an eventual partnership with the clubs growing to Arsenal loaning players to Colorado for experience that MLS could provide.
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  Anthony

  10 months ago

  Take the comment 'experience that the MLS could provide' was tongue in cheek? If not, apologies John but the standard in the MLS is light years below what a Premiership player requires.
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  Jim

  10 months ago

  Yeah Anthony, that's why players who've gone right to the EPL from MLS like Tim Howard and Clint Dempsey have failed so horribly. Uh oh, wait, they haven't.
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  Justin

  10 months ago

  To take it a step further Anthony, last year there were more MLS alumni in the Premiership than there were from any league outside of the EU.
  
  No one doubts that the Premiership is vastly superior to MLS. But you are taking that to an extreme, most likely based on cultural bias and not on actual analysis.
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