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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think they scout a lot of players outside MLS. The problem is that players outside MLS often require off-cap spending, which Adrian has to approve. I don’t think Nico and Raul hate the club. If they do, I’m not sure what Craig was supposed to do about it.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sounders spending on a U22 has been Lucy with the football for 5 years now. It took a club record losing streak for budget to appear for Joveljic, and only at the end of the summer window. I’m skeptical.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NYCFC are opening their new stadium in Queens next year. If they can find land to build in New York City, the Sounders can find a plot of land in Seattle. What it requires is money- or rather, giving up control to a majority owner with money.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kudos for being honest, I guess, but I’m extremely bummed out by how far the owner’s vision has fallen, in a time when the Sounders’ potential for growth is so massive. And instead, they are shrinking.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Seattle area just showed we are a top market for soccer in the country at the World Cup. The low-spending Sounders, in a league of Messi and Son, are still top 3 in league streaming viewership and attendance. The owner’s biggest idea is moving to a 25k seat stadium in a Renton business park.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s the implication. “Our goal is to fill Lumen” was the public statement years ago. Now it’s “fill a small suburban stadium in Renton.” It’s a club with a vision that has shriveled.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think Craig knows the realities of the roster and will turn it over if given the resources to turn it over. Window after window, we hear of the players they were trying to sign but didn't have the budget from ownership. The fix is to give the GM a budget and the authority to use it.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Want 75% of the Waibel-out fans to change their vote to retain? Adrian Hanauer can do that this Saturday at the Annual Business Meeting by- 1. Committing to keeping the team in Seattle 2. Acknowledging that the GM needs more budget flexibility That's it. Address the concerns in the fanbase.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean yeah, if the Sounders, who once acted like a top-third team in salary and transfer spend, act like a mid-table team in salary and bottom table in transfer spend, they should expect their top fanbase to dwindle to a mid-tier fanbase. But I wouldn't expect Sounders fans to be happy about it

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s not semantics. I’m talking about the Sounders game model, which is an important thing to understand, because players at “winger” in their lineup graphic aren’t actually playing as wingers, and their lack of true LW options is why their offense is so poor. And yes, CM could use help too.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think you need to read up on the role of the nominal wing positions in the Sounders' 3-2-5 shape. Morris is definitionally the opposite of a true winger. He's an inverted winger, when he plays as a winger. Also review PDLV's injury timelines, and why Rothrock almost walked to SJ last offseason.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Morris plays at forward or 2nd striker on the right because he isn't effective on LW with Nouhou, which has been the case for many years. Ferreira isn't a winger. PDLV had 6 month injuries known during both transfer windows. Arriola still isn't fit coming off ACL surgery. Georgi and Kent are gone.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes, to clarify, not useless in that it can no longer be used to pay salaries. But, it could become functionally useless in gaining a competitive advantage over other MLS teams.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If the front office’s overarching plan was to sell young talent to fund higher level contributors, that hasn’t happened yet. And if the allocation money they earned in those sales becomes largely useless in a new salary cap structure next year, they’ve played themselves.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a really important summary of the Sounders’ current front office struggle. Hanauer’s refusal to let the people he’s hired work within a set budget means the team is functionally being locked out of the international transfer market. That’s simply not sustainable.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Also, more importantly, Georgi has a skillset that the team desperately needs and never replaced. Joveljic and Morris are higher level players than Osaze and cover his skillset.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’d be sad to lose him because I love his personality, his swagger. But Schmetzer seems committed to running a low-chance creation offense until at least next year, and Osaze isn’t going to break out if he gets no service here.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What the players are doing now is not particularly relevant to the point- the team was getting a necessary level of production from these players, sold/declined the players, and have not replaced their production. Whether or not you like the deals, the team still has to replace their production.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Why are you only focusing on Georgi? As I already stated, the problem is that they lost three wide threats, top chance creators, and the only guys who could win 1v1, and did not replace them. That’s a major problem! And it refutes the idea that they have solid depth out wide.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s reductive to say chance generation is bad because Cristian is hurt when chance generation was also bad when Cristian was starting in the first third of the season. Obed isn’t coming back. With RBW gone and no replacement, our LB isn’t going to contribute to chance generation.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here are the team's top 10 per-90 chance creators last season by xA, when they scored their most goals since 2014. The team is now without five of them, and four are wide threats you say weren't making the offense work. What evidence do you have that the offense has been successful without them?

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The point is you don’t get rid of the wide threats who make your offense work if you don’t have a plan to replace them. And when your DP who has spent the majority of his time injured picks up a second season-ender, you REALLY have to address the issue that took you from 10th to 29th in goals scored

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Georgi's salary is $113,000, roughly 3.5% of Dejan Joveljic's. If 1v1 skill is expensive, don't lose all your 1v1 skill players without a plan to replace them.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here are the Sounders top 10 per-90 chance creators last season by xA. Five of them are gone. Only one of them has been replaced on the squad, kinda (Leyva) and his replacement tore his ACL. You sure that Georgi and Kent aren't missed?

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The DP winger's current recovery timeline has him coming back in February, when he will have played 7 minutes across 16 months. Morris is a direct to goal threat, not a wide threat. Guys who can beat players 1v1 aren't rare specialists. It's a pretty basic skill to have on any roster.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm including Champions Cup and the Playoffs in their minutes. Moose is underperforming his chances (he underperformed slightly last season as well), but the main difference between seasons is that he is getting way fewer quality chances.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Kent had 5a all comps. Georgi had 2g 6a all comps. 0.68 g+1/90 is good. Paul Rothrock this season is at 0.48. Moose goes from an 18g season to not scoring in a start 2/3 through the season because their wide players can no longer generate service in the box or destabilize defenses.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

2g 11a all comps in 1700 minutes. 0.68 goal contributions per 90 is good. Add Pedro, its 12g 15a in 3500. Wingers who draw double and triple teams because they can win 1v1 draw defenders out of the box, opening space in the box. Opening space in the box is how Danny Musovski scores 18 goals.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They did great last year because they had Pedro, Georgi, and Kent to fill that role. Now they don’t. Morris can’t do that on the wing. Morris + Nouhou doesn’t work on the wing.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Sounders have several players who can nominally play on the wings. They don’t have any players who can regularlu win in wide areas by beating defenders 1v1, get to the end line, put in high-quality balls to forwards. That’s what they’ve missed all year.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They filled their third biggest need spectacularly, much better than I could have expected. And skipped the rest. So partial credit I guess, but I’m still left suspecting that the current FO is moderately dysfunctional.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Strong chance that he becomes the Callum Mallace of Emmanuel Cecchinis.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Do you envision them staying with their 4-2-3-1 and starting Rothrock every match?

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Since the Sounders’ biggest problem is their inability to create from wide areas to feed their current 2 strikers who don’t affect the game otherwise, they still have a lot of work to bring in a winger to save the season.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

30 looks familiar but I just can’t place him.

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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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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AP @interpearsonal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Big news in Seattle- it looks like an 8-match losing streak is the threshold to get the team to publicly admit that they need to sign someone for the first time in 5 summers. bsky.app/profile/soun...

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