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Since Im planning to play 442, we needed another striker. And with a DP spot open, why the hell not. I liked Rondon back when he played for CSKA. United came in with a 6 mio offer and Velasco was made about rejecting it. We talked and agreed on 9,75 mio. We still got him until the end of the season, this also means, we got a DP spot open.

We needed another CB and Ba is a solid, cheap option. Then we made another huge trade in my eyes. Yes, I said Arriola would be one of our key players, but sometimes you need to grab an opportunity if you see one. Former Frankfurt player Joveljic will now be our starting striker. And Alvarez is damn good prospect and with only 19, he can grow a lot.

Like I said Im not really sold on Valdez, so he goes into the B team. He gets swapped with Rooney, which I signed from our academy and sent to our B team first. He gives us more options.

And to fill the squad we picked another 3 players. Lake and Leone will be some solid rotation players. Valdez I dont know yet.

We managed to pick up 2 GA players with our 2nd and 6th picked. Mehmeti is in my eyes the best player you could drafted. Palencia looks like a solid RB.

I went through the incoming Draft and there are only a few players I really want. So I took the opportunity and cashed up some of our 2022 picks for some GAM. We need more GAM to buy contracts down.

The media sees us as midtable team. General Allocation Money is the main "Monopoly money." It gets used to buy down contract and as asset to trade. The other "Monopoly money" is the Targeted Allocation Money. The first sentence explain it perfectly. You can use it to buy down contract too.

Couple more trades. We got another draft pick for this years draft in exchange for Pomykal...one of our million LW. Another trade with Atlanta, a draft pick for some GAM. And another huge trade in my eyes. We traded our best CB Martinez + 2 picks for Steven Birnbaum. Almost the same contract, but Birnbaum is a little bit better in my eyes and we got another international spot free.

Next player trade. We traded one of our 5 left wingers for a backup keeper. Shinyashiki had also only a contract until the end of the season. Wills looks like a decent backup and he got a contract until 2023. This means I can cancel the loan of Paes or I can just sent him to the B team. This frees up an international spot.

Here we go...the Super Draft is coming up. Now my scouts will scout all 201 players and then you need take some time and look at them. 4 players got selected by the MLS for an GA contract. Those players shoud be the best, but this is not always the case.

Ty. Thats probably the right answer, you just need to go for it at some point. I watched Uncle Sams MLS Guide series probably 2-3 times over the past 2 years. This helped immense.

Huge trade! We got rid of Mr. "I stick the finger in somebodys a**" Franco Jara. Yes, he would be our starting striker, but he is already 33 years and occupying a DP spot. Bill Hamid was transfer listed by DC United and this is the best opportunity to trade a player. In exchange we got probably the best American keeper you can get. Now we need to agree on a new deal and this position is fixed for the next 4-5 years.

I just took a look at our academy. UFF We can sign those players at anytime, but remember you only have a 30 man squad. I think you can sign them all and sent them to your B team, if you got one. For now we only sign one player. Ofcause its the Chinese one. Zongyun looks like a good prospect. Decent physicals, decent mentals, almost the holy trinity at age 16. And he is 191 cm and you cant teach that! He will get a one year deal on a reserve contract.

In preparation for the Super Draft we made some trades. We got rid of a lot of player rights, which are almost always pretty useless. We got some excellent 1st Round picks in exchange. What are "player rights"? Once a players leaves the MLS the club still got the rights to this player. So if another MLS club wants to sign this player in the future, they need to get the player rights for him. For e.g.: Messi left La Liga and went to PSG. Now suddently Real Madrid wants to sign Messi and bring him back to La Liga. Real Madrid needs to acquire the player rights for Messi, which are still owned by Barcelona. Not with real money, but with assets like Draft Picks, Player Trades, GAM (I will explain this one later) etc. For the upcoming Super Draft we got 6 first round picks with two top 6 picks already. And since we got a lot of room in the squad, we can really use those prospects.

I went through the squad and here is the result. In the MLS you can have a maximum squad of 30 players....We only got 21 players. We got only 2 keepers, 2 CBs, 1 LB, 3 midfielder...basicly a lot of work. 9 international players, 9 international spots. So if we want to sign foreign players, we need to trade for an intern. spot or get rid of players. In the MLS the squad of 30 players are deviding into 2 squads. The Senior squad, player 1-20, will count towards the Salary Cap. The Off-Budget Squad, player 21-30, will not count towards the Salary Cap. Contract types for the Senior Squad are: - DP/YDP = Designated Player/Young Designated Player - SC = Senior Contract - SMS = Senior Minimum Contract, if you dont have enough DP/YDP/SC in player spot 1-20 Contract types for the Off-Budget Squad are: - SMS = Senior Minimum Contract - RES= Reserve Contract - GA = Generation Addidas, its special status for a drafted player, its selected by the MLS With those informations this screen doenst look to complicated. One more thing to the Off-Budget Players. - max 10 players with contract types of SMS/RES/GA - max 6 Reserve Contracts, but you need atleast 2 HGN players in those 6 contracts

Quick look around shows me that the squad arent that bad. Sadly two of our best prospect are out on loan and probably will never return. Our key players are on my eyes Arriola and Quignon.

Knocked out in the quarter final in the US Open Cup. In the League Cup/Campeones Cup Dallas was knocked out after the 1st round by America.

Dallas finished the season last place in the Western Conference. Even in the Supporter Shield they finished last. Revolution won the Eastern Conference and Seattle won the Western Conference. In the end Seattle won the MLS Cup for the 3rd time.

Here we go!

Three days after the interview Dallas is approaching us. Perfect, Dallas was the team I wanted the most at the start.

Ty, I hopefully can explain all the things at some point. There will be a lot of fun with all kinds of regulations, drafts, trades and obstacles.

One day later Montreal offers us an interview.

Almost one month later we finally got the interview. tbh its pretty good timing. The season is over and I can fully evaluate the squad.

We declined the Sevilla job. But my desired job opens...Dallas finally sacked their coach. We are even the leading candidate now.

It looks like October/November is firing season in the MLS.