Articles written by: Tim Jones

Still learning soccer after nearly five decades. A southwestern Ohio buckeye transplanted to Chester County. Used to teach history, enjoys new ideas, sometimes bakes bread, is a sports fan, and loves apparently unconnected connections.

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Commentary / Union

MLS salary cap details updated to 2025

by × on January 8, 2025 at 11:00 am × 6 comments

What to try to remember about the salary cap as we analyze the end of the Philadelphia Union’s 2025 roster build.

Analysis

Philadelphia Union’s 2025 salary cap structure: A counterfactual speculation

by × on January 8, 2025 at 9:00 am × 1 comment

Tim Jones speculates how 2025 GAM and TAM might approximately affect the Philadelphia Union’s 2025 salary structure.

Analysis / Union

The 2025 Philadelphia Union at New Year’s

by × on January 6, 2025 at 2:28 pm × 3 comments

As the year 2025 starts, we provide a possible depth chart of the Philadelphia Union, together with 2024 salaries.

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Analysis

2025’s Garber Bucks, aka General Allocation Money

by × on December 19, 2024 at 5:14 pm × 7 comments

For the moment the Union would be second only to Atlanta for 2025 GAM.

Union

Union end-of-season roster decisions elaborated

by × on December 6, 2024 at 8:00 am × 6 comments

We detail the first steps in the Union’s roster build for 2025 and start to unravel what they might mean.

Analysis / Union

2024 San Diego Expansion draft

by × on December 5, 2024 at 8:00 am × 6 comments

We provide everything factual the is currently known about the pending San Diego expansion draft, and guess at whom the Union will protect and expose.

Analysis / Union / Union II

The case for Marlon LeBlanc as Philadelphia Union head coach

by × on December 4, 2024 at 11:21 am × 10 comments

Arguments for Marlon LeBlanc as the Union’s next head coach.

Union

In 2024 who played how much for the Philadelphia Union

by × on November 27, 2024 at 3:20 pm × 3 comments

Playing time often reflects how valued a player is by his coach.

Analysis / Union

Philadelphia Union “Roster Profile”- September 17, 2024

by × on November 26, 2024 at 9:00 am × 2 comments

As an aide to independent analysis of the pending Philadelphia Union end-of-season roster decisions that are notionally due on the day before Thanskgiving, we reproduce as closely as possible to verbatim the Roster Profile of the PHILADELPHIA UNION that was issued immediately after roster freeze day earlier this fall.

Commentary / Union II

Nick Pariano is now a single six

by × on November 19, 2024 at 8:59 pm × 5 comments

Tim Jones reports on one of the more important developments of Union II’s history-making season.

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