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.

Analysis

A look at the Union’s salary structure

The MLSPA published updated salary information for the league last Friday. PSP’s Tim Jones correlates Union salaries with the club’s roster structure and categories.

Analysis

The Nashville-Miami expansion draft

PSP’s Tim Jones puts forth an early guess at whom the Union will protect in the November 19th expansion draft.

Analysis

A look at the race for first place

PSP’s Tim Jones offers a non-statistical look at what the Union must do — and what help they must get — to finish the season in first place in the East.

Analysis

What happened to the Union’s centerback advantage?

Why has a previous position of strength become shakier?

Commentary

Updates on the Union Academy

PSP’s Tim Jones identifies a new source for information about the Academy from the Union website.

Analysis

On the signing of Jack de Vries

PSP’s Tim Jones explains how the 17-year-old lefty’s signing shows how Ernst Tanner is subtly changing the player development model within Keystone Sports’ soccer teams.

Commentary

Two points on Bethlehem’s Lousiville win

Bethlehem not only beat Lousiville City FC for the first time ever on Saturday, they did it at narrow, dual-surfaced Slugger Field in the city at the falls of the Ohio River where the defending champs had not lost since April.

Analysis

Union Academy prospects with big decisions before NCAA preseason

Late July and early August are times when new Academy talent may sign with the Union or the Steel.

Analysis

Looking ahead at the season’s midpoint

This coming offseason will bring a new collective bargaining agreement between MLS and MLS’s Players Association. And there will be a players association organized in USL Championship as well.

Analysis

Steel’s “on loan” players at mid-season

PSP assesses the Bethlehem Steel 2019 players that are on loan trying to earn contracts to remain with the club for the next 12 to 24 months.