MLS Preview Roundtable: Employees’ predictions for the thirtieth season of the league

The MLS thirty season starts on Saturday, a few miles away from the place where the 29th league campaign ended. La Galaxy won the MLS Cup in its shadow more than two months ago, but the LAFC competitor will raise the curtain in 2025 when it hosts Minnesota United on Saturday afternoon.

It represents the beginning of the season, which will contain many new impact signatures (the league transmission record has been broken twice), a new club (hello, San Diego FC!), And some UsMnt arrivals looking for a path to the top of Mauricio Pochttino (Hello, Brandon vázquez and Luca de la Torre) and a large and shiny circle on Lionel Messi and all that he does the Internet miami along the way (at cold temperatures or other).

The new season is an excuse to make our confirmed annual predictions, so we have paired AthletePaul Tenorio Football Book, Pablo Moor, Jeff Reuters and Felipe Cardinas to see them on a number of topics. Who will win everything? Who will be terrible? Who will surprise? Who deserves your attention?

We have covered everything below to take the rest of the way to kick first in Los Angeles

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Predictions: MLS Cup winner, Al -Moayadin Shield winner (Best Register), Received Wooden Spoon (Worse Register)

Tenorio:

• MLS CUP – Inter MIAMI: Messi and his companies give priority to the Concacaf Champions and Qualifiers, and one of these two awards won.
• Support Shield – FC CINCINNATILucho Acosta loss, but the addition of Evander and Kévin Denney should put a strong team already on the top this season.
• Wooden Spoon – Houston DinamoToronto looks harsh, and it seems that this is the tearful year, but I don’t like the sales that Dynamo made this out of the season and the alternative value of the players who return to. If they do not add talent.

Cardias:

• MLS CUP – Inter MIAMI: Messi no Ownership To win the MLS Cup title. His legacy as (can be said) the best player has already been reinforced. But I find it difficult to believe that he will not win at least while playing in the United States
• Support Shield – FC CINCINNATIMiami will be better than she was during a record season in 2024. They can repeat as supporters of supporters. I think Senseenati is walking away with this, although (in a narrow race).
• Wooden Spoon – Nashville SCFeeling that Nashville hovers slightly higher than the lack of relationship in MLS. They do not have stars, and you need these players in this league. The first full season for BJ Callaghan will be a difficult season that will reset the club’s strategy.

Morer:

• MLS CUP – Inter MIAMI: Ambition gives you a long way in MLS, and Miamey, at this point, late. If they are in good health, messi & co. Finally by raising the first meaning (with the championship cup apologies.)
• Support Shield – FC CINCINNATI: The shock transfer from Acosta stole the addresses, but, on the balance, this team only improved. It can be very monitored, very competitive, and this year, they will win the shield.
• Wooden Spoon – San Diego: Two wonderful signatures, yes, but a complete chaos of questions that were not answered as well. MLS had some extremist values, but at the end of the day, life became difficult as an expansion team. Do not hesitate to connect this one in the cabinet room, Mikey Varas. “They do not believe in us,” is the MLS tradition, at this point.

Reuters:

• MLS CUP – Seattle SoundersThe most complete MLS team is designed to compete on all fronts (well, along with the club’s World Cup). Together, they gathered an unparalleled depth and MLS Nous between the list of players.
• Support Shield – FC CINCINNATIHe moved with experience that could have been a sub -shoe for the task and improves the way. It is useful not to need anxiety about the club’s World Cup as well.
• Wooden Spoon – Toronto FCLorenzo Insigne is already the worst signature in the history of MLS given its enlarged wages and lack of influence, and I do not see space to bounce late. A franchise without a rudder that needs time to drill from Bill Manning’s mistakes and John Herdemman – but Robin Fraser’s employment was a step in the right direction.

Who will be the most summer signature?

TenorioAntoine Griezmann to Lafak. It has been rumored about this for some time and I don’t think LAFC keeps the DP spot open for it.

Cardias: I agree with Paul. Griezmann to mls is inevitable. He is a fan of the American Football Association (with the US Football Association Podcast in Spanish), who recently made his way to Super Bowl in New Orleans. It seems that he is looking forward to life in the United States, specifically in Los Angeles, as is the case for Kevin de Bruyne, ask? It seems that the Belgian is heading to Saudi Arabia.

MorerGio Rina to … anywhere other than the Chicago fire. This may feel far -reaching, but Reina simply needs minutes. Dortmund’s demand price is possible significantly over the past year, making it in the range of the MLS side. If Rina wants to return to the states is a completely different story. Few blame it.

ReutersIf Norwich City fails to get promotion, Josh SARGENT may be available for a fee similar to what Atlanta Middlesbrung for Emmanuel Latte (more than $ 20 million) paid. Saint Louis City expressed her interest and play during the summer (if it remains in good health) can enhance his 2026 World Cup.

The most dangerous Messi takes this season

ReutersMessi helps Miami to reach the final of the conference, as the additional defeat is currently causing Miami to offer a more profitable package that will eventually return it for another year.

MorerMessi will do a double work, and he won the MVP Award in the League as well as the Golden Shoe. It is not that the famous Argentine needs any additional motive, but his share in Miami’s ownership – and the fact that this may be his last year in the league – may give him the additional batch he needs. Take the burning, and I know.

CardiasMessi’s numbers in 2025 will not be amazing. He will slow down a little and Miami will watch his fitness with the World Cup carefully. He will have a MVP season, but it will not repeat the prize winner.

TenorioI can see a scenario in which Messi announces the extension of a six -month contract that allows him to open the new stadium, and take it until the end of the 2026 World Cup … and this is everything.

The largest surprise team (for the better or worse)

MorerThe San Jose Oarmquakes, 2024 winners of the wooden spoon, will do the post -season in 2025. Periodic earthquakes will not be satisfied on the fire, but they will do enough to make the qualifiers.

Tenorio: I am the second predicted Pablo. You never bet on Bruce Arena. I learned this lesson when he went to New England.

Reuters: With Eric Cowell on the touch line and Acosta pulled the strings, FC Dallas jumped to the fifth place in the Western Conference in their most entertaining season since the height of the Mauro Díaz and Fabián Castillo.

CardiasIn the last Wilfred Nancy season in MLS, the Columbus Kunnels will be absent. The absence of Cucho Hernández will decline to attack the crew, and by summer, Nancy will move abroad to start the next semester of his training career.

More than/below: 0.5 millimeters coming out of the club’s World Cup group stage

(Between Miami in a group with Porto, Palmeiras and AHly, Seattle Sounders is assembled with Paris Saint -Germain, Atletico Madrid and Bootavogo)

ReutersUnder, but I am sure that both clubs will appreciate additional allocation money for their attempts.

Morer: under. MLS has always tightened the opportunity to prove itself “the bond of choice”, but still has a long way. It will be fun to watch both cases.

Tenorio: Yes, I will take under this, too.

CardiasYou may get rid of Miami, but if Sounders succeed outside group B, well, the United States may win the 2026 World Cup. We know this does not happen. under.

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