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'the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence'

Rowdies owner is a millionaire and supposedly owns half of St. Petersburg..

I personally know a squad player, with limited experience, that had been with the team for 3 years and he started on $5k, and every one of those years got an improved deal.

Average pay is around $10k a week. He'll probably be on a bit more.

Being? He's made a decision, I would imagine based on a number of reasons. Maybe there was no solid promise of another contract? I'd guess he probably wants to play another year or two before he starts coaching. The pace (or lack of) in the NASL will be more suited, as will the weather.

Coach in Cov or stroll around a pitch in Florida and be treated like monarchy? Tough one.

Yep. George Best played for Fort Lauderdale. Pele for Cosmos.

Former Cov/Rowdies....I think there's more, but off the top of my head; Wegerle and Allardyce. (Steve Hunt played for New York Cosmos.)

They play in St. Petersburg, downtown, on the bayside. They'd get better attendances if they were in Tampa.

Welcome to America

Similar, but definitely worse here, given the overall lack of football knowledge throughout the club. Only Stuart Campbell (coach) and Perry Van Der Beck (assistant GM) have a real, in depth knowledge of the game. And it's Cambell's first managerial gig.

Their best player by a country mile is Tamika Mkandawire, who Rick signed from Shrewsbury.

I watched Carl Cort finish his career there. Cringeworthy.

The setting is as good as it gets. The standard of the NASL is dreadful. I'd put it at League 2, at best. Al Lang is a repurposed baseball stadium with an average fanbase of 4,000. The owner knows nothing about the game, and nor do his advisers. There's an openly stated one year plan...

Plan b

Good job Mowbray has a plan b

Strachan wasn't the worst, even if you take in to account the quality of players he worked with, and their value in monetary terms. You need not look further than Thorn, who was a non-manager. And Butcher, if you want a runner-up.

Strachan was not the worst, but did lose his way with us....especially given he had a wedge of parachute money to spunk away...which he did. I don't think anyone would challenge the opinion that; towards the end of his tenure, we played some utter garbage football. Giving his son Gavin 16...