Real Salt Lake Gets Their Stadium Today

Sports Capital Partners (SCP), the group of investors Dave Checketts fronts that owns Real Salt Lake (RSL), has said that they'll be making their decision tomorrow on whether to keep the team in Utah or sell to a group of investors in St. Louis. It did not look good for RSL a week ago. Salt Lake County had decided against passing bonding funded by a hotel tax to help finance the stadium / hotel / office project in Sandy for the team and their development partners. But the state once again looks as though they'll be weighing in on the project with the Utah legislature expected to pass a funding bill for the team today. Even if that happens it's not entirely clear that Sports Capital Partners will not sell the team. The final decision by SCP is expected by announced by the end of the business day Friday.

Conor Casey Coming To the MLS

But he's not going to be buying a house in Gilpin, Colorado. Well, Conor could but it won't do him much good while he's playing for Major League Soccer expansion team Toronto FC. Next to Jim Brennan and getting RSL and DCU to give up partial allocations to get players back, Conor Casey looks to be the best signing by Mo Johnston so far. No, it's not official but at this point it's looking like he'll end up playing north of the border.

Real Sandy Afterall?

Salt Lake's KUTV is reporting that a deal providing funding for the new Real Salt Lake stadium is imminent. The Utah state legislature is pressuring the Salt Lake County board into paying for the stadium by threatening to take away funding for other projects. This despite 70% of voters in Salt Lake county opposing funding the project.

Weird World Of Soccer Story

I wonder if Comercial's ball boy, who decided to attack the opposing goalkeeper with an iron bar, has hired by Tonya Harding. It's funny because from the wording of the story, it sounds like even though the kid was using an iron bar it wasn't affecting Botafogo-Riberao's goalkeeper. To read the entire story, click here.

A Loan Window?

In this article on Colin Healy's contract at Barnsley being canceled I noticed that a loan window was mentioned. Does anyone know the details on this? I did a quick look on the internet but didn't find anything detailing this. Is this loan window dependent on FIFA's rules? Or is this something England's FA has implemented?