By Tony Edwards - San Jose, CA (Feb 2, 2012) US Soccer Players -- Tony looks at changes at Leeds United, Major League Soccer's market penetration, and a visit to Hoffenheim in today's edition of Five Questions. So Robbie Rogers, are you enjoying playing under Simon Grayson? Welcome to Leeds, eh? Grayson was fired yesterday after a 4-1 loss to Jonathan Spector's Birmingham City, replaced by Leeds Youth Team manager Neil Redfearn, at least on.

Tonight Chelsea travel to the Liberty Stadium to take on the impressive Swansea side under Brendan Rogers. We all saw how well they played when they beat Arsenal the other week and once again for Chelsea, this is no easy game.
Imagine a Chelsea side without three of the four players that have been part of the core of our side for the last five or six years.

A comedy of errors sees Leeds gain 3 points they did not deserve against Ipswich! Fan at the game report as usual on this weeks show. Howson gone Delph returns. Other player transactions, including Rogers work permit news plus excellent news from Reserves, U.18s and LUFC Ladies games and Ken Bates has been seven years at LUFC this week.

Leeds United have signed MLS star Robbie Rogers on an 18-month contract from Columbus Crew.
The 24-year agreed personal terms on January 10 but had to wait for his work permit to be approved before he could become officially part of the squad at Elland Road.
Rogers was given a taste of football in England in a behind-closed-doors friendly against Newcastle last week but was unable to feature for the reserves because not all of his paperwork had been completed.

photo by Michael Janosz/ISIphotos.com

Robbie Rogers' move to Leeds United has not yet been completed, but the move seems all but done after Rogers was approved for a work permit.

Not having played the required amount of games for the U.S. men's national team, Rogers qualified for a work permit on special dispensation.

This week sees the longest ever rant from Twiggster, after being interrupted during the recording, by the news of our captain apparently moving to Norwich!
Apart from that, we have news of trialists at our club, U.18 and reserves wins and of course listener emails! And it seems like the Robbie Rogers deal is going ahead!

Robbie Rogers received his UK work permit today thereby completing his move to Leeds United in the English Championship.

I can confirm that Robbie Rogers has been approved for a UK work permit, and thus is now a Leeds United player. Report in the works for MLSS.- Greg Seltzer

Sacrificial lamb?

The fallout from the defeat to Swansea has been dire and depressing. The "Wenger OUT!!" brigade has come out in full force after going into hiding for a good few months now. Granted, they had no reason to voice their concern during that period. What with the wins that we kept racking up and the continual move up the table.

On the Gadsby's England roundup this week, Gary Cahill joining Chelsea—will this defensive partnership with John Terry help England? Brendan Rogers says for the best England players, come to...Wales! And who's in the running to be the next England manager?

Josh McEachran has signed for Swansea on loan until the end of the season in what appears to be a cracking move for all parties concerned.
We all know the situation with getting first team football here at Chelsea and with Raul Meireles, Lampard and Ramires playing well and Michael Essien back, it's harder than ever for Josh to break into the side these days.

The first months of Michel Vorm in Swansea: "I'm impressed with that new Swansea goalie time after time" ( Michael Owen), "The other lads called him the Cat, as his reflexes are so lightning fast" (Swansea coach Brendan Rogers), "He only cost 1,5 Mio pounds, he's the pick of the [read more]

That wasn't particularly good was it. The result was the least we wanted because of the results of those around us. It meant that we fall back by 1 point compared to before the start of the weekend's fixtures. But the bigger concern is with our performance or rather the lack of it.

For anyone who hasn't seen Swansea this season, their performance justified all the praise that Brendan Rogers and his team are getting.

Though the deal requires a work permit to become official, Robbie Rogers has signed with Leeds United in England's Championship. Rogers has 18 US National Team appearances since 2009, scoring against Mexico in last year's August friendly. After five seasons and 106 appearances with Columbus, Rogers didn't re-sign with Major League Soccer.

You've probably seen that Robbie Rogers has now signed with Leeds United, pending work permit approval. Somehow, all of the reports have glaringly left out one rather important detail: I can confirm that it's a two-and-half-year deal.Sadly, what I have yet to be able to confirm is the name of the mystery English club he visited in December.

BBC News and Sky News are reporting that American Robbie Rogers has signed a deal with Leeds United of England's Championship. The 24 year old winger has been capped 18 times by the United States National Team and most recently played for the Columbus Crew in MLS. This isn't Rogers' first signing with a European club.

photo by Michael Janosz/ISIphotos.com

Robbie Rogers made it no secret that he wanted to play abroad once his MLS contract expired at the end of last season.

It appears his wish has been granted.

Rogers has agreed to join Championship club Leeds United, subject to him securing a work permit.

US international winger Robbie Rogers has signed with Leeds United but the deal is contingent on the California native obtaining a British work permit.

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An effervescent Swansea side stroking the ball with ease pinned the Hydra headed Spurs attack for lengthy spells. Against the run of play Spurs went up just before the half with Rafael Van Der Vaart's goal after Benoit Assou- Ekotto had done all the spadework down the left flank.

Swansea boss wins race to sign striker Donnelly

Brendan Rogers beats off competition from both Merseyside giants

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Swansea City manager Brendan Rodgers has expressed his anger over losing out to Liverpool (or Everton) in the race for Cliftonville striker Rory Donnelly.Rogers revealed last week that Cliftonville had accepted an offer the young striker. Days later, Kenny Dalglish confirmed that Liverpool had 'registered their interest' in the player, and now it appears that Swansea have been left high and dry.

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A day after locking up centerback Chad Marshall for the foreseeable future, the Columbus Crew may be on the verge of losing a key figure from its attack.

Winger Robbie Rogers is closing in on a deal with Leeds United, according to a report from England.

"Ugh, my iPhone is stuck on the UNHOLY setting"The dust has settled over Bay Street since Friday's dramatic announcement that Bell and Rogers were buying major shares of Maple Leaf Sports and "Entertainment". A few things became evident by watching the glad-handing press conference: Bell and Rogers may be in bed over this deal - but they do not enjoy each other's company; the deal is 99% about getting corporate boxes at Leafs games; and, TFC are the equivalent of "the player to be named later" in the deal.

Well, we don't have the Teacher's Pension Plan to kickaround anymore. The big bad mediagiants, Bell and Rogers have married and bought MLSE. Now what does this meanfor our little TFC? I am hoping for either benign neglect or selling off the team,but not holding my breath for either. Bizarre billionaires are rare in Canada.

"Your call is important to us... please hold."At the end of day there was no Arab Sultanate, no oil-rich Russian oligarch or even any American financiers. No, like a giant, wireless Voltron-like creature - Canada's two largest media giants, and bitter rivals, Rogers and Bell joined forces today to purchase 75% of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment.

Bell & Rogers buy into TFC. Some first impressions on what this might mean for the future of Toronto FC
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Swansea City 0-1 Manchester United Premier League 19th November 2011

Manchester United secured their third 1-0 win in a row in the league on Saturday, overcoming an impressive Swansea Side at the Liberty Stadium.

Gaven, Rogers, Burns & Ekpo Out Of Contract With Crew

Now, this doesn't mean they are free agents within MLS. The rights issues are fairly complex. If the Crew don't want one back, but MLS reaches a contract agreement the players would be available in the Re-Entry Draft. Their rights would also be availabe via trade.

A couple of weeks ago, Gary Gillespie revealed that when he was at Liverpool under Kenny Dalglish, the players were 'just told to go out and play', and that during his 8 year spell at Anfield 'the days we were actually coached I can count on one hand'. Against Swansea yesterday, it seemed like the coaching had regressed back to Gillespie's 1980s heyday for the afternoon.

After the West Brom victory last week, I posted an article arguing that the quality of Liverpool's second half performance had been wildly exaggerated. The gross hyperbole coming from fans, pundits and ex-players after the game was laughable, and just served to deflect attention away from the real issues, which were exposed again today by an outstanding Swansea team who, quite frankly, gave Liverpool a footballing lesson on their own ground.

With his season over and his future in Columbus somewhat uncertain, Robbie Rogers has got to find some other sh*t to do with his time. Things like being a clothing mogul/male model with the Halsey line. Sure hope he doesn't get to beefing with Hansel; you never know what that guy will do.

Here is the roster for the 2 upcoming USA friendlies against France and Slovenia-
G:Bill Hamid - DC UnitedTim Howard - EvertonD:Carlos Bocanegra - RangersTimmy Chandler - NurnbergSteve Cherundolo - HannoverClarence Goodson - BrondbyAlfredo Morales - HerthaMichael Orozco Fiscal - San LuisOguchi Onyewu - Sporting CPM:Kyle Beckerman - Real Salt LakeMichael Bradley - ChievoClint Dempsey - FulhamMaurice Edu - RangersFabian Johnson - HoffenheimJermaine Jones - SchalkeRobbie Rogers - Columbus CrewBrek Shea - DallasDanny Williams - HoffenheimF:Jozy Altidore - AZDaMarcus Beasley - PueblaEdson Buddle - IngolstadtLandon Donovan - LA Galaxy
Who is not on this list that should be?

No matter what happens for the remainder of Swansea's season, I predict the club is going to have a tough time keeping its manager Brendan Rogers and many of its starting eleven in South Wales. This is a team that ...
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People don't like Kenny Cooper. He is probably used to it by now. They didn't always like him in Dallas where he racked up forty goals in ninety games. They didn't always like him in England or Germany where he he was busy with a broken ankle. They didn't always like him here in Portland where he was the Timbers leading scorer.

Quick Recap:

The Colorado Rapids come out looking strong and ready to defend their championship. The Columbus Crew looked like they were running around trying to put chewing gum on a leaky dike. In the end the better team won, Colorado wins 1-0.

First Half:

Colorado came out and really looked like they were the defending champions for the first time in a while.

I hope Richard doesn't mind but I wanted to draw everyone's attention to a charity run on 23rd October 2011. A few weeks back I wrote about Roger Brown following his sad passing at the age of 58. Subsequently I discovered that his son-in-law to be, Peter Drakeley, was running for charity. There's only a few weeks to go and I think Peter could do with a sponsorship boost.

Galaxy mifielder Juninho fends off the Columbus Crew's Robbie Rogers; the Brazilian has become a fixture in the starting lineup this season combining flair with sheer hard work (AP Photo).

The Galaxy are fielding nominations from the media for the team MVP and defender of the Year awards that will be handed out at the final home game of the season.

Mid-week MLS action saw the race for the Eastern Conference get even tighter. It also saw a heated exchange between Daniel Paladini and Kyle Beckerman which saw Beckerman walk off with a red. Pedro Gomes has your recap.
Sporting Kansas City 2, Columbus Crew 1
Kansas City hosted the Columbus Crew with a chance to take first place in the extremely tight Eastern Conference.

This afternoon is an interesting game for me for many reasons. We all know AVB has said in previous weeks that he wants to see his sides performances get better from week to week and I think we all are looking for the same level of performance as we saw in the second half against United.
I am wondering if he will make 10 changes to the side that faced Fulham this week.

For the second straight year, the Maranatha Baptist women's soccer program has a new career goal-scoring leader.

This time, though, it looks as if the mark will stand for a while.

Junior forward Karis Rogers had a hat trick in a 4-2 win over host Northland International last Tuesday in Dunbar, moving past Elise Jones' previous record of 44 goals.