Good morning! MLS moves into its 10th weekend with 28 of the 29 head coaches who began the season still in charge. (Minnesota United played three games before 32-year-old Eric Ramsay officially filled its coaching vacancy from 2023.) As SA’s Charles Boehm notes in his weekly MLS column, that’s an unusually long time in soccer terms for no coach to get fired. Patience is wearing thin, though. Five teams enter weekend play with just one win in eight or more games.

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