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Coaches around Major League Soccer have been vocal this week in grousing about the lack of spending at their clubs.

Colorado’s Anthony Hudson did, and it may have cost him his job, as the winless Rapids relieved him of his position on Wednesday.

“We are fighting at the bottom with a bottom group of players and we have to find a way to pick up results whilst also being a team that tries to play a certain way,” Hudson said just days before being fired.

“The only way it’s going to be a quick fix is if you wave a magic wand at it and throw lots of money at it. Clearly we’re not doing that. I’ll go back to this: Every single game we go into, whether it’s Nani, whether it’s (Wayne) Rooney, whether it’s (Lucho) Acosta — every single week there are players in this league making a difference and the gap in quality is huge …

“There are teams with a lot more quality than us. And that’s what we’re competing against. And no one talks about it.”