When will Atlanta United hire a coach?

2:45 p.m., Bournemouth vs. West Ham United, (NBC Sports Live Extra): Two of the surprising teams in England's Premier League will go at it. West Ham is fighting for a spot in the Europa League (the equivalent of the NIT for European Soccer Leagues, while the Champions League is the NCAA tournament), while Bournemouth, decimated by injuries, is trying to stay above the relegation battle.

Wednesday

2:45 p.m., Manchester City vs. Everton, (NBC Sports Live Extra): Manchester City trails leaders Arsenal by three points in the Premier League. Everton are fighting to make it into the Europa League. City cannot drop points in this one.

2:45 p.m., Liverpool vs. Arsenal, (NBC Sports Live Extra): Liverpool, once the kings of Europe, must beat the Gunners to maintain any hope of finishing in the top four of the Premier League and earning a berth in next season's Champions League. The Reds trail fourth-place and unrelenting Tottenham by six points for the fourth and final spot in the Champions League.

Friday

2:45 p.m., Dundee United vs. Celtic, (Fox Soccer 2Go): Scottish soccer isn't what it once was, but this should be a good game if you like goals because it should be one-sided. Celtic are atop the table, 36 points ahead of last-place Dundee. For a little bit on the biggest rivalry in the country, read this.

10:30 p.m., Santos Laguna vs. Chiapas, (ESPN2): Chiapas won its opener while Santos dropped its first game.

Saturday

10 a.m., Chelsea vs. Everton, (NBC Sports Live Extra): Everton aren't on the list because they are that good. They are on the list because they keep playing interesting teams. Chelsea seems have to have righted a floundering yacht following Guus Hiddink's replacing Jose Mourinho as a manager. The Blues are unbeaten in their past five games.

Sunday

9:05 a.m.: Liverpool vs. Manchester United (NBC Sports Live Extra): One of soccer's oldest and fiercest rivalries will continue. Both teams have aspirations higher than their places in the Premier League table. Manchester United is in fifth with 33 points; Liverpool is in eighth with 30 points.

10 a.m.: Real Madrid vs. Sporting Gijon (BeIn Sports Connect): In Zinedine Zidane's first game in charge, Real Madrid destroyed Deportivo 5-0. Real trails leader Atletico Madrid by four points in the Primera Division

11:15 a.m.: Stoke City vs. Arsenal (NBC Sports Live Extra): This will be an intense game for lots of different reasons. First, Gunners boss Arsene Wagner seemingly still hasn't forgiven Stoke after Ryan Shawcross broke Aaron Ramsey's leg with a vicious tackle in 2010. Second, Stoke, now nicknamed Stoke-alona as a nod to Barcelona, is challenging the Gunners for the most pleasingly style of soccer in the Premier League. Lastly, the Gunners need to win to stay atop the table, while Stoke is trying to get into the Europa League.

After hiring an academy director, the next "big" hire Atlanta United will make is its coach.

Club president Darren Eales shared information on when and who he will look to hire for the expansion team’s first coach in the second part of a series that will run over the next weeks. Atlanta United will begin in 2017 and will play Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Questions and answers have been edited and in some cases paraphrased for brevity and clarity.

Q: What is the timeline of hiring a coach? Is the process underway?

A: (Hopefully by the ) Summer of 2016, but it will be a case of the merits of who will be available when and who we might think will be available.

Q: What are you looking for?

A: If I look back at managers hired at West Brom and Spurs, it’s dangerous to say I just want this type.

It could be a foreign coach, could be an American coach, could be someone with experience in MLS, could be someone without experience.

If it’s a foreign coach, one of the assistants must have experience in MLS. It’s such a unique league with rules, times zones, weather, playing surfaces.

I wouldn’t rule any possibility out. But that’s exciting. We can look at field and talk to a lot of people. We can look at matrix and make a decision.

Another unveiling: Los Angeles Football Club, which will begin play in MLS in 2018, unveiled its club crest and colors last week.

While the crest was unique – the letters LA with wings in the A symbolizing the city of angels as well as a nod to the city's soccer past— the colors will seem very similar to fans of Atlanta United because they are the same as Atlanta United's: black, gold and red.

It's odd because as reported last season, MLS can take steps to ensure that teams don't have competing colors.

So, assuming that non-competing colors were agreed to or discussed by the league and some agreement reached so that the brands of each new club aren’t diluted, what might supporters of Atlanta United expect for the team’s first jerseys?

The look of the jerseys must be finalized roughly more than a year before they are unveiled to the public because of the requirements of mass production and distribution. Because of that timeline, Atlanta United’s jerseys were still being decided as of December. Eales declined to say how the jerseys may look.

If both clubs share the same colors, but Atlanta’s primary colors are red and black and LAFC’s are black and gold, and MLS prefers a lack of similarity, then Atlanta United’s home, away and alternate jerseys will likely have just a spot of gold, and Los Angeles Football Club just a spot of red. There was some wish by some of Atlanta United’s supporters to have gold as the primary color of either the away or alternate uniforms. At least one supporter even went so far as to design the jerseys.

That doesn’t seem likely now, and makes Atlanta United’s jersey (or kit, if you prefer) that much more interesting when it occurs after the 2016 MLS season.

MLS schedule: The league released the 2016 schedule on Thursday.

Good reads: Grant Wahl on the changing style of the U.S. training camp.

Update on Atlantans: Jack McInerney may be moving from Columbus to Portland, where he will join Chris Klute, another player with ties to the city.

If finalized, this will be McInerney's fourth team. He was drafted by Philadelphia, traded to Montreal and then traded to Columbus. He's just 23 years old. For whatever reason, he has yet to play consistently for any of the teams, but he has 38 goals in 143 games, which isn't a bad strike rate.

Soccer stuff for the new fans: Some of you may be new fans of soccer, so I thought each week I'd dedicate a small section of the column to helping you understand some of the things that you may not know, but will likely read and hear a lot about as Atlanta United inches closer to its first game.

So, here we go: Transfer fees.

With the exception of MLS, sports in the U.S. don’t have transfer fees. Transfer fees are the amount of money that one team proposed to another to buy a player. Once that fee is agreed, the buying team will negotiate a new salary and other contract terms with the player or his representatives. Sometimes the order is reversed.

There are typically two transfer periods, also known as “windows.” There is the summer window and the winter window. The dates of the windows vary by league. In England’s Premier League and most other leagues in Europe, the winter window is currently open.

Powerball-type money changes hands during the transfer windows. According to the BBC, teams in the Premier League spent $1 billion pounds, or $1.46 billion, during the 2015 transfer windows. That was just in one country.

So, if you read on ajc.com in the coming months that Atlanta United (or MLS) has agreed to a transfer fee for Jon Scoresalot, you’ll know what you are reading.