Earnest Stewart Dutch Management adventure

remove head from ass

by the way, i love earnie stewart, dc united and us nats stalwart.

and I never expected him to go out of his way to hire US players.

 

You are removing your head from your ass?

With the minimum salary for non-Eu players, its not likely that Earnie would be offering such numbers to unproven players like Finley, Wynne and even Sasha.

 

Eh, Michael Bradley got a deal from Heerenveen at age what, 18? He had played only 1 season in MLS at the time. He was paid the minimum non-EU salary. So I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility.

 

Under 20 minimum salary was about €175,000 at the time Bradley signed. I think it was even less for Rogers as he was on a youth contract. Also, Heerenveen had just sold Alves for a load of cash at the time and was spending a good bit on prospects like Bradley.

 

Just a small correction: Alfonso Alves wasn't sold to Boro until January 2008, at which point Rogers had already gone back to Columbus and Bradley had established himself as a starter. Bradley joined the club in January 2006 and Rogers in August.

 

Just for comparison, what's the minimum salary now for older players?

 

1. I'm sure the details are being worked out, but is this final?
2. Why do Genoa need another goalie, they have the 28 yo Marco Amelia. How cheap is Romero going?

 

Could it have been Huntelaar

I seem to remember €600,000.

 

Yes

And Yes, that might be too much for Marvell Wynne.

(It was in the MLSsoccer.com article: The Netherlands has bumped the minimum annual salary requirement for non-European Union signings up to €512,000 ($623,000). )

 

For most Dutch clubs they can't risk spending that amount unless the player can step in and be a star right away. PSV and Ajax have a bit of flexibility, the rest watch their budgets very tightly.

 

So what would a salary be for an non star player? 2-300,000 euros or less?

 

Wasn't Huntelaar sold the window they bought Bradley? Plus the Bradley fee was pretty low. I seem to remember $200,000 or so.

 

yes please!

 

Would DaMarcus Beasley be a good fit for Stewart's new team?

 

Michael Bradley went for $60K.

Lalas just gave him away (though, it could have been part of the agremeent with Bob too).

The U-20 Eredivisie minimum is usually at 50% of the senior minimum and it's good for 2 years.

With Heerenveen, Gert Verbeek played at attacking 4-4-2 where both wings (Pranjic and Beerens mostly) pushed the ball up on wide. Mikey played in the Y-midfield spot and crashed the box on pretty much every possession but didn't handle (dribble) the ball all that much centrally.

So, Beez wouldn't have been a good fit then.

Now?

It depends on whom Earnie sells and buys.

 

As a Red Bulls fan, this "transfer" still enrages me.

There was a sell-on clause though. However, when he was finally sold to BMG, MLS didn't apply the 2/3 rule (because the original transfer was before it???) and the Red Bulls got an unknown allocation.

 

I am pretty certain it was a wink-wink-nudge-nudge deal with Bob.

I doubt anyone saw Mikey as being a future USMNT stalwart when he was only 18.

 

Yes, I agree. It was kind of a "sorry we fired you, we don't want your son hanging around being pissed off, oh look, a Euro team wants him" deal.