YA Returned (Again) / Twellman

[bata]

An article in the WashPost today describes the journey of Taylor Twellman from his hometown of St. Louis, to being a YA, and returning to MLS. The Boston Globe article of a few weeks back was more detailed, but this one points out one interesting fact: Twellman is making the league minimum of $24,000 (That's $1,200 a game so far, or $1,600 a goal.) Seems that 1860 or some other enterprising team would have a little more than 25K euros, or even the MLS league "maximum" for the guy by the time the season is over.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28648-2002Jul31.html

[BuffloSoldier]

Except he's under contract for another three years. So any team would have to agree with MLS a transfer free for Twellman.

[bata]

I guess I glossed over that fact by jumping into the next paragraph talking about how he might exect a large raise next year (either from MLS or by signing abroad, one assumes). He must have been really down in the dumps -- or severly undesired in Europe -- to sign a four year contract at 24K/per with just 10K in bonuses.

[AngelN]

or just very confident.

[bata]

Originally posted by AngelN
or just very confident.

there's always that!

[2ManyHeaders]

geez, give the guy a raise.

[appoo]

is he allowed to hold out for more money? like NFL players do? I think this is where they got that idea. Secrataries make more money than he does. ANd he brings in a ton more money to his employer (MLS) than a secratary ever will.

[Elwood]

Damn, *I* make more money than he does.

Of course I have no hope of a future job, paying 10x or more, in Europe, but still....

[empennage]

Well, hopefully he'll be able to get some endorsements and raise his earnings. It certainly makes MLS look really good for signing him.

[dawgpound2]

But, according to most here, how could MLS do anything so smart?

[metroflip73]

Like the saying goes, put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters, one of them, mathematically, is bound to type Hamlet.

[kasai]

The MLS needs to be proactive and sign Taylor to a better contract. If it is possible transfer him back to Europe because he doesn't have the name recognition of some of the other high profile MLS players.

[Crewmudgeon]

Yes indeed. Tear up that contract. Give that man a raise!