We normally have a thread for this topic don't we? Please remove if there already is one. I searched and couldn't find one with the latest info released. It appears this was released on 6/1/19. https://mlsplayers.org/resources/salary-guide PDF: http://s3.amazonaws.com/mlspa/June-1-2019-Salaries-Alphabetical-Web.pdf?mtime=20190612135339 Short ESPN article discussing some numbers: https://www.espn.com/soccer/major-l...0/mls-salaries-ibra-earning-record-$72m-in-19 I didn't understand this part. Is Dos Santos still getting paid by MLS?
Is he earning a salary somewhere else also? I have no idea how all this works and have so many questions. If you have to pay him anyway why not use him until his contract is up? Edit: According to Wikipedia he isn't playing anywhere right now.
All teams have the authority to "buy out" one player per season. When a club buys out a player, their roster and cap space is freed up, but the club still owns the contract and has to either pay for nothing, or try and make a deal to release or transfer the player. LAG needed the DP slot, they got rid of their worst DP, but the contract is still there, so the Galaxy are still paying him. He was awful, so had they not used the out clause, they would still be paying him anyway to sit on the bench, but would have had to get rid of one of their other DP's.
Interestingly, the Rapids did not use the buyout when they got rid of Gashi, they just cut him to free up the international spot and he's still hitting their cap.
It is surprising to me that they didn't find any other teams in the world that would buy him. Seems taking something would be better than nothing, but again I don't know the details of how what I just suggested work.
Given the salary that the Galaxy were paying him, I'd wager that many teams don't value Gio at that price point..........
Yes, the Galaxy would have to eat at least some of his salary. But why eat all of it? You'd think there would be a team somewhere in Liga MX who would take him for cheap.
I'd imagine he is getting his full salary still, and if he were to accept a deal on the cheap, the Galaxy would reduce his pay by that much, so he would essentially be playing elsewhere for free. He may have simply decided to stay home and enjoy a huge salary.
He is still getting his full salary. But unless he's planning on retiring, he should play somewhere to maintain his value. I doubt LAG are picking up multiple seasons at 5 mil. So he'll need a job somewhere next year.
I never said someone would pay his whole salary. Paying any amount of it would be better than nothing, it seems.
He would have to accept the deal however. So if someone is willing to pay him $1m, why would he accept it?
How far has MLS come in salary expenditures? The lowest paid team now makes just under 7.7 million and that is the Houston Dynamo. Less than an a decade ago that would have been a big spending team. https://www.thebluetestament.com/20...ague-soccer-salaries-millionaires-sporting-kc
If they sold him, would he have to accept it? Serious question. I know sometimes in the sports world the athlete doesnt get much say depending on their contract. If LAG own his contract my original query was based on an assumption they could sell him if they so choose to.
Boy how things have changed. Most of the time when we get these numbers there’s a lot of talk and analysis about MLS spending on players; whether they are spending enough; whether salary spending is growing fast enough; how far we are behind LigaMx in salary spending, which teams are spending too much for their results, which teams are too tight-fisted, etc... But we just saw data that non-DP senior roster average salary has grown by a 150% in the last five years, so we are now talking about a couple of overpaid flops. It’s almost like BigSoccer members don’t even care about overall salary spending anymore.
Yes, in soccer the teams have to agree to terms first, and then the player has to agree. The Galaxy accepted some offers for Gio, but he rejected them all. I think MLS currently owns his contract so he is unable to go shop himself around. He needs to wait for it to expire. In other words, Gio decided to take a 6+ month paid vacation. Cuz he's Gio (and it was possibly a financially sound decision to do so to be fair)
He really wasn't awful, but he was injured more often than not, with not much enthusiasm shown to come back from those injuries. The Galaxy did try to keep him, but the rules didn't let them. (they tried to get Alessandrini to take a pay cut, but he didn't agree)
A few more numbers to go along with the graphics that the MLSPA provided. Five years ago (the April 2014 report), only 12 players (2.2% of all players) made $1 million or more, now 55 (8%) do. Even more striking, only 7 players (1.3%) made between $500,000 and $1 million five years ago, now 116 do (16.8%). At the lower end, 52.1% of all players made under $100,000, now only 32.9% do. Total wage bill for the league five years ago was just over $115 million (555 players). Now it is over $287 million (689 players). All numbers here based on total compensation.
A Liga MX team still might, but by the time LA bought him out the Liga MX transfer window was closed, I believe. So they didn't have anywhere to move him so they bought out his contract for MLS rules but he still is technically on MLS' payroll like Yura Movsisyan. They both are still paid and have a contract with MLS so the league controls what they do up until the contract expires (which is how Yura ended up in Sweden last year). Edit: Also, I'm surprised that no one brought up that Pity is on 900k a year (least for this year). Yes, he cost a bunch but he came to MLS on a salary that is less than Skjelvik makes. Other notable incoming salaries, to me, are Frankowski on 662k (that beat out a Russian offer) and Lucas Rodriguez on under 300k.
Great info. I just got around to really looking at these numbers. One thing I found interesting is that the league median in total club wages is now up to $10,702,045.55 mln (I used the average of RSL ($10,832,522) and DC United ($10,571,569.00)). That is a 10.45% increase over last year's year end median of $9,689,537.84 by DC United. That is before any mid year additions like Bou, Gonzalez, and Gallardo are factored in. 16 of 23 teams from last year have increased their spending. Again, that is before any mid year additions are factored in.
Remember this? I just wondered how things have changed. 2018 salaries (Sporting Intelligence) 1 England $3,935,197 2 Spain $2,896,151 3 Italy $1,999,865 4 Germany $1,837,613 5 France $1,302,347 6 China $1,051,603 7 Russia $877,071 8 Turkey $864,053 9 Brazil $670,740 10 Canada $519,883 (MLS) 11 S Arabia $507,933 MLS 2019 $414,803 12 Belgium $402,941 13 Mexico $402,566 14 Argentina $379,054 15 Portugal $357,540 16 USA $352,992 (MLS) MLS 2019 non-DP $345,867 17 Switz $324,020 18 Holland $323,488 19 Japan $315,043 20 Austria $233,110 21 Scotland $231,891 22 Ukraine $222,682 23 Greece $170,612 24 Denmark $159,020 Quite a difference.