Unless I'm missing something, this made the decision a no brainer. Last minute depth at a frighteningly thin position, for a song.
I think the point is that the club submitted that bid, not knowing what anyone else would be bidding. I mean, even note the amount: $205K. As if they thought, maybe another team would submit $200K and they didn't want to end up tied with another club, at which point other variables would decide who gets the player. So they tossed in an extra $5K, just in case. In any event, once they submitted the bid, there was no real decision to make anymore. But what an effing disaster for Cincinnati! Love it. They'll almost certainly take the one-time full buyout of the rest of his contract in order to remove him completely from their roster, free up a DP space, etc. So they spent, what?, $850K (in GAM/TAM) acquiring the player in 2018, paid him $2M in salary last year, and will pay him $1.8M again this season. All for ONE goal.
I stand by everything I said about Adi before, but $205k is a decent deal. That being said, if Cincy does buyout Adi, are we just on the hook for that $205k or does he need a new contract?
That's it. Understand, his contract is with MLS, not FCC. The 'buy-out' may just means that FCC pays the league the $1.8M up-front in order to clear Adi completely from their books and roster. The Crew will pay him the $205k over the course of 2020.
After watching Wormgoor's highlights, we will need cover on the bac Has he been in the MLS for that long? Our games seem to be officiated a little differently. It wouldn't surprise me to see those numbers tick up.
205k is such a low price for someone with even a little bit of a scoring record. I like the signing. It also feels like a stop gap for a year until we figure it out so it works in multiple ways.
It's known informally as the Gio dos Santos rule and apparently clubs can buy out 1 contract per year up until the start of the regular season.
Checkout the "Buyout of Guaranteed Contract" rule, about 80% of the way down this page: https://www.mlssoccer.com/league/official-rules/mls-roster-rules-and-regulations One player each off season, is how the rule seems to be written.
Let's just say, writ large, the offense was more of an issue than the defense. Noting those heart-wrenching blown leads, of course. The absence of Zardes, and the lack of production Robinho, Meram, Guzman, Mullins, & company were why we missed out. Our record in games Keita started was darned good (I looked it up upthread but I am too lazy to find it again).
I’m sold. There’s still enough question marks to make me wonder if it’s going to work, but for that price, it’s a risk worth taking.
Well, we had to find a back-up striker somewhere. Taking a chance on Adi for 205,000 as opposed to using some untested kid seems like a sensible decision to me.
That's just shockingly bad. Interesting breakdown of the Adi situation vis a vis FC Skyline on The Athletic last October; I hate it when people post sub-only articles, but I will liberally quote: The Article itself is about Adi filing a grievance with the PA because, he says, they held him out after he was recovered from injury so that he wouldn't meet his game appearance number which would have earned him a bonus. He needed 8 more games and they held him out until there were only 6 remaining. Adi played the full 90 in both of FCC’s opening two games but suffered an ankle injury just before halftime of a 3-0 win against Portland in the third match, also the home opener. As he was nearing a return from that injury, Adi was suspended because of an OVI charge on March 31st, having been clocked traveling at 102 mph in a 65 mph zone. His blood alcohol count of .124 was nearly twice the legal limit, but he managed to plead the charge down to a $250 fine and one-year probation. MLS reinstated him April 24th, and he returned as a late-game substitute May 4th in what turned out to be Koch’s final game, a 1-0 loss at San Jose. He played four of the next five league games, including three starts, and then scored his first goal of 2019 in a U.S. Open Cup victory over Louisville City on June 12th. Adi then re-injured his hamstring in the next Open Cup round and missed two league games, but in his second match back July 13th, he came on in the second half at Chicago to deliver the game-winning goal. Adi said he thought that could be a turning point for him, but after two more appearances the calf injury occurred ahead of the July 27th game at Toronto — the same week Nijkamp arrived in Cincinnati. That calf injury was given as the reason Adi was held out for all of August before returning to training on Sept. 3rd. Just over a week later, on Sept. 12th, Jans told reporters that Adi had another setback with his calf on the other leg, but he was seen training with the team the following Monday. Since the Sept. 18th game against Atlanta, Adi has not appeared on the injury report........ “You can’t just score,” Adi said. “You need passers to score. … Whoever plays, if you don’t get the ball to the striker, you can’t do anything and that’s the honest truth. We need creativity, which we didn’t have as a team. We have guys that work very hard, but we needed maybe that No. 10 that can be creative and see things other players don’t see, and that was what was lacking. Whether it was (rookie Rashawn) Dally or (Darren) Mattocks playing, they needed that extra guy to give them those passes, but it was hard because we didn’t have that No. 10 basically.” https://theathletic.com/1260967/201...int-alleging-poor-treatment-at-fc-cincinnati/
You’ve never seen that atrocity before? It was a viral thing a few years ago. Some people started doing remixes... Those were dark times.