http://www.mlsplayers.org/files/May 15, 2012 Salary Information - By Club.pdf Here's the updated salaries. Lozano makes $241,000??? I see a whole lot of money that's not seeing minutes.
NE Alston Kevin D ................$ 120,000.00 $ 169,000.00 NE Barnes Darrius D ............$ 68,063.00 $ 69,313.00 NE Boggs Zak F-M............... $ 44,100.00 $ 44,100.00 NE Brettschneider Blake F ...$ 33,756.00 $ 33,756.00 NE Cardenas Fernando M/F $ 99,996.00 $ 99,996.00 NE Fagundez Diego F ...........$ 55,000.00 $ 56,000.00 NE Feilhaber Benny M .........$ 400,000.00 $ 446,000.00 NE Guy Ryan F ....................$ 44,100.00 $ 44,100.00 NE Joseph Shalrie M ............$ 495,000.00 $ 554,333.33 NE Lechner Florian D ..........$ 44,004.00 $ 48,104.00 NE Lozano John D ...............$ 200,000.00 $ 241,485.08 NE McCarthy Stephen M .....$ 51,700.00 $ 82,950.00 NE Moreno Jose F ................$ 144,000.00 $ 149,000.00 NE Murray Tim GK .............$ 44,100.00 $ 44,100.00 NE Nguyen Lee M/F ............$ 44,000.00 $ 50,500.00 NE Nyassi Sainey M .............$ 84,000.00 $ 90,750.00 NE Polak Tyler D ..................$ 60,000.00 $ 73,000.00 NE Purdie Alec F ...................$ 33,756.00 $ 33,756.00 NE Reis Matt GK ..................$ 157,000.00 $ 159,666.67 NE Roach Michael F ............$ 33,756.00 $ 33,756.00 NE Rowe Kelyn M ................$ 75,000.00 $ 156,000.00 NE Runstrom Bjorn F ..........$ 70,008.00 $ 76,424.67 NE Sene Saer F .....................$ 138,000.00 $ 148,843.79 NE Shuttleworth Robert GK $ 44,100.00 $ 44,100.00 NE Simms Clyde M ..............$ 75,000.00 $ 78,333.33 NE Soares AJ D ....................$ 76,450.00 $ 116,450.00 NE Tierney Chris D-M .........$ 73,125.00 $ 74,791.67 NE White Jeremiah M .........$ 44,004.00 $ 44,004.00
I see a few guys they got decent deals on (Nguyen is making even less than his initially reported salary, White is making league minimum, Runstrom is under six figures, they didn't pay an outlandish figure for Moreno). Lozano at $240k is the headscratcher contract, and Sene, given he was pretty unproven coming in, getting $150k is very surprising. Reis really should be making more than he is, also - that he's constantly in the middle of the pack of salaries despite the fact he's been here so long speaks volumes about him as a team player.
Joseph Shalrie 495000 554333 Feilhaber Benny 400000 446000 Lozano John 200000 241485 Alston Kevin 120000 169000 Reis Matt 157000 159666 Rowe Kelyn 75000 156000 Moreno Jose 144000 149000 Sene Saer 138000 148843 Soares AJ 76450 116450 Cardenas Fernando 99996 99996 Nyassi Sainey 84000 90750 McCarthy Stephen 51700 82950 Simms Clyde 75000 78333 Runstrom Bjorn 70008 76424 Tierney Chris 73125 74791 Polak Tyler 60000 73000 Barnes Darrius 68063 69313 Fagundez Diego 55000 56000 Nguyen Lee 44000 50500 Lechner Florian 44004 48104 Boggs Zak 44100 44100 Guy Ryan 44100 44100 Murray Tim 44100 44100 Shuttleworth Robert 44100 44100 White Jeremiah 44004 44004 Brettschneider Blake 33756 33756 Purdie Alec 33756 33756 Roach Michael 33756 33756 Here's the same list from highest paid to lowest paid. Takaways: Sene, Moreno, and Cardenas are pretty reasonable, I think. Ryan Guy and Lee Nguyen are absolute STEALS. Lozano needs a LOT more PT to justify that salary.
Would've mentioned him as well, but we need to see if he actually plays... right now his salary seems just about right in terms of his playing time.
He likely had no other options. Lozano was brought in as an experienced lock starter. If he can't beat out McCarthy, he's as good as gone.
Lee Nguyen at $44K is absurd. Nyassi getting $90K ? He should show up to every day in a balaclava. Lozano better get the lead out of his ass for that kind of money and quite frankly Shalrie, who I LOVE as a player and captain, is the most overpaid player in the league.
This statement no where near close IMO. Here are the top 25 salaries in the league. There are a bunch of laughers in here much worse than Sharlrie. Hell, Toronto had 3 of the top 9 paid players in the league alone. Here are the top 25 salaries in the league. Toronto has three of the top 9 highest paid players. IMO, Marquez, DeGuzman and Boyd are all significantly worse contracts than Shalrie's is. ================ Posted at 01:53 PM ET, 05/25/2012 Thierry Henry is MLS’s highest-paid player By Steven Goff MLS top 25 base salaries in 2012: Thierry Henry, New York: $5 million ($5.6m overall) Rafael Marquez, New York: $4.6 million ($4.6m) David Beckham, Los Angeles: $3 million ($4m) Robbie Keane, Los Angeles: $2.9 million ($3.4m) Landon Donovan, Los Angeles: $2.4 million ($2.4m) Torsten Frings, Toronto: $2 million ($2.4m) Julian de Guzman, Toronto: $1.9 million ($1.9m) Kris Boyd, Portland: $1.2 million ($1.5m) Danny Koevermans, Toronto: $1.1 million ($1.6m) Dwayne De Rosario, D.C. United: $617,000 ($663,000) Fredy Montero, Seattle: $600,000 ($756,000) David Ferreira, Dallas: $600,000 ($705,000) Eric Hassli, Vancover: $550,000 ($790,000) Shalrie Joseph, New England: $495,000 ($554,000) Javier Morales, Real Salt Lake: $425,000 ($477,000) Branko Boskovic, D.C. United: $409,000 ($545,000) Freddy Adu, Philadelphia: $400,000 ($519,000) Benny Feilhaber, New England: $400,000 ($446,000) Conor Casey, Colorado: $400,000 ($400,000) Juan Pablo Angel, Chivas USA: $350,000 ($600,000) Alvaro Saborio, Real Salt Lake: $350,000 ($405,000) Brek Shea, Dallas: $310,000 ($354,000) Chad Marshall, Columbus: $310,000 ($341,000) Hamdi Salihi, D.C. United: $305,000 ($487,000) Alvaro Fernandez, Seattle: $300,000 ($367,000) For team-by-team breakdowns and salary explanations, visit the players’ union Web site.
Here are the team salaries organized from smallest to largest. The Toronto owners must be going crazy right now. HOUSTON DYNAMO $ 3,001,091.87 MONTREAL IMPACT $ 3,025,864.92 CHICAGO FIRE $ 3,061,730.66 SPORTING KC $ 3,120,868.37 CHIVAS USA $ 3,143,054.14 SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES $ 3,211,310.32 COLUMBUS CREW $ 3,325,609.00 NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION $ 3,262,591.54 COLORADO RAPIDS $ 3,430,939.01 FC DALLAS $ 3,450,141.00 REAL SALT LAKE $ 3,519,095.25 PHILADELPHIA UNION $ 3,615,062.17 SEATTLE SOUNDERS $ 3,981,955.32 PORTLAND TIMBERS $ 4,158,661.29 DC UNITED $ 4,188,073.33 VANCOUVER WHITECAPS $ 4,294,436.49 TORONTO FC $ 8,248,852.39 LA GALAXY $ 12,632,386.89 RED BULL NEW YORK $ 12,957,790.88
Lee 's former a USMNT player and I know he is new to MLS, but his salary is way too little. I hope he 'll stay w the Revs next season. Same for Ryan Guy who has tons of experiences, but he gets underpaid. I mean if we compare to NBA, NFL, MLB minimum wages that tells us why there is few people play soccer in US.
I wonder why the file listed most of TFC as TFC but 5 or 6 players as TOR? Here is how the league spends $90.1M of salary by position M/D $44,100.00 MF $44,100.00 D/M $140,000.00 D/F $202,000.00 F-M $332,245.75 D-M $443,271.65 M/F $1,169,829.33 M-D $1,178,608.33 M-F $2,102,425.00 GK $5,226,515.50 D $20,830,512.72 M $29,139,757.81 F $29,220,420.96 Total $90,073,787.05
That doesn't change the fact he sucks and shouldn't be in the MLS. Overall our roster is doing alright in terms of money for quality. I would argue all 3 of our top earners are underperforming, but we have underpaid guys too like Nguyen, Simms, and Sene if he keeps scoring goals at this rate.
Lee was playing in Vietnam against semi-pro players in a terrible league. Although he was the highest paid and most popular player over there, he didn't really have much bargaining power until he actually proved himself in MLS. His club history has been poor up to this year. And comparing minimum MLS wages to NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB is just silly at this point in their histories. The other leagues have huge national and local television contracts. And MLS is still a league where Chad Barrett can make $253,000. Chad freaking Barrett!
I absolutely agree with you, however, you have to agree with me that there are quite a number of players of the Revs roster in particular have not actually proved themselves yet in MLS to receive from 100K to 250K compare to 40K that Lee and Guy earns. I am not saying that they get overpay or something, but IMO 100K to 250K is made more sense to me. I feel sorry for the guys and I hope they both deserve bonuses at the end of the season inluding Simms.
If Cardenas scores, can we throw 4 dollars on the field so that he can make 6 figures? Thank you guys for doing the number crunching. Not to be nit-picky. A little slip of the fingers when you were ordering the teams. If Columbus is 3,325,609.00 and we're 3,262,591.54 then we should be in 13th place spending-wise. 19) HOUSTON DYNAMO $ 3,001,091.87 18) MONTREAL IMPACT $ 3,025,864.92 17) CHICAGO FIRE $ 3,061,730.66 16) SPORTING KC $ 3,120,868.37 15) CHIVAS USA $ 3,143,054.14 14) SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES $ 3,211,310.32 13) NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION $ 3,262,591.54 12) COLUMBUS CREW $ 3,325,609.00 11) COLORADO RAPIDS $ 3,430,939.01 10) FC DALLAS $ 3,450,141.00 9) REAL SALT LAKE $ 3,519,095.25 8) PHILADELPHIA UNION $ 3,615,062.17 7) SEATTLE SOUNDERS $ 3,981,955.32 6) PORTLAND TIMBERS $ 4,158,661.29 5) DC UNITED $ 4,188,073.33 4) VANCOUVER WHITECAPS $ 4,294,436.49 3) TORONTO FC $ 8,248,852.39 2) LA GALAXY $ 12,632,386.89 1) RED BULL NEW YORK $ 12,957,790.88 Edited to add: You guys compile this and then one jerk comes along to point out a tiny error. I hate that type of guy, don't you?
Nguyen and Guy definitely need raises... but Clyde Simms is a real bargain too. $75K for our best midfielder.
Lozano must be one of the highest paid bench warmers in the league. I see this as a terrible mis-allocation of funds. Play him or cut him lose. 241k for a player that does not see times should be better spent on a starter. With Barnes and Shalrie able to play CB in a pinch I'd be surprised if he is still with the team come July.
Exactly, Lozano has proven without a doubt he is no better than a 2nd year draftee, in McCarthy. Cardenas is not worth 100k and Runstrom is not worth 70k. Lots of wasted salary on this team with some bargains (Simms should be paid more). Also, Benny is not worth his $400k salary - he's making almost 10x what Nguyen is paid. Come July if he still sucks, I hope they cut Lozano and trade Benny to reallocate the money elsewhere.
as the lowest payroll at this point, it seems like AEG have something up their sleeve. gio dos santos?
Just sitting at the airport in DC, so haven't had a chance to really put these numbers together ... but it is interesting to note that Reis did take a paycut this year.
Not necessarily. Could be that Heaps likes the way McCarthy is playing and has adopted something of an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality. How many goals has McCarthy been "responsible" for of late? You could point to the Carmago goal against Houston, but other than that... nothing springs to mind for me. (...could be wrong about this. Working from memory.) Vehemently disagree in regards to Feilhaber. Benny was just about the best midfielder in MLS the last half of 2011. He's off to an underwhelming start to 2012. You don't just dump him if he's struggling. Talk about buying high and selling low.