Go have a gander: http://www.mlsplayers.org/salary_info.html You may now commence shaming those teams who have too little ambition to pay Fredy Montero $1.4 million to come off the bench.
Bedoya makes more than Josef Martinez. Now that's funny. For ~1M/Y you can get a Martinez level player and you go for Alejandro Bedoya instead. Amazing a brand new team has a better understanding of the global market than one who's been around for about a decade. Hell, can get a Piatti level player for roughly 1/3 what Bedoya makes. As an aside, you can see why some teams remain terrible, like SJ. They won't spend and when they do they pay someone like Simon Dawkins 800K/Y when Piatti, Cubo Torres, Rusnak, Mauro Diaz types can be had for similar or less.
Honestly, a lot of the guys making >$1 million look like they're on there because some teams' general managers/technical director essentially talked themselves into overpaying for them.
Here are the teams' totals: 856965769644658692 is not a valid tweet id (Hurrah! FCD is finally off the bottom!)
Maxi Moralez was unused at León last year. Now he lives in New York City and makes $2 million/yrWhy wouldn't you want to play in the MLS? https://t.co/Zw8RfHubLx— Nico Cantor (@Nicocantor1) April 25, 2017
Demidov making 550k? @Bluecat82 Manny needs to cut him before the month ends, buy him the first ticket to Scandinavia, call that man an Uber and moving service , and dump him at MSP immediately .That man is committing strong-arm theft of y'all's pockets.
To me, the most hilarious salary is Fredy Montero's $1.4 million base, $1.8 million guaranteed. Why? Because of what he was making the last time he was in the league: $700,000 base, $856,000 guaranteed at the end of the 2013 season. Sure, that happens a lot. Michael Bradley is making a lot more now than he was the first time in MLS. But one would have to say that Fredy Montero's career between his two MLS stints was dramatically different than Michael Bradley's.
I count 82 players making at least 500k in 2017 guaranteed compensation (I guess you can lower the bar a bit to 400k+ earners if you want an arbitrary number for what's considered "a decent living" by pro athlete standards). I wonder where this figure places MLS compared to the marquee circuits in other sports like say, UFC or the ATP Tour, in annual earnings (not including endorsements). $2 million+: 13 $1 million to < $2 million: 15 $900k to < $1 million: 0 $800k to < $900k: 13 $700k to < $800k: 13 $600k to < $700k: 11 $500k to < $600k: 17 $400k to < $500k: 16 $300k to < $400k: 42
Sean Johnson basically was told that he would not get a bigger contract playing for the Fire. Now the Fire pay their current goalkeeper more than Johnson makes this year and he is visibly worse. Jason Hernandez .... is still in the league .... at Toronto.
Once you pay someone more than the threshold, it doesn't matter if they make 800k or 15 million, the owner is on the hook for the compensation above threshold. The value in DP's is based on age as the U-23 DP will cost less on the cap. Finding value in MLS is more about players who salaries are more dependent on the cap.
Jermaine Jones played 8 regular season games last year and got a $75K raise in guaranteed money out of LA for it (same base salary in 2016 and 2017).
-The league as a whole cleared $200 million in total guaranteed compensation for the first time. -Big jump in median salary to $125,000 ($135,002 guaranteed), though not in average salary (now $296,978 or $326,139 guaranteed). -Only 36% of the league makes under $100,000 in guaranteed money, which is several percentage points better than last year. (2014 was the last time that number was over 50%.)
Are we talking about the Fredy Montero that has 4 goals in 7 games, which is almost half of the Whitecaps' goals so far this season and would be half of FCDs goals? Not sure what you have against Montero getting paid, but he does what he's paid for and scores goals..
I've got nothing against Fredy Montero, or his getting paid. Get that cheddar. I just think that it's hilarious that his MLS worth was formerly $850k, and after a few seasons in Colombia, Portugal, and China, is now deemed to be worth twice as much.
Biggest bargain in the league...............by some margin..............is Michael Barrios of Dallas. Here's a perspective on homegrown salaries in the league: I picked out every Homegrown contract in the latest MLS salary dump. What I found was… interesting. https://t.co/HfgGq4FGiq— Will Parchman (@WillParchman) April 26, 2017
Can we republish these numbers in text format or is that a breach of copyright? I threw them into a spreadsheet because I'm a geek. Also David Ramajo and Mo Babouli appear to be missing their clubs..
Anyone understand why Javier Morales is listed as an RSL player? So help me if, after that whole ********ing fiasco, we're on the hook for his salary.
Was it though? He scored 27 goals in 67 games at Sporting in about 2.5 seasons. Not bad by any standard. And next he scored 9 goals in 29 games in Chinese league. I mean it's not a like for like comparison. Montero's foreign odyssey was about 3.5 years, whereas Bradley stayed for 8 years. So far Montero has 4 goals in 7 appearances for Vancouver. It's just an odd player to single out as the flawed spending decision. Would I pay over $1.5 mil for him if I was GM? Maybe not, but I probably would pay over $1 mil.