Dejavu? The 2020 off Season, catch-all discussion thread.

The lingering transfer fee is the problem - you still have to amortize that $3M over the length of deal, so basically add another $750k a year to his salary.

Now, who knows if that'll change with the new CBA, but I am sure MLS wants to keep transfer fees tied to a player's cap hit.

 

That's the rub. Maybe they will work out another loan deal?

Buying Titi has a pretty high opportunity cost, so it's really a bet that he's going to improve and pay you back. He's certainly one of the best 22 year olds in MLS. That's something to consider.

 

I think that's very far from certain.

 

Yea I'd forgotten that we'd spent money on him ...it was so out of character.

 

Well, it isn't death-and-taxes certain, yeah. But you don't have to scroll far through Whoscored's MLS player list to find him as the 5th best player 22 and under, by whatever unholy metrics they're using. We should probably assume "hair game" isn't among them.

 

Are you forced to amortize the fee? I thought you could take the hit all in the 1st year. How do the big spenders like LA, Seattle, and Atlanta do it every year?

 

Yes. In terms of calculating a player's budget number, the fee is amortized over the length of the contract.

 

But the contract can be paid down over that length, so even if Titi has a nominal transfer fee, it could probably be paid down to make him a TAM player.

 

When is that sports book going to be finished. I need something to do while our crap team on the field sucks (again).

Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt the discussions about TITI.

 

Yes, but if his sale price is anything near what the current asking price is ($2.5M), he'd basically have to take a pay cut to not be a DP again (which he was last year). Do you see that happening?

 

His salary last year was $300k. His listing as a Youth DP was a salary cap loophole to help with the salary budget, not an indication of what he was making or what he would make. I would expect him to be on $600k-$750K if we buy him. Add in the transfer fee spread across a 4 year deal, and you're looking at $1.2-1.3 million a year. That can be bought down with TAM and put below the DP threshold.

Realistically, he's at the ideal transfer fee and probable salary range to be a TAM player.

 

The current TAM limit is $1M, so if he's at $1.2-$1.3M, then he's a DP.

 

There is a caveat to that, as I understand it. He could be a DP up to mid-season, at which point, a team can buy down an existing DP's salary up to $1.5M, allowing us to bring in another DP. Next season the game of musical chairs begins anew, of course, but it's a volatile business anyway.

 

Yeah, the followup musical chairs does make that a difficult decision. Hard to see them buying down a DP to non-DP who's still going to have several years left on his contract.

 

Gawd damn we're all so institutionalized.

Here we are, wrangling about how we're going finagle a guy onto the team with a $2.5M fee using TAM so we'll still have 2 open DP slots like we're the LAG trying to have 4 DPs on the team when the odds are infinitely higher that DCU will start the season with one DP (Arriola), maybe 2 (Titi) and there's no sign of a third, let alone the mystical 4th LAG DP on TAM contract.

And this guy is $2.5M ... when KC is going out and buying $10M players, Inter is interviewing hottest coaching talents in the hemisphere.

I say we go out and get Poch ... he was great at developing talent and competing in the EPL with Daniel Levy's non-competitive budgets.

 

This is the best part of the season when we can indulge in hope before reality.

 

Hope?? Mrs. Hope??? I miss her, she was my favorite teacher.

 

Dude. Ola Kamara, unless something's way off with Goff's reporting, is going to be a DP in 2020. You even acknowledged that in a post a couple of days ago. Did you already forget?

The entire discussion around Rodriguez is based on the assumption that Arriola and Kamara are taking two of United's DP slots, and the chances of Rodriguez being the 3rd DP based off of current MLS DP rules.

 

Four rounds, 3 minutes (instead of 4) between picks, no intermission between rounds.

— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) December 13, 2019

 

Sorry, he's utterly forgettable as a DP for me.

 

Was she related to Bob?

 

no

 

https://www.tycsports.com/amp/superliga/lucas-rodriguez-cerca-de-quedarse-20191212.html

Sounds like DC sent a low ball offer and Titi is going back home while negotiating continues.

 

SOP for DCU.

Goff just tweeted that the Revs are looking to sign a DP forward for this season. Pretty sure Krafts just found some fučks to give for their MLS team.