Aha! Ask and we shall receive the info. I was thinking that FCD might have an option, but maybe not. "[Pomykal] also confirmed that he’s out of contract with the club after the 2019 season, meaning he could potentially leave the club for free next January."🚨 🚨 🚨Stejskal: FC Dallas' Pomykal on the road to greatness, but it's a long one #MLS https://t.co/TuDFsfGUge— 3rd Degree (@3rdDegreeNet) April 18, 2019
So does Pomykal not have any club option years on his contract? @Clint Eastwood literally just suggested he doesn't above, so maybe not.
If the club has an option after this season, his contract would technically be scheduled to end at that point. I am highly skeptical that FCD don't have options past this season for several reasons.
Agree. I would be shocked if their are not 2 options years on this deal. 3 years is the normal contract followed by two 1 year options. Technical you are out of contract after the 3 years until the team picks up their options, which if their is one FCD will obviously pick-up. Of all the annoying rules issues with MLS not publishing contract details and lengths is the most annoying to me.
If he had euro interest and access to an EU passport, which apparently he did, he had leverage in negotiations.
Correction: Paxton Pomykal is not out of contract after this season. Dallas have an option on him in both 2020 and 2021. Apologies for the error. (Cc @zlebmada)— Sam Stejskal (@samstejskal) April 18, 2019
So, a club is going to have to spend real money if he keeps the current path. I'm thinking 10 million +.
Have we seen much evidence of HG signings directly to the MLS team that don't have some combination of contract/option years? USL contracts seem a bit more varied, but offhand I'm not thinking of any, say, 1 or 2 year, no option (or player option) HG deals. Don't know enough about it to do more than guess, but I'm wondering if this might be part of the union deal.
They seem to be pretty standard. 3 years with a couple of option years. I remember Amando Moreno leaving on a free a year after he'd signed his homegrown deal with NYRB. So that one must have been different (of course it was a while ago now).
Yes. Lots of the College HGP sign 1 or 2 year deals because they are largely viewed as roster filler that the team doesn't want to commit to long-term, so it is definitely allowed. However, Durkin is the only legitimate development prospect that I am aware of with any rumblings of signing a deal that wasn't 3/1/1. Granted with MLS contracts details are very difficult to come by case in point a writer paid by MLS getting the contract length of a player completely wrong.
According to Stejskal, that confusion came about thru Pomykal's response to his question. Either way, FCD is obviously going to pick up the option for next year. If for no other reason than to cash in on a transfer fee. Cannon was signed at a similar time, so I imagine his contract is in the same position.
Anyway, on to another player. This is good news. We need him to be in good form for the U20 World Cup. Mark McKenzie will finally make his first start of the season for the Union this weekend, in a game that comes at an important time for the club and the player: https://t.co/CmWar28gVG pic.twitter.com/rLbpFMu25p— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) April 18, 2019
Isn't this the game that Trusty is suspended for? Not exactly a ringing endorsement of him from his manager.
I will be there in person to turn the screws. Now I have to change my sign, however, from the more direct "Union, U Suck!" to the more subtle "MM - Play well, but not too well."
Indeed, a strange case, and early days. But I remember people wondering "What just happened?" after it was announced, before the club came out and said he was out of contract...
So two ex-FCD Academy kids playing both outside back spots for LAFC. Do they get included in FC Dallas' HG minutes?
Huge, but the MLSPA will try to stop it. #MLS announces that its teams will begin receiving - and paying - training compensation and solidarity payments: https://t.co/By8mqjoPlO— Jeff Carlisle (@JeffreyCarlisle) April 19, 2019
Now people won't blame MLS over those things... wait no, plenty of internet morons who complain about "pay to play" blame MLS so nothing will change.
I think this is going to have a negative effect on our players signing in Europe. Not every MLS club plays their young players, so some of them need the European avenue. There still isn't free movement around MLS. If MLS allowed that, this would be less of a problem. The reasoning some use for why this is needed is that MLS clubs will eventually stop putting money into their academies, but which clubs have done that? Some clubs don't put that much money into their academies, but I don't think there's any evidence to say that its because of the lack of compensation when a player leaves.
What I don't understand is when the TC is paid. Is Mendez on a "pro contract" that would have triggered a payment? Or is he on a youth contract that doesn't? When Soto moved to the first team, he signed a different kind a contract that is a first "pro" contract. Is that when TC is paid? If the TC is on the initial move and the U19 contract, then it will be harder for players to move as the cost is no longer free. But if it is paid when the first team contract is executed, that is wiggle room that would allow teams to kick the tires and then maybe the fee doesn't look prohibitive if the player is going to be on your first team. What if a player leaves the MLS academy for a DA academy then signs? I think the elite players will still have interest and TC will be negotiated. I think this might crimp Mexican clubs taking MLS players.