Holy Cow !!! Now why didn't I think of that? The only drawback there is if you think the Dynamo had an inordinate amount of red cards this year.........
Agreed. If/when DeRo leaves we will need to replace him from outside our current roster. I don't specifically mean pulling our "Beckchumps" card, since we could find a replacement from within the league. They won't be as good, but if we improve in other areas it could be an overall positive. In the end, it all depends on how much our team is gutted.
We should also remember that DeRo was sitting on the bench in SJ not too long ago as well. The Dynamo should look to add a star, but also remember that there are some players (Wondo, Ianni, Holden) that may be able to really help the team if given a chance.
Since Dom is going to Mexico this weekend for the FMF playoffs, What is the likely hood of him bringing back a player like C. Blanco? That would be huge and keep the stadium full every home game. !!! Gotta have someone great to replace De Rosario
Someone asked (robzip?) DeRo last night about the Beckham rule and DeRo agreed that he should be part of the Beckham rule.... Let him get the $5M and get a replacement for his spot. It's only fair and he likes the idea too
I didn't feel like going back and reading every response but has anyone said Roberto Carlos yet. I don't think he's got much more time at Real Madrid and I think he's getting up there a bit in years. Again, just a thought.
of course, I'm hoping we can get a certain vertically challenged Sardinian to come out of retirement...
Yeah - he was on my list early on in this thread. Good choice, I think - Brazilian and with what I think is a bit less of an ego than say Figo or Beckham. I also mentioned Ronaldo (not Christiano Ronaldo of Man. U. - but the Brazilian "Ronaldo") as a possible good fit. We probably don't need a forward like Ronaldo, though. A solid defender like Carlos, maybe. Not sure if our team has the type of personality to be able to fit in a well-known European superstar. That remains to be seen, though. Maybe Dalglish has a superstar friend?
Ronaldo? You mean Fataldo? There's too many donuts in this town for him. He may re-injure himself running to Shipley's. I say we pass on Fataldo. R. Carlos could be interesting, but do you use this spot on a defender? Sure, he'll bag 10 goals in freekicks and have some assists...but I dunno. Maybe. There are definite pro's with this one.
Haha. Yeah...Fataldo...I bet he's still faster than some of the defenders in MLS He looks slow now because he's playing against speedsters My guess is since we'll probably have to find a replacement for De Rosario, that we'll likely spend the money to find a new a-mid. I guess they don't necessarily have to be super popular, just good. There probably aren't many really publicly recognizable names (to laypeople in this country) other than Beckham, Ronaldinho, etc.) so we should probably focus on getting a really good player vs. trying to get a marketing tool like NY or LA will likely do for Becks, Figo, etc.
You bring up a good point. While the names that laypeople will recognize are few, there are still some that would bring soccer fans who haven't given the MLS a chance. For example, Figo is no where near the public recognition in the US that Beckham has. However, he could bring in soccer fans who haven't bothered with the MLS. I think the Barcelona/America game proved how many soccer fans there are in Houston that don't bother with the MLS. I know I use Figo, cuz he rocks, but any top level star could do the same. I would say screw trying to find our own Beckham, but bring a great player and I think the support will build from there. So I think we sign someone that can last 3 more years, and unfortunately, I don't think Figo has 3 years in him.
excellent article covering implications of the designated player rule. http://www.matchnight.com/?Page=URBAN
...and another well written article by Nick Webster of FSC on the implications of the "Beckham Rule": http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/6177096
...and another from Jen Chang of ESPN: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=392007&root=mls&campaign=fp&src=384493&cc=5739 (can you tell it's a slow day at work?)
Unfortunetly, not much....I never considered this....I don't know AEG well enough to know if they would shaft us like this. Thoughts? <edit> One other thing I noted in these articles is that each team can apply upwards of $400K of their $2M salary towards this player, and, if I understood it right, each team might have to pay for the transfer fee, too. That would leave all but 2 or 3 teams unable to get the "best" stars and might have to take chances on possibles in cheaper leagues (S. America, anyone?). So, here is my question, does anyone know where the Dynamo's currently salary is? How close are we to the $2M mark? What kind of wiggle room do we have? I imagine that if we have the full $400K available, we could get a more proven star than, say, we only have $100K available... Looks like MLS will hit deeper in the red these next couple of years....it might work in the long run, and lets hope it does.
I remember that when the salaries were released early in the year that the dynamo were towards the bottom of the list
I fully believe AEG would shaft us like that, I'm not saying they will but I wouldn't be surprised if they did. Team Salaries By my rough calculations our salary was around 1.78 million. I'm not sure how the Cerritos/Dalglish switch affects that. And if Serioux is taken by Toronto that would drop it 90K.
That's a comforting thought That doesn't leave much room before we hit the cap. Do you know how the transfer fees work? The rules are vague and the links above aren't much help either
The only saving grace we have from AEG switching our Beckham to the Galaxitives is the sell value of the Dynamo franchise. If they gave LA another supa-star and the Dynamo get gutted this transfer season, there could be a big drop in the sell value. If Anschutz is running around screaming that the price of the Dynamo just went up, he could screw that up by trading that spot.
That's true, maybe since the DC deal is pretty much done they'll screw them over instead. And the player I would use the slot on is DeRo, unless he leaves for Europe then I don't really care too much.