Is it generally believed that multiple teams can simultaneously have a discovery claim on the same player? He mentions Chicago and Houston both having made claims for the player Philadelphia wanted to sign. I wonder if the discovery lists are shared by the league headquarters with the teams?
RBNY and US U-20 centerback Matt Miazga is in Qatar to train with RB Leipzig. Rumors of a full transfer are swirling.
So I'm watching Carlos Salcedo start for Chivas at CB tonight--and Angel Reyna is also on the field. So his "rights" must not have been part of the deal with RSL. And thus it boggles my mind that MLS would let a 21-year-old up-and-coming player go for a reported $225K transfer fee with 2 years left on his contract--if they were convinced of the rightness of team-controlled option years. They obviously aren't. The CBA is taking all the oxygen out of the room, but these challenges to the "team option" years in the 2+2 are like cracks in the dam--they better this thing fixed pronto. The league has been robbed blind now twice in a row by LigaMx for a 25-year-old golden boot winner for $1.5M and now a promising young CB for $225K. I thought they were supposed to be good businessmen at MLS HQ? Those are way-below-market prices for players of those qualities and that young. What the heck is going on?
Will he sign with Red Bull Football Group? He would be the first one to go from NY to one of the European affiliates, right?
Keith Cardona went direct from the RBNY academy to FC Liefering, which is the lower-league affiliate of Red Bull Salzburg. From the first team though, yes, I think so.
You are freaking out about something for no reason. You are stuck on that 225k number, but that came from the same article that said Reyna was part of the deal. So if the person was wrong about Reyna then you'd also have to assume that he is wrong about the 225k.
... and how did the announcers do with Carlos Salcido and Carlos Salcedo in defense together? Also funny to see an ancient Omar Bravo going 90 while Cubo Torres can't get off the bench. May be tough to criticize the coach, though, as Bravo scored a late goal for them.
Much as a lot of people will say that RB is abandoning NY, I would have to say that this is a smart move. MLS is filled to gills with good CBs. Getting some allocation money for him would tremendously help the team.
It's not a good move when your centerbacks remaining are Armando and Damien Perinelle. In other Red Bull-related news, 2nd round draft pick Stefano Bonomo is trialing with Miedź Legnica, a Polish second division club.
Maybe, we'll see if this becomes a trend--RSL is lucky to avoid Reyna, though, he came off injured and stank while on. To be continued...
Salcedo did fine, but Chivas got very lucky that it was Anangono leading the line for Leones--dude couldn't hit the side of a barn and had one massive, comical whiff right in front of goal.
Well, that's certainly one take on the matter. Without Cahill (who is certainly gone), and counting BWP under the DP rule, RBNY has almost exactly $2 million in 2014 salaries on the books for 21 squad players. Even if we assume that all of the non-DP players will be getting a 10% raise, and giving Stoltz and Davis fairly generous rookie salaries, RBNY would still be some $800k under the 2014 cap, which is supposed to go up dramatically this year, and I'm counting players above the 18 man squad minimum. Red Bull has shown no inclination to sign expensive players. The salary cap is going way up. They already received a big chunk of allocation money, which they won't spend on salaries and has value only as GarberBux. If what you're saying is that more allocation money would help the team so they can trade it for some relatively cheap unwanted player from another team, a player being replaced with a much more expensive and likely far more talented player, then they would just be digging themselves an even deeper hole. The most likely explanation, given the demonstrated fact that Red Bull has their NY team on a starvation budget, is that Austria is actually seeking to loot the team of assets. And in no universe would that help RBNY compete in MLS.
Carlos Rivas of Deportivo Cali to Orlando. I'm very impressed with their signings--in an iffy East, this looks like a playoff team. http://www.orlandocitysc.com/post/2...res-dynamic-colombian-midfielder-carlos-rivas I've never seen this active a January window across the league--only a few of the "usual suspects" are being left behind. 40 days to kickoff.
Well then...... I’m hearing Juan Agudelo is closing in on a return to MLS, w/New England . Here’s my @GoalUSA story : http://t.co/Dqjxxg7s37 #MLS #NERevs— Ives Galarcep (@SoccerByIves) January 26, 2015
He has looked good at the U-20 championship, other than ball-watching on that Panama goal. Great in the air, decent on the ball, makes some nice passes from the back. Based on how strong he has looked for the USA youth team, and considering his competition at CB is Armando and possibly a return of Damien Perrinelle, yeah, I'd like to see him on the field for us. More importantly, you're disregarding the cost of getting rid of a very promising, physically imposing, and decently skilled defender in future seasons, in exchange for a bag of Garber's magic beans. That's the kind of extreme near-sightedness that has resulted in this team being at best second-rate for its entire history.
About time that guy starts playing somewhere again. I assume NE still hold his rights from his last stint somehow?
Sounds like Philly finally tired of the Carlos Valdes saga and has sold him to Nacional in Uruguay. Good riddance.
Question for the folks who track these movements across the league. Has anyone maintained numbers for year-over-year club turnover? For example in 2012-13 off season TFC had turnover of 26 players out, 26 players in. In 2013-14 it was 17 out and 15 in, so far this off season we have 8 out and 11 in. The general consensus in our forum is that TFC is a dizzying carousel of managers, coaches and players - but I'd like to compare that to other MLS clubs annual off season turnover to get a picture of just how dizzying the carousel is.
Looks like you could easily find the numbers for this 2013-2015 here: http://www.mlssoccer.com/transactions/2015 Edit: Actually, above the 2013 list is also a link to the 2012 transactions.
But Tim Hinchey says they want to bring in a big-name signing....or maybe an unknown that will score goals and lead the team to a win...but either way they're going to make an attacking signing...if they can do it by their internal deadline of Feb. 1st (Sunday). http://www.denverpost.com/kiszla/ci...set-soccers-version-peyton-manning?source=rss