I think its great for SKC and Convey. What exactly will Yallop and SJ use the Int'l slot on? Some burned our Brazilian?
Per twitter sources, the NE Revs not only re-signed Shalrie Joseph, but they are making him a Designated Player. A DP. That's right. LOL
Great move for both teams, I think. SuKC play a style that would benefit Convey's abilities and San Jose needs some better international talent on that squad. The Sharlie as a DP thing would have made sense about 3 or 4 years ago... but now? wow
I've wondered why we haven't done this with Javi. I don't see us using all our 3 DP slots any time soon so I don't see how it'd hurt us. He'd made what, $450k+ last year? I'll assume he'll make roughly that this year. If we label him a DP he'll only count as $350 against the cap giving us an extra $100k to float around. Is there a rule against that? Or am I don't doing my math/cap money right?
Don't we lose out on MLS equivalent of "Luxury Tax" if we have 2 or more DPs? Or am I imaging things? Looked it up. You have to pay $250k lux tax to have a third DP...and that is farmed out to the teams without a 3rd DP (shared). So it's peanuts (NY and LA pay $500k into the pool, and 17 teams split it)...and having a second wouldn't take a team away from that trickle.
so.... why isn't Javi labeled a DP? if you wanted to open more cap space, RSL, you would make this move happen. Hey, look, I just found 100K to keep Andy around
so we here at RSL are losing players right and left, while other teams around the league continue to be in the news of either likely picking up players, or actually doing so. Philly adds a great talent to their offense: http://www.philadelphiaunion.com/news/2011/12/union-acquire-costa-rican-international-martinez how is everyone else able to sign new players while we bitch that we'll never be under the salary cap?
Because everyone else isn't trying to pay Morales AND Beckerman AND Sabo AND Rimando AND Borchers AND Olave AND Johnson AND Espy AND....you get the point. Philly has Faryd and a bunch of guys who make $60k...pretty easy to find room under the cap with that group.
Donovan's back to Everton for a short loan: http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2011/12/15/donovan-return-everton-two-month-loan Lee Nguyen ends up at Vancouver: http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/artic...-get-us-international-nguyen-weighted-lottery Timbers sign first (in a sense) young DP: http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2011/12/15/timbers-sign-designated-player-jose-adolfo-valencia lots of news, nothing RSL related. Kinda makes me sad
saw that timbers article and noticed adolfo in the title. chuckled to myself when i thought of adolfo gregorio. i wonder what happened to that guy, he dropped off the map after RSL released him.
According to one semi-recent report, our Adolfo quit pro soccer all together to help run the family auto business. I mean, at least Bechknee became a lawyer!
Does Colorado still hold the permanent international slot we traded them (plus a first round supplemental pick - good grief!) to get the rights to Gregorio? It was a youth slot, but those distinctions went away eventually. We may have gotten the better of the Rapids on a later pair of trades, but this one still ranks as one of the franchise's all-time worst.
Agreed that one was horrible. However a few league wide changes in rosters have wiped that abomination off our books (at 1 time if you recall we took Yura and 1 of KC's int'l slots to compensate for this dumb trade).
which is looking to be possibly the best trade in franchise history. No offense to Kyle, but he is no Yura. Though, Yura's greatness only started at RSL. It seems to have blossomed once over seas. Still, to say that wasn't one of our best trades would be dishonest. I'll rank Kyle's above it (Medhi Ballouchy, what a joke) but we got Yura (and Findley, I believe) for peanuts and they proved to be incredible players
Findley and Sturgis (I think?) came from LA for Chris Klein. Klein was getting older but he wasn't just peanuts quite yet. It took a lot of guts to send him to LA for two mostly unproven young players in effort to rebuild/reshape the team. I believe this was another one of Garson's first big trades.
I never understood the love for Klein. He wasn't a bad player, but he wasn't anything special by any means. He was a poor old man's version of Will Johnson. Effort and the occasional decent pass, but overall he wasn't anything to remember. In fact, my brother and I joke that certain players went to the Chris Klein school of crossing. That being, if you can whip the ball from the wing, across the entire box, and have it land just before going out of bounds on the other wing you passed class.
Wrong on the first paragraph. Kleiny was a Brad Davis type, but right-footed, not as young, not as good, and a lot slower. Not like Will Johnson at all.