After seejnf New York City and so many of these new teams start out with these big names in their first year for splash effect, I don't know one time when it has worked right.
How does this work in MLS? If Pizarro will still count as a DP even if he is on loan what's the purpose of loaning him if you can't replace him with another DP?
Shocking--don't understand how you don't make an effort to keep someone on your team who was a contender for MLS Golden Boot.
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Frees up the cap charge and gets him out the door. They've got to be creative with the money since they're walloped with the sanctions. They've recovered most, if not all of the penalty monies but still have to find some to actually use.
They exercised his contract option. Now he seems to be complaining that he didn't get a new contract.
This. Matuidi leaving will free up a DP slot and cap space for an actual attacking midfielder that will run the offense. Pizzaro has not been that and they can't have his 612k+ (think the actual DP cap hit will be $643,125 this year since there should be a 5% bump to max cap hit and wage budget as a whole) on their budget for a player that likely doesn't have a spot. And unless they can sign a Young DP they don't have the room for a full DP because they are screwed for salary budget space right now. They need money to throw at multiple players right now and not just a bunch to throw at a luxury player. Honestly, the wage budget penalties may actually help transform this roster into one that will be able to handle luxury DP signings in the future.
The word Playoff is perhaps a bit of a stretch regarding Denmark. We cut our two top divisions down to only 12 teams each, with the teams facing each other twice (22 rounds) in the first half of the season and then splitting it all up, with the top half playing each other home and away once more (10 rounds) for the Championship (or two promotion spots) and the 6 bottom teams playing each other for two relegation spots (and one possible Europa cup spot) in the second half of the season. The idea was to make the Superliga stronger and more competitive with fewer clubs, also with only 12 teams fighting for 5 Europa cup spots (which so far has been a success) and also making the 2nd level stronger and much more comparable to the Superliga, also with a bigger TV deal and by adding more money in general, including a much larger relegation parachute from the Superliga. (which also has worked out as expected). There are no longer any final home and away pro/rel playoffs, since the teams bring all points earned in the first half of the season into the 2nd half of the (10 rounds home and away) season.
But the title is decided through playoffs. It's a hybrid system that's becoming common in the second tier leagues where we've seen domination by one or two teams. It also suits smaller leagues, where they have the bandwidth to split the season into two.
I's not something considered an option in the other Scandinavian leagues that are not at the same level as Danish league. So it's not about being a smaller league at all.
I meant smaller in terms of the number of teams in the league. It would be difficult to implement that system in a league with 20 teams.
The Veikkausliiga in Finland uses a split season splitting into two groups of 6 after 22 games but there are no playoffs other than for the second relegation place. The Allsvenskan used playoffs to decide champions between 1982 and 1990.
They did last season, as does the Austrian Bundesliga, the Serbian SuperLiga, the Ukranian Premier League, the Greek Super League, the Cypriot First Division and the Cymru Premier.... ... the Belgian First Division A, the Romanian Liga 1, the First Professional Football League of Bulgaria, the Primera Divisió of Andorra, the Czech Fortuna Liga, the Israeli Premier League, the Maltese Premier League, the NIFL Premiership and the Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio.
It will actually be more paper just worth less. Ooohh! With the MLS season he will also the worst parts of the Toronto winter. The family is gonna love spending the money.
The other Scandinavian leagues have 16 teams, unlike the 12 in Denmark, but are really nowhere near the same level, neither at first or second level.
Carlos Vela. edit: I’d argue David Villa has been the best DP, but they screwed the pooch with the rest of their silliness.
Were either of them big names? Martinez was coming off 7 goals in 58 games at Torino, and Almiron was an attacking midfielder who couldn't score at Lanus with 7 Paraguay caps to his name.
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I know it isn’t players, but RSL finally has announced the new ownership group: Da Blitzers, of Philadelphia 76ers fame, and also a big part of the reason the homeless situation in big cities is getting worse. Hooray?