Here's your present Metro roster, with educated salary guesses that you can try to pick apart: Davis ($24k but P40 exempt) Jolley $120k Moore (<$10k, developmental contract) Williams $100k Lisi $40k Paule $60k Petke $120k Mathis $200k Addo $75k Ziadie $40k Balboa $85k (rumored figure of restructured contract) Howard $250k Akwari ($24k but P40 exempt) Grafer $35k $1.13 million is what I come up with, leaving the Metros just under $600k short of the cap. Adding two maximum salary players puts them around $60k shy of the cap. But I may have overestimated Addo and Williams, who were up for renegotiation in the past year or so, and furthermore, there's a reasonable chance neither will return. That would leave the Metros with around $350k to fill out the roster-- not a lot of money, but not nothing either.
Didn't you know, NY and LA are exempt from the salary cap rule. MLS makes and breaks their own rules when dealing with these two teams.
Re: Re: 12/17/02: Deals Looks good Haig... Also include that Petke or Jolley will go during the trade, taking another $120k off the cap. So if the trade goes through... To Metros: Pope $270k Moreno $270k ABMOD $100k (supposed to be taking a pay cut thought) From Metros: Petke/Jolley $120k For a net addition to the cap of at most: $520k
Re: Re: 12/17/02: Deals Really, why don't you actually read and respond to what knowledgeable people have to say.
Ok. Thanks. So it looks like the deal will put them about 350k short of the cap? Enough for another marquee player, if true.
"The 20-year-old striker has been compared to Julius Erving, Wayne Gretzky and Tiger Woods in the ability to bring their sport into the popular conscious." Sheesh, where to begin with a comment such as this? People are setting themselves up for quite a let down if they see any realism in a Woods, Gretzky, Erving comparisson. I can hear it now, "the 'Wayne Gretzky of soccer' has now gone 4 games without even scoring one goal! Can you believe the nonsense those soccer people were trying to sell us!?"
I couldn't quite get through the first sentence. Picturing the commish on a bottle of baby food almost made me slap my mother.
I'm fvcking sick of this "fat tony" crap. The guy was an MVP, MLS champ, and three times in a WC. He is a living legend.
Re: Re: Re: 12/17/02: Deals And what have you added to the great order of things....oh yeah a bunch of BS numbers that can't be confirmed and that are probably way off. I brought fact into the discussion. The league favors LA and NY. NY just can't get their act together to take advantage of it the way LA has. Just because I choose to ignore the BS numbers doesn't mean I didn't read them, just that I took it for the crap it is. Be happy NY is favored by the the league. If not you could be like the 8 other teams, you could have the famous Crew teeshirt that says "Stern John was sold for 4M dollars and all I got was this crappy allocation, while LA got Luis Hernandez and NY got Clint Mathis."