Shrug. Feilhaber is 34, rapidly fading..............and won't be a part of the future. Might as well get something for him now. Here's a weird one. Maybe as a fill-in for Zardes while he's gone with the USMNT much of the summer? PLAYER NEWS: David Accam has been traded to Columbus Crew for $500,000 in allocation money.Details here 📝👉https://t.co/Smqe3oSwUS#DOOP pic.twitter.com/U7PJkGpbgb— Philadelphia Union (@PhilaUnion) May 8, 2019
Sure, but Benny was specifically mentioned by Smith when he fired Hudson last week as the type of player he brought in to build a playoff caliber team this season and that the players (because of players like Benny) were better than their 0-2-7 record. A week later Benny has been traded fora 22 year old CB with one USL start this season. Pretty much says "forget about 2019".
Semi-related: this is the type of trade that really highlights how shitty the American system of player ownership is and how few rights players get here. Rwatubyaye has spent his entire life in Rwanda, uproots everything to come play for Kansas City, and 3 months later, is unceremoniously dumped off to another team 600 miles away. That's ********ed up.
I wouldn't be surprised if he retires midseason. He's falling apart and he's even started to make mistakes that he hadn't done prior to this season. Torres isn't much better, so this could work out pretty well.
I'm hearing that the #Rapids96 have acquired CB Lalas Abubakar from the Columbus Crew on loan for the rest of the season.— Burgundy Wave (@Burgundywave) May 8, 2019
At least he is in the formal system. Watch "Soccer's Lost Boys" sometime for truly terrifying portraits of what happens to many players coming out of African countries. https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/soccers-lost-boys/
Players can refuse loans and sales in nearly every other league in the world. So yeah, you're right, it's literally nothing like Miazga and Palmer-Brown experienced.
yeah no club has the leverage to say, if you don't go out on loan you will just stay in training with the U23s for the next five years.. no leverage whatsoever.
Who said anything about leverage? Edit: even then, the difference is massive. MLS teams have absolute authority over their players within the league. They can cut them, trade them, drop them to USL, whatever, and retain their rights within MLS in perpetuity. Players in nearly every other league have the absolute right to decline any transfer out of their club and into another. Clubs can exercise leverage over their players and do what you say, but players 1) still have the final say and 2) can buy themselves out of a contract. If the club straight cuts them, they get paid because the contract is guaranteed. If you think these things are the same, more power to you.
Also its hard to get 7 hours away by car and stay in the same country in Europe (hard, not impossible). Especially with the benefit of the rail service Europe has. Its one thing to move to Manchester and then e loaned to Preston or Sunderland. Annoying, but its only a couple of hours away. Even singing for a London club and being loaned to Spain puts you closer than a lot of moves in MLS.
Crew will likely use Accam as a winger. We don't have much speed and he'll replace Robinho/Meram on a wing.
After today's moves 18 of the Rapids 29 players are 25 years old or younger. Only 4 are 30 or over, and 2 of those 4 are keepers (Irwin & Howard).
In soccer terms of course. Tamable - The player is able to be bought down using Transfer Allocation Money or TAM for short
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019...ire-david-accam-columbus-crew-450k-allocation So basically Columbus paid 50k for the rest of the year for Accam.
Yeah, this was being worked on the whole time apparently. "When Accam was acquired from Philadelphia, the Crew and the Union were working with Nashville to complete the three-team deal before the end of the first transfer window. Accam was aware that Columbus would just be a stop in between before heading to Nashville." https://t.co/6f8PtY5QKw— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) May 16, 2019
Cruz Azul is reportedly interested in Felipe Gutierrez and Diego Rubio. https://www.esto.com.mx/434872-ulti...felipe-gutierrez-celestes-draft-chile-mexico/
Omar Gonzalez to Toronto official, can join the team July 9th when the secondary transfer window opens: https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/06/03/toronto-fc-sign-usmnt-center-back-omar-gonzalez
Don't know if going on the injury list counts as movment but Federico Higuain is done for the year in Columbus with an ACL tear. He's 35 and in the last year of his contract so his career might be over. He had 55 goals and 63 assists for the Crew.