Unhappy with getting $10 million from Inter Miami for Rodolfo Pizarro, Monterrey has filed a complaint with FIFA over player tampering by Beckham after Pizarro opens his big damn mouth and says his decision to force a release from Monterrey came after discussions with Beckham. https://www.espn.com/soccer/monterr...laint-over-pizarro-transfer-to-beckhams-miami
William Yarbrough was just released by Leon to reportedly sign with Colorado. Also Memphis 901 signed some former Rapids keeper I’m not sure anyone else has heard of. Some kid named Tim Howard?
How much time was left on Pizarro's contract with Monterrey? I'd guess a couple years at least since the fee was large. Sounds like they have a case and Miami will have to cough up some more scratch to settle it.
Reports a couple weeks back said that the contact was made after Miami matched his release clause, which would be fine. Monterrey has been arguing that his release clause was post-tax (so closer to 18 million) while the player/agent was saying it was pre-tax (so 10 million and Monterrey would get less than that). Eventually Miami threw an extra couple million over the lower number (reported around 12 million instead of 10) in order to get the deal done. So if this goes to FIFA I'd assume that they will find themselves countersued over their refusal to honor a release clause. That would lead FIFA to have to rule on whether Monterrey or the player/agent was correct on what the release clause was.
If you pay the release clause that's it. Monterrey is just pissed they didn't get what they originally wanted. Supposedly they had a release clause for any team in Mexico and a different lower release clause for foreign leagues. They just never thought that MLS teams will ever try to go after Pizarro. Which is funny cause according to reports in Mexico, Miami did pay close to 20 million for Pizarro and not the 10 million or 9 million reported here. If Monterrey did get 20 million for Pizarro then why would they be upset? They should be glad they made alot of profit.
Minnesota has George Weah's nephew training with the first team? Loons have teen prospect Patrick Weah training with MLS team https://t.co/T7WDC4lsMx pic.twitter.com/nHrrk3tB6g— Pioneer Press (@PioneerPress) March 5, 2020 I've heard a similar story like this before.....
DC chasing Bobby Wood https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...h-bobby-wood-former-us-national-team-forward/
James to Miami rumors running around. Will be interesting to see what kind of available players and what kind of transfer fees there are after this shakes out.
Doubt James comes to MLS. Don't get me wrong, I wish he would but he has other options in Europe still.
The question now, though, is where you'd rather not be playing when your league is suspended for a season or two. For a Colombian, Miami might be a pretty sweet place for that.
Jonathan de Guzman is rumored to be headed to TFC. He’s the younger brother of the most capped Canadian MNT player, Julian de Guzman.. However, unlike his older brother, Jonathan chose to play for the Netherlands after he naturalized in 2008. If true, it will be interesting to see what the reaction of the TFC fans as Jonathan is viewed as a “traitor” for choosing the Netherlands over Canada. Jonathan de Guzman could leave Eintracht Frankfurt to join Toronto FC in Major League Soccer, according to kicker. #MLS #SGE https://t.co/RUQgm3RmBz— Ronan Murphy (@swearimnotpaul) April 22, 2020
I wonder which players abroad are rumored for an MLS move? Or which MLS players are rumored to move to other clubs either in MLS or Europe?
None. The US has shutdown immigration into the country, so there is no way for teams to get visas and with covid running around unchecked in the US, I doubt any international team is interested in getting US based players right now.
The Galaxy and Katai part ways after his wife decided a violent and racist tirade on social media was a good idea. The LA Galaxy have parted ways with Aleksandar Katai. pic.twitter.com/mcu0fTreC8— LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) June 5, 2020
That's a pretty slippery slope. Seems to imply a man should control his wife. Nessa Diab calling Steve Bisciotti a name is a large part of why her boyfriend Colin Kaepernick is unemployed. She also called Ray Lewis an Uncle Tom. So it's no surprise a team doesn't want someone like her or Katai's wife around. But it's unusual for them to come right out and admit it.
Once that apology he posted went over like a lead balloon, I think Katai knew that there was no way he could play for the Galaxy after his wife's posts. He'd also likely be less than welcome by some if not most teammates and there is no way the fans would back him. He probably realized it is just easier to get out of dodge and move on to somewhere that cares less about racist posts his wife makes.
It's probably more of a "he knows who he married" theory -- people are going to question whether he really didn't know she was a virulent racist. Personally, I think it's more plausible that he didn't know because they're not American, and until 2018 lived in places where they probably wouldn't have seen many black people. (When Katai played in Spain, his club was in the Basque Country where there are relatively few immigrants.) Even if he had black teammates, his wife could easily have been the kind of racist who thinks of a handful of black acquaintances as "not like THOSE people" -- that's not uncommon at all. So it's quite possible that her attitude toward black people simply never came up. (Note that she is probably not an extreme Serbian nationalist, given that Katai is a Hungarian name.) If they were American or even from Western Europe, I'd find this much less plausible. But even knowing that it's plausible for Aleksandar Katai not to have known he was marrying a virulent racist, I am still left questioning whether he did and thought it was OK.
Well, if he didn't know the full complexity of his wife's thought, I'm sure he has a better insight into it now. I have no reason, no evidence, to believe he is himself racist.