Do you expect that, with the imminent departures of Joe Cannon and Wade Barret, two essential cogs in San Jose's success, and with the possible departure of Ronnie Ekelund, the league will award San Jose with an allocation? I ask this because with the current state our team is in, it seems likely that J. Moore will try to do something to make this team more presentable for the 2003 season. Any thoughts?
I fully expect MLS to pee on us like a least loved step child. As far as the league is concerned, they paidup big to get Landon back for us, and our attendance is crap even when we put a good team on the field, so why bother to give SJ more good players? It's not the fans appreciate them and they are already losing enough money on the club as it is. Ekelund wasn't an allocation, so they won't give us an allocation to replace him. We'll have to "discover" someone, like we did Ronnie. Wade and Joe were not allocations and the league isn't selling them out from under us like they did Eddie Lewis. So we won't get allocations for them either. It is remotely possible that Eddie Lewis is coming back to MLS and that the league is going to give him back to us. Which would make him the first player to be his own replacement allocation. go quakes - Mark
At this point I am sure that Ronnie will be resigned. As other thread says, Wade's departure to Aarhus is almost a done deal - that'd leave enough salary cap room to resign Ronnie without paycut.
      Actually, I would rather have Ronnie re-signed!       GO EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
No allocation. These players are leaving on free transfers, they aren't being sold. Now at the end of the season, if we really suck and don't make it to the playoffs, we'll get an allocation.
This is worth posting here. The official league spin on allocations. http://www.mlsnet.com/content/03/mls0107allocations.html And, if the situation exists where the players leave on a free transfer, no compensation is given to the Quakes in return.
This isn't necessarily the case. Azizi left San Jose on a free transfer and the Quakes got an allocation (DeRosario). Ante Razov went to Spain on a free transfer, and the Fire got an allocation, which they used to sign Ante Razov. In the case that might most resemble the Quakes' current situation, Colorado got one allocation as compensation for losing three players, Anders Limpar, Jorge Dely Valdes, and Joey DiGiamarino, none of whom were sold. I'm not saying the Quakes are going to get an allocation. You can also come up with examples teams losing significant players on free transfers and not getting an allocation. But the situation is not clear cut.
Hey, the Quakes never got an allocation for John Doyle (one of the team's original allocations) retiring, but the Rapids got one for Valderrama retiring this year.
An allocation for JD is stretching it a bit. But in theory, we're still owed one for Eddie Lewis being sold out from under us days before the season started. Maybe we can get Eddie Lewis? More likely, we'll get Jan Aage Fjortoff! GO QUAKES!! - Mark
The Quakes already got 2 allocations for Lewis and they have both been used up. One was traded to Chicago and the other was used in the allocation portion of the dispersal draft to get Barclay.
Seems to me it's just a matter of the league having a way to decide which team gets which players and when whenever they want to, in order to have a hefty influence on the outcome of a season. -KMJvet