News: DP Alvaro Fernandez to Deportivo Cali

The Spanish Wikipedia page for Deportivo Cali seems to indicate the same where he'll join former MLSers Faryd Mondragon and Cristian Nazarit.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asociación_Deportivo_Cali#Jugadores

What a shame to lose such a talented player to a league where we seem to poach players from.

 

In light of recent change to my relationship status I feel compelled to say good for them. ******** America.

 

Looks like Seattle is trying to bring in Christian Tiffert from FC Koln. He will have to be a DP so Seattle would have to get rid of one of their current DPs and Fernandez was the logical choice.

 

I think Tiffert plays for Kaiserslautern not Koln.

 

Verdu or Tiffert would be nice. I've seen it hinted that if it's a loan, Fernandez could possibly return for non-DP money.

 

If the loan rumors are true, then it is only going to be a one year loan. However, this is the start of the third year in Flaco's 4 year contract (he was brought in mid-season of 2010). If he does return to the Sounders, he'll still have one year of his contract left and the Sounders would have to pony up about $250k in allocation money to buy down his contract.

Another thing to consider is that Deportivo Cali was in town last week trying to sell the Sounders the 30% of Fredy Montero that they own, which they valued that 30% at $800,000. It wouldn't surprise me if Flaco being loaned to them is being done in lieu of paying cash for part or all of that 30%.

 

He already is making non-DP money. The transfer fee seattle paid is why he's a DP.

 

I should have just said FCK and been done with it.

 

FCK it?

 

Deportivo Cali , it must be a big club ...
No biggie, millions of other players are waiting to join MLS.

 

I don't know if you were sarcastic or not.. but Cali is not a small team here in colombia. It is considered one on the big clubs here. they are the 4th best club in Colombia (based on titles) after Millonarios, America and Nacional. They have reached Libertadores final twice.

 

I've read this in many places, but his guaranteed compensation listed in the MLS Players Union report is $366k. Those numbers don't include transfer fees, so he is making just about DP money in salary and bonuses.

 

So is he gone for good? Or just a loan?

 

It is probably more accurate to say that his salary is not why he is listed as a DP. Assuming there isn't any non-salary/non-bonus numbers included in his contract, $366k isn't generally a DP salary because it is "easy" to use 16k of allocation money to buy down the budget hit and drop him below the DP line.

 

Good question. The initial reports were that it was a 1 year loan, but since then I've seen a number of tweets with them discussing Flaco coming to town to negotiate contract details.. Is that standard for loans?

 

See Conor Casey (listed at 400K but not a DP).

 

Now the talk on twitter regarding Fernandez is that seattle submitted documents for approval. Of course i'm taking it with a gain of salt.

I been following the alvaro rumors on twitter via link below

https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/alvaro fernandez

 

He is playing right now vs Chelsea.

 

Almost scored too.

 

https://twitter.com/camilo_septimo/status/225793013199298560

 

Oscar Astudillo, president of Deportivo Cali: "We reach an agreement with Alvaro Fernandez and his club." Said 2 minutes ago @Alarguecaracol

— Camilo Quiroz (@camilo_septimo) July 19, 2012

 

Seattle won't comment on anything that could potentially hurt the loan agreement from taking place.

This is what i saw today on twitter

https://twitter.com/NotiDeporCali/status/226345353417461761

Translation of tweet

"Today would be finalizing the business of Alvaro Fernandez possibly in the afternoon, is expected .."

 

Strange to play a player that you're trying to move in a friendly. Doesn't seem wise to risk an injury.