I would love it if DC United's draft picks all got signed for close to $1,000,000 transfer fees before they played a minute. DC got a load of cash for Arguez and we don't even know if he's going to be good. I think he would have been solid had he stayed in the league but if DC drafted that well on average they would be a much better team.
Re: Gomez leaving DC United You got a better explanation for why it was considered a "future consideration"? That phrase is typically used when the value of the trade is based on the level pf play by one of the involved palyers.
Re: Gomez leaving DC United Em, they're not going to retroactively cancel a signing. Are you saying they're putting the DP on hold for two years while they wait and see how Gomez does? Possible I guess, but I don't think it's very likely, since it just ties up Colorado's DP slot even longer.
DC got Colorado's DP spot as a result of the trade. If they were to cut Gomez it doesn't change what has already happened.
We do. But then we offer them developmental salaries, and they go to Puerto Rico or France instead, acting on a short-term intention that they'd previously expressed publicly but somehow we had failed to notice.
Again, if this were the case, why was it announced as a "future consideration"? My guesses (short of MLS/Rapids outright lying in the press release, always a possibility): DC gets the DP for 2 seasons starting at the end of the '08 season, assuming that Gomez hasn't been a complete bust. DC gets the DP slot, but the earlier reported language about "Having the right to use the slot" is more accurate than "traded for the slot" and Colorado can actually buy back the slot, with the cost to buy it back increasing based on Gomez's play. DC gets the slot for '08 for sure, the slot for '09 and/or '10 is based on Gomez's play.
Well the announcement in the Rapids press release stated "2009 1st round pick and future considerations". Given that "future considerations" almost always means that the rest of the trade is contingent on how well the players involved in the trade play, the rest of it is just guesswork based on that, as my last post said. I've nver claimed otherwise. I think the most likely reasoning is that some number of years of the DP slot you're getting from us is dependant on Gomez's play. You're getting in for 2008 for sure, probably 2009, but for 2010 its dependant on how well Gomez plays, if the option ofr the 3rd year of his contract is picked up, and what MLS does with the Dp rule after the '09 season, when it will be upfor renewal. The other two options I suggested were just guesses based on what we've heard from various sources, and what would work within the ever-shifting MLS rules.