Well it is fineal. JMM will be a Rev again so all hopes of him being a wizard is out http://soccernet.espn.go.com/index?ver=us&cc=5901
I think that once we got wolff, all hope of him wanting to be a wizard was out. He went without an allocation as well, and was picked by the second to last team in the picking order. We had a chance to take him if we wanted, but I believe that his salary was too high, and we don't need another player in that position. Since hindsight is 20-20 we could have drafted a young guy, and got a forward, one that won't be gone for national team duty, and one that can mesh with the team during preseason instead of rehabing his injury.
Do you honestly believe that every team had a fair shot at joe max or that the league placed him in new england? I think it's fair to assume joe max was going to new england and nowhere else.
To quote a friend of mine, "MLS seems to be making up the rules as they go along again." For players of the quality of JMM and Heydude to go to teams without requiring an allocation, something is fishy.
is it time for a change in mls i know this has been brought up before, but with this talk of signings without allocations, mls making up the rules as they go and what not, is it time to start talking about a change for MLS from a single entity to individual owners? I mean really, is MLS looking out for the common good of the league or just looking out for LA, DC and New England? It seems to me that a little competition might be good for the league when it comes to signing players. Any thoughts?
Re: is it time for a change in mls Thoughts? Yeah....its totally unfair, unregulated, stars choose where they want to play based on location, coaches, or fellow players and the league lets them have their way. Thats fine and dandy as long as the team they go to pays for it (as with a normal league anywhere else in the world) but here we have rules to help the league grow. They have rules and they dont follow them. they try and come up with reasoning, but their reasoning changes each time. Its a load of crap, and I'm sick of worrying about it.
BTW Swiss club St. Gallen has terminated its contract with U.S. international Frankie Hejduk and has released his player certificate, which frees him to sign with MLS. This was the final bit of paperwork remaining in the Hejduk situation. The Crew can sign him as a discovery player, since the teams with allocations -- the Metros and Colorado -- passed and no other team bid for him when his services were made available to teams in reverse order of their finish last year. By the same process the Revs signed Joe-Max Moore, who obtained his release from Everton by requesting the club not appeal the revocation of his work permit.