Here are some transfers I have found. Feel free to list others that you know of. http://www.socceramerica.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=25348 Troy Perkins: $750,000 (DC United to Valerenga) Bryan Arguez: $350,000 (DC United to Hertha Berlin) http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/eddie-johnson-moves-on/ Eddie Johnson: $6,000,000(Kansas City to Fulham) http://www.boston.com/sports/soccer/articles/2007/02/27/transfer_of_power_for_revolution/ Dempsey: $4,000,000 (New England to Fulham) http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=449109 Freddy Adu: $2,000,000 (RSL to Benfica) Bocanegra, Michael Bradley also transfered to Europe. Can't find the transfer fee #. Also, just found the following. Hope he updates this. And maybe someone could wikipedia this information also. http://usasoccer.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html (August 2) MLS Transfer Fees (Paid) Fee Player From To Source $4,000,000 Hernandez, Luis UANL Tigres Los Angeles link $2,000,000 Graziani, Ariel Morelia Dallas link $1,400,000 Etcheverry, Marco Colo Colo D.C. United link $1,000,000 Valderrama, Carlos Atletico Junior Tampa Bay link $800,000 Hong, Myung-Bo Pohang Steelers Los Angeles link $500,000 Nowak, Peter 1860 Munich Chicago link $300,000 Comas, Alex Atletico National New York link $250,000 Diallo, Mamadou Lillestrom Tampa Bay link $250,000 Galvan Rey, Sergio Once Caldas New York link $200,000 Moreno, Jaime Middlesbrough D.C. United link MLS Transfer Fees (Received) Fee Player From To Source $3,600,000 Howard, Tim New York Manchester Utd link $3,000,000 John, Stern Columbus Nottingham Forest link $2,500,000 Beasley, DaMarcus Chicago PSV Eindhoven link $2,000,000 Ralph, Damani Chicago Rubin Kazan link $1,900,000 Lewis, Eddie San Jose Fulham link $1,700,000 Friedel, Brad Columbus Liverpool link $1,500,000 McBride, Brian Columbus Fulham link $1,500,000 Convey, Bobby D.C. United Reading link $1,300,000 Bartlett, Shaun New York Zurich link $700,000 Peguero, J.P. New York Brondby link $600,000 Diallo, Mamadou New York Al Ahli link $300,000 Borchers, Nat Colorado Odd Grenland link $300,000 Lowe, Onandi Kansas City Rushden & Diamonds link $150,000 Hahnemann, Marcus Colorado Fulham link $100,000 Savarese, Giovanni New York Viterbese link Also, MLS also paid a huge transfer fee to bring Landon Donovan back from Germany to San Jose.
scaryice has a good list of them here: http://usasoccer.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html Hey -- are you going to update this list after the transfer window closes?
It's not been released officially (and I doubt it ever will because it's so ********ing embarrassing), but Lalas sold Mini Bradley for rougly $80k. ives provided the number sometime last year.
I suppose its a stupid question seeing as its Lalas, but there was a sell-on clause, right? Even if its 10% that could be $1m+, if not...
Yes, there are often is. Alos, there is additional fees to be paid for apperances. It's why N Forest sold on Stern John one app before the fee had to be paid.
MLS needs to buy more players. The fact that the Zurawski deal may fall through because MLS won't allow Crew to pay $250k to Celtic is very embarrassing.
Metro dropped $1 million on I think Joao Luiz, or one of those other awful Brazilians we had in the late 90's.
Nice work on getting the links for the recent transfers. I'll update my lists. Is Eddie Johnson really $6 million? Haven't been following it closely, but I thought it was around $4 million. I knew about Luiz; if you look at the link to my blog I posted that Soccer America reported his fee in the "high 6 figures."
Was there really that much of an outrage at the time (or complaining you didn't get enough value)? Or are you basing this angst purely off of his current form?
MLS got about 400,000 from AC MILAN to buy out Roberto Donadoni's last year of his MLScontract in 1997.
Metro supporters were very unhappy. Mike Bradley's play in the last two months of the season and the playoffs was excellent, and his detractors ("nepotism!") had changed their tune by the end of September. There was a lot of frustration directed at Lalas, who, it was thought, did not like Bob Bradley, and who threw the baby out with the bathwater.
Fulham's own site has it as £1M (~ $2M). MLS top brass must be leaking wrong figures to its loyal reporters. PS. $80K for Mike Bradley? No sh!t?
It almost makes up for the ridiculous salaries in excess of the cap paid to crap players from 1996 to 1999. I'm so glad we're past the bad old days of Charlie Stillitano's desperate and sorry attempts at a stupid quick fix, and Sunil Gulati's attempts to placate him by offering absurd contracts to poor players with little to no Metro input, at the cost of the Metrostars trading away their best performers. Amazing that MLS survived the Logan era.
I don't know if anyone has that exact details of how the E.Johnson "transfer" transpired (and how the money was exchanged). "Fulham's own site has it as £1M (~ $2M)" listed as the "transfer fee". perhaps that was in addition to the ~ $4M "buy-out" clause that was a part of EJ's contract. That would total the ~ $6M for the entire player transfer. But who knows how it really happened. if Fulham is saying ~ $2M, and MLS is saying something else/higher (and i don't think they've release an official "transfer fee" figure paid to them for EJ), then someone is obviously hiding some of the money/cost associated with the "transfer" and/or "buy-out".
It is amazing that we are still here.... Thanks for the information, I just love to see inept suck azzes brought into the light ...I hope sooner or later we get all to an exposition.... I hope Don wise up and jump into the oven to get few of the kids while they are still hot before foreign predators get to them first ...Please not another Landon Donovan pay out....
Was their a fee paid for Danny Z? What would also be cool is a chart listing income, expenditures, and Net for each team. Wonder which team would have the highest and lowest after adding up all fees.
Bradley for 80k is the worst negotiation in the history since Bosman surely. What about 'sell high' did Lalas not get. Or did he 'get' 'high'?!