Philadelphia Union - 2019 Roster

I’m not looking for lifetime commitment, but three or four years would be a good start.

 

#LetRayTakeIt

 

I was impressed with the PK he took in the Open Cup final.

 

It should be noted that Ray has the club record for PK conversion rate. Eclipsing the likes Le Toux, Edu, and even club legend Andrew Wenger.

 

Wenger does have the unofficial record for the most-posted GIF of a Union player on the Union Big Soccer forum for his dribbling out of bounds unchallenged. The GIF of Aurelian Colin's flop may have been posted even more, buy he wasn't a member of the Union at the time of the incident. This may need to go to the committee for a ruling of who holds the actual record.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

 

Looking forward to a Collin flop we can finally call our own.

 

I guess this is rosterish related:
https://www.philadelphiaunion.com/post/2019/05/27/dick-schreuder-join-1899-hoffenheim-coaching-staff

Assistant coach leaving for a position with Hoffenheim.

 

Brotherly Game twitted:

Jamiro Monteiro's loan from FC Metz has been officially extended for another six months. The Union have an option to buy at the end of the loan.

https://t.co/DleF1HbEUq

 

I thought occurred to me this morning. Imagine the Union if they managed to hang on to Dockal at the end of last season? Fabian has been hurt, and Aaronson is still a rookie. They've both had flashes, but imagine a midfield of Dockal, Ale, Jamiro, and Haris with Ilsinho coming off the bench?

I realize it's a pipe dream since if we'd spent the money to buy Dockal we probably wouldn't have been able to bring in Fabian and Jamiro, but just imagine it for a moment...

 

Gaddis is the most obvious weak link on the team. He offers almost nothing going forward into the attack and is a liability defensively. Any chance of a new RB coming in during the transfer window? Was trading Rosenberry worth it? Doesn't seem like it at the moment.

 

I saw Jamiro channel Nogs and throw his hands up after one of Gaddis's back passes last night against Red Bull after Gaddis passed on an opportunity to send a cross to Jamiro with no defenders within 20 yards of him.

Weirdly, Gaddis sometimes make decent attacking decisions with the ball on the rare occasions when he ends up around the final third, maybe because he doesn't have time to think. But when he's in the middle third of the field, and he has time and space to make a decision, he almost always take the safe option and cycles the ball back to the center backs.

I took a neutral friend of mine to the Seattle game a few weeks ago who wasn't familiar with the Union. Gaddis was playing the ball back to the center backs so consistently that my friend asked if I thought the manager had instructed the Union to only attack up the left side.

 

It often looks like a left sided only instruction. Occasionally I think Gaddis is going to produce something decent because he's found himself in an advanced position and then he invariably gives the ball away or executes a terrible cross. Then Ilsinho comes on to rescue the Union...

 

New salaries are out.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/mlspa/June-1-2019-Salaries-Alphabetical.pdf?mtime=20190612132231



Kind of surprised they are only playing Collin $175k. Monteiro is one hell of a bargain! Elliott and Trusty, too. But what's important, I really don't see a player making a ridiculous amount of money vs what they produce. Maybe Santos, I guess. But that's about it. By far the best the roster has looked vs what each individual actually produces in team history.

 

What's the difference between the two columns again? Is the second number the actual amount paid? If so, why list two numbers?

 

I was of the impression that one is the base salary before bonuses, while the other is what the player actually gets paid (the distinction has something to do with calculating the player's salary cap hit), but I may be wrong.

 

Base and guaranteed salary.

 

I understand that one is the cap hit and one is the actual amount paid but what's the difference? What accounts for the difference in numbers?

What's to prevent every player from having a $70,000 cap hit and then paying a huge amount to every player?

 

When will Fabian start to be worth his wages?

 

I assume this all means that the cap hit is the Guaranteed Salary, not the Base Salary.

https://mlsplayers.org/resources/salary-guide

"The Annual Average Guaranteed Compensation (Guaranteed Comp) number includes a player's base salary and all signing and guaranteed bonuses annualized over the term of the player's contract, including option years.

For example, a player earning an annual base salary of $500,000, whose contract has an initial term of two years with two one-year options and received a $100,000 signing bonus, his average annual guaranteed compensation would be $525,000 (base salary plus signing bonus ($100,000), with the signing bonus divided by the number of years covered by the contract (4)).

The Average Annual Guaranteed Compensation figure also includes any marketing bonus and any agent's fees, both annualized over the term of the contract. The Average Annual Guaranteed Compensation figure does not include Performance Bonuses because there is no guarantee that the player will hit those bonuses."

 

Thanks. That makes sense. The first number is the base salary and the second number is the base salary plus any additional lump sums paid divided by the term of the contract.

But what happens when a contract is renegotiated in the middle of the term like with Elliott this season?

 

Probably never, but it was worth the risk.

 

I wonder if the Union would be interested in Wooten? They need another striker desperately:
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/06/13/report-andrew-wooten-intent-mls-move-leaving-2-bundesliga

 

I was thinking this same thing earlier today.

 

https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019...hia-union-do-summer-tanner-reveals-priorities

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