Player salaries?

First of all, I bet most of the guys wished they made that kind of money. Most are not even close to that, but none of this is made public, so all we can do is speculate.

Certainly Twellman will get a huge raise, as well as some of the other guys, but given that Serna likely makes the max, and APC is probably close if he isn't already there, cutting them (and Sommer) should give us enough to bring in one Maximum salary player, another reasonably high salary guy, give Taylor his raise and still have enough left over to give some other guys a raise and even bring in another $50,000 player.

Tom

 

I think you're a little high on those salaries - especially the defenders. I'd say you could be off by as much as 25K per player. And no offense to Llamosa, but if he were making 170K (or 10% of the total cap) - that would be a problem.

I suspect that after getting rid of the "dead" wood they'll be room for one high range player and one mid-range player.

Just my guess.

 

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I'd also hope and guess that Rooney will not be back

 

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Likewise Sommer. May as well get some kid from the A-league (or draft a college keeper) and hope we end up with another Busch.

I'd be shocked if Kamler, Cullen and WOlde make as much as you have them down for...as for Llamosa, though, I think you might be right. He has the 'I play for the US nats' cachet going for him and has been a star in the league for several years. That is why part of me thinks we might be better off without him. The other part of me thinks we need to do whatever necessary to keep Downing off the field.

 

I'm guessing the ACTUAL salaries are closer to this:

Goalkeepers: ($150,000)
BROWN, Adin - $50,000 (cap cost)
SOMMER, Juergen - $100,000

Defenders: ($383,000)
PIERCE, Rusty - $60,000
HEAPS, Jay - $45,000
FRANCHINO, Joe - $45,000
KANTE, Daouda - $24,000
LLAMOSA, Carlos - $185,000
DOWNING, Nick - $24,000 (exempt)
LEONARD, Marshall - $24,000

Midfielders: ($745,000)
CULLEN, Leo - $50,000
KAMLER, Brian - $65,000
HERNANDEZ, Daniel - $45,000
PINEDA CHACON, Alex - $225,000
RALSTON, Steve - $180,000
ASAD, Shaker - $24,000 (exempt)
ROONEY, Jim - $120,000
CLOUTIER, Braeden - $35,000
GRIFFITHS, Winston - $25,000

Forwards: ($348,000)
FULLER, Ian - $24,000
SERNA, Diego - $220,000
HARRIS, Wolde - $80,000
TWELLMAN, Taylor - $24,000

Total: $1,626,000

 

Well I think if you start with the assumption that Chacon and Serna and possibly Sommer and Rooney will be gone next year - this means you clear about $565K worth of cap space (about a third of the total cap).

You start by giving increases to the guys who are either woefully underpaid, or that you want to secure for the long term (or both). Such as:
Brown
Twellman
Kante
Hernandez
Heaps
Franchino

Then you see what you have left over to give incremental increases to the guys that you want to keep but who will be out of contract soon (not everybody).

Then you see what's left over and what kind of players are out there.

Seems like there should be enough to go around...

 

I think Mike's numbers are pretty well on the mark, although I'd bet that Hernandez and Franchino probably make a bit more, maybe 60-75k or so.

Lufty, if the starting eleven all made 75 grand or more, then you've got bench players making a lot (Serna, Sommer, APC) it all adds up to well over the cap limit of $1.8 million or whatever it is. Twellman makes $30,000 tops.

On the bright side, some teams have been faced with tough decisions as far as jetissoning good players for salary cap reasons, but for us that won't be a problem.

Tom

 

Didn't you forget Frias? He must make pretty close to league max...

On a (slightly) more serious note, isn't Leonard also exempt?

 

Hernandez was making over 100,000 dollars for the MetroStars so I don't think they dropped him down to 45,000 to come to the Revs...he definately would have retired then...just a thought

 

Very true. And I'm sure we were paying Andy Williams decently, so those two probably just switched places but kept their salaries equal...