Santino arrives in Manchester on Dec.11 For your information. Santino will arrive in Manchester on December 11th for a week. A decision on that training spell will be made in the first week in January. A price has been agreed. I personally know, having spoken to him today for MUTV, that Sir Alex has seen enough of the player to believe he has all the tools to be brought along with the coaches and facilities that Man Utd. have. I will be interviewing Santino next week on MUFC On-Line. Regards. Rich.
It is December...I have made a mistake. Could this be fixed by a mod please? Also, I am asking if what I heard from another Man Utd. official is correct. Only 60,000 DOLLARS a YEAR in MLS for a player of this standard?
Young players in MLS just don't get much. That's finally starting to turn around, but look at the leading goal scorer in MLS this year Taylor Twellman. He's making somewhere around $25,000 this year. It's the same reason Landon Donovan went to Germany as a teen instead of signing with MLS.
So is Saninto poised to become the next Jovan Kirovski of his generation? 'Cause I don't think we'll see him playing for AT LEAST two years, except for the ManU reserves and possibly on loan in a lower division. Which isn't to say he won't come out much the better in the end.
Dave Kasper, DC technical director denied these rumors on the soccer show Sunderland after U-20 qualifying Nov 13-17th in Charleston, SC. See DC thread https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=16796&perpage=15&pagenumber=2
Then you have Joe Cannon (the starting keeper) and Wade Barrett (the top defender) for last year's champion SJ Earthquakes who are only making $50,000 each -- which I'd hazard a guess is slightly less than what Ivan Gazidis makes for indenturing those servants.
On the other hand, Alex Rodriguez (a baseball player) makes as much in one day as David Beckham does in a week ...
And Joe's indenture ends Dec. 31st... Will he escape for freedom to the other side of the Atlantic? Didn't the homeless in San Jose make more than $50k back in the late '90s?