It could definitely help. Bringing in an experienced fullback would also be a good use of some of that.
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With all this imaginary money is it possible that we trade Jozy to New England along with GAM/TAM and get a piece back from NE ?
Buying players from Europe >>>
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/tombogert/status/1491435247002546178?s=20&t=dukIs60LCaHrANTN5hLnLw
They broke even on Pity, didn't they?
Great question. Let's bounce it off noxx98.
If I understand correctly, not all allocation money is the same, and we can possibly read between the lines here and predict what is about to come.
I believe acquiring all this extra GAM does not help with potentially buying down Salcedo's number. If Salcedo is switched to a TAM player, then only TAM can be used to reduce his cap hit (and $1 million of TAM is obligatory). Where GAM proves useful is in reducing the cap hit of a DP below the default $612,500.
Conclusion - TFC must have a DP in the crosshairs in order to have wanted all this GAM and to part with an int'l roster slot. noxx98, what say you?
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/TorontoFC/status/1491456616218382337
Looks something like...
Nelson - Jimenez - Kerr
Poz
Oso - Bradley
Shaff - Mavinga - Salcedo - JMR
Westberg
JMR at RB is intriguing. Shaff at LB is something we have talked about for a couple years now.
Also, nothing in the world can convince me that Bob is gonna limit Michael's minutes in any meaningful way this season.
I think he will reduce them if he doesn’t deserve the minutes he is getting. I also think he can still have a very strong presence on the field in the right system.
Do TFC have any international spots left? I wonder if the club may use MB's contacts at Roma (if he has any at this point) in an attempt to recruit right-back Davide Santon. His contract expires in June but there's been talk of a contract termination.
Came up with same formation. Second.Quote:
noxx98
Looks something like...
Nelson - Jimenez - Kerr
Poz
Oso - Bradley
Shaff - Mavinga - Salcedo - JMR
Westberg
Let us see...
Spanish left back Damia Viader trialling, has come in at the 30 min. Whole sale changes, new lineup:
Kadin Chung
Shane O’Neill
Lukas MacNaughton
Damia Viader
Luca Petrasso
Noble Okello
Ralph Priso
Kosi Thompson
Jordan Perruzza
Ifunanyachi Achara
And 3m later, Austin evens the match, 1-1
Really pleased we monetized that allocation order spot. Having done that, I can’t see any way we would have been better off with Seba. You would need to believe we were one piece away, and that piece is Seba, to have wanted Seba instead.
Right now we are using 6 of our 7 spots. (Start with 8, traded 1). Once Auro is off the roster we'll be down to 5 of 7. This assumes that Poz and Mavinga must occupy international slots, although based on some of the rumours from a few weeks ago, they may count as domestic.
Criscito + Destro would take us back up to the maximum.
Big changes with the jr team this year. New manager, new influx of players.
TFC up 2-1 at halftime. TFC twitter has Jordan Peruzza's third goal in three games on the Twitter feed, good trailing close finish after backing up the Austin defence.
https://twitter.com/TorontoFC?ref_sr...Ctwgr%5Eauthor
EDIT: The year of Peruzza continues...
He played for CE Europa, the tiny Barcelona club, for two seasons before college. They have a really significant history in local football there and have won the Catalonia Cup a few times, including once over Bobby Robson's mighty Barcelona team of the late nineties.
Their basketball team is more successful but the footie team has been around for more than a century.
He had a good scoring and assist record in USL, too, seven goals and six assists in 41 games from left back. Probably has some speed and trickery to his game.
He was USL 1 defender of the year last season.
https://www.torontofc.ca/news/experi...sting-attacker
This article really speaks to the network that Bob Bradley has.
The scouting department (or Bill Manning on transfermarket) are able to identify players, Bob's network can help identify these players and vet their quality.Quote:
“The scouting department brought his name up,” he began. “I have a colleague that's now a head coach in Poland, a young coach named Tomasz Kaczmarek. Tomasz was with me in Egypt and then in Norway, and now he's the coach at Lechia Gdańsk.”
“The name came up, we looked at him, we did a lot of checking, not only in terms of his performance on the field, but just behind the scenes, really well respected there. Tomasz told me that he felt that Jesus was one of the best players in the league,” Bradley detailed. “And then when we watched him we really felt that his way of moving, his way of taking certain balls, getting into the box, his mentality on the field, all things that we really loved as we got to know more about him.”
I also stumbled upon an interview with Jimenez from last year. A lot to like about him: https://sportsfinding.com/i-never-wo...ampion/105740/
He's a player who wants to challenge himself, and isn't afraid to go out of his comfort zone (i.e., leave Spain). He also likes to play close to teammates, move between the lines, and is mobile.
I read an interesting blog post on the website of a law firm that is involved in negotiation player contracts with the league. Their observation was, the complex rules are indeed intended to suppress salaries. Furthermore, they said it isn’t just the supporters who are in the dark over how much TAM and GAM each team has. Teams don’t even know the exact numbers for other teams. Only the league office knows, and they make the exact numbers available to no one. And again, no one (other than the league) knows exactly how each team is becoming cap compliant in their use of GAM and TAM.
Just great. Well with that in mind:
My understanding of the MLS Roster Rule is:
If a player earns a penny more than $1,612,500 they are a DP, full stop. There is no discretion to switch their status.
If a player earns between $612,500 and $1,612,500 (call it the TAM-range) you can designated them as a DP or a TAM and switch their designation at any time.
Any player earning more than $612,500 must be designated either DP or TAM-range.
So, if you have the DP slot available, it is advantageous to designate a TAM-range player as DP because their budget charge automatically becomes $612,500 without having used and xAM. If the player in TAM-range is designated as TAM, then there is an obligation to use TAM to buy down their budget number to $612,500 (not optional). So, teams who don’t have 3 players earning more than $1,612,500 will designate TAM-range players as DPs in order to save on using xAM.
In the case of any player DP or TAM-range, it is at the clubs discretion to further buy down their budget number below $612,500.
If the player is a DP, then only GAM can be used to further reduce the budget number, and the lowest it can go is $150,000.
If the player is a TAM-range, then either GAM or TAM can be used if it’s necessary to get cap compliant.
My head hurts.