TBH I'll be surprised if he's here past the 3.5 year mark. I'm thinking part of the rationale of giving up this outlier of a contract term is ensuring a future fee if (more likely when) an Italian club tries to bring him home.
Printable View
It's extraordinarily unlikely any team in Europe would pay a fee and come close to matching these wages for a player at that age. Basically impossible, unless he's willing to take a huge, huge pay cut.
For good or for bad, it's likely he'll be here for the 5.5 years of his contact
He will only play for Napoli. I’m not sure who is going to pay a fee for him unless absolutely tearing up the league.
I’m very surprised that the club is committing to players and contracts with severe injury risks considering how dogshit our medical/physio staff has been.
Depends on how Bradley sets us up, I suppose. If we're not pushing the fullbacks up constantly, it probably suits him. He's always been seen as more of a pure fullback than a wingback.
Expect we'll see more of him centrally though unless we sign some more defenders imminently, maybe in a three-man line.
Auro's a good wingback, we're not lost for quality there. To me, he's better wide than inside.
But losing Richie is always going to be a negative; dude raises havoc.
Without trying to go overboard with assumptions at this point, I'd want to see something like:
-----------(DP striker)----------
------Insigne------Pozuelo------
--Osorio---Bradley---Delgado--
Lawrence-Mavinga-O'Neill-Auro
-----------Westberg------------
Basically, what we have after Soteldo, Jozy, and Laryea presumably leave. Could look very different come March.
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/MattDavies_NP/status/1478790559561134080
Richie apparently arriving in the UK in the next 24 hours.
The GAM we might be about to get from transfering Richie to Forest could come in handy when it comes to getting a guy like Salcedo.
It'll be good for Canada at least. The Championships is a high level league imo. Should help his game.
Broke ass Sao Paulo still begging for Soteldo.
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/somosaopaulinos/status/1478810019802009601?s=20
This gets more problematic the closer we get to July. If he's not gone by then we have two DPs playing the same position.
So they have to get Soteldo off the books.
I think he might wind up being the buyout, insane as that sounds given his relative market value. Teams in SA aren't going to pay $6M for a five goal, ten assist guy, even with his pedigree. And they can't afford to pick up his salary, so just loaning him makes no sense.
Bradley and Altidore worked well together on the Nats, or he was productive at least.
But then they have to sell the board on eating a loss in the region of $12M, which is what his fee plus three years of remaining salary roughly add up to.
Welcome back Jeremy
Thanks for engaging.:D I did go into the weeds with the tiered assumptions. No real issue with your 'au courant' selection. Would have enjoyed seeing the 4231 with Laryea though, on the wing running havoc for a PK by Insigne or Criscito. Was a real find by TFC- Vanney? A great reclamation and reboot project. He has done the hard work and deserves his shot overseas; but boy do I wish he would have stayed to help us to the Championships.
Totally.
I was in San Jose in 2020 and Richie scored. This woman in the supporters end started jumping around yelling “that’s my husband”. Sitting / standing right with us! Down to earth and real. Like her husband. Good for him; Forest are a club with a great history. And wear red.
I believe it depends on whether he wants/is willing to rip up the old contract. He's on $1.9M. Let's say Sao Paulo only wants to pay him say $1M. Soteldo is entitled to the 1.9, so he can say I want the 1.9, in which case we'd have to cover the 900k, or we could say we're not paying you not to play for us so we're not going to sell you to them. Then he could say, I'll waive the extra 900k and "renegotiate" and take their $1M as my new contract value, ending our obligation. If he really wants out, he could be willing to take less. It's basically the opposite of a player getting a raise when they transfer, but the same thing (old contract ripped up, new one takes effect)
How times have changed since Mo Johnston went on a vacation to Brazil, came back babbling about some random player he saw (Dentinho I think). And everyone laughed because MLS had barely paid any transfer fees at that point and the players he said he wanted would have easily cost more than 5 million euros.