Dichio to retire immediately - The Footy Blog
booooooo!
Posted in JDG thread as well.
As long as he stays within TFC im ok with it.
but yay to the coaching job.
Ai Ca-rumba!
That's amazing, if true. Danny's immediate retirement frees up cap space for the JDG deal so that he can be added to the squad right away. AND we get to keep Danny in a coaching capacity, which is awesome!
If Danny's happy with this then I'm happy.
Once we have the rest of the CMNT on board and we hit one of those weeks when MLS is in conflict with International dates, we'll be happy to have the big man around regardless of him being a coach, scout....whatever.
we hopeOriginally Posted by DangerRed
That's amazing, if true. Danny's immediate retirement frees up cap space for the JDG deal so that he can be added to the squad right away. AND we get to keep Danny in a coaching capacity, which is awesome!
If you ask me (and I don't have any particular inside info in this matter) I think that the team was putting pressure on Danny weeks ago in some form and he was not happy. And I think the blowup on these boards and in the media (thanks to J-Mol and K-Jack) helped Danny's cause.
Whatever he is getting, it was helped by the media and the fans crying out in support of Danny.
And that is why I never regretted the fact that this board allowed the Danny issue to be discussed to death. It let the FO know what they would be up against if they screwed Danny over. Hopefully he got something good enough to make him happy.
How can one attend these things??
How much room does this clear off of the cap?
Danny was clearly shown the door. The coaching gig is a PR move after the response from supporters over the past couple of weeks. Where are you now, Gerry Dobson? Still think there is nothing to make of the Dichio situation?
Danny's guaranteed 2009 salary is $120,000, same as his base salary.
I don't think it's guaranteed though is it? It's only guaranteed if he starts the season on the roster?
Not saying I understand what is going on here, but this is my request: if TFC are eliminated prior to Oct 17, please sign Danny and put him back in for that one last game.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
Here is the official explanation of what "guaranteed" means:
The documents linked below contain salary information for all MLS players as of the date shown. In the survey, all player salaries are broken down into two numbers. The first is the player's current base salary. The second is characterized as annual average guaranteed compensation. The annual average guaranteed compensation 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, if a player has a base salary of $50,000, has a two-year contract with two one-year options and received a $10,000 bonus when he signed, his average annual guaranteed compensation would be $52,500 (base salary plus signing bonus ($10,000), with the signing bonus divided by the number of years covered by the contract (4)). The average annual guaranteed compensation number also includes any annual marketing bonus to be received in the current year and any agent's fees 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.
WHOA.. that's a lot of assumptions there dude..
maybe that happened, maybe that's what you want to believe happened.
but I haven't seen anything to confirm any of that.
Following this team is feeling awfully similar to following one of my grandma's novelas.
Then his contract would still count against the cap. That means the negotiations would have to include eliminating that guarantee so that it frees up cap room. If that's the case, I hope Danny held firm and demanded that whatever salary he was due in 2010 that it continue in force, just in a management position, and longer than 2010.
I didn't say it was confirmed...I said it was my opinion. I thought that was clear enough?WHOA.. that's a lot of assumptions there dude..
maybe that happened, maybe that's what you want to believe happened.
but I haven't seen anything to confirm any of that.
Mexican or Colombian? LOL!
wow, this fukking sucks
job lined up to go to with another team?
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Anyone else just wanna go to the Caribbean for a few days, and see what has happened with this team when we get back? Christ there's a lot of confusing shit going on.
- Scott
“Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and the corrupt.” ~Christopher Hitchens
That sounds like a plan Scott. Let's get blasted in the Caribbean and forget the madness going on at BMO Field.
you gota be f'in kidding me!!!....they wont use sept 12th...as his last game at the club!????????? Would of been nice to give him a proper send off??? NO?...then again im sure it has to do with bringing in JDG!
Last edited by RPB_RED_NATION_RPB; 09-08-2009 at 04:36 PM.
You know, I still haven't decided. If MO ends up getting lost tomorrow because he had an accident on his way to the presser, loosing his memory, and turning him into a homeless person for 3 years AND then we find out Dichio is actually MO's long lost son (stolen by Carver as a small boy), then I'm going to have to go with Mexican. The Colombian ones are at least funny sometimes...
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