Aaa...memories
My current theory is that Pozuelo was fine waiting, his agent wasn't and saw the dollar signs. Only way I can kind of reconcile his 180 on the position he took when he rejected Al-Ahli's 3 million euro offer.
On another lighter note, isn't it amazing that in the year 2019, with AI & robots supposedly about to take over, that Google Translate & most other automatic translations are still such crap?
The one posted two pages back just left "neimand" untranslated, w/o thinking I realized from German that it means "nobody."
So much fear that MLSE might lose money, lol.
It's clear that most people here have never been part of negotiations, and that everything, including legally binding contracts can be negotiated away.
In case people don't remember, TFC had a certain Italian player with one year left on his contract. A middle eastern team engaged in tampering and made him an offer that they couldn't legally do. It all got worked out, money changed hands, everyone is ok. It's no different with Belgian teams. People posture, they give their legal positions. A deal gets worked out.
Molinaro and Davidson are both at BMO Field today, is there some sort of announcement/presser happening today?
Pozuelo and Menendez would add some much needed creativity for us up front. Hopefully they both get finalized shortly.
Menendez's stats are pretty crappy. Hope he's not a TAM guy.
2020 Away Days: San Jose (Feb 29)
2019 Away Days: Philadelphia (March 2), Montreal (July 13, September 18), New York City (October 23), Atlanta (October 30), Seattle MLS CUP (November 10)
2018 Away Days: Monterrey MX (March 13), Mexico City (April 10), Guadalajara MX (April 25), Montreal (Oct 21)
2017 Away Days: Salt Lake City, Philly, LA, ATL, NJ, Columbus
Would work out that way if we buy him because of the $3.5M transfer. I'm not fan of how MLS amortizes transfer fees but it is what it is.
And yes, his stats aren't awesome but like I said earlier I don't judge until the play here. I laughed when NYRB signed BWP because he was overpriced League One shite and look how that worked out.
So this is your understanding of business life....
Here's mine:
This is a big story with potential career implications for those involved.
It is not good for Manning or TFC or anybody if Manning presented a player to his bosses/board that he said he could get for 25M euros total, and it turns out you may not get him unless it's 30M (guessing at these numbers, the point is the inability to deliver). This is not how board approval for player acquisition works anywhere. You are asking for approval of a specific deal. Going back a second time for more looks like you didn’t know what you were doing, and wastes people's time.
If it's just a mistake that money fixes, that is bad, but people involved can get past it. Depends on the quantum. If legal exposure has been created, this is way worse.
Last edited by ensco; 02-11-2019 at 02:06 PM.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
As this is not my background, could Manning/Curtis expose MLSE to a legal obligation without the approval first of the board or them even knowing about it? I can't see him even having authority without the board's approval for something of this nature? On the matter of the world football market beyond the names everyone knows would they board even have a clue if said player makes sense, is it a good deal?
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His last season wasn’t very good, but the year before had 9 goals and 2 assists in 21 games. For a winger, that is pretty good. From what info I have gotten from a couple of people who watch Argentinian football religiously is that he isn’t the great crosser/passer, but his pace and dribbling is very good, and can finish. If he is on a full season loan like someone said above, he will be a very interesting player to watch.
All executive authority in any corporation derives from the board. For many things a board delegates their authority, but can reserve their authority for others. It's been said publicly before that any TFC DPs need to be specifically approved by the MLSE board. There can be no legal liability unless the MLSE board signs on. As well as that, given that all of the teams are legally divisions of a corporation (MLS LLC), league FO approval is also needed before any deal is binding. So Manning and Co can't get TFC in legal liability without a deal being reviewed.