I don't like giving up Priso. No siree Bob
I don't like giving up Priso. No siree Bob
It really doesn’t help that MB has been much better this season than the last two. More consistent, beaten less often, left behind less often. He’s started from deep most of the time and not having to track back has limited his exposure.
So all his father sees is the player he created getting two tackles a game and working hard for 90 mins.
But Priso is already a better defender than Michael at 19. Michael was never a defensive specialist in Europe, he was a number eight.
Hopefully I’m freaking out over nothing and this one doesn’t happen.
Transfermarkt is starting to become reasonably respected for its valuations, and they have Priso at $1.1M already, above what Colorado paid for MAK. So value for value it might not be seen as far off.
Priso’s upside isn’t being accounted for in that equation, as he’s 19.
Maybe I’m wrong here but the story I heard was he looked around, saw the limited opportunities youth players were getting and went to management and said “play me (with the first team) or cut me loose”
He’s referenced in certain interviews some others in his cohort played nice and ended up nowhere. Seems to credit looking after his own interests for the fact he has a career.
Have to say it’s hard to argue with it. If you told me my chances on making it depended on Greg Vanney, I’d have skipped town too.
But that’s only relevant if they have offers to buy him, and at that value, from outside MLS.
The point is that Priso would recoup their actual outlay. If they’re not as high on Kaye as his transfer value indicates, and they’re not getting offers, they at least get their value back, and they get a 19 year old.
By the time he’s Kaye’s age (27), Ralph will likely be worth a hell of a lot more than $5M.
It’s certainly not cut and dried as imbalanced.
That’s most definitely not what I heard, from multiple sources who are pretty well tapped in at TFC. He was let go because he was very high on his ability and not very high on listening to coaches. He has also commented on that himself, saying he lacked the maturity to make it when he was still with TFC.
I don't know why Bob doesn't seem to rate Priso. Maybe he read the boards when we collectively cheered when Perez started him over his son?
Tfc played MAK at left back while he was here.
Enough said.
I think that’s true of multiple kids who’ve gone through our academy. We were very, very poor at recognizing potential. We told Alistair Johnson he was “too small” to be a footballer at an open tryouts, if I recall, as if a teenager’s size at 14 has ANY role in his potential. He could be six inches taller a year later, for pity’s sake.
I mean, just look at the relative success of Sigma’s kids over the same period and it’s clear the best prospects often just bypassed us.
I'll save my getting upset for when we get confirmation from someone besides The Fired Up Network.
This Priso deal (cynically) reminds me of when the leafs traded away Kenny Johnsson to get an old and nearly broken Wendal Clark back. Not the same, but has the same feel for me.
Well, everyone’s got their angle I guess.
Here’s an article from the athletic that taps into some of what I referenced:
https://theathletic.com/964445/2019/...-canada/?amp=1
“I don’t know. I might bite my words in the future, but I don’t really care because when you give everything you have to your home team, you expect a little bit back. And I’ve seen it happen with my friends who have signed with the first team and not get any playing time. I don’t want to be in a situation like that. “
“at the end of the day I’m doing well in the league and I don’t think they’ve had a youth player come in and do anything that I’ve done other than (Jonathan Osorio), but Oso never played in the academy.”
I think we can see that attitude reflected in many of the kids who are here or even left recently. Remember the fallout from Ayo congratulating Dunn (? maybe someone else) for his move to Europe? Young players have an incredibly short window before they start getting overlooked for transfers. These guys watched Liam Fraser, Jordan Hamilton, and all the other guys that had to leave to even get a shot. And so far the successful side of the scale is not tipped toward those who stayed IMO.
Hopefully we get a fee for Salcedo that we can turn into GAM to help find another defender.
How that GAM/TAM gets spent could be the make or break for whether this rebuild works. We can spend whatever we want on 3 players and it makes no difference. I just hope we set our sights on a couple complimentary backend players who limit mistakes. Those guys don't need to be home runs, but they have to be able to defend so the guys up top can do their job.
Since Salcedo is a DP we can't convert his transfer fee into GAM.
noxx98 is correct. Here is the exact language from the MLS Roster Rules:
"The club's share of transfer or loan fee revenue may only be used as follows: The club may assign up to $1,102,5000 of the transfer/loan revenue as General Allocation Money. In the case of Designated Players, transfer/loan revenue may not be assigned as General Allocation Money."