^Have fun!
^Have fun!
Orlando say they have no transfer deal on Larin. They are suing to stop it.
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
Looks like the Tic tac will be get another TFC academy player.
From Totera:
Sources confirm to me seconds ago that Canadian Micheal Petrasso on the verge of coming to MLS with possible target destination👉Montreal
Larin suing MLS over contract issue. Idiot
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
Not sure how he's an Idiot. Castillo and Camilo did the same thing without repercussion. I'm not sure how this is different. Orlando are just fighting this to save face about the fact they could have gotten anywhere up to a rumored 10 million euros for him a year ago, only to now inevitably giving him away for free.
Caps ended up getting a 'couple of million' in transfer fee for Camilo. Castillo was under contract ('legit' one) when he tried to force a move to Turkey mid season. Dallas ended up getting like 4 mil in transfer fee anyways. In either case, I'd be very surprised if both of them end up playing again in MLS, though I hear Castillo might come back after his Turkey stint turned up bad.
Larin signed a contract knowing the clauses. FIFA has ruled mostly in favour of the player in case of unilateral contract options, but not in all cases. And in MLS's eyes, US labour law trumps FIFA and should be interesting if FIFA is willing to go to war with USSF and MLS over Larin.
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
Not sure who lawyered up first but Orlando was moving on regardless. Neither side really wants this to go to court. This will get settled, a fee will get paid.
My questions are:
Will Larin get better over there?
Will Larin play better for the NT because of this?
the fee for Camilo was undisclosed. The Whitecaps can sooth their fans worries by telling them they got millions out of it but if they did there would be no reason not to disclose the fee.
Castillo may have been technically different but it was the same in practice. The Club didn't sell him when he wanted to, forcing Castillo's hand and pushing him to go to Europe on his own and take matters into his own hands. Dallas didn't want to turn over his player card, dragging the whole thing out until finally they got a very reduced price for him. The player and his intended club have all the leverage in these situations. They can refuse to play for you, and you can withhold their playing card in return until as long as you want but all it does is reduce their value and leaves your team worse for wear.
This is 100% about saving face for Orlando and the league. These transfer rule changes can't come soon enough. Will make instances such as these a much less common occurrence in this league.
^ this is it. From a business perceptive, the tactic appears to work, regardless of what sort of fairy tales MLS wants to sell people on.
Fredy Montero has been transferred back to Sporting Clubs de Portugal
Union just went from not good to not good in the near future.
Fire though get rid of a problem and get a lot of dough to spend on somebody who can work with others.
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/PaulTenorio/status/954417121164963840
Columbus working on $ to spend in Austin.
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/kbaxter11/status/954511292265463809
So Atlanta officially signs Barco. Im confused, on wiki it says they have 4 DPS... Barco, Villalba, Almiron, and Martinez. How does this work?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlant...Current_roster
You have until the start of the season to become roster compliant, so the 4 DPs is fine, as long as they have 3 by season start time (as others have mentioned they will buy down one with TAM).
We've had 4 DPs times at once twice.
1) Laba, Defoe, Bradley, Gilberto (traded Laba to Vancouver to be roster compliant)
2) Altidore, Bradley, Giovinco, Gilberto (sent Gilberto on loan to Brazil)
Technically, there were two other times we had 4 DPs
3) Altidore, Bradley, Giovinco, Giberto (when Gilberto returned from loan, we immediately waived him to be roster compliant and the Fire picked him up)
4) Altidore, Bradley, Giovinco, Vasquez (signed Vasquez and immediately TAM'd him down to non DP),
So Adam Braz said the Impact are about to sell Tabla this morning.
Now Steven Goff is reporting he's off to Barcelona. He'll go their B team more than likely but that's a hell of a move.
Wow, that’s stunning. Fingers crossed Canada can hold onto him, although attitude already appears to be a bit of an issue.
Lee Nguyen holding out for a transfer - did not report.
^^holy smokes, great for Tabla. Kinda figure he will opt to play for the Ivory Coast though...to bad Oz couldn't get him cap tied...
Tabla to Barca confirmed:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/ballo...league-soccer/
Anyone want to wager a guess on how much they got for him?
Yeah, if it was a big fee, the league would be crowing about it on all channels.
Details just came out reportedly in the millions. I stand corrected. Often though smaller teams will let young players (18-19 years old) leave for a relative pittance to establish themselves as a pipeline to bigger clubs and will leave most of the rest of the income from the player to bonuses (goals, appearances, etc) and sell-on clauses.