It's life of contract. Paul Tenerio confirmed this with league officials.
2019 Roster Discussion
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I still think it's weird that the teams take a cap hit for a transfer fee when the league is the entity which actually owns the contract.
Interesting take.
To me, it makes sense - as a proxy for quality of player, counting it against the cap fulfills the purpose of keeping parity. Counting it against the cap also fulfills the purpose of making sure teams don't spend beyond their means.
You take a cap hit for regular salary on every standard issue under-cap, non-DP/GAM/TAM domestic player and the league owns those contracts in full. There's a cap hit for everything, unless it is DP above the max.
BUT: I think one benefit to paying fees in excess of the cap is that if you later sell the player, the reimbursement for the purchase fee comes first, before the league takes it's cut and then parcels out some portion to the club as GAM, or development funds, etc.
Medina is likely on a (2+1+1) 4 year deal. I would speculate that means the transfer fee is spread over the first two nonoption years which means that he is TAMable next season not this season. I believeLionNYC got confirmation of this from Claudio Reyna.
Yeah, Reyna told me that Medina could be bought down the DP line in the final year of his contract. [Who know's if that's actually true, or what the DP line will be when he gets to the final year of his contract...]
The real person I want to speak to is David Lee who is our MLS budget guy. I spend all my Cityzens points to talk with him off the record for an hour.
This goes to something we spoke about last off-season regarding Young DPs as a strategy.
Most of us weren’t happy with the Medina signing. Most of us still aren’t happy. But we mostly agreed that if there was a mechanism whereby these guys could be bought down below the DP threshold post transfer fee amortization, this could be a significant step forward.
The problem is that you have to buy the right players.
Seems like a depth piece, would be surprised to see him even make the 18 most nights. 23 appearances in 3 years; he'll only make the 18 when we're forced into squad rotation. Replacement for Awuah.
an orlando player? why? team was trash past two seasons
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Don't recall ever watching this guy play with Orlando, but here's a quick sketch of his stats:
- Primarily left-sided mid. Played as a DM, CM, and LW.
- Only 881 minutes last year but had an expected compensation of $129k on a $68k minimum salary.
- Good passer who beat ASA's xPass model by 5%. Medium volume and distance, high accuracy.
- Expected assist rate wasn't bad for Orlando. Pretty much never shoots.
- Decent defensive action rate, defends high, tackles pretty well.
- Biggest negative in his stats is a high turnover rate.
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How do you end up being a better than expected passer but have a high turnover rate? Does that translate to getting caught on the ball often?
Yeah I should have clarified. Those turnovers are bad touches and dispossessions, so he's a little loose on the ball.
No worries. Thanks for clarifying. I figured there might be a glossary at ASA but I found only what I think is an old one: https://americansocceranalysis.wordpress.com/glossary/
Wow I've never seen the old Wordpress ASA. Now I'm going to spend all day digging for stuff to embarrass Harrison and Matthias.
Gonna have to dig out my Aztex scarf.
We are going to suck. Hard.
Players and coach aren’t nearly good enough.
Hope I’m wrong. But if I am, it will be because we change course entirely from this shit show of management and roster construction.
This asshat will probably knock in a banger when we’re down 17 midway through the second half in Harrison, and our shit for brains FO will extend him 4 years @ $429k.
Players and coach aren’t nearly good enough.
Hope I’m wrong. But if I am, it will be because we change course entirely from this shit show of management and roster construction.
This asshat will probably knock in a banger when we’re down 17 midway through the second half in Harrison, and our shit for brains FO will extend him 4 years @ $429k.
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