http://www.nycfc.com/post/2014/12/08/omar-salgado-trade-and-transfer
He's from the Whitecaps. Busy little bees.
He's from the Whitecaps. Busy little bees.
Nycfc Trade For Omar Salgado
- Thread starter Drainyoo
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Even though I don't see it as a big deal one way or another, it does seem to me this transaction is just more ammo for the anti-MLS types who criticize the league for its Calvin Ball approach towards rules.
Why have a specific transfer rule in place and then allow an easy avenue to open up for a team to not only get around it, but not even bother to keep it a secret?
Why have a specific transfer rule in place and then allow an easy avenue to open up for a team to not only get around it, but not even bother to keep it a secret?
Maybe the rule is to prevent teams from transferring outside of MLS before the expansion teams get a crack at them? So by doing it this way, at least NYC is involved? Who knows?
Unless I'm misreading it, I believe that's exactly why the rule is in place. But what it seems to have come down to is Vancouver got to transfer him out before they had to make the decision to protect or expose him in the draft.
i know im new to MLS but dang, there are so many rules that it gets confuising
Largely. The Whitecaps can't sell players at the current time so they traded him to NYCFC, who will do the selling for them. Presumably we split the transfer fee, and there's suggestions of the Whitecaps receiving immunity from us in the draft too. But yeah, basically we get cash.
I don't understand the logic to this. I mean I know the club, any club, is always looking for income, but aren't we expecting that NYCFC will have more cash than it can legally spend on players? Cut the part of the deal where [it is rumored] that we forego taking any players then it makes sense. We're basically getting cash for nothing, in what would on the face of it seem like a Nigerian email scam ("I have a player of value I want to sell, but cannot get move my money across international lines"). But if in return we agree to take no Whitecaps, well, it only makes sense if we had already decided there was nothing remotely appealing on the Whitecaps roster. Which might be the case. I freely admit little knowledge of MLS players at this point.
Well NYCFC is a sports team obviously, but we are also a business. I don't think there is such a thing as getting too much money, if we have the opportunity to get some extra cash without losing anything, I don't have an issue with us doing it. Especially with the CBA negotiations going on and our amount of money we are allowed to spend set to inevitably go up.
1 - Vancouver wants to sell Selgado
2- With transfer window shut Vancouver cannot sell
3-as an expansion team, NYCFC can sell
4-Vancouver trades Selgado to NYCFC, tells them they already has a buyer.
4a- NYCFC decides they don't need a young potential headache/striker
5- NYC agrees to sell Selgado and splits transfer fee with Vancouver
6- Everyone is happy.
2- With transfer window shut Vancouver cannot sell
3-as an expansion team, NYCFC can sell
4-Vancouver trades Selgado to NYCFC, tells them they already has a buyer.
4a- NYCFC decides they don't need a young potential headache/striker
5- NYC agrees to sell Selgado and splits transfer fee with Vancouver
6- Everyone is happy.
