2021/2022 International Duty
- Thread starter LionNYC
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We're selling Chanot?
He should have played eSports.
Isn’t that the fault of MLS?
Ultimately yea.
good to see him getting match fitness! love that they are leading against portugal.
shame he's no longer captain (as far as i can see)
Chanot receives 2nd yellow in 86’.
Not MLS' fault at all. There are laws in this country that prevent a child below a certain age from signing a professional sports contract. MLS/NYCFC never had a chance to sign him because Claudio believed that signing a contract with MLS would make Gio less attractive to an acquiring team and limit his choices. Without a signed pro contract, he was free to sign anywhere he wanted for, well, free.
Notice that Claudio left (December '19) almost immediately after Gio signed with Dortmund (July '19). It was obviously in the works before, but he had to wait until the season ended.
I can't blame Claudio for putting the needs of his son ahead of the needs of the club, but I certainly blame NYCFC for allowing him to do so.
if you were Gio, would you have signed with NYCFC or Dortmund?
I would have taken whatever money NYCFC was offering (probably $200k), put it in my pocket, and been off to Dortmund when they came calling. I would have ended up in the exact same place with a little extra money in my pocket. Given his talent, it's silly to think the market for his transfer would have been diminished at all by a transfer fee.
That would have been poor business under the current CBA rules for homegrown talent. That would have meant no Sands Haak Gray Scally.
Why is that? He would have been signed and sold over a few week period.
Why would he do that to his new team?
Why did Scally sign his homegrown? I get that we won't see eye to eye on this -- but either way it seems very unlikely that Claudio acted in the best interest of his employer, which gets us back to our original disagreement on the term "conflict of interest".
