2023 Roster and Transfer Discussion Thread
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Is it common for sporting directors to go to the country of a player rather than have the player come to them?
Santiago Rodríguez deja el fútbol uruguayo y firma contrato por cinco años con New York City
El delantero, que en su vuelta a Uruguay jugó un solo partido con Montevideo City Torque, regresa a la MLS de Estados Unidos.espndeportes.espn.com
Lots of stuff in here about Santi returning, throw it through translate if you need. 5 year contract, Lee apparently was in Montevideo twice to negotiate.
I have no idea but the whole thing is bizarre considering he's been on the team for the last 2 years. Was this a last-second change of plans after so many others departed? Why wasn't this all worked out over the summer or toward the end of last year when he was still with the team? The timing and pace that our front office moves is just perplexing at times.
seems to me that things have changed since callens and johnson left. there's more money to go around and there's a chance other prospects they were looking at didn't pan out either. so now they can go to santi with a different proposal.
if that spanish site news is correct, then we're just waiting on documents, which is out of the club's hands. i just hope santi is training!
probably the length of contract. normally nycfc gives out what 2-3 years at most in contracts. Santi probably wanted longer deal ( job security? )and why there was hesitation on nycfc part at first.
I would guess that Santi and/or his representatives, knowing that the team would see a lot of turnover at the end of the season, were playing a long game looking for the best possible deal. So he was not in a hurry. And there's a chance NYCFC wasn't either, since the start of the season is pretty meaningless from a pragmatic perspective.
I have no idea how it is in other SA countries, and what levers NYCFC may have at hand, but at least in Peru, the permanent native chaos plus backlog because of COVID plus chaos at the State Dept during Trump's gov has put the wait to get a Visa interview at 2 years. No kidding.
There also were reports several weeks back that Santi was hoping to go somewhere besides Torque or NYCFC but the interest was not as high as he hoped. NYCFC had to wait for that to play out. Sometimes the club doesn't control the direction or timing.
This is a good point, it's possible Santi believed his value was higher than it actually was. If that was the case good move by the club to let him test the market as opposed to getting stuck in negotiations with Santi and his team demanding more than he's actually worth.
I think there's something to this.
Relatedly, MLS is not the only league to incentivize this sort of manipulation. Currently the NHL Rangers are waiting to trade for Patrick Kane from the Blackhawks, but the deal has been on hold for about 10 days while the Rangers wait out his cap hit dropping to a manageable number and they move a bunch of players around and put some on temporary waivers to make it work. Rangers fans are going crazy waiting for it to be official and there is some reason to expect it gets announced tonight after 5pm. There have been last minute complications because most of the players being moved around temporarily are defensemen and one of the team's regular defensemen is facing suspension for (probably accidentally) spitting on an opposing player on Sunday, rendering him unavailable but of course counting against the cap. It's kind of laughable. Also Kane has let it be known he won't accept a trade to anyone but the Rangers so the Blackhawks have no other options. Oh, and the trade deadline is some time on Friday this week.
So it's looking likely that Keaton and Santi are going to be (assuming neither drops quality or forces a move or something) part of the core going into our new stadium? I
we need a destroyer. not sure morales can stay healthy enough to take us into our new stadium. haak is not living up to expectations (imo) so far. if Sands comes back, we'll have one of the best midfields in the league, i think.
Morales is likely too old to get to 2027. And yes, we do need a strong #6. Most important position on the field if you ask me.
Hot take: Not a single player currently on this current roster will take the field in our new stadium wearing an NYCFC kit. At least one player on our current roster will take the field in our new stadium while not wearing an NYCFC kit.
Would you make the same wager now, including anyone signed through the end of the summer transfer window? (meaning the assumption we sign some big named, multi-year signing.)
I actually worded it specifically to not include any players joining later in the season. But for you buddy I’ll wager a kosher pastrami & corned beef sandwich on rye + Dr browns black cherry, brought to a game at the new stadium by the loser. And include your new terms. Deal?
i will currently take the current deal with the current stipulations
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