Oh! My mistake then gents.
Kreis Says Wingert To Stay
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Would Jacobson also qualify (if out of contract)? I haven't read the actual CBA, just a summary from the players union, but to clarify what others have already pointed out:
For the first time in MLS history, out of contract players and players whose options are declined can choose where to play within MLS. Players who are 28 years old with at least 8 years of MLS service and are below the max salary will be able to freely choose their team [...]
Jaconbson had a year at DC United (2009), year with the Union (2010), three and a half years with Dallas (2011-2014), and was traded mid-season 2014 to NYCFC who then loaned him to Stabæk IF in Tippeligaen until he returned to NYCFC (2015). He's 30 years old.
He doesn't have 8 years of experience even if you include the loan half year as a full year.
Never call a soccer player bad, especially if he is actually bad and you're trying to trade him for someone good.
Also we can only cut one player with a guaranteed contract this off season because of MLS rules. Anything else we do is going to have to be the results of trades. Looking at the salary list we can see the following.
1. Calle has the highest cap impact of all non DP players.
1a. Calle has done dick all for the team the entire season. On the bright side his contract is structured as a loan with a buyout clause; so we can get rid of him without using up our singular buyout.
2. Iraola was paid $200,004 for the half season. I'm on the fence about him. On one hand he was not that good. On the other hand he just came off of playing an entire season and summer MLS transfers from European leagues have never worked out well. The sole exception to that rule is Didier Drogba.
2a. I think we wind up keeping Iraola, he still has the legs to be mostly be an attacking back and do defensive duties at the same time. Well that and he's experienced and good enough to teach the young backs how to do their damn jobs properly.
3. Grabavoy and Wingert are paid equally in terms of the salary cap at $215,000. So these two guys are the ones we are looking to ax. If we can't trade them or if their contracts are not expiring.
The entire problem with this league is that its hard to really replace a team nearly wholesale in the manner that we would like. There is very limited free agency which means that mostly we have to work with trades and drafting.
The problem with trades and drafting is that to start with we mostly got everyone else's rejects and cast offs in the MLS super draft. Remember teams are allowed to protect 11 players, their starting 11. So the people we received from that draft are rotational players on other teams. This means RSL thought neither Grabavoy nor Wingert were worth protecting.
Another complication to that is that this year Orlando entered the MLS with us, that fact further diluted the quality of the allocation process.
Yes MLS gives a lot of allocation money to new teams, but that is supposed to be spent to help alleviate the inherent draft shittyness. What that allocation money does not do is give you any depth. I have a feeling we are going to be a relatively thin team for the next few years.
The inherent structure of MLS favors teams that are both old enough to have gone through multiple college drafts and have their academies up and producing first team players. Now that we are through the first season I think that the hardest part is behind us, but we need to remember that next year getting into the playoffs means displacing a good team that has had time to build their system.
We need to knock one of the following teams out of the playoffs. And it doesn't look that easy.
NYRB
Columbus Crew
Montreal Impact
DC United
NE Revolution
Toronto
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We can only cut one, but some guys are bound to have expiring contracts too, so we can just tell the league to send them to the allocation draft because we don't want them. If we were smart, we mainly took guys with expiring contracts in the expansion draft, but somehow I doubt that we were smart.
I think Iraloa is going to be a good player for us next season.
If it's either Grabavoy or Wingert, i'd get rid of Grabavoy.
All I really want to know about this is what Iraola did with that $4.
He gave 4Loko a try.
I do. I do.
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Lets here it then...
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