Matarrita to Dortmund?
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Sad for us. Happy for him. Now we have a lot of work to securing our back line. But now we also can be considered a stage for emerging players to make their way to large European clubs. Let's hope that helps us attract more young talent.
False Alarm?
Agreed. Proving a path to big time clubs, other than MC, is a positive for us. Until we are a super club ourselves of course!
what exactly changed his mind in like 15 min difference between first and second tweet
Great post and the appropriate way to look at it.
If we can get one Matarrita, let's go find a bunch more. These players are out there in Central and South America. Go find the next Joel Campbell now
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This Glenn Crooks guy is a bad, bad reporter. I wouldn't trust him if he said it was a sunny day outside. How about he tries to confirm something before blindly putting it out? Brutal.
lol top notch reporting.
He decided to ask someone who might know
There would obviously be a transfer fee. For the purposes of rounding, say it's $10M. How much of that money is allocated to NYCFC by amount in the form (GAM, TAM, cash, etc.)? What are its restrictions? What happens if we don't get 100% of his contract? What happens if we do?
I don't think he would consider himself a reporter.
Because Matarrita only has one year of MLS service, we only get 1/3 of the transfer fee. The maximum GAM is $650k from a transfer out. So as long as we get $1.95 million for him, we max out on GAM, with the other $1.3 million going to the league.
If he sells for more than that, and should, then we will get more money than $650k in GAM which must be spent in accordance with the following:
http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/roster-rules-and-regulations
A few things.
First, the sliding scale based on years of service only applies to Generation Adidas players taken in the Superdraft. So, we get the full 2/3 of the fee.
Second, what we get 2/3 of is not the total transfer price, but the price net of the amount shared with his former club (the split is 50-50).
Third, as NYCFCfan rightly points out above, the money we spent to acquire our 50% interest in Matarrita is not netted against the transfer fee when determining the 2/3 vs. 1/3 split, but it also does not reduce the amount we can take in GAM - which is up to $650,000 of what we receive.
So, taking your example. If the transfer fee is $1.95 million, we split that 50-50 with Alajuelense, which leaves $975,000. We then give the league 1/3 of that amount, or $325,000. We can use the rest ($650,000) as GAM, with the club eating the $325,000 it paid for him.
I think that's basically correct, but it certainly is confusing.
