This hurts my heart. Over a million of cap space wasted. That doesn't even include Williams or a couple others like Calle who have barely played
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This hurts my heart. Over a million of cap space wasted. That doesn't even include Williams or a couple others like Calle who have barely played
You may have accounted for this already, but Mix would have been paid down to the DP threshold. According to MLS rules, you simply can't have a contract count for more than the DP limit - that's the senior salary maximum charge.
I have to say that I don't agree that Jacobsen has been wasted cap space. He's been one of our best eleven - absolutely.
And like it or not, Wingert has been one of our three best defenders all year. I know people here don't rate him at all. I get it - he's a very limited player. But this team would have been much, much worse this year without him. Every minute Wingert played at CB was one Kwame didn't play.
Jacobson and Brovsky are good contracts. We've gotten good value out of the both of them.
Of course but we don't have the number on what his cap hit is. So this is just showing how much allocation money we needed to have to get down to the salary cap. I can't account for the variables that we don't know.
Right - just making the point that his cap hit can't possibly be more than 436,250.00. Carry on.
Pirlo and Lampard actually should only count as half DPs:
http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/roster-rules-and-regulations
So since they'll be coming onto the books for the full number next year, we'll have to cut enough wages (or pay down) for 1 full DP, the remainder of Iraola's salary, and the remainder of Mena's salary. If you assume their wages here were accurate, that looks to me like around 850k. If the numbers for Andoni and Jefferson are their full year salaries, then you're looking at only 450k that has to come off the books.
We also may need to buy down Mix's salary again next year, assuming we didn't buy it down for the entirety of the contract already. I'm guessing we can use some TAM for that, assuming we didn't just give all (or any) of it to LA for the extra international spot.
This is all for a club with few tradeable assets outside of draft picks.
Crazy.
Good call!
UPDATED: Mix still at full salary because we don't know how much was used to buy down his salary. Leaves us at an reasonable number over the cap at $682k we began the season with $800k then made some trades to acquire and traded away some allocation so I would assume we probably are roughly $100k below the cap.
Mix 750,000.00
Villa 436,250.00
Lampard 218,125.00
Pirlo 218,125.00
Nemec 332,500.00
Calle 225,750.00
Grabavoy 215,000.00
Wingert 215,000.00
Iraola 200,004.00
Mena 200,000.00
Hernandez 185,000.00
Jacobson 150,000.00
Brovsky 129,125.00
Williams 125,000.00
Facey 120,000.00
Mullins 110,000.00
Saunders 90,000.00
Shelton 87,500.00
Watson-Siriboe 81,666.67
Ballouchy 83,250.00
Cap Hit Without Adjustment 4,172,295.67
2015 Salary Cap 3,490,000.00
Difference (682,295.67)
The fact that Nemec is 210k more than Saunders is borderline criminal
Poku should see a nice raise next year if he can turn in some solid performances to build off the flashes of greatness we have seen
You keep this up and I'll be having to apologize to you again, soon.
In some ways I understand why the MLS wants to control salaries, and I also get why they're trying for a bit of parity among the teams, but on the other hand there are a lot of ways this hurts the league.
Take Mix for example. If he finishes this year strongly once he comes back to us from the national team and then also has a great next year too, what incentive does he have to stay with us at "only" $750,000? He could be a bargain for any EPL team even if he tripled his salary.
Another way we fall down when compared to the EPL is the prize money. Even the lowest Premier League team got almost £65 million for this past season (a huge incentive for not getting relegated, by the way). Our total salary expenditure could be covered 10x over and we'd still have some left over for a downpayment on a stadium.
My point with all this is that it's hard for me to see a way for our league to compete with other leagues for top talent and the best players. Yes, we have three DPs but what about the other 25 players? Even with a 4th half-DP we're still nowhere near what any random EPL team can do to go after new players.
Just look at the Delph deal, for example. Something like £4 million a year for five years.
Source (prize money): http://www.totalsportek.com/football/premier-league-prize-money-table-2015/
Take Mix for example. If he finishes this year strongly once he comes back to us from the national team and then also has a great next year too, what incentive does he have to stay with us at "only" $750,000? He could be a bargain for any EPL team even if he tripled his salary.
Another way we fall down when compared to the EPL is the prize money. Even the lowest Premier League team got almost £65 million for this past season (a huge incentive for not getting relegated, by the way). Our total salary expenditure could be covered 10x over and we'd still have some left over for a downpayment on a stadium.
My point with all this is that it's hard for me to see a way for our league to compete with other leagues for top talent and the best players. Yes, we have three DPs but what about the other 25 players? Even with a 4th half-DP we're still nowhere near what any random EPL team can do to go after new players.
Just look at the Delph deal, for example. Something like £4 million a year for five years.
Source (prize money): http://www.totalsportek.com/football/premier-league-prize-money-table-2015/
Is it possible that Mena is as good as Iraola?
(And yes I'm aware that Nemec by the $s would be 50% better than either one of them.)
(And yes I'm aware that Nemec by the $s would be 50% better than either one of them.)
Depends on if you think a sustainable domestic league is important. To me, it is.
The EPL already exists. Why are people obsessed with us competing with them when our league is in its toddler stages at best? Hell, 10 years ago, MLS was contracting. Everyone slow your roll. We have one of the best leagues dollar for dollar in the world, and no caveats, one of the best attended leagues in the world.
I don't understand why people are so insecure in admitting our league is pretty damn good. It is. You don't have to justify it or your fandom tona single motherucker but yourself. And if you can't do that now, you never will.
I wonder how many teams cheat.
I heard today on the radio that the LAG are paying for Gerrard's home.
Could we pay for Iraola's?
I heard today on the radio that the LAG are paying for Gerrard's home.
Could we pay for Iraola's?
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