Sure, but go read my analysis of transferring a drafted player in the General MLS forum. They can replace a guy for one year but hen the GAM runs out and the team can sustain the quality.
Too late.......most soccer fans already find them revolting.......
MLS takes a chunk but club still gets the most of the money. Just gets only a certain amount of it in allocation dollars.
he makes 6mm. not happening without giving him a DP spot.
Could re-negotiate the contract so it's structured like:
But what about the impending Lampard extension?
Serious question, is that a joke or do you really expect it? I kind of figure that he and the club agreed to wait for his health meter to fill all the way, and now he plans to hold down R2 for the rest of the year before hanging it up.
Just because he currently makes $6M doesn't mean that's his going rate if no other teams are offering it. He's damaged goods, and as such may have to suck it up with a lower-valued contract to guarantee starting minutes on a stage where he can reignite his career. Even at $2M/year he's still a DP since we don't have enough Garber$ to pay it down over multiple years - so it's a moot point from the DP standpoint, just not from the total compensation equation.
I'm fairly serious. The chatter as he was rehabbing was that he would/may be signing a one-year extension. It may have just been twitter nonsense, etc., NYCFCfan may recall the source(s). At the time, we joked about that on here as a worst case scenario. That aside, I would still think there's a good chance the one last hurrah will be more than the half-ish season he will have played this season. I'd take the better than a coin flip side that he will extend (health/team approval willing).
Somebody has to collect the on-field garbage next season, and he's proving to be a savant at it.
