How about anyone coming from the PL ago MLS regardless of age or position that ended up succeeding here? I can only think of two - Beckham and Ridgewell
Americans not included
Americans not included
Yaya Toure to set to come to NYCFC?
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Your entire schtick is kind of a meme here. You’ve only ever posted on two topics: man city is great and Yaya Toure.
Excuse people for not granting you a shit load of latitude.
That depends on how you define it. Several guys who started here and came back have been solid (Espinoza, Kamara, and, okay, 2 is all I can think of).
Said it before, will continue to say it, we shouldn’t be shopping in England, period.
Robbie keane worked out pretty well and Henry was decent until the last few years. But yeah not a great track record. Then again we are all clearly incapable of grasping the trend transcending talents of Yaya.
If he comes in January and seems to buy in, then I will give him a chance.
If he comes in July, then fuck that shit.
If he comes in July, then fuck that shit.
Don’t know how true Yaya coming over is. I’ve heard that the team is very reluctant to sign another old player and is trying to go young on their next DP signing.
https://www.nycfc.com/post/2017/11/15/news-yaya-toure-linked-nycfc
"The three-time World Cup attendee would not require a Designated Player roster spot, according to a source, which has peaked NYCFC’s interest in the player."
"The three-time World Cup attendee would not require a Designated Player roster spot, according to a source, which has peaked NYCFC’s interest in the player."
https://www.nycfc.com/post/2017/11/15/news-yaya-toure-linked-nycfc
Just saw that Yaya may come in as a non-DP. Can't see how that works for Yaya unless we are paying him in celebratory desserts, but how does that change things for y'all?
I suppose it depends how much allocation money we'd be using to bring his salary down, which we would probably never know. If his budget charge was under 400K, no allocation money used, I could see myself getting excited about this. For a season.
Just saw that Yaya may come in as a non-DP. Can't see how that works for Yaya unless we are paying him in celebratory desserts, but how does that change things for y'all?
I suppose it depends how much allocation money we'd be using to bring his salary down, which we would probably never know. If his budget charge was under 400K, no allocation money used, I could see myself getting excited about this. For a season.
As a DP I think Yaya Toure is basically sentencing the team to mediocrity.
As a non DP player, I think it could be made to work. As long as we're not trying to shoehorn him into the starting XI because of his name a la Pirlo.
As a non DP player, I think it could be made to work. As long as we're not trying to shoehorn him into the starting XI because of his name a la Pirlo.
I'm sort of afraid that the reason we can bring him as non-DP is that he'd be coming in July and we'd buy down half his salary so it's below the max budget charge. Then we find out in 2019 we are getting the full hit and losing a DP slot.
I am hands down against YaYa if its as a DP, IMO a complete waste.
I could perhaps be for it as a non-DP, as you noted, taking into consideration the amount of allocation money that we burn on it.
Fact: There are no mention of cronuts in MLS roster rules and regs.
As a non-DP, sure.
However, why are we making decisions about the summer transfer window today anyway? I don't want to lock up $500k in cap money to hold open a spot for a player we may or may not need. Say Villa goes down and we already "spent" our extra money on Yaya when we really should be targeting a summer striker.
However, why are we making decisions about the summer transfer window today anyway? I don't want to lock up $500k in cap money to hold open a spot for a player we may or may not need. Say Villa goes down and we already "spent" our extra money on Yaya when we really should be targeting a summer striker.
Well because he would hypotheticall arrive in July, NYCFC would only be responsible for half of his salary.
So if they were to pay him say 500k a year they'd only be on the hook for 250k the the remainder of the season. Could be an easy way to get veteran experience and leadership down the stretch.
Even if he's not a DP, I don't think he'd be worth the TAM, if we have to pay him TAM. Give me another Alex Ring.
Yeah that's what I assumed would happen. But given his current salary I think we'd still be using AM to buy down half his salary (e.g. full salary 2M, half salary 1M, use 600K AM to buy down to below the max). But I'd be surprised if he came for just a half season so he'd be using a DP slot the next season. Which would be pretty horrible.
