it's essentially more cap space iirc

sounds like:
- Dwyer was a FA after the season, SKC thought they'd lose him? so ez call i guess
- but Orlando thinks they can re-sign him?
- OCFC will probably sell Larin to a Euro club this winter

Is it actual cash sent over also? And does it reduce the cap space of the team sending? Seems weird

don't think actual money is transferred, no
yes Orlando has lost some cap flexibility, but apparently they were swimming in allocation money from previous deals, and given that they made this deal they probably didn't really need it

not sure if/when it expires, or if it just keeps rolling over forever, or what
related: MLS rules seem to change every ~2 months


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocation_money

easier than me trying to explain it i think

so if the salary cap is $3.845M for this season, it could now be $4.745-5.445M for SKC
(plus whatever extra allocation money they already had)

TAM expires after 3 or 4 windows, GAM doesn't. I'm pretty sure the mechanism for allocation transfers is to adjust spreadsheets at MLS HQ.

Jona Dos Santos joins his brother at Galaxy.

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Quakes disaster road trip over, 0 pts, 12 goals shipped, 11 in the 2nd half. Swiss defender signed for reinforcement.

the hot wishcasting for skc fans is that this will bring nemeth back again. i have no idea how reliable those rumors are and the mls financial system is such a cluster **** that i don't know if this is a good deal or not but there are a few mls organizations you have to trust to know what is best and i think skc is certainly one of them. matt doyle seems to think they had to do it and he is one of the few mls people that seems to know what they are talking about so whatever

trading your best goalscorer when your biggest weakness by far is scoring goals is kind of wtfbbq but if he was gonna be gone anyway then they are probably making the right move. i think nemeth is a better player by a good margin although tbf he probably ran pretty well with some of his ridic goals when he was playing for kc. some difference makers at the transfer window could be huge this season. i don't think skc had much of a shot at the title with the current team construction so probably worth a gamble. as it stands now though i'm not really a big fan of diego rubio at all i haven't been particularly impressed

the 1.6m in allocation money is apparently worth about 2.5m under the salary cap

pretty pumped for the game saturday. wish the north upper deck bleachers werent being renovated, 50K seats and tix are still 100 bucks

Two types of allocation money, General and Targeted. General is basically a secret way to drive up the salary cap and has been around for a while.

GAM rules could also change, but right now every team is guaranteed $200k, teams who miss the playoffs get another $200k, qualifying for CCL gets you $100k, any teams who make CCL knockout stage split $200k, and any teams with fewer than 3 DPs split the $150k that each team with 3 DPs pays to the league (unless that 3rd DP is a Young DP).

GAM can:

• Sign a new player who wasn't in MLS
• Re-sign an existing player
• Offset loan/transfer costs
• Extend 2nd year players who were new to MLS the prior season
• Buy a DP charge down to $150k

Targeted Allocation Money is fairly new and was basically created so that LAG could sign a 4th DP, but is laid out as a way for teams to bring in more high-dollar players. To iron's point, you gotta spend it or it goes away.

TAM can:

• Sign a new player whose salary + acq costs are above DP level
• Re-sign an existing player making more than DP level
• Convert a DP to a non-DP by buying down his salary budget charge, but we have to replace that DP with another one at an equal or greater investment
• Spend up to $200k to sign homegrown players above their slotted salary level ($53k each + a total of $125k spread across everyone)

A CF scoring 0.3 GP90 is a sign he's part of the goal scoring problem.

I haven't ever gotten in under the hood to try to calculate this, but I have heard from others that it seems the market value is settling in at about 1.4 to 1.5 : 1.
So that is consistent with what you are saying.

If Orlando does send Larin to another out of league club the League will print up and award $650,000 TAM (read created out of thin air) to them which lowers their cost of the transaction.

Dwyer was servicable to good but Nemeth was a level above. Even though he was a thorn in the side vs. the Timbers, I think it would be great if SKC could get him back.

rumour is that Besiktas (2x running Turkish champs) are one of the teams in on Larin, not sheriff now or winter break tho

was reading yesterday that Orlando preferred to sell in the winter, and that there were at least 3-5 interested Euro clubs

Jozy has been really good for the last year or two

TFC would be basically unstoppable if they had a legit $6.5M midfielder in place of LolBradley

fairly amazing that he's the 3rd highest paid player in the league

on the coaching carousel

Onalfo out, fat sigfried in at galaxy

also, Bob Bradley to LAFC.

So crazy what he's paid. He's worth about 500k these days.

not sure what the kids are calling this these days

hmm, maybe TFC can dump LolBradley on LAFC after this season

No brainer

LAFC is surely dumb enough to overpay for him and tbf he'd prob be a bigger draw there than in Canada

CAPTAIN AMERICA IS HERE TO SAVE LOS ANGELES lololol


would be so filthy if they pull that off and then replace him with someone legit. always impossible to know what realistic targets there are out there, but i'm sure they can fairly easily dig up an improvement. maybe Giovinco has some ideas...

gamez (10 of them!)





also:

helps explain why he didn't get picked for the ASG

https://www.mlssoccer.com/transactio...r/chicago-fire

oh snap, this Atlanta/Orlando game is on big boy FOX

ATL best team to showcase for the league. Though 0-0 would be a nightmare

KAKA

got dam

LOL FOX misses the goal. Soccer sucks!

ya they keep doing that, showing like 8 replays of something that happened for no reason and missing live action

so dum

did they say that Asad dude is like 2nd itl in assists? he's been lousy the couple times i've seen Atl

same with that Higuita guy on Orlando iirc

and was gonna say that Kaka just doesn't have the legs to be as influential as he should be anymore (i guess he's a FA after this season and Orlando aren't sure if they want to bring him back or not), but then he goes and does something like that