Gaston Puerari Sold to Atlas
by Gregg Mixdorf on Jun 15, 2011 4:06 PM CDT
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Sucks to see him go...
as you said, he was well liked and did a good job. However, I will hold off final judgment until I see how this move pans out. If we get a good player that helps us improve, it’s a good move. If we pull off another Nery type move, then it’s a bad move. I think the Fire will do good here.
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I think that the portion of the transfer fee that the Fire gets counts as Allocation money, which if you didn’t know, is basically extra cap space. So in addition to freeing up the $50k Gaston was getting, we also get to increase our salary budget by approximately half of Gaston’s transfer fee.
Thank you for mentioning that for the people who don’t know. It is an interesting part of the equation that will come in handy for high salary players. The Fire are so under the salary cap it would be tough to push that envelope but the allocation money can come in handy to pay down salary of people close to the designated player level and other things.
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by Tweed Thornton on Jun 16, 2011 8:48 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
The term “salary cap” in MLS is completely misleading. With all the allocation dollars floating around out there (Garber was quoted as saying $10 Million this year) it is almost impossible to tell how much money your team has underneath the budget level threshold. The players union salary data has been rumored to be completely inaccurate for several years now (Schelotto’s salary numbers being the best example of this). With that said I still don’t think it is a big component of this move. I think its just one of those things they will say after the move of a popular player because that type of thing works in other sports to calm your fanbase. Theoretically, even with Puerari making $150,000 (just guessing here) and other players making more than what has been reported by the players union, the Fire should have plenty of money left to make a big signing when taking into account allocation dollars. The international roster spot is far more valuable than whatever cap space they freed up, and allocation dollars received.
Until there is more clear and concise information regarding how player budgets for each team work discussing money available is just a guessing game and a foolish one to play at that.
by Gregg Mixdorf on Jun 16, 2011 10:36 AM CDT up reply actions
l too am sad to see Gaston leave, but this sounds like good business to me — a transfer fee (meaning extra cap space, as iron pointed out), opening an international slot… that pretty quickly starts to sound like a new signing. Of course, I say it sounds like good business, because a flop signing here would be a disaster. I would hope that Nery was enough of a shock, a big enough kick to the head, that the FO would avoid that kind of mistake again. If we took some risks in the off-season, they were on young guys with potential who didn’t cost millions of dollars.
I'm shocked
I watched Puerari when he played up here in Seattle. He and Chavez were like the dynamic duo. I watched him play on the random MLS games I’d catch here and there, he is a great player.
by chrisperry1983 on Jun 16, 2011 10:06 AM CDT reply actions
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