Montero not Leaving Yet
by Dave Clark on Apr 14, 2010 1:10 PM PDT
in Sounders: MLS Regular Season
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You probably have picked up some rumblings that Fredy Montero has drawn interest from CSKA Moskow. The original posting is at Colombia.com. MLS-Rumors has posted a translation. There it mentions
Fred[y]Montero, currently on the squad of Seattle Sounders in MLS, told Radio Caracol he is "expected to" clarify its move to Russian football in the coming hours. The Colombian said CSKA Moscow is the most likely possibility, and also that teams from Holland, Turkey and England were interested in the services of striker.
Knowledge of transfer windows matters though. You'll note that only the USA/Canada and Finland have open windows at this time, and that Russia isn't listed. Russia's closed last Thursday, if you were wondering. The window that determines if a player can move to a new team and league is the one in which the League accepting the player sets, not the departing league.
There are rare exceptions due to injury. But Moskow is not desperate at this time for a forward, they have tons of them.
Sure Montero will likely move, and it will be good for him when he does, but it won't happen now. It will likely happen during other leagues summer window roughly at the same time that Blaise Nkufo and a DP or two join the squad.
UPDATE: Mayers has quotes from Hanauer related to the transfer window - Montano, Pires, Montero and surprises. This is related and a must read for some perspective.
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Also, the rumor I saw mentioned Deportivo still having 35% of his contract but my understanding was that the Sounders and MLS have him 100% now.
He's young enough that the sell-on rule would be in effect
Which would mean that they would get a 5% fee for player development, or there could be a sell-on fee as part of the last negotiations.
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I see. My point was more that those rumors had bad info in them, making them even more suspect. Anyhow, I don’t really expect us to retain young Mr. Montero’s services through the year. In fact I kind of assumed that was part of the logic behind the Nkufo signing. Hopefully we’ll get another high-quality DP as well.
I read once that the average MLS player is in the league only 3 years
Montero is better than average and will likely move on and up.
In some ways this League is like college basketball or minor league baseball. The players will move on and will not be long with the team
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Transfering
Not too clear on how this works (though the wikipedia article helped… thanks). If Fredy transfers, we lose him, but we get a bunch of money, correct? Which we can then use to help get a better player, correct?
Seems kind of like the stock market… we can buy guys low and try to sell them again for more money?
yes, under the new rules an MLS side can earn up to 600k$ in allocation
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Seems like a good deal.
Sad, though. But if we want the league to improve we are probably just going to have to live with watching exciting young players leave for a while.
Talent in soccer is so wide spread and leaves so often
nearly every league has to get used to that.
Only the old G-14 teams really have any long term stability.
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Extra Cash
If this system was used well by the MLS it seems as though it could probably help to compensate for teams that can’t sell too many tickets.
My question would be whether or not the MLS has been good at using this rule to its advantage in the past. Are there any examples of MLS clubs bringing in significant cash by transferring or loaning players? I know the Galaxy loaned out Donovan to an English side earlier this year… did this have a significant benefit?
(Sorry for my ignorance. I didn’t pay any attention to the MLS before Seattle got a team, so I’m still learning)
Toronto's gain from Edu
wound up with them getting grass installed
Beckham’s loan made them a lot of money and probably led to them using allocation dollars on those 3 young Brazilians.
Loans often don’t involve a cash payout though.
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I think this is hilarious
Montero in Europe. Perhaps it’ll happen. But I’ve seen nothing to make me believe that Montero will ever be effective at that level. The thing that I think isn’t being talked about here is that (1) he’s never linked well with Fred L. and if that look in the RSL first half between them wasn’t an illusion, they don’t have a lot of love for each other (2) Sounder management may believe that at this point, Montero isn’t a good fit for what this team can deliver.
Montero has plenty of talent and I still believe that Spain would be a decent fit for him. But I’ve felt for a long time that, for whatever reason, we’re just not getting the best out of him here.
CSKA denies talks
MLSsoccer contacted them and they are saying there’s nothing formal going on, and even if there was nothing would happen until after the World Cup.
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