by happytorq » 07 Jul 2011, 15:20
usagullmichigan wrote:I fell asleep watching the game. No idea how they would do it but I think he wants to spend some time in Canaduh A. This is what a buddy of mine tells me who is a die Torontonian :~D
Problem with that is that they're already right up against the salary cap; before Frings and Hoevermans came along they only had about $217k left - each of those will contribute $167.5k towards the cap, so you'd have to assume that they've traded somebody away to meet the cap requirements. That is on top of the $250,000 'tax' they will have already had to pay to sign a 3rd DP. So they way it appears to me, they only way the could sigh Hargreaves was either as a non-designated player (unlikely; not only does that mean he'd be earning less than $335k, he'd also be at risk of mid-season trading due to MLS' single entity structure), or by freeing up cap space, and the only way to do *that* would be shipping out De Guzman - you can only have 3 DPs per team, and the other two have just signed.
I think it's more likely he'd go to Vancouver - they only have on DP to date (Eric Hassli, whose great goal you may have seen linked in Banter Board), plus Vancouver is far closer to Edmonton - where Hargreaves is from - than Toronto is.
[quote="usagullmichigan"]I fell asleep watching the game. No idea how they would do it but I think he wants to spend some time in Canaduh A. This is what a buddy of mine tells me who is a die Torontonian :~D[/quote]
Problem with that is that they're already right up against the salary cap; before Frings and Hoevermans came along they only had about $217k left - each of those will contribute $167.5k towards the cap, so you'd have to assume that they've traded somebody away to meet the cap requirements. That is on top of the $250,000 'tax' they will have already had to pay to sign a 3rd DP. So they way it appears to me, they only way the could sigh Hargreaves was either as a non-designated player (unlikely; not only does that mean he'd be earning less than $335k, he'd also be at risk of mid-season trading due to MLS' single entity structure), or by freeing up cap space, and the only way to do *that* would be shipping out De Guzman - you can only have 3 DPs per team, and the other two have just signed.
I think it's more likely he'd go to Vancouver - they only have on DP to date (Eric Hassli, whose great goal you may have seen linked in Banter Board), plus Vancouver is far closer to Edmonton - where Hargreaves is from - than Toronto is.
