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Saw an interesting stat before the Caps game on Saturday. After the trade TFC are now the youngest team in MLS. Even younger than the Caps. Well if you are on a rebuilding program may as well start young and put your academy to good use on the first team. We'll see how long it takes for Winter's program to take hold.

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Trade maybe not quite so good now after reading this from the New York Post:

http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/soccerblog/report_red_bulls_trade_for_dwayne_oF1EszqyeGrCEQATPrW7rL

The Post has confirmed not only won't De Rosario count as an international because he holds a green card, but he won't count as a Designated Player either because Toronto is picking up a "significant" chuck of his salary. For a now team filled with leaders such as 30-somethings Thierry Henry and Rafa Marquez, its a masterstoke of the sort the Yankees usually pull off. Here is clip of him in action.

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Trade maybe not quite so good now after reading this from the New York Post:

http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/soccerblog/report_red_bulls_trade_for_dwayne_oF1EszqyeGrCEQATPrW7rL

The Post has confirmed not only won't De Rosario count as an international because he holds a green card, but he won't count as a Designated Player either because Toronto is picking up a "significant" chuck of his salary. For a now team filled with leaders such as 30-somethings Thierry Henry and Rafa Marquez, its a masterstoke of the sort the Yankees usually pull off. Here is clip of him in action.

TFC can't make any trades without eating cap space because they don't know how to execute deals. Other clubs say they will only take our players if we're paying, so we do. And they ask because they know we will.

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On the bright side they could probably still sell the empty seats easily enough by being a bit more reasonable on ticket pricing especially with the north end seats. The pension fund managers for Ontario's teachers were no doubt looking to aggressively maximize the return on their investment on that but should have learned their lesson now not to be too greedy. I'm pleasantly surprised that things have got off to a reasonable start on the field of play. If things remain reasonably stable in that department playoff qualification will probably all boil to whether or how the second DP roster spot is used in the summer transfer window.

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It's not like we're lacking for cap space. We can eat ALL of DeRo's salary and still add 2 DP's if we want.

Exactly. Who the hell is taking up a lot of cap space now? The only guy I can think of is De Guzman. If they have overpaid these unproven foriegners they have brought in than they are just as dumb as Mo Johnston.

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But a DP will cost much more than a share of your current cap space - that's the whole point of the DP arrangement.

Considering the money TFC fans have pumped into the team over its 5 year existence they should be playing with the max 3 DP's at all time.

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But a DP will cost much more than a share of your current cap space - that's the whole point of the DP arrangement.

And "paying" for DeRo's salary with league money costs us what exactly? If MLSE wants to cheap out then we can atleast still sign 2 players with the DP cap hit of $335K that comes out of league pockets and not MLSE's...

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Pure conjecture on my part but maybe the allocation money that was required to keep DeRosario from being a DP is what was sent to NYRB? By the time the summer window opens the DP cap hit is prorated to $150k or so and can be paid down even further with allocation money so Winter and Mariner should be able to strengthen the team significantly that way.

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Pure conjecture on my part but maybe the allocation money that was required to keep DeRosario from being a DP is what was sent to NYRB? By the time the summer window opens the DP cap hit is prorated to $150k or so and can be paid down even further with allocation money so Winter and Mariner should be able to strengthen the team significantly that way.

My guess is that the trade ended up being salary cap neutral for both clubs.

We know that Tchani is still considered a GA. So TFC would be paying whatever the difference is between De Rosario and Borman's salaries.

So in the end after the trade was made both teams had the same hit on their salary caps.

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Looks as direct as you can get to me.

NYRB are more than welcome to his inflated sense of entitlement. If he wanted to chase the really big money he should have taken the extended tryout in the Premiership rather than playing it safe by going back to Houston. Since then he has been very well paid by MLS standards no matter how much he tries to claim otherwise. Later in life he may well find that opportunities that would have been there as a hometown hero won't be because he chased a few dollars more elsewhere in his last MLS contract and he won't be seen as a candidate for coaching and managerial job within the game after publicly rocking the boat so much during his playing career.

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