MLS Season has finished till April, he would score bags of goals, and get the service on a plate with this Team, no need to have the legs, just get in the box
I mentioned him before but someone said he would go to vila if he went anywhere. Living in California I watched him this season and he still has it no doubt about it.
Not a ****ing prayer, he'll probably go to Villa, who need him far more than we do and will pay the daft money he's on.
Actually he isnt on that much money. He makes 8682.51 pounds a week right now. We could clearly afford that. MLS has a salary cap so nobody makes a ton of money not even Beckham and Keane. The MLS leading goal scorer makes less than 4 thousand pounds a week.
Beckham got $6.5m a year at LA Galaxy and Keane is guaranteed a minimum $3.4m a year, both are equally unrealistic targets for us.
The net says 2.9 for Keane, 3 for Beckham. Where are you getting that? Uh, the difference in base and the addition of "additional compensation"
They get a basic + a minimum in add-on's, the figure I quoted for Becham was for his first deal, it halved for his final contract and the highest paid MLS player is now Thierry Henry on $5.5m. Even looking at just Keane's basic it's $60k a week, so a complete non starter.
Yea I realise now that I must have hit the wrong button on the calculator when I did the conversion because my original reply to your post makes no sense. Henry is slow as crap so I wouldnt want him. Beckham I wouldnt want either. Keane still has it as far as I am concerned but if we were to get anyone Wondoloski is the one I would want and he makes just about nothing. "For all of his efforts, Wondolowski has received new deals in each of the past two seasons. His breakthrough campaign in 2010 netted him an increase from $48,000 to $175,000 in guaranteed compensation for the 2011 season, according to MLS Players' Union documents. Another fine series of displays earned him a second bump to $300,000 prior to the 2012 season"
So how are salary caps enforced. How are beach front apartments and fancy cars valued? Not to mention the owners putting funds into offshore bank accounts. I doubt any player will come from MLS to HU3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salary_cap#Salary_cap_in_MLS Here are some major points of the new MLS rules and regulations for the 2012 season. A team's roster can be made up of up to 30 players. They are eligible to be selected to the 18-player team for each game. The salary cap will be $2,810,000 per team, not counting the extra salary of designated players. Players in the first 20 roster spots will count against the cap. The maximum salary for any one player is $350,000. A designated player counts $350,000 against a team's cap. However, if a player joins his team in the middle of the season, the charge against the budget will be $175,000. Players who are in the roster spots from 21-30 will not count against a team's cap. They will be known as off-budget players. Generation adidas players are off-budget players and not counted against the cap. For 2012, the cap number for international designated players will depend on the players' ages. Players under 20 will count $150,000 against the cap and those age 21 to 23 will count $200,000, with older players remaining at a cap number of $350,000. Designated player rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_Player_Rule The Designated Player Rule, nicknamed the Beckham Rule,[1] was adopted as part of the salary cap regulations of Major League Soccer for the 2007 season. The rule allows each MLS franchise to sign players that would be considered outside of the team's salary cap (either by offering the player higher wages or by paying a transfer fee for the player), allowing MLS teams to compete for star players in the international soccer market. Designated Player over the age of 23 will carry a salary budget charge of $350,000, unless the player joins his club in the middle of the season, in which case his budget charge will be $175,000. Designated Player 21–23 years old counts as $200,000 against the club’s salary budget. Designated Player 20 years old or younger counts as $150,000 against the club’s salary budget. The budget charge for the midseason signing of a young Designated Player (23 years old and younger) is $150,000 and this amount cannot be lowered with allocation funds. Clubs will not have to buy the third DP roster slot to accommodate Designated Players 23 years old and younger. Age of player is determined by year (not date) of birth.
Whoever we get in needs to be for the rest of the season. We can not be doing with loan recalls before the season ends as we will have no chance to replace them. Keane will be going back to MLS for pre sesaon in April .We need our new striker to be banging them in until 4th May.
Now there's an idea...Bobby Clarke, "Mad Dog" Kelly and Dave Schultz on the Tiger's bench to sort out those thugs when Leeds are in town ! Grant Fuhr as back-up goalie could be useful too....
Just like football, no "real" hard men left in hockey anymore. Best I saw on the football field were Norman Hunter (Leeds), Dave McKay (Spurs), "Chopper" Harris (Chelsea) and Graeme Souness (Liverpool). Mind you, Andy "Jock" Davidson of Hull City in the late 50s-mid 60's was no slouch on that front.
Probably not the hardest man in hockey but one of the toughest when it came to fighting I saw was donald brashear. A few years back when he was with the capitals he was fighting this guy and a rookie was mouthing off at him during the fight. After knocking the guy down he skated over to the rookie and broke his jaw. His great uncle is the guy from Men of Honor if you have seen the movie.
Wasn't Brashear the guy that Marty MacSorley clobbered with his stick & was dragged to court for assault ? I didn't see the incident as I had given up watching hockey by then - not long after Gretsky retired - the game had become too diluted with expansion for my taste...maybe more to the point, Toronto have been crap for years, so I gave up hope for my adopted home-town team...not like Hull City - I still buy my season pass - bloody expensive passion given I only manage to see them at the KC on average 2-3 times per season. On the hockey front - 2 of my favourite ever players plied their trade in your general neck of the woods...Andre Lacroix with the San Diego Mariners (WHA), and Marcel Dionne (LA Kings). Small guys both, but brilliant players who controlled a game like magic. Those were the days.
