rod?Originally Posted by Busyman™
The amount the player is valued at when it comes to selling him to another club.
rod?Originally Posted by Busyman™
The amount the player is valued at when it comes to selling him to another club.
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No, it definitely doesn't.Originally Posted by Busyman™
The US teams wouldn't be able to afford to buy, say, Freddy Adu if he was a little older and if he lit up the world cup with his exceptional talent. A European club, however, would be able to buy him.
The club he is currently at would want a big transfer fee. Most of that goes to that club, but a percentage will go to the player and his agent, provided he doesn't request a transfer (that's the way it normally works). The player will sign a contract with the European club and earn far in excess of what he could in the US.
So, you see, there really doesn't have to be interest above the current level in the US market for the best US players to want to play at the World Cup in order to gain financially.
Oh I gotcha. That's if they want to play in elsewhere. Funny enough, Freddy said he wants to play elsewhere.Originally Posted by manker
We don't have the market here. As far as transfer value, we just call that a player's stock. It's best when a player wins a championship or plays exceptional especially when he's in his last year of a contract. When I talked about transfer value in the US market, I was referring to a player playing in the US. If our market is shit for the sport in the first place, a nice World Cup performance means very little in comparison to the European market.
If the US placed better in the World Cup it would have boosted the sport here. People simply would have took more notice (besides the fact the Disney stations televised it).
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Yeah, the football transfer market is very different to the way in which I understand players move from club to club in US sport.
That's the thing, players playing in the MLS - or indeed any league outside of England, Italy, Spain or Germany will always be looking to get a transfer to one of those leagues.
That's why World Cup performances are so important. It's the only time many players there will get to play against top class opposition and prove themselves worthy of a place in one of the top leagues.
A quicker plan would be to abduct all the children of the best footballers and raise them as an uber-team, that would take you around 20 years.Originally Posted by manker
Or clone good footballers.
Or invade a country that is good at football and steal all their football resources.
Or they could make a film about the 1966 World Cup but change it to the USA team winning it. Like what they did with that submarine film.
There's an element of risk there, far better to arrest the top fifteen footballers in the world, detain them in Gitmo and make them take seventeen pledges of allegiance every day until they think they're American.Originally Posted by Cheese
Then plastic surgurise them all to look like Franck Ribery while telling the rest of the world that the puntsphere boys are still being held
Originally Posted by Proper Bo
We gotta win first.
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Originally Posted by Cheese
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It's similar to the NBA here. Players make the most money in US basketball 'cause the market is bigger. Yao Ming makes 10 mill a year, of which, the Chinese gubment takes half.Originally Posted by manker
He should just learn Engrish and deflect to Amarryka.
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