Lider Marmol – Chicago is making NOTHING easy . . .

By: Dave Martinez | April 3rd, 2008

As we discussed last time, this Lider Marmol saga has had more twists and turns than a Capoeira fighter.

SoccerByIves reports that a league offer of approximately $100,000 was quickly turned down by the Paraguayan Midfielder.

Yeah, duh.

What does this tell us? Well, for starters, the league is attempting to appease the Chicago Fire. They have the discovery claim on the guy, they should be able to buy him at a price that fits their budget. And that is reasonable.

But it doesn’t mean Marmol can’t reject.

God Bless America.

The Current State Of Affairs

Chicago has become unreasonable.

They have rejected potential trades with other teams, in pure fear that those teams will turn around and trade them back to us. Dont believe me? Ask Wilman Conde.

They also dont have the budget to afford a Lider Marmol signing. What is going to happen? Chicago will simply attempt to max out their cap, it won’t be enough, and then, maybe, by April 15th, we might see him in an RBNY kit.

Keep your fingers crossed.

Just my opinion, but . . .

I think its time for Chicago to simply swallow its pride, and do what is best for their team.

If they can’t afford Marmol, forget him.

If they have a player that is a lockerroom cancer, who does NOT want to be there, be rid of him!

If you have a coach that wants out . . . oh wait. We have Osorio already.

Look, I know its tough. Its kind of like seeing the guy that took your girlfriend start to get close with your brothers and sisters – you would have to start to think, can you look some place else?!?

I get that. But dont let this thorn in your side (RBNY) stop you from conducting your business!

Let Lider go. Let Conde go. For everyones sake. Please.

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Dave Martinez

yea what up. here is my new writing on it -

http://redbulls.theoffside.com...

And I would say its rather unbiased.
whatup

Fire just signed Lider. Go Chicago!
Dave Martinez

Hey Jimmy, I am back!

Still have to do the math though :/

Either way.

I doubt Chicago will make that big of a deal from their first two games - RSL really took it to them hard, and New England wasn't New England. So Conde and an about face in his attitude would be Chicagos hope.

Now to do some math . . . :)
Jimmy

... Then Chicago certainly have the cap room - and according to their FO, the interest. It would appear that Marmol's MLS future would be in Chicago. So the only issue between the two teams is Conde. With 2 games and only an Own Goal allowed with no Brown, Robinson or Conde, maybe they will see fit to let Conde go. They seem to be pretty strong in the back right now.
Jeremy

Hey Dave,

I thought the DP only counted 400K or maybe 415K to the salary cap?
Dave Martinez

Jim - when I get back to the office, Ill grab my calculator ;)

Not doubting it, but I did the math and it was border line, off by 100K.

Good looks though.
Jimmy

David - using the posting at http://www.mlsplayers.org/file...
and counting Blanco at $500K comes to about $1.85mm. The cap is $2.3 this year, so I am pretty sure they can pay Marmol a little more than $100K.
David Martinez

Hey Jimmy -

IF my calculations are correct, the Fire have about 100,000 to maybe play with, not counting allocation cash.

If thats the case, then it would strengthen my argument.

Blanco earns 500 against the cap

You have another 5 players in the 100,000 range.

Another 4-5 hovering at 80,000.

And then you still have another 14 or so people to account for.

We, on the other hand, are about $500,000 in the clear, even after raises!

They are jerking NYRB around, no question. And its not totally cap related. Thats my point. They should just move forward. And help us! ;)
Jimmy

Not to mess up your argument, but with Armas, Guerrero, Pickens, Wanchope all gone and only Frankowski ($100K) in, the Fire probably have DP level salary cap available for Marmol. They may be jerking NYRB/Marmol around, but it is not for lack of cap room.
Catherine-Lucia

hablo un poco...estudio espanol en escuela. no soy latina o espanola [so?] espanol es una idioma muy dificil para [mi or yo?]. pero me gusta mucho. :)

as you can see my spanish is not very good but I am working on it. and by the way I know plenty of latin people in heritage whose spanish is very bad so I was just making sure lol. :)

you keep up a pretty good blog, if that doesn't make you a writer what does? you go blog, I'll go novel...it evens out... :D

oh and nice one. my debates tend to be on immigration and abortion. I usually win. It's not so much that I'm brilliant, it's that I make my opponents look extremely stupid.
Dave Martinez

Por favor nena, soy Argentino! Seguro que hablo espanol! Me cuesta bastante, pero lo logro.

I am also a writer. Can you tell?

And I remember in College, debate class, me v. 5 others in a discussion over the legalization of Pot. I won. ;)
Catherine-Lucia

by the way--habla espanol, dave?
Catherine-Lucia

Aspiring writer, actually, but lawyer-ing is an option. :) But for now, I will settle for winning 1-on-7 debates in History class. (You gotta love it.)
Dave Martinez

First off . . Luis . . Hilarious. remind me to make you fetch my coffee ;)

And catherine! Aspiring lawyer huh?! Well, maybe you can defend me in the future from evil corporations.

Or, make the case for the red Bulls and Marmol. Just a thought .. .
Catherine-Lucia

Wait, let me clarify--I'm not actually a lawyer, I'm a student. All I mean is I'm a very good arguer.
Catherine-Lucia

A lawyer I am. But for now, I simply laugh.
Dave Martinez

No Lay Up . .. SHUSH! lol

I hope people can read into the fact, as you have, that I am totally biased in all of this.

A lawyer I am not.
NoLayupRule

or at least for our sakes, right?