Comments on: Lider Marmol – Chicago is making NOTHING easy . . .

By: Dave Martinez

Dave Martinez — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:07:35 +0000

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

http://redbulls.theoffside.com/my-info/the-marmol-saga-is-over-chicago-1-red-bulls-0.html

And I would say its rather unbiased.

By: whatup

whatup — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:30:26 +0000

Fire just signed Lider. Go Chicago!

By: Dave Martinez

Dave Martinez — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:05:59 +0000

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 . . .

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:07:13 +0000

… 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.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:25:18 +0000

Hey Dave,

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

By: Dave Martinez

Dave Martinez — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:07:52 +0000

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.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:27:19 +0000

David – using the posting at http://www.mlsplayers.org/files/3_31_08_salary_info_club.pdf
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.

By: David Martinez

David Martinez — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:22:07 +0000

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!

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:59:21 +0000

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.

By: Catherine-Lucia

Catherine-Lucia — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:34:26 +0000

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…

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.