Fire offer Salas a contract?

By: Tom | June 4th, 2007

According to goal.com, the Fire and DC United have offered Salas a contract. Now, the Trib did report Fire GM John Guppy would talk to Salas today, but the intonation in that report was that an offer was still some way off. Goal.com cites the Chilean newspaper La Tercera as a source for this, but I could not find a report on their futbol page.

Interestingly, SportsYa also cites the same newspaper, and has more details, some of which are a bit alarming:

The Chilean newspaper La Tercera says that Salas is considering the offer of 1.4 million dollars the American team made to him to play for five months. This contract may bind the player from July 1 on.

However, the South American player thinks the offer is not good enough, and his manager is trying to negotiate a salary of approximately 2.6 million dollars, which is the same amount of money Mexican Cuauhtemoc Blanco will earn.

The key is, unsurprisingly, the amount of money Salas wants. I’m not personally too troubled by the state of AEGs bank balance, but I am concerned about what the Fire would have to give up if they need to spend Designated Player money to get him: since they would have to trade for a second Designated Player spot. Of course, MLS still being an incestuous league, AEG do handily own another spot the Fire could acquire from the Houston Dynamo. But it would still likely cost them a good young player to obtain it.

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• Steven |  June 4th, 2007 at 3:10 pm

  
  
  

  It would suck to lose a player because the team is loaded with quality young talent. I don’t think Salas is worth that much money.

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• pat |  June 4th, 2007 at 3:23 pm

  
  
  

  Okay – maybe if a team wants to trade their DP slot for Pascal and maybe Logan Pause, take it. But I can’t say I see that happening, and I can’t see anyone else on the side that I’d want to trade for five months of play from a 32 year old who obviously thinks he’s too good for the league.

  Hey Marcello – the paycheck may not be as big as you want, but it’s not going to bounce either. Call us when you’ve gotten over yourself and want to play some ball.

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• Giuseppe |  June 7th, 2007 at 4:45 am

  
  
  

  You know, I don’t understand why I see so many people in the US complaining about the ages of players. There are plenty of GREAT players still in Europe well over 32 years old. Some of the higher paid ones as well. I agree that Salas may think he’s better than he’s worth, and maybe a DP slot isn’t what we should be trading for, at least not for any more STRIKERS….but I don’t think age is the factor everyone keeps making it out to be

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