Kenji Cabrera was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
JC Ngando has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
Yohei Takaoka was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vancouver Whitecaps this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Vancouver Whitecaps could ask drops and the wages Mathías Laborda can ask rise.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vancouver Whitecaps have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Yohei Takaoka was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Vancouver Whitecaps heard it as anything else.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vancouver Whitecaps this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.