MLS salaries released - con’t

While most of you are settling down for tonight’s match with a few beers in hand, the MLS Players Association released the salaries of MLS players. A few items of note for Quakes fans.

 - Ronnie O’Brien is the highest paid Quake with a guaranteed salary of 258k. If you believe the published reports that Toronto FC cleared between $400,000 and $450,000 in cap space in the trade that sent O’Brien to the Quakes, that means that San Jose sent between $142,000 and $192,000 in allocation money to TFC. (Yes, my engineering degrees are finally being put to good use.)

- Other  players over the 200k threshold are Joe Cannon (213k) and Ramiro Corrales (202.5k).

 - Guys who got signficiant raises were Ned Grabavoy (52K to 90K), Ryan Cochrane (66k to 133K), and Joe Vide (17.7K to 33K, hey it’s all about the percentages);

- The only guy to take a signficant pay cut was Ivan Guerrero who dropped from 187.5K to 147.5K.

- Everyone else either stayed the same or received modest raises.

All told the Quakes spent $1,557,653 on the 15 players listed. That does not include the developmental guys they just signed as well as Eric Denton, who signed earlier this week. Still, it would appear that San Jose has around $850,000 to work with in terms of cap space, more than enough to sign several quality players. It should be interesting to see who Yallop goes for in terms of out-of-contract guys playing overseas, and I’m talking about players with a little bit more recent success than recent trialist Michael Ricketts, who had been toiling in the third tier of English soccer.