RE: [nas] More on MLS/EPL links

I don't know if Bayer had any say in the possible loan but FIFA was the
one that squashed the deal.  Everything was aparently worked out but it
had to go to FIFA for approval.  It was then that the transfer window
was brought up.  Players could not be allowed to go on loan until
January and could not be released until something like August.  This
made the deal unfeasible because Landon would have to wait through
months of the MLS off-season just to go on loan and then would miss a
huge part of the MLS season.  

This is another reason why MLS's summer schedule bugs some people, it
puts us out of synch with Europe.

Darrin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nas-owner@americakicks.com 
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 4:01 PM
> To: Jay Hipps; nas@americakicks.com
> Cc: NAS LIST
> Subject: Re: [nas] More on MLS/EPL links
> 
> 
> In a message dated 12/14/2004 9:43:05 AM Eastern Standard 
> Time, Jay Hipps <jayhipps@wordsandgraphics.com> writes:
> 
> >
> >- His idea of EPL/MLS loan deals where the players hop back and forth
> >for a month or two at a time won't fly with FIFA's 
> enforcement of the  
> >transfer windows. (Donovan was going to be loaned out to Portsmouth  
> >last year, through the end of the EPL season, but the plan 
> was scuttled  
> >when FIFA ruled that he'd have to wait for the August 
> transfer window  
> >to return to the Quakes.)
> 
>   i think you got this wrong, FIFA scuttled Donovan's loan 
> due to the fact that his registration is held by Bayer 
> Leverkusen, & they would not allow San Jose (MLS) to loan him 
> to Portsmouth, it would have be a loan deal tween Bayer & 
> Portsmouth, something about not allowing 3 teams in a loan 
> was their reasoning.  i might be incorrect, but i thought 
> that was what i had read up on it.
> 
> regards,
> jay
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