Source: Sebastien Le Toux Will Not Move To Bolton, Vancouver Possible Destination
by Scott Kessler on Jan 30, 2012 5:55 PM EST
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Sebastien Le Toux will not move to Bolton Wanderers, of the English Premier League, signaling that his time in MLS has not yet ended. However, the Philadelphia Union may not be the club with which Le Toux starts the 2012 MLS season.
A source close to the situation tells the Brotherly Game that the Vancouver Whitecaps have inquired about Le Toux and have emerged as a candidate for a trade. The Canadian side was originally one of two clubs from north of the border, the other being the Montreal Impact, that have contacted the Union about Le Toux.
Le Toux is fighting to stay with the Union, despite the interest from Bolton and other teams, the source said.
The move to a Canadian team comes almost out of nowhere after all of the speculation surrounding Le Toux concerned Bolton. The source informed the Brotherly Game that the Wanderers told the Union that there wasn't enough time, choosing to not pursue a transfer.
The 28-year-old is in the last year of a four-year contract with MLS that he signed back in 2008, making this the last season that the Union can profit off of a transfer of their star striker. The Frenchman has scored 25 goals, and assisted on 20 more, during his two seasons with Philadelphia since moving from the Seattle Sounders prior to the 2010 MLS season.
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I could handle letting him go to Bolton
It would essentially be a big well deserved promotion for the man, he’d be missed but I could understand it. I couldn’t handle it if he was traded within MLS, it’d be a side step for him and a backwards step for the Union.
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From what I understand, he never pushed to leave the Union unless Bolton gave a proper offer.
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by Scott Kessler on Jan 30, 2012 6:19 PM EST up reply actions
I'm not saying he wants to go to Vancouver
I’m speaking more to ownership, I’d be OK if they and Le Toux were both motivated to let him go to Bolton. But if they made the decision to trade him to Vancouver, whether Le Toux wanted it or not, I’d be pretty upset about it.
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Seriously?
It’s one thing to let Le Toux go test himself in the EPL, but to move him to another MLS team?
They just can’t do that. How will they justify that to the fans?
It would seem highly lunkheaded
We can hope they’re just listening right now. Given how much the guy has done for the team, if they’re unsure about his place going forward, just have a frank talk with him and let him fight for it. It’s never stopped him in the past.
People I’ve talked to say he was told he would not be re-signed at the end of his contract (whether it’s due to what would be a huge bump in salary, his age, concerns about consistency, a different direction they plan to take, or a combination of all four). The Bolton move would have been a win-win, but a trade within the league puts the Union in the spotlight for offloading the face of the franchise in return for what very likely would be lower-profile players and the always anti-climactic ‘undisclosed amount of allocation money.’
MK
Wouldn’t it depend on what they got in return. I don’t really want to see LeToux go elsewhere in MLS, but for the right price everyone is movable.
It would just have to be a huge offer IMHO to give up LeToux given his value to the team.
De Ro as example
Role players are swapped for each other from time to time, but there isn’t much recent history in the league of exciting star-for-star trades. I know these aren’t perfect comparisons, but:
When the Dynamo traded away their perennial All Star & leader in all statistical categories Dwayne De Rosario, backbone of the Houston/San Jose franchise since Landon Donovan left, Toronto sent Julius James and allocation money. When DDR moved from Toronto to NY, TFC got Toni Tchani, Dan Borman, and a draft pick in return. When he was traded from NY to DC, the Red Bulls received Dax McCarty in exchange.
Big Kenny Cooper scored 8 goals last season and moved from Portland to New York earlier this month for allocation money and a draft pick.
Houston sent midfield-mainstay Brian Mullan and a 4th round pick to Colorado for frequent ACL-tearer Colin Clark and allocation money.
Sure he had fallen off the 58 goals in 102 games form he had set with the Red Bulls, but Juan Pablo Angel was shipped off to Chivas USA for a 3rd round supplemental draft pick.
MK
Have no fear!
We’ve got that guy with the alleged dalliances with coke!
Vancouver?? For who?
With the departure of Fayrd – maybe they are desperate for GK help (Knighton or Cannon) but that doesn’t seem to represent a equitable trade. The only worthwhile approach might be their high-pick forwards (Mattocks or Salgado) but see little else worth even contemplating. Jordon Harvey return? – not for LeToux.
Nooooooooooo!
as detailed here http://www.brotherlygame.com/2012/1/30/2759373/let-le-toux-stay
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Heck No, Le Toux shouldn't go!
This fo sho better not be happening bc the dude lead our team in goals these past two years! You’re going to trade that away??? You can justify sellnig him to Bolton for big bucks but not trading him within MLS! Seatlle made that mistake already, so we want to turn around and do it also?
if what the Daily News is reporting........
if what the Daily News and Kerith Gabriel are reporting is true – and the money saved by trading Le Toux and letting Mondy go back home will be used to buy Roger Torres outright then i am all for swapping the two older players for the much younger Torres!
I guess I don’t get how, after subtracting Mapp, Migz, JDG, Paunovic, and now Mondragon, they still need to shed LeToux’s salary. He’s been the face of the franchise since day one. Leaving for the top tier in England is one thing, that feels a bit like Ray Bourque going to the Avalanche to win the cup, but to just cash transfer him to another MLS team, that feels like a slap in the face.
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