Homer Jay wrote:LittleOzzy wrote:Now confirmed to be traded, not loaned.
Not happy about that move, though we had no leverage.
It's a loan with a buy provision in one year. But Bebs said the buying price was so high that either they won't do it or would give us the situation where we could get an equal replacement.
No, it's a trade with those provisions.
If Vancouver decides to keep him they will need to send money/players/draft picks to TFC as part of the "future considerations". If Vancouver doesn't decide to keep him next season it doesn't mean he will automatically return to TFC.
“There were a number of teams interested and we were looking at an intra-league loan structure, but in the end it wasn’t going to be able to work like that. We structured the trade it in a similar way via a trade.”
In return for the 22-year-old Argentine Midfielder, Toronto FC received “future considerations” which, to most, is smoke and mirrors.
“People don’t know what future considerations are,” Bezbatchenko told the Sun. “But Vancouver has a high hurdle to get over in order to keep him permanently. Let’s just put it that way. We’re comfortable that if they do, we’ll be in a very good position to reinvest (what we receive) into the team to make us better in a big way.”
And, since Laba has an additional year left on the deal he signed with MLS last season, if MLS offers teams a fourth DP slot in its next Collective Bargaining Agreement, it’s possible Laba could return to Toronto if the Whitecaps elect to forego sending “future considerations” the other way.
“They will have to give us something if they want to keep him permanently,” Bezbatchenko said. “I don’t want to get into the details of what it could be. You can speculate. It could be a variety of things.”
http://blogs.canoe.ca/reds/sports/tfc-t ... whitecaps/
Laba is no longer part of the TFC organization.
