http://www.espnfc.co...994982/headline
"That said, you look at the success of teams in this league like Kansas City or Real Salt Lake, their top players were lower-profile guys. We need to go scouring South America for that 22-23-year-old who has the ability and wants to make a name for himself, pay him in that $800,000 to $2 million range and build a team around that."-Petke
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as a hardcore its hard to argue against this philosophy . Most of these playmaking south americans brought in the past couple years on the lower end of the DP contract spectrum have done real well. Morales in Vancouver, Higuian, Morales of RSL of course, Valeri , Diaz from Dallas etc....
in that one sentence Petke is basically telling us the budget range the team has for DP's now. Roxy echo'd something similar last month but didnt shoot out figures.
Build me a 5 man modern era midfield with BWP up top consisting of 3 highly skilled south americans to complement Sam and Dax
(*obviously these s. americans mentioned below are taken, just using them as an example of what can be built if we're smart, by Morales i mean the white caps morales, although the RSL one is pretty damn good too)
----------bwp----
--------*higuian--
---*valeri----*Morales-----sam--
----------dax-----
oyongo--upgrade-olave--duval-
---------robles-----
although this team doesnt sound sexy famous names wise, it would be technical as fuck and will dazzle while winning