When? What is RB waiting for?
RBS is one year older than RBNY.
RBL is three years younger.
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When Kaku was signed in 2018 I think he was a top 10 MLS transfer fee, even smaller market teams like KC are spending close to $10 million on Pulido, and Vancouver and Minnesota dropping $4-5 million on Cavalini and Reynoso.
Of course the RedBull model is throwing $1-2 million transfer fees on unfinished products and trying to develop them and turn a profit. In the MLS model you can only take so many risks and throw so many darts (Jorgensen) before you bury yourself.
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The Kaku deal was done two years before the Pulido deal (12/17 vs 12/19), and was inarguably a respectable amount of money spent for that point in the league. Numbers have exploded since. If Kaku turned out to be a good investment, which he hasn't, maybe more money would have been invested here.
You can do real well in MLS with $2M xfer fee players (look at Philly), but you need to make a bunch of them, knowing they won't all work out. The problem is, Hameltt's first/best choice was Matti Ice, and we all know how miserable a choice that was. But I'm sure all the feedback Papa Red Bull got was "the kid is awesome, we made a great choice, just give him a little time."
RB seems to have taken the approach Liverpool did with Klopp... we'll give you more money when you show us you know how to spend it. RB has shown they are not trigger happy and will give people time before firing them (though #12 might disagree, he was never their choice and got the job by default). The Armas/HamSandwich tandem was given just 2 years. It's hard to fairly judge people in those roles faster than that, especially when they won a Shield and had the Jesse pedigree.
They've now spent big money to bring in an entirely new regime with solid resumes, and while RB will never be a top net spender in the league (they aren't in Europe, either), there is every reason to believe they are serious about being successful here, and they've shown they know how to do it. Money will be spent this winter. Not as much as we want, and they will again hold back a bit to see how well money is being spent before giving more. Not every signing will prove out, but reasonable MLS benchmark money will be spent.
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