The Seattle Sounders are a week away from their first game as a Major League Soccer expansion team and the sell-out crowd at Qwest Field for the season opener vs. New York is expected to enjoy an unforgettable night.
Unfortunately, Colombian striker Fredy Montero may not be there.
The Seattle Sounders' leading forward has left the club to return to South America, where reports say he is dealing with contract issues. Now, this might not normally be a cause for concern, but it becomes one when you consider that Seattle doesn't list Montero on the team's website.(I've gotten conflicting accounts on whether he was ever there before or not).
Ruh-Roh.
Now, this may be nothing (The Seattle Times is reporting that Montero is expected back on Friday), or it may be the collapse of what some league observers had questioned as a deal that seemed too good to be true. Montero was one of the best young goal-scoring prospects in South America before his surprising deal to join Seattle. The deal looked even more unbelievable last week when MLS salaries were released and Montero was listed as making just $155,000.
What do you think is going on? Does Montero want more money? Did his agents misinform him about how much he was going to make? Is everything fine and Seattle is just trying to play head games?
Share your thoughts below.
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Ted,
I hope Freddie Underwearer gets to play against RBNY, so he can get humiliated and move back to West Ham… Wait? He was “waived” by West Ham, how awesome is that? Its because he sucks, and was lucky to have all the awesome Gunners around him at Arsenal. Put him on a crap team, like SSFC, and you shall see why he was waived. Bye-bye SSFC, go back to USL.
I hated Chivas, but I hate SSFC more.
My favorite teams are now RSL, RBNY, and anyone playing and beating SSFC.
Go drink some lattes in your dreary city and convince yourselves your great. Isn’t that great? Great!
I hope he stays in Columbia. Screw the Sounders and that fat guy from the Price is Right.
Timber Fan
Lou-the players you are referring to are junk, except for stammler. Captain of El Salvador, they are ranked 105th, who cares, Petke is as slow as dirt, rojas looked great last year…not. Let’s not forget celadas who joined the team a week ago, he’s awesome. Give me a break with Dane Richards, he had three decent games and they happened to be at the end of the year so that’s all anybody remembers. Don’t forget the first 35 where he was invisible if not hurt.
As an RSL fan, I can tell the SSFC folks that RBNY is going to hand SSFC their @$$. Sorry SSFC, but your going to get schooled.
BTW – RBNY is my fav Eastern team even tho they knocked us out last year. I hated them that night, but still like them better than the rest of the East.
I think I already hate SSFC more than Chivas due to their lame-@$$ supporters bragging about things that should not be bragged about.
Relegate SSFC back to USL-2.
We really need to make sure we sign this kid. We saw what bringing in a young player(Jozy Altidore), especially a goal scorer, did not only to the club, but sales as well. More people were excited to have such a good young prospect on the team and its basically like that over in Europe with teams like Barcelona(Bojan), Arsenal(Fabregas),and Milan(Pato).
Where there is smoke, there is fire…
I hope its just a visa issue cuz i’m really hoping for Fredy Monteros success. I just want to let Sounders fans know that he might be a bust. I’m a Deportivo Cali’s fan and I really don’t think hes that good. I hope i’m wrong and scores some goals….as long as its not on the red bulls.
well it COULD just be a VISA issue, necessitating his leaving and coming back, though you’d think they would have said so if it were….very intriguing.
I was looking over the Seattle roster on their website just a week or so ago and there was no-Fredy, so this isn’t something new.
well those are the thing are going to happen with more players coming aboard from either S. American or Europe, especially if we trying to bring players that are prospect to be come a good players. With this type of Salary Cap is redicules that we can bring good young players to come to play for this League. Well I think Montero Probably got a better offer somewhere else maybe in Europe or Mexico. Too bad if Seattle let him go, well actually what can all these team in this league can do if they have their hands tied up. Please Increase that freaking Salary at least up to 5-7 million for each team.
ahahahah fire cracker are you kidding me. You can’t just say we are over confident i think we finally deserve to be, and as for holes why don’t you point them out to me. We have the captain of the el Salvadorian team, goldy, petke, and carlos johnson costa rican nationial team player all in the back, than stammler and celadas and rojas all anchoring the mid field and speed on the flanks with the best striker in the league, yea we sure do have a lot of holes. Seattle couldn’t beat us even with montero now you don’t have a chance at all.
That explains why I couldn’t get him on my fantasy team. We need him. Great pre-season.
“On paper the Sounders look as good as the Red Balls. I see the Sounders defeating RBNY on Thurs. RB’s fans are a little to confident in a squad with alot of holes. ”
Dingleberry, if the Sounders don’t break Toronto’s record of minutes played without scoring a single goal, that’ll be the triumph of the season.
I’m looking at your roster, and it’s 90% Grade A crap. It looks like a practice squad, with the exception of Ljungberg, who won’t play next week, and Kasey Kaller, who looked 9000 years old last time I saw him play.
You don’t seem to understand that everyone except you has already seen basically every player you have. Some aren’t terrible, but the list of possible starters is a total laff.
Maybe your understanding of the game is conditioned by USL1, and you think Le Toux and Taylor Graham have quality. Well, in NY we know Taylor Graham: he’s one of the worst defenders MLS has ever seen. He moves like Frankenstein with end-stage Lyme Disease.
You’re going to lose not only this game, but if you don’t wake up to the fact that your team isn’t good, your sense of self-worth as well.
ian- the MLS needs this guy, but its not up to them to “come up with the money” to keep him…. its up to the Sounders… they have the same responsibility as any other team when it comes to paying the players….
well, bar LA…. they make their own cap up 😀
i agree with others… this IS EXACTLY the type of player that we should be shelling out some bucks for. once he joined the sounder’s roster and started putting up those numbers in preseason, seattle became a must watch team for me.
i hope things pan out, because i’ve been pretty excited to see him play.
Freddy has the same partial-pass ownership thing that Tevez and Mascherano had with Kia Joorabchian–the one that eventually wound up costing West Ham tens of millions for its illegality in European leagues.
Freddy’s being parked in MLS until whoever owns his other 40% (Dep. Cali owns the 60%) runs out of time on their ownership %.
Does anyone really believe the leading goalscorer last year from Colombia is living on $130K in MLS with no other source of income?
on paper, Seattle looks like a team ready to finish last, or at best, third last.
How can a team do well when almost all of their playoffs are castoffs from the rest of the league?
They have a core of 6 guys (if Montero comes back) who are starters in league.
But you need more than 6 starts to make a good team, and you need more than castoffs and rejects sitting on the bench in case a few of those starters get hurt.
Time to come back to reality, Seattle fans.
“Ruh-Roh” is right. Maybe they unmasked Freddy Montero and he turned out to be… Sergio Galvan Rey. And thus was sent packing.
Is it too early to say “there goes Seattle’s season?”
I hope he’s in MLS year ’cause he sounds like a great addition. He’s exactly what MLS needs: good, young, exciting talent rather than over-the-hill players. Hopefully these are just visa issues he’s working on, otherwise Seattle’s in trouble.
Firecracker…
I think you are on crack.
Look at the Red Bulls roster from top to bottom. Now compare to that to Seattle. Clueless.
I have been tracking the Sounders FC roster closely and can confirm that Colombians Fredy Montero and Jhon Kennedy Hurtado have not appeared on the roster page. They will not appear there until transfer paperwork and P-1 work visa are in place. I’ve still got ’em both on the roster page at Seattle Pitch, though. And I’m very much looking forward to seeing Fredy goals throughout the season.
I heard the problems started when Montero found out he won’t get to play Beckham this year.
So what would the Scooby-Doo ending be for this episode?
I am going to love watching SSFC go down in flames as RBNY pastes them 5-0. Neither Freddy being available? Awesome!
Lets hear the SSFC supporters now.
Since the season hasn’t started yet, I can still take back my pick of Seattle making the playoffs, right?
He probably saw those wretched colored uniforms. Tim Vickery spoke highly of this player and now I wonder if Freddy changed his mind.
Hahaha good for you Shittle!
Let’s hope that he comes back.
On paper the Sounders look as good as the Red Balls. I see the Sounders defeating RBNY on Thurs. RB’s fans are a little to confident in a squad with alot of holes.
“Ruh-Roh?”
Are you channeling Scooby-Doo Ives?
At least 2 goals.
Montero was never added to the roster page on the Team’s site (neither has Hurtado, btw), presumably awaiting visa clearance. He does show up on the official MLS salaries page, however, so I’m not too worried. He’ll be back in Seattle tomorrow, practice with the team through next week and score two goals next Thursday.
He finally realized where the decimal place was on his contract.
Ugh!! I just put him in my fantasy team too….
Agree with Gilby – don’t think Montero was removed from the site. Just never put up. Fans have assumed this was pending finalization of some visa issues.
it was mention in a seattletimes blog he’ll be back tomorrow
As I recall, he’s never been listed on the website roster so I think it’s a bit misleading to say this was a “deletion”. Presumably he wasn’t listed pending visa clearance. (Though that didn’t keep Hurtado from showing up.) But otherwise, the story is accurate and it’s a concern for SSFC fans. Official line is that he’s due back Friday.
for real though, where the HELL are you Fredy?!?!?!
you better be back for opening day!!!
He probably heard Drew Carey’s marching band practicing…
I don’t think Fredy or Hurtado for that matter have ever been listed on the Sounders Website roster so it would have been hard for them to be removed. Having said that its a little discouraging that he’s not currently in Seattle.
Maybe he’s getting a better offer from USL
dub,
It wouldn’t be a Mafia if Ives didn’t have lookout guys. ha
Horrible news for MLS.
Great news for TFC’s home opener. 😀
you’re welcome for the lead Ives 😉
MLS better come up with the $$$ to keep him in the league. He is exactly the type of player we need to bring in each year. Let him light it up here for a few seasons and then head to Europe.
OMG! Does this mean they won’t be able to win MLS Cup this year. Oh the Pacific Northwest humanity!
I hope to see him playing in the MLS. It doesn’t look too good with the deletion of his picture and name from the Sounder FC website though.
WHo knows? Hopefully someone who can tell us.