The New York Red Bulls have acquired Canadian national team star Dwayne DeRosario in a trade with Toronto FC, sources have confirmed to SBI.
The trade, which will send Tony Tchani, Danleigh Borman and a first round pick in 2012, will be announced this afternoon.
MLS is finalizing details on the first blockbuster trade of the new year.
No, this is not an April Fool's Joke.
Toronto FC has been shopping DeRosario for much of the off-season and found a taker in the Red Bulls, who were desperate for a star playmaker.
(UPDATE-After we first reported this trade in the afternoon it hit a snag caused by concerns over a criminal charge on the record of one of the players involved. MLS was able to sort that issue out to allow the deal to be completed later on Friday.)
DeRosario had expressed unhappiness with his contract situation with Toronto FC. New York currently has an available third Designated Player slot but it is unclear whether the Red Bulls would sign DeRosario to a DP contract.
Toronto FC adds a pair of players who can help right away in Tchani and Borman, while also adding a first-round draft pick, which technical director Paul Mariner will be able to utilize. Mariner has a track record as one of the best judges of American college talent.
The addition of DeRosario makes the Red Bulls an even stronger title contender, with a midfield now boasting Joel Lindpere, Teemu Tainio, Dane Richards and DeRosario.
What do you think of this trade?
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NYRB are officially the Arsenal of MLS.
Great up front.
Good in the middle.
Good in the back.
Terrible in the net.
Sounds like Ives’ “sources” are playing an April Fools joke on him.
I dont understand what you mean. Stars signing elsewhere for more money, trading good vets for youth – this happens everywhere in sport. Why single out MLSE for the commonplace?
Sick! Great move for RB!
Ya this is a bad trade TFC are getting alot but they are not getting someone that can score goals. Tchani seems ok but he scored 1 goals last year in 29 games he seems like he is a player TFC already has.
Pretty curious who’ll suit up for NY at left back during the Gold Cup if this happens.
NYRB better hope that their veterans can keep DeRo in line. He is a locker room cancer and a diva. Great talent, bad head. Every game he is bitching at his teammates for not laying the ball on his foot every time they touch it. Plays no D. Sulks. Compare him to Clint on work ethic for 90 minutes…CD is a EPL player and he has a smaller head than DeRo.
Wears out his welcome everywhere he goes. I agree with the entitlement comment above…the Canucks showed up in Toronto and expected everyone to bow to their greatness. Canada will become a rival two the big two in CONCACAF when the next generation comes of age, not before. And when they get their screwed up federation in order.
To add,
How did these guys ever get a pro sports franchise again… let alone 4? At least they don’t have their hands on the Blue Jays, Bautista is safe for the time being.
Love the way MLSE continues to treat its star players. Bosh, Sundin, Kaberle, De Rosario.
lol last time i checked, “cry” was a verb
everything you’ve said is correct but i think you are missing my point. MLSE promised DeRo an upgrade. Nothing was promised to Cann aside from bonuses. MLSE decieved DeRo but Cann has no one to blame but himself for signing the contract.
Basically, Cann knew what he was getting into when he signed but DeRo THOUGHT he knew what he was getting into. Big difference.
DeRo is making base salary of 375k, guaranteed compensation of 443.75k (I don’t really know what those mean, to be honest) and isn’t really great as a team player. Amazing on his own, but he often tries to do too much.
Cann is making 56.6k, and has been a great team player. Considering they had useless guys like White (105k), Usanov (96k), Saric (90k), Hiscanovics (114k), Garcia (190k), and Barrett (205k), it’s easy to understand why Cann wants more. He was making less money than Zach Herold, who was forced to retire without even playing a game…
TFC just lost a whole bunch of ‘hand’ in this deal if its off… if Tchani is the ‘snag’ in the deal and he can’t be packaged to come to TFC… then the deal is off as he’s the main part. Therefore other teams will stay away becuase we all know MeRo was not getting a better $$deal anywhere else and somehow we suckered NYRB into this, now NYRB says no to a diff deal…and we are stuck with this locker room cancer, we dont want him here, and he doesnt want to be here…. this could be epic brutal for TFC.
And they all link back to this site.
Watching this is like watching the epl transfer deadline day feed, except I doubt anyone will be worth 50 million here…
Now that DeRo is back on the market…..see what Toronto needs Seattle.
Type his name in Google..click on news..its all over the place
Ok. I no longer think this is a joke. No way Ives would make up something about a player’s “past legal issue” holding up a deal. But the whole is it real or not thing has been fun.
May this joke or trade die a quick death.
Why you no verbs?
Yes. And it is nowhere on MLS’s site. Actually it’s nowhere but here.
Exactly
i hope this is a joke. or at least the snag snags the deal.
You’re an evil man, Ives.
If this is a joke, a lot of people are going to be furious.
SNAG??? What the hell kind fo snag? Like an “oh yeah, its April Fools” kind of snag
“give up on a young guy who with the proper time and mentoring is europe bound”
Actually, this is why you make the trade. You don’t own his future, so you add a guy who can help you win now. And make no mistake, with DeRo, Red Bulls are no worse than dead even with RSL as the best team in the league.
Snag is probably DeRo contract
Do NOT do this trade Red Bulls. Giving up too much with Tchani and 1st round pick. Ballouchy and Rooney instead..
According to TFC twitter feed, Aron Winter states that DeRo is still a member of the club.
http://twitter.com/#!/torontofc
I’m pulling for this snag. Snag! Snag! Snag!
I agree it was time for DeRo to get out of Toronto, and that he did not cover himself with glory there. But let’s not forget that despite his alleged shortcomings he has won championships, more than once, and been the clutch performer on championship teams. And he scored 15 goals last year, on a bad team.
Tchani will probably be very good, so TFC did well to get him, but you have to give something up to get one of the best players in the league. And no, Ballouchy doesn’t count as “something.” When your main players are over 30 (Henry, Marquez) or no more than two years from Europe (Ream, Agudelo) you have to do this deal. I don’t care how good Tchani becomes, 15 years without a trophy is long enough to wait.
TFC in rebuild year anyways, thanks NYRB for speeding it up!
My concern as well….the RedBulls will lose half the starting line-up come the Gold Cup. Agudelo, DeRo, Richards, Ream, Miller all might see time with their respective national teams…
With the talent the Red Bulls Academy is pumping out, we can find new young guys.
Why you cry?
Nevermind, didn’t see the according to sources bit in the article…….since I was expecting a shot at April Fools redemption by Ives I guess that I didn’t catch that detail.
April fools bigtime!! It looks like a bunch of candadian outlets took the bait..
Good one Ives.
How do they afford him and stay under the cap? Oh, I forgot, NY and LA can do anything and MLS will let it go because that’s who they want to win.
Why is this not posted on the MLS site or the Red Bulls site?
A good move for all.
Here’s the reality: If Tchani continues to impress/improve – like everyone thinks he will – he’s GONE in 2-3 years to Europe anyway.
So NY gets a really great player, who can probably play great for 2-3 years.
TFC gets a budding great player, who will be great in a year…and then leave in a few years. PLUS a good left-sided player in Borman. PLUS a draft pick.
As a NYRB supporter, I hate this trade. DeRo is fairly arrogant and like you said, not a team player. Tchani is going to be real good, and Borman is awesome depth, possibly even a starter for TFC. And the draft pick, unless NYRB wins the cup, was icing on the cake.
This trade sucks, on a few levels.
DeRo + his baggage, Mehdi Ballouchy and a 2nd rounder is more like it.
They have this new invention call the transfer window…. ever heard of it?
Ha, ya i just checked his twitter again, that sucks… just didnt think of it being april fools since he had it up yesterday
why is he a headcase again? OH, cuz he was promised DP status later on since they told him they couldnt manage (salary-wise) to hand it to him right away. So Dero kept his end of the deal and played like a DP while MLSE did not keep their end of the deal by upgrading his contract. So he protested. I would do the same especially when DeGuzman isnt DP worthy.
As a neutral, Im glad Dero is leaving Toronto. His owners and his fans treat him like crap. Yet when Cann does the same thing, Toronto fans say Cann had valid reason to do so???? WHAT!? Good job Dero. TFC is a joke of an organization.
DeRo and Ballouchy in the same midfield lineup… there’s your April Fool’s Day joke.
Dude, DeRo is REPLACING Ballouchy in the diamond.
Why not pull this trade off in off season? why wait 3 games into the season?
NYRB fans better realize what they are getting:
1) talented player who has a few good years left
2) guy who doesn’t work within any system — he’s a freelancer
3) guy who goes offside way too much
4) player who steals chances from his teammates (not a team player)
5) a guy who can shock you with his brilliance in one game and then disappear for games at a time
6) a player who has a problem with looking up (tunnel vision)
i’m glad TFC is not giving in to De Ro’s DP contract demands. The Golden Boy has always seemed more interested in his paycheck than in winning.
wow! amazing move!
I could tell this was real. And I could also tell that the Bunbury article was an April Fool’s Joke and it was funny. Lighten up. And stop speaking for everyone. Dude.