The New York Red Bulls' big summer acquisition appears to be Everton attacker Tim Cahill.
Everton announced the transfer of the Australian international to the MLS club on their website Monday, a move that bolsters the Red Bulls' attack even more after the recent acquisition of Sebastien Le Toux.
According to a report by the BBC, the teams agreed on a transfer fee of £1 million. Everton says that the 32-year-old Cahill will be traveling to the United States in the next few days, and the deal will be completed pending Cahill passing a physical and agreeing to a contract. Cahill will presumably occupy the club's third DP spot along with Thierry Henry and Rafa Marquez, though the Red Bulls have yet confirm the signing. The club issued a statement Monday evening, saying:
"We are aware of Everton’s statement regarding midfielder Tim Cahill and our club. However, we have no comment at this time regarding him or any other non-New York player."
Cahill is coming off a subpar season in which he only scored three goals in 41 games across all competitions, but he was in the 10-goal range for the four seasons prior to 2011-12. He is known for his aerial ability and can play either up top or in the hole behind the front line. Cahill is a regular for the Australian national team, and he scored against the United States in their pre-World Cup friendly in South Africa in June, 2010.
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What do you think of this development? Do you like the signing? Do you think this pushes the Red Bulls over the top in the Eastern Conference? Wondering how all the attacking pieces will work together for New York?
Share your thoughts below.
To make them feel legit, or to start to fill all of those empty seats week after week?
Yes, we might as well.
This is a solid signing and if more like it would happen as a result, bring it on.
that’s precisely what I was thinking. surprised no one else has speculated this.
For clarification, yes: I was trolling.
Bigot
China actually has a growing soccer league with promotion and relegation. Something we don’t have.
I’d get rid of the salary cap altogether. Having one hasn’t stopped NY Red Bulls from spending 13 million a year while teams like Columbus spend 3.
eh…KaKa to Cosmos 2014.
i believe it’s the amount of rain plus nfl and mls that makes it tough to have grass.
they need to get their own stadium but i dont see that happening ever.
CAP him NOW. Get the paperwork for a one-time switch and line him up next to Jones…
Agreed. But wouldn’t it be funny if it turns out Tebow IS a commie teabagging scientologist?
Must be a New England fan…I’m sorry
Unless playing MLS starts making players eligible for the Brazilian national team Kaka may not come here even after the next WC. Besides Real needs him on their bench.
Cahil may not have immigration issues. His family is from American Samoa before Australia. I’m pretty sure he could have been capped by us if he wanted.
I don’t believe your assement of the rules is correct. You can use Allocation money to pay down transfer fees yes; but I believe you can also roll transfer fees into one of your 3 DP slots.
For example, I believe Alvaro Fernandez and Saborio are both paid under the “DP threshold”, but are or were considered dps to pay down their transfer fees.
I think the allocation provision is if you are not using a DP slot for the player.
not by much.
Waaaahhhh
The concept of a salary cap is destined to change with the acquisitions we’ve seen in China lately.
about as well as your strategy for building a stadium in the district?
might as well get rid of the salary cap
How has that strategy worked for the Metrobulls in the past?
Absolutely love Cahill but hate the Red Balls. Torn.
is this the first time MLS has paid a transfer fee for a player in Europe?
on paper this red bulls attack is nasty for mls.
well said. there’s plenty of other places on the web to argue like little children over personal perspectives and ideology.
I could see this being part of a deal for Donovan at the end of the transfer window. Even at 32, Cahill could have gone for more to another team in England.
They don’t need to get their own stadium, they just need to convince Paul Allen and the Seahawks to replace the turf with grass. Football can be played on grass you know, they do it in plenty of other NFL stadiums.
Thank you. I can discuss politics with the best of them, but this isn’t the place.
If MLS has proved anything its that you CAN’T buy the MLS Cup. 9 winners.
Cooper, LeToux, Lade, Barklage, Meara, Cahill — not a bad year for the Norwegian.
Actually, I like Marquez/Conde in defense together. It’s our best posession backline, and with Cahill in the midfield it will mitigate what the red bulls would lose on set piece defense for taking out Holgersson.
literally yelled out “OMG” to the computer screen great job RBNY
Yet they still get 19,000 plus a game.
That’s irrelevant. By MLS rules, you’re not allowed to just spend whatever you want on transfer fees. You’re restricted to only using allocation funds.
Of course, this is MLS, where the league office plays Calvinball all the time, transparency is a joke, and different teams have to manage their rosters by seemingly different sets of rules. So who knows what’s going on?
They would have to win some silverware to be declared anything.
Haters gonna hate.
His last two seasons have put the gun to his head. His stats suck.
Indeed.
It looks like the Lakers in NYRB locker room right now. But it isn’t 2000 anymore. These guys are oldies. If they don’t put it together this season or the next they are going to need a whole new roster.
They just want the silverware to make them feel legit. As LA proved last year after four years of trying, you CAN buy the cup but it takes a few years. I hope a real program built around building the sport, not selling T-shirts, underwear or energy drinks, wins the cup.
uhh ya i dont think cahill draws that many fans in. If they werent selling out before then this wasnt changing anything. not sure where your going with this one bud
If they could ship Rafa Marquez to Chivas or wherever (as Galaxy did with Angel) and bring in Ireland… they might actually be the best MLS team ever, unlike last year when they were declared the best MLS team ever (as were the Galaxy this preseason) and sucked.
I have all the respect in the world for Seattle but until they get their own stadium with actual grass, it’s a tree falling in an abandoned forest.
Once that happens, I’d be all for Seattle hosting a massive amount of USMNT matches, too.
Foul
Watch out for defensive northwesterners, they can’t handle the truth.
As someone who called for both Backe and Soler to be fired, Soler appears to have figured out how MLS works, and Backe is doing well enough to keep his job.
One has to wonder if Aron Winter would have figured it out if given more time. Spencer and Nowak were disasters though so I wouldn’t apply that whole patience thing to them.
….and they still won’t sellout…
Who cares. As long as they can play I don’t care if he’s a commie or teabagger or Scientologist. We’re playing soccer here this isn’t Crossfire.
Y’all don’t know how happy this makes me. I am a diehard Everton fan and Tim Cahill’s clutch goals and hard work are what drew me in with the club in the first place. Greatest July 23rd. Ever.
I have to agree that this probably does hurt Seattle with a lot of players. There may be some who wont care, but most will.