MAC Hermann winner Andrew Gutman looked ready to join Nashville SC on loan after signing with Scottish giants Celtic earlier this week.
However, Major League Soccer is preventing the 2020 expansion side from adding Gutman on a season-long loan.
Nashville SC released a statement stating they will not proceed with the loan due to MLS not supporting the move. Celtic agreed to a three-year contract with Gutman on Thursday before eventually announcing the loan deal with Nashville.
Club statement pic.twitter.com/3UPkkq4J9t
— x – Nashville SC (@NashvilleSC) February 2, 2019
Gutman, 22, a left-back for the University of Indiana, had been a member of the Chicago Fire academy but rejected an offer to sign with Chicago after completing his senior collegiate season. Gutman joined North Carolina State and U.S. U-20 Men’s National Team defender Manny Perez, who also signed with Celtic earlier this week.
I don’t like this. Had he been any nationality other than American then MLS would not have squashed this loan deal.
do you want to be paying double or triple for draft pick age players who celtic won’t use and really wants as assets? if they want to play here sign here. if they want to play there sign there.
That should be up to the individual club to decide. I’m sure the clubs are perfectly capable of deciding how to best build their teams without the league intervening.
no, the contracts are all with the league and the league can decide i am not going to pay inflated salary plus a loan fee for someone above what their draft slot would have been. this is also in effect a draft pick a year before they are allowed to draft, which the league doesn’t have to condone.
The good news is HE IS STILL PLAYING EUROPE NOW !!!!
by that you mean he just signed a deal and is likely headed out on loan to USL or some low low division in Europe, because I can’t see how he makes Celtic’s first team. it’s Cervi.
On what grounds? Sounds like somebody got LEANED ON!
do you want to be in the business of having to buy back on loan draft age players they don’t seem to want, that probably should have signed here directly?