Trading on the black market

Everyone seems to have their opinions on Nowak, the FO and the roster changes.  Most everyone is angry that our Captain was shipped out of town.  And most people are still scratching their head asking, "why?"  It's easy to point the finger at management touting stupidity as the driving force behind the changes.  But what if that has nothing to do with it.  What it there are cosmic forces involved behind our team's control.  In walks the conspiracy theory.

The growth of MLS is based on the overall strength of all the teams involved.  As the league expands, passion for the Game needs to expand with it.  If there is dominance by 5 or 6 teams and the other 10 are hanging on to life support, the league will suffer.  Worse, it could fold.  Enter the puppetier.

We look at the two big changes for the Union that took place in the last five months.  Le Toux goes to Vancouver.  He's French; Canada speaks a lot of French.  He scores goals which get the fans involved and excited.  His jersey sells to helps with revenues as well as visual marketing throughout the region.  Now Danny..goes back home to Chivas.  They have no fan base.  Danny is a fan favorite.  Has flare both in his game as well as his personality.  He gives a personality back to the defense.  In both cases, you have 2 guys that were shipped out of a city with an already die-hard fan base to 2 teams that need this shot of B-12.

So who's behind it?  Garber.  And why?  Because we struck a deal in the off-season for the rights to host the All-Star Game.  Back room hand shake deals happen all the time.  The good of the whole is always far better than the success of its parts.  It's a win-win for everybody.  Philly still has a solid franchise.  We're hosting the ASG.  Vancouver and Chivas strengthen their teams and the league as a whole takes a step forward.  Baby step, but forward all the same.

"But if Garber was behind the trade, why did it take so long to pull the trigger?"  Because Nowak and the FO were playing the upper hand.  If the league wanted this trade to happen, it was on our terms.  Nobody knows what kind of allocation money was provided to the team.  It was stated that the league was involved in the Danny trade and the league determines whether the allocation money is fair and just.  That all stays under wraps.  The smug look on Nowak's face during his press conference led me to believe he was in control of the shots.

Now this is conspiracy theory, folks.  Don't go getting your panties in a bunch because I'm offering up a different twist on the story.  Le Toux for a box of donuts and Danny for a set of used tires doesn't make any sense to me.  But this does.

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