Park wanted in the MLS

[gator]

Not sure how much say Nelsen has on signings in Toronto. I would not be surprised if this a decision made by the owner.

Nelsen has lots of say in the signings, the owners,MLSE have lots of money and there is a good sized Asian community in Toronto! MLS is a very rough and tumble league with poor refereeing as Hogan is finding out, I'm not sure if Park would be up to it! In saying that I wouldn't mind Toronto FC taking a chance on him,it's not my money and we can"t get relegated!

[bonheurjh]

Hope he goes. It will save our money, save his career and save our room for a different footballer.

Win-Win game isn't it?

At least Park didn't laugh when we lost like Bosingwa cn ut did.

Bosingwa he makes me upset...

[Shepherds Mush]

Get him out the door - he wont adapt to the Championship and hes on far too much money that can be spent elsewhere

Bosingwa MUST go...been saying that all season!

[taarabt7]

Sign him up, Nelsen! Oh how I wish that Kiwi was still playing for us

[kron-1664]

he might have the attitude of the pope but hes a cr ap footballer from what i have seen

[madara]

Park need time to adapt. I'm sure he will come good next season. I think the free marketing that comes with keeping Park far outweighs his salary. 60% of the human population lives in asia and the marketing potential is huge. Might as well keep him and see if he can contribute more next season.

[Norths]

Even comes with a nice little video package to convince the doubters

[Joon]

My guess is that TF will ask Park if he could accept a pay cut, and Park will probably agree to it to help the club bounce back next season. It's been said many times before, but the man doesn't need more money, and I doubt he wants to leave without making good.

[madara]

lol might as well watch some goals to cheer us all up.

Anyway if we going to play a more attractive football from now on and try to keep the ball we need to keep players who can keep possession.

[madara]

My guess is that TF will ask Park if he could accept a pay cut, and Park will probably agree to it to help the club bounce back next season. It's been said many times before, but the man doesn't need more money, and I doubt he wants to leave without making good.

Yeah, Park doesn't need anymore money. The Sunday Times, ranks Park as the 17th richest active player in the English Premier League.

[TBLOCKRANGER]

Be interesting to see if anyone has any statistics as to what tangiable financial benefit the Asian market brings. Are we selling 100k park shirts etc.
The tv income is divided between clubs so I presume we get no bigger share of foreign tv income.

I can understand the benefit to say a club the size of man utd who are still the most indebted club in the world but do we really get 75k or whatever parks salary is back per week from other sources. Our sponsors are simply our owner so not like Daiwoo have joined us.

For clubs domestic tv rights is the big cheque nothing else compares.

[vblockranger]

Worth keeping a sh1t footballer that takes up a place in the squad to sell shirts that i doubt cover the cost of his wages? nah get rid. Fergie got rid of him because he wasnt good enough for PRem football and i doubt he will be any good even in the Championship. Will Fernandes decide to keep him to sell shirts AND help to promote his airline? thats a different story.

[Joon]

Worth keeping a sh1t footballer that takes up a place in the squad to sell shirts that i doubt cover the cost of his wages? nah get rid. Fergie got rid of him because he wasnt good enough for PRem football and i doubt he will be any good even in the Championship. Will Fernandes decide to keep him to sell shirts AND help to promote his airline? thats a different story.

The truth is that not even Park can sell enough shirts to cover his salary, so he will only be asked to stay on if TF and HR still believe that his combined value as a footballer and marketing icon exceed his salary. We'll find out soon enough, unless some club makes an offer that is hard to refuse.

[vblockranger]

The truth is that not even Park can sell enough shirts to cover his salary, so he will only be asked to stay on if TF and HR still believe that his combined value as a footballer and marketing icon exceed his salary. We'll find out soon enough, unless some club makes an offer that is hard to refuse.

Take a quid if it gets him off the wage bill. He cant even get a game in one of the worse sides in the league (if not THE worse) and sits there on the bench earning thousands. Keeping a player in a squad place for being a "marketing icon" is just plain wrong and would never have happened under anyone other than Fernandes. At least at Man U he earned his place.

[Norths]

Yeah get shot, not even worth keeping if was prepared to drop to 40k a week in the champs (35k drop? highly unlikely).