People were initially saying that this wasn't leverage for a new contract. Why? Because doing something like this for leverage in some cases would make you look bad.Originally Posted by Roogsy
What people were denying it?
The training stint served several purposes one of which was to leverage TFC for a new contract, hedge in case TFC released him or if TFC happen to be willing, allow for some time in European with a big club. Is that not obvious? I hardly think anyone denied any of these points have they? This is all just good business. In fact, aside from all the confusion over the permission thing, this is exactly what I would expect a good agent to do for ANY player.
Which comes back to the whole permission thing in the first place. Why give a player permission to go overseas so said player could use that "training" stint as leverage for a new contract? That's asinine.
DeRo wasn't in the same shoes as Ljungberg, who was out of contract.
