Official - Dero on trial with CELTIC

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Or outright released. He is in an option year, all they had to do was not pick up the option and low and behold we have all that capspace available. They didn't do that. So TFC is telling us is that they believe he is worth at least that much in capspace, so it is not a stretch then to think that given they are willing to use up that much capspace on him now, they may look at an option that reduces his cap impact as well.

Let's discuss that "cap impact" statement.

Only the "base salary" counts against the cap and there are "official statements" out there (on the Timbers website for one) explaining that the maximum base salary and cap hit for any player, including DPs is $335k.

Since DeRo makes a base of $375k, we can only assume that allocation money is being used to "pay down his cap hit."

While deciphering MLS salary cap information is like trying to understand women, if you go on the knowledge that only the base salary counts against the cap and $335k is the max, there isn't a big advantage on the savings front.