Coming off a day with two homegrown signings the Rapids decided to double up and sign two more homegrown players today! The newest signings are both "trade and signs" in that we traded for the homegrown rights for both of them from other team and signed them as our homegrown players. Which, yeah, don't seem to make much sense but MLS is going to MLS.
The first move was to send $75K in GAM to DC for defender Michael Edwards. He's returning to the U.S> after playing in Wolfsburg's reserves after leaving the DC academy. Depending on performance DC could get additional GAM in the deal. Edwards signed a 2 year deal with 2 additional option years. He had one look from the U.S. UJ-17s back in 2016.
After that the Rapids doubled up by sending $50K in GAM to RBNY for the rights to winger Dantouma "Yaya" Toure. Again there's an incentive in the contract that could result in more GAM for RBNY, and they retain the rights to a small percentage of any transfer fee the Rapids may get in the future. 16 year old Toure signed a 4 year deal with 2 additional option years. He has played regularly for the U-16 and U-17 U.S. National Teams.
With this week's signings the Rapids now have 12 homegrown players on the roster. The squad's average age is 24.6 years old with a median at 25. This is a crazy young squad right now which has its advantages and disadvantages. We're going to need a lot of leadership from our older guys like Yarbrough and Moor.
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