I think its safe to say few or none of those add-ons hit given Sealy's lack of perforance in Colorado, but its also not safe to count on any of the new add-ons hitting from his play in Montreal given how he's been playing. So going with just the base trade amounts the Rapids spent $500K in GAM to rent Sealy for 8 months. In that time he had 5 assists, 7 shots on target, and played a bit over 1000 minutes. So essentially we paid about $500 of GAM per minute of play and $100K of GAM per assist.
Crest to Smith and the FO for cutting bait and not throwing good money after bad, but this was a horrible deal. At the time it seemed like a move for a guy who might be better than average but a lot of money was spent for him. Even Matt Doyle was questioning the payout. SO we lost $500K and we burned 1000 minutes on a guy who was not a match for what we were doing. Meanwhile Yapi is wasting away on the bench. Yapi's not a winger, but he's still better than what Sealy was giving us.
Speaking of overpaying for talent, the other bit of new was yesterday where the on-again/off-again move for Sayed Abu Farchi appears to be on-again, this time for good, as reported by the same group as had the Sealy news. Unfortunately, like Sealy, this seems to be an overpay for a winger. $6M (dollars, not shekels) is the reported price. Right now Transfermrkt, which is certainly not the end-all and be-all of valuation, lists him at a little over $2M in value.
He is a 20 year old who's getting his first taste with the Israeli national team and clearly has some potential, but is only play so far has been in the Israeli league. The league is ranked in the 40s worldwide (MLS is 10-20) and 24th in the UEFA coefficients. In comparison Scotland is 19th in the coefficients and multiple teams in the SPL have bought USL talent in this window, because MLS talent is out of their price range (or they're not interested in going there unless its Celtic or Rangers). Remember guys like Sam Nicholson and Connor Ronan are now playing in the SPL and neither of them would (or should) start in MLS. And the Israeli league is worse than that.
Meanwhile this week Seattle just spent $6M to buy Dejan Joveljić from Kansas City. Joveljić just turned 27 and scored 18 goals last season for KC, and has 8 for an all-time bad MLS side KC this season. He has 60 goals in 158 league appearances over 5.5 years. A clearly proven MLS striker, and he sold for the same price as Colorado is paying for Farchi.
I really hope he's the next Herrington, who takes a step up in league quality and matches it with his play. I know he's had interest from other European teams. But I can't look at this ant not think that in the best case scenario this is a move to win in the future, again. Meanwhile we are literally 2 wins away from our first major trophy in 16 years. We should be making moves to win now. Even if this was a big swing for a proven name from outside the league we're down to under 3 weeks before the semi-final, if they're not in the league already (or American), they won't help us beat St. Louis as they likely won't have their paperwork.
There's a lot of talk with the Sealy move that the Rapids will be looking for another winger before the window closes on Wednesday. The only real name we've heard is 30-year old Brazilian winger Everton, currently playing for Flamengo. That would certainly be more of a win-now move, but probably not in time to help in the semi. Also he's a left-sided winger, as is Farchi, so hopefully one of them would be comfortable on the right.
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