Dynamo to announce Amigo Energy as a jersey sponsor

I'm actually pretty happy that the 2 best teams in the league (Houston and NE) built their teams mostly with home-grown talent. I don't see a compelling need to pick up a old foreign player unless we end up with a talent arms-race in the next few years

 

http://blogs.chron.com/soccer/archives/2007/08/dynamo_cash_dil.html

Dynamo cash dilemma: Designated player or stadium?

Now that the Dynamo have $7.5 million to spend over the next 3 1/2 years thanks to their newfound friends at Amigo Energy, they need to make up their minds and invest on a designated player.

Or at least that's what Dynamo prez Oliver Luck seem to suggest when the jersey-sponsorship deal was announced last week.

When asked about the chance for a DP signing, the Houston Business Journal quoted Luck as saying:

``Our salary cap is $2.1 million so we only have a certain pot of money. (The sponsorship) might give us a bit of leeway in finding a player who fits into that category.''

Actually, the salary cap is now around $2.4 million, but who's counting?

But wait a minute. Doesn't the team have a stadium to build?

Last time we checked the price tag for the proposed venue hovered around $80 million. And last time we checked, parent company AEG was not about to foot the whole bill.

The rest of the money will have to come from somewhere else (city, county, Sports Authority) in some way or fashion (money, land, etc.). Why not use the sponsorship money toward the financing of the stadium?

DP or stadium? Where should the money go?

How badly do the Dynamo need a DP? For the third year in a row (including their last year as the Quakes) they're one of the league's top teams.

Then again, the team has no high-profile Latino players -- actually, no Latino players at all -- and no player of international fame (we won't count Canada, eh?).

If you say DP, who fits the mold?

Hot news from AP: Brian Ching was removed from the United States' starting lineup against Sweden on Wednesday because of a strained left groin.
Ching thought he likely strained the groin Sunday, when he played and scored for Houston in a 1-0 victory over Dallas in Major League Soccer, U.S. team spokesman Michael Kammarman said. Benny Feilhaber replaced Ching.

Remember how Ching left the game and the stadium early? Dominic Kinnear said Ching experienced tightness then. Now it's a strained legft groin.

Posted by Bernardo Fallas at August 22, 2007 10:37 AM

 

i hope we get a retractable roof stadium.