The Gale Agbossoumonde era is over.*
Agbossoumonde was traded to Colorado for forward Luke Moore as part of a three way move today. Moore was previously with Chivas USA.
In many ways it is a deal of minor consequence. Agbossoumonde was not in the plans. Getting anything for him was more production than they ever were going to get.
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However, as always in MLS salary has to be considered. Moore has a cap hit of $128,333.33 over the full year (his TFC cap hit will be pro rated to reflect only the time he played with TFC -- so about $101,000). Agbossoumonde was close to a minimum wage player. Overall, Moore will cost TFC about $50,000 more over full season.
Again, since Agbossoumonde was clearly not going to play the argument can be made that any amount of money on him would have been wasted. So, then, the key question is whether TFC got the best value they could for him. Was Moore the piece they needed.
To answer that we need to look at who Moore will likely be replacing on the depth chart. That player is Andrew Wiedeman.
We looked at five key performance measures for both -- Shots + Key Passes, dribbles, drawn fouls, turn overs + fouls and aerial wins.
Here's how they compared.
Moore - S+KP 1.0 (per 90), Drb 0.2, DF 0.3, TO+F 1.5, AW 1.7
Wiedeman - S+KP 0.3, Drb 0, DF 0.3, TO+F 0.8, AW 0.8
Moore is clearly better. The question is whether he's enough better to justify the $30,000 increase on the salary cap.
That's a question that might require more playing time from Moore. As it stands now, the numbers for both men (outside of Moore's AW, which is 16th best amongst forwards in MLS) aren't inspiring.
In case you're thinking that Moore is coming in for a struggling Gilberto, here's his numbers.
Gilberto - S+KP 4.8, Drb 0.2, DF 2.0, TO+F 3.8, AW 3.7.
So, probably not.
*Yes, I make that joke every time.