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Football/Soccer - Jean Philippe Peguero loan too MLS San Jose EarthQuakes
Jean Philippe Peguero loan too MLS San Jose EarthQuakes
Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 7:00 AM ET
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES FANS WHO are anxiously awaiting word of a major signing to bolster the forward corps will have to wait a little longer. But the team, scoreless in its first two games, has made a move.
According to a source with knowledge of the transaction, San Jose has landed former Rapids and MetroStars striker Jean-Philippe Peguero, who scored 20 goals in 58 games from 2004 to 2006 before being transferred to Danish club Brondby. He will be on loan for the MLS season.
A horrific knee injury he suffered playing for Brondby shortly after his arrival tore his ACL and MCL and sidelined him for more than a year. He has not played for the first team since the injury but has appeared regularly for the reserves and recently made the bench for a first-team match against Aalborg.
Brondby paid a reported $750,000 for Peguero. San Jose used allocation money to facilitate the loan and would need to pay a transfer fee if it wishes to acquire his rights. Because he left MLS on a transfer, his most recent club -- now known as the Red Bulls -- has no claim on him. (The same situation occurred when former Rapids defender Nat Borchers -- sold to Norwegian club Odd Grenland in 2006 -- returned to MLS this past winter and Real Salt Lake exercised its allocation priority to sign him.)
As a 2008 expansion team, San Jose ranked atop the allocation priority list and used that ranking to take first claim on Peguero. Teams drop to the bottom of the list, which is the reverse order of the teams' records over the past 30 games, upon use of its allocation priority on a player coming back to the league.
Peguero isn't the only Haitian player that Quakes head coach Frank Yallop has evaluated in the past two months. Another former Rapid and former Florida prep star, Fabrice Noel, trained with the team in preseason and played in two matches. He is under contract to Puerto Rico of the USL.
Last week, the team decided not to sign former Bolton striker Michael Ricketts, who at one time it was believed he was eligible to play for the U.S. because his father lived in New Jersey for many years. Ricketts, an English citizen born in Birmingham, played in the Quakes reserve match at Home Depot Center the day after San Jose lost its opener to the Galaxy.
Ricketts, 29, had his contract canceled by Oldham Athletic in January and has played for a half-dozen clubs in the past few years, including Middlesbrough, Leeds United and Preston North End.
"Every time we sat down to talk about him, Frank and I said, 'What do you think?'" said general manager John Doyle. "And we'd both just look at each other. We both decided to keep looking."
The USA/MLS primary transfer window, during which time teams can sign players currently under contract to other teams, closed Tuesday. The secondary window opens June 15. The Peguero deal has been finalized but only is official if he passes a physical, which a source said would be conducted Wednesday or Thursday.
Major League Soccer team has reached tentative agreement with city for a new stadium. Haitian striker Peguero is also on the way.
April 17, 2008
Things are looking up for Major League Soccer's San Jose Earthquakes, who have managed to land a new stadium and a proven goal scorer all in the space of a few days.
The stadium, of course, is the bigger news. The Earthquakes reached a tentative agreement with city officials on construction of a $132-million, 18,000-seat soccer stadium near the San Jose airport. The city council will vote on the deal next month and approval is expected.
As for the player, San Jose has dipped into the past and brought Haitian striker Jean Philippe Peguero back into MLS, finalizing the deal just before the league's international transfer deadline at midnight Tuesday.
Peguero, 26, scored 21 goals and had 13 assists for the Colorado Rapids and New York Red Bulls between 2004 and 2006 before being sold to Brondby of the Danish league.
While in Denmark, he suffered torn ligaments in his right knee, injuries from which he only recently fully recovered. The Earthquakes are taking a bit of a risk, but they are getting Peguero on loan from Brondby, not buying him outright, and the signing is contingent on the player passing a physical.
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Brazilian-born Mexico national team midfielder/forward Antonio "Zinha" Naelson is being targeted by San Jose Coach Frank Yallop as a possible designated player.
Yallop and John Doyle, the Earthquakes' general manager, planned to be in Seattle on Wednesday night for Mexico's game against China and also to "have a cup of coffee with him and just say hi and just explore things," Doyle told the Bay Area-based centerlinesoccer.com.
Lew Wolff, the Earthquakes' owner, reportedly has given the nod to signing a designated player, whose salary is largely free of salary-cap restrictions.
The San Jose Earthquakes have landed a proven goal scorer with the signing of forward Jean-Philippe Peguero of Haiti.
Peguero, 26, arrives on loan from the Danish team Brondy where he played well in 2006 before tearing anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his right knee.
"Hopefully he can regain his form," Quakes Coach Frank Yallop said Wednesday.
The team made the deal with Brondy just before the transfer deadline Tuesday night. It won't be official until the transfer is cleared by FIFA, soccer's worldwide governing body. Peguero also must pass a physical next week.
The deal gives Peguero a chance to show Brondy officials he has recovered from his injury.
"We'll see how he does," Yallop said. "It's a good deal for both teams. There's no risk."
Because it is a loan, the Quakes didn't spend allocation money or give up draft picks to secure Peguero, who has been one of Haiti's top forwards on the national team.
The 6-foot-1 striker also scored 21 goals while playing for the Colorado Rapids and New York Red Bulls from 2004-'06.
Peguero won't be available for San Jose's game at Colorado on Saturday night. If he clears transfers, Peguero will join the team for training next week.
The Quakes (0-2) could use help after failing to score this season. Team officials have promised to bolster the front line that features Kei Kamara and Gavin Glinton, unproven strikers with potential.
Peguero, though, won't automatically replace the current starters.
After Tuesday's practice, Yallop had said of his starters: "There's no immediate panic from us."
• San Jose also is interested in Mexican midfielder Zinha, who plays for Club Toluca. But Yallop downplayed the situation because the team is in preliminary stages of meeting with the Mexican star.
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