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dabes2
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Not necessarily. There's buzz going around that Landon only signed that new lucrative contract because there's a buyout clause. Basically it is a win-win for him because if he doesn't impress at Everton, he goes back to LA with a nice deal, or if he does play well he gets to fulfill his dream of playing in one of the biggest league.
What will not happen is what happened with Beckham. If Donovan is bought, it will be before MLS starts up again in March. This will allow Los Angeles to replace him with some other players. The Beckham fiasco went down because Beckham insisted on extending the loan throughout the MLS season while Milan had no intention of offering a reasonable price for him, so LA went the first half of their season without their highest paid player. It's not necessarily losing Donovan that MLS/LA want to avoid, it's the situation of him missing a large part of the year and leaving a gigantic hole in LA's salary cap. Donovan has said that he wouldn't do this to Los Angeles, and didn't push for an extension last year at Munich even when that would have meant more playing time for him.
So yeah, I think you guys have a decent shot at signing him if he performs well.
I agree with much of this, but not the timing. La already know that beckham isn't coming back until after the world cup. They want donovan for the start of the season in march.
I wouldn't be surprised if this speculated buyout provision for donovan doesn't kickin until the summer. So if everton want to buy donovan they may have to send him back in march and get him full time in the summer.
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