gFor every famous success of Major League Soccer’s Designated Player rule, for every Thierry Henry or Landon Donovan, there seems to be another utter disaster–the history of the DP era of Major League Soccer (2007 onward) has been littered with big-money players who have simply failed to live up to their billing: Kris Boyd, who lasted a solitary season with the Portland Timbers, scoring seven goals while making a cool $1.5 million (or $214,285.72 per goal); Denilson, the winger who had been capped 61 times for Brazil but managed only eight appearances and one goal for FC Dallas in his solitary MLS season in 2007; Mista, the Spanish forward who failed to score in a single season with Toronto FC, and Nery Castillo, a Mexican forward who had cost Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk a then-club record 20 million euro transfer fee and promptly wore out his welcome and spent almost his entire time there away on loan to various clubs, including the Chicago Fire, where he contributed little in his lone season in America.
Frank Lampard: Worst DP Signing Ever?
