The rapids of Colorado allow fans to exchange the jersey of the star exchanged for a new | MLS
The Rapids of Colorado celebrate the arrival of their new star player by allowing fans to throw the memories of their old.
The MLS team announced on Thursday that it had acquired Eintracht Francfurt attacking the midfield Paxxtre Aaronson in a club record agreement involving transfer fees of $ 7 million. The purchase responds to an obvious need for rapids, while the previous start of 10 of the club, Djordje Mihailović, was exchanged at the Toronto FC for $ 8 million after expressed at the club that he wanted to leave two complete seasons after joining.
Mihailović said he had asked for a transfer for “personal reasons”, a surprising turn of events for a player who quickly became a Pinpin of the team’s attack unit after joining Az Alkmaar, leading Colorado to the playoffs for the first time in two seasons last year. This year, rapids have been enjoying their best season since 2021.
The Toronto FC, on the other hand, is in the middle of a complete reconstruction, having failed to make the MLS qualifiers in each of the previous four seasons and never finish the 11th row of the Eastern Conference in this time. The club recently abandoned stars at high prices Lorenzo Insigne and Federico Bernardeschi and remain mired near the East.
But during his introductory press conference with the Toronto FC, Mihailovic said he thought that his new club had a greater commitment to succeed, citing “the idea of returning to the victory of the trophies here” among his reasons for this decision.
“Everyone is talking about winning. Everyone talks about playing the playoffs,” he said. “I could really feel the truth behind them explaining their project.”
Now, the rapids allow their fans to move on without Mihailović. By announcing the acquisition of Aaronson, the club said that this will allow fans who bought jerseys with the name of Mihailović and No. 10 in the back for the new ones, or empty, with the name and the number of Aaronson, or that of certain other players.
A Rapids spokesman told the Guardian US that the club had decided to implement the program as a means of showing their commitment to their community, admitting that the Mihailovic movement “came as a surprise” and that the acquisition of Aaronson marks “a turning point and a new chapter for the club, our fans and our new rising star”.
A program of this type is extremely rare but not unknown. In 2018, the fanatics of sports retailers said that this would allow NBA fans to exchange recently purchased jerseys from a player who had been exchanged for another. The retailer now manages a similar program in all sports for the players of which Jersey is bought within 90 days of the trade. The NFL put the brakes on a similar program managed by a Detroit real estate agent for Matthew Stafford Lions last year. In a much more serious scenario, the New England Patriots organized a program to allow fans to trade in their Aaron Hernandez jerseys after being accused of the murder of Odin Lloyd.
Penten Aaronson, Brenden Aaronson’s brother of Leeds United, leaves behind the possibility of playing in the German Bundesliga, but will enter a situation on which he will rely to play a leading role for rapids. The young Aaronson spent last season on loan to Utrecht in the Dutch Eredivisia, where he scored a summit of eight goals and added four assists while starting regularly while Utrecht finished fourth in the League.
Aaronson moved to Eintracht Frankfurt in 2022 after having pierced with the Philadelphia Union, his hometown club. He made his debut for the American national male team in 2023 and was on the list of the Gold Cup 2025 with his brother.
