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Pat Noonan to Columbus Crew falls through
Published 6/30/2008 by Trevor Hayward at American Soccer Reader
nonoonan.jpg According to this  report  the Columbus Crew were set to capture former New England Revolution striker from Norwegian side Aalesund, but had the deal turned down by Major League Soccer. New England still holds Noonan’s rights, so the Crew were prepared to offer $225,000 to New England, but MLS thought that was too much. MLS felt the Crew would be overpaying New England and turned the deal down. Noonan was interested in returning to MLS in an effort to re-ignite his international career. Now it looks like Noonan will be remaining in Norway, despite only playing three ...

NOTCOMING: Pat Noonan to Columbus Crew?
Published 7/1/2008 by Rumor Mill (noreply@blogger.com) at Major League Soccer (MLS) Rumors - For the time between the games
... since signing. However, it doesn't look like the transfer is going through, reports out of Columbus say the deal has been kiboshed by MLS, as they feel the transfer fee is too exorbitant. MLS holds the rights to do this, due to the league's single-entity status, so despite the Crew having agreed to a fee, and working out a deal with the Revolution, it looks like Noonan will be stuck in Norway for the forseeable future. Additionally there is more on this story at this Columbus Dispatch blog.

Belong To The Breadbasket News
Published 7/1/2008 by brucio (noreply@blogger.com) at du Nord
... Shawn Mitchell of the Dispatch on the blog Covering The Crew says the team has been chasing former New England forward Pat Noonan, but MLS can't come to a contract agreement with the player. Really though, it's not even that simple. ...

Around the ‘net
Published 7/17/2008 by James at Columbus Crew
First: Robbie Rogers is going to Beijing. Go Robbie. Second: It’s been surprisingly quiet July for Columbus regarding roster changes. So and Hernandez were waived, but nothing’s come to fruition since then. We’ve heard about the Nigerian forward Ibezito Ogbonna coming to camp from Israel via Romania, and I take it that a deal for Pat Noonan is still dead. But is that all there is? Since the transfer window opened, New York Red Bulls have added at least four new players (Look through Dave’s other ...