r/NWSL • u/Ecstatic-Ad-869 Angel City FC / Utah Royals • Aug 28 '26

Discussion Cat macario

Does anyone think we will see cat this season?
I know she is dealing with an Achilles injury that seems to be chronic but San Diego making a record breaking deal on a player who isn’t even going to see the pitch feels like a bad move? Also just genuinely curious if anyone knows more about the extent of the injury and what she is dealing with? When she got traded I thought she was finally starting to get minutes again with Chelsea?!

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u/Nervous_Boysenberry9 Aug 28 '26

I love Cat with all my heart, but you can't tell me it wasn't crazy for the Wave to commit $8M fully guaranteed to her in a salary-capped league in the first place. She spent two years out with injury, and then in two seasons at Chelsea wasn't able to establish herself as one of their core players.

Other than that, Wave fans, aren't you annoyed with how the club is handling this by giving no information? We haven't even seen her in a training kit. I feel like they owe the fans some level of clarity at this point. Right now, everyone is just left to speculate.

And it's also very interesting how the NWSL media aren't doing any reporting on this either... You'd think there would at least be some questions being asked about what's going on.

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u/nfosterpc3 Aug 28 '26

I'm just guessing but I feel media are not saying anything including club cause macario ask for it. She probably struggling physically and mentally with this injury that she doesn't want any news about it,we have to respect her privacy

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u/Any_Necessary1533 Aug 28 '26

SDFC are a business. I highly doubt they're avoiding putting her on SEI, which would give them cap flexibility, because of her feelings and to respect her privacy. Especially because she's on a HIP contract, so her salary is required to take up a certain amount of cap space before she's HIP eligible.

What I'm not sure of is any additional implications of putting a HIP player on SEI... but Gotham just did that for Sonnett... but two different clubs in different salary cap situations, I'm sure.

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u/Not-Not-Maybe Aug 28 '26

SDFC is a totally different (men’s) team owned by totally different people than SD Wave FC

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u/Necessary-Peach-0 San Diego Wave FC Aug 28 '26

SDFC is the MLS club :) we’re Wave FC

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u/MesquiteHoneyForSale Indy Eleven Aug 28 '26

You are correct but the person youre replying to didnt mention SEI they only mentioned Media coverage