Pedro Amador’s days with Atlanta United have come to an end, with Israeli club Hapoel Be’er Sheva announcing via social media on Wednesday that it had signed the left back to a four-year deal. Atlanta United has yet to confirm the transfer on their end.
“I am very excited to join the national champions,” Amador said in a statement released by Hapoel Be’er Sheva. “I have heard a lot about the club, the city, and the fans. I am aware of our goals for the season, and together we will do everything to achieve them. I wish the team great success in tonight’s important match.”
Amador joins a club that won its sixth first-division title in 2025-26 with a 18-3-5 record, meaning it has qualified for the UEFA Champions League qualifying state.
This move shouldn’t be a surprise to Atlanta fans. The signing of Elías Báez was a clear signal that Amador wasn’t in Tata Martino’s plans, with Amador’s last appearance coming in Atlanta’s U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal loss to Orlando City on May 19. On top of that, his contract was set to end at the end of the 2026 season, with the club holding an option for 2027.
All the best to Amador in his new endeavors.
Amador was a lot like Muyumba. Okay, but almost certainly overpaid. But because he was actually “okay” he felt like something of a savior when he arrived, just for putting crosses on target.
Until MLS removes a significant portion of the salary cap mechanisms, depth (especially in the back) has to be super cheap. (This begs the question of trading away your Noah Cobbs and Efrain Moraleses for GAM but that’s another matter.)
I thought he was relatively cheap though? Only players paid less than him on our team were the homegrowns, Hernandez, Cayman, Sergio, and Fafa.
Out of all the 66 left backs in the league (with 30 teams), he was the 37th highest paid, and 14 or more of the players below him are homegrowns so their salary is kept almost artificially low. I don’t know if that’s still considered too high for a backup LB though.
(source: mlsplayers.org mls player salaries)
I guess maybe one thing from this though, is that we had 3 LBs on the team, which is a lot for such a non-critical position. I think maybe he could have been useful as a LW, but I guess the lineups never made sense for that?
Amador doesn’t have the one on-one dribbling skills Tata wants in a winger.
Amador isn’t a winger, he is a fullback…
He knows, he was responding to my last point of how we had too many LBs, and I posited a theoretical that maybe he could’ve been moved to a winger instead.
I hope we have some sort of plan for depth because we’re losing quite a bit of it. He was one of the better LB’s we’ve seen, and better than what i’ve seen out of Baez so far.
just shut this team down for a year or two and start from scratch…we already barely have any depth at FB, so now we have only 1 true LB…i would say we should switch to a 3 CB back line with wingbacks, but we don’t even have depth at CB to be able to play that way…
Fair, embrace the wooden spoon and play a 2-3-5 with this roster. We wouldn’t win many games but maybe it would be more fun to watch.
hahaha, considering out currently roster construction, we could run out a 0-0-10 and I would not be sure we would still score a goal…
Great, losing another quality depth player (who arguably should have been starting). Back to usual AUFC summer business