Per translate.com, that's Schrott an die Sovets spenden... Which isn't that much longer than Panzerkampfwagen V Panther.
The Codpiece was being a prick for the halibut, The Trabant was on the verge of breaking down over Codpiece’s behavior, While the Panzer was trying to tread lightly between he two. The bartender looked at all this and said, “What is this, some kind of a joke?”
That’s fair, but it doesn’t mean MLS has done enough to grow their viewership. Would you be in favor of adding more DP slots then? The current system needs a doubling of top tier players to increase tv ratings to draw the real media money.
Then let the gap widen (for the *uninterested owners). The owners will sell and a new ownership with aspiration will take over. Protect the middle and top teams and let the penny-pinchers wither on the vine. It would hurt the franchise values of the worst owners but that is to be expected with a less parity-driven league. *Teams that do not spend on infrastructure, players, marketing, and management will get punished. The teams that are trying (over an average of the last five years) will not be punished if they have met a minimum requirement of the above.
Yes, because the way to solve underperforming markets is to make the home team even less enticing for fans to watch... Yeah, tell me another one. Sure, this might happen in some markets, but its just as likely that Kraft and Kroenke will go ahead and run their bare bones organizations while the team value continues to rise thanks to the work of the league as a whole. Or some other penny-pinching rich guy buys the team instead (see Fire, Chicago or Crew, Columbus/Austin).
Yes you are absolutely correct on the top part. How else will new ownership arrive if the current owners are doing well and do not want to sell? You let the bottom 2 to 4 teams sink until the owners give in or give up. I see more negative sarcastic comments from you than almost anyone all the while adding nothing to the thread. Grow up Clarence and add something or gtfo.
I'll add something when something worth responding to seriously gets posted. The obsession some American fans have with punishing 'underperforming' teams is completely backwards towards growing the sport but until we can get past that we'll keep having these stupid discussions.
Link to proof that that kind of spending works. And further proof that that kind of spending would be covered by gains in revenues and sponsorships. I mean, MLS has been increasing player spending 10% per year every year for at least 5 or 6 years. That's a crazy rate of growth.
Those teams already get punished. They don't win any trophies. Seriously, you realize that in a 24 team league, there's going to be a couple of teams currently in existence that won't win any hardware in the next 50 years. You can't say that the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox had no ambition for a century, it's just that in competitive environments the distribution of championships is never a flat line. Nobody backs into a championship. If a team lacks ambition and doesn't spend money wisely, they're not going accidentally win the Supporters Shield. And if you want to bring up something silly that happened early in the league history when things were different, don't bother.
But again there's no salary cap, so huge gaps already exist. Good idea but I think something like that maybe in place. Isn't there a minimum budget for academy spending, for instance?
I often asked, but never got a real reply, what was bad about being a "Mickey Mouse league". Disney is one of the largest, most successful and powerful organizations on the planet.
You ask any of the players or coaches from that team if they lacked ambition in 2012 and get back to me if you find a single one that says, "No."
He probably means median. I'm going to guess that the TAM players are moving the average salary up a bit.
The weren't willing to lose enough money. Despite building a new stadium and having a successful group of players and coaching staff, they didn't win MLS Cup. Obviously the solution was to bring in a couple ultra-expensive players, but not three because Wondo.
Here’s the link: draw people to TV and massively increase your TV revenue. That is the entire gist of my argument. It is a gamble that can be stopped at any time. If the TV and streaming money doesn’t come, then you stop. If the money from media drastically increases, then you keep it going.