Lower the Number of International Slots in MLS

Weren't all of those players high draft picks? Which would mean that they were in fact heralded players. Your argument is weak here.

 

Matarrita was healthy early in the season. He wasn't starting then either.

 

You do realize that NYCFC is one of the best teams in MLS right? Playing time will be difficult for a lot of players to earn.

Playing time is not just earned by one's performance during games. It's also how the player performs everyday on the training field. It's same in MLS as it is in any league in the world.

Also dominating one's age group does not mean that a player will be a good at the senior level. A good portion of U20, U17 stars don't live up to those expectations at the higher levels.

 

Hey, have you admitted you were wrong about employment law yet?

 

Marcus Epps, Jack Elliot, Corey Burke, Richie Marquez, Bronico, Valot, Mueller, Gressell, Mo Adams, etc

 

Uhh...you did?

 

In other words, "Yes, I admit I was wrong"

And you're suggesting that a MLS team skirt the rules by wasting roster spots at the same time you're mad that teams are wasting roster spots by not playing players...

 

How about Pirlo being benched for Mikey Lopez? Lopez was even more unheralded, and was starting ahead of both Pirlo and McNamara last year.

Mix Diskerud was starting every game at first, and he got benched because he was awful. If anything, that proves expensive players can be benched.

Poku? First of all, he's not American. Second, he was getting regular minutes, and left because Miami FC offered him a ridiculously high salary.

The only time "a lot" of unheralded players broke through in MLS every year was the 1990s, when the league was brand-new and most of the teams had almost nonexistent scouting budgets. After 2000, the only unheralded rookies I've seen eventually get caps are Kerry Zavagnin, Brian Ching, Bobby Boswell, Jeff Parke, and Chris Wondolowski. Of those, only Ching and Wondo got regular USMNT call-ups for any length of time. None ever became a regular starter for the USMNT.

 

That would be a surprise to the government and the league's lawyers I'm sure. Can we also declare things like safe working conditions, minimum wage for the ticket reps, and family leave policy irrelevant?

 

No, you explicitly said in the other thread that MLS teams could sign whatever players they want so saying they would only sign players eligible for the U.S. Nats would be legal, when it clearly is not. That's what I'm talking about. I can go quote the [posts if you need a reminder.

Once you admit you're wrong about that we can move on.

 

So it's basically been proven that A) Americans don't seem to have a tremendous impediment to playing time; B) the managers that are supposedly forcing red blooded Americans to languish behind highly paid foreigners don't actually seem to exist.

Do we really need to continue engaging Facebook uncle of soccer takes here? It's clearly not making any difference.

 

Dempsey, unheralded? You do realize Dempsey was a Project-40 player? Those were the top prospects in that era -- it was the predecessor to Generation Adidas. It was a surprise that he dropped to 8th in the draft.

 

Do you honestly not think that the coaches don't see who is playing the best literally every day in practice?

Do you think you have more insight than they do... from... a message board?

 

Wait wait wait wait wait wait. We actually want MLS to rely on the superdraft now?

 

Also I'd like to point out the logical inconsistency you've created between the other thread you started where we should not have guaranteed roster spots on the national team and guaranteeing roster spots for Americans in the MLS for the USMNT here.