So by this logic, NOTHING has changed? Again, folks need to look at MLS where it is in the here and now. NOT continuing to look back 4-5-10 years ago and chastise MLS for things that are no longer happening. That's the larger point! Seriously, listening to Counter Attack yesterday one of the main talking point was how surprised Keith Costigan and Janus were that Philadelphia was sitting a top the east. They were surprised with how well Red Bulls are playing, and then went on to say how much stronger the west is. This is from TWO people who get paid to follow & cover MLS too!!! Hell Janus from time to time has filled in as an analyst for Union games!!! If either of them had bothered to pay attention the past few years they'd know which team has the most points over that period of time..... These are the things that are working against MLS, and have been since it's first season. MLS is not preventing young players from moving abroad. The league isn't preventing young players from getting minutes. The level of play while not at the levels of the top Euro leagues is still miles ahead of where it was just 5 years ago let alone in 2010 or 1996.
Wrong! Announced in 2015, Targeted Allocation Money is a strategic investment that provides every team with increased resources to add, or retain, players that will make an immediate impact on the field. Targeted Allocation Money may be used to sign new or re-sign existing players whose salary and acquisition costs are more than the maximum salary budget charge but less than $1.5 million. https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-announces-increase-targeted-allocation-money-2018-and-2019
It was badly implemented. The real goal was to: "strengthen the depth of their rosters with top domestic and international talent."
Jesus Ferreira just scored a Bobby Wood goal! Come to the BuLi young man. There may be a newly promoted club (Royal Blue uniforms) that will overpay you and put you in front off 64,000 rabid fans every home match! Can you see it?
I have no idea what any of this has to do with whether MLS is using the alphabet soup as a carve out to bring in foreign players while suppressing salaries of domestic players. As they say in the UK, you seem to have lost the plot.
Like many things on this board, I consider it an unprovable opinion which I will, arrogantly, refer to as fact! I am right and everyone else (that disagrees with me) is wrong!
Maybe the kid had somewhere else to be… Brandon Servania… subbed into the game in the 60th minute, two yellow and sent off by the 67th. Ouch. #FCDallas pic.twitter.com/w1ad3grDCo— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) May 1, 2022
Watched MTL for a bit. They seemed to be ceding possession to ATL to let them play their champagne ball to ATL's detriment. So didn't get to Djorde on the ball much. His defensive positioning was fine. Had a few loose touches.
Yeah but the evidence to say that domestic players have had their salaries suppressed is lacking, whether you consider the players cited in the article or MLS salaries in general. The top American defender in MLS in 2007 made $30,870, or $42,804 in today's money. Zimm makes $2M, Parker $1.2M.
As a Quakes fan I'm still just dumbfounded by all the chances given to Jackson Yueill and NOT to Keaton Parks... but hey gotta trust that the people in charge know more than internet dummies... how did the US do at the Olympics? 2 midfielders in this game who were eligible for the Olympic qualifiers last spring. One was the major focal point of the offense, the highest touch player, and the captain. The other wasn’t invited. pic.twitter.com/6FMFQgryLV— Paul Harvey (@Thundering165) May 1, 2022 Start calling up Keaton Parks to the USMNT and I'll stop making videos of him doing things most American midfielders can't do.(Actually, that probably wouldn't make me stop) pic.twitter.com/pDcWQ6i3O7— Chris Campbell (@SoupInNYC27) May 1, 2022
What a touch and finish from Chris Gloster to open his MLS account.@NYCFC is cruising. pic.twitter.com/VTUOe3lzv0— Major League Soccer (@MLS) May 1, 2022
That give and go 👌@keaton_parks ➡️ @talles_magno2 ➡️ @keaton_parks for the opening goal. #NYCFC pic.twitter.com/JfP3TwGlPT— Major League Soccer (@MLS) May 1, 2022
Check out that freaking stadium in Nashville.........wow To think we are probably in the twilight of MLS SSS introductions...... What will we have left? St Louis? Vegas? Eventually NYCFC and NE Revs? Eventual Dallas and Colorado upgrades? And Dax McCarty clanged the woodwork hard early, wow what a christening that would have been! edit: and then another! That one from Muyl off the inside of the post!
In my dreams: St Louis, Miami, New York, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Detroit, Sacramento, Vancouver, Charlotte...
I believe he also had a blood clot last year at the end of the year and that the recovery carried over to the December camp.