I’m happy for the Galaxy fans, but is it only Klein, or are others in the office going to follow Klein out the door?
Yes I would. Bernardeschi, a change of scenery to LA might inspire him. But I wouldn't be surprised if Vanney attempted to dip into the TFC pool and get Osorio. I also wouldn't be shocked if they traded Jovelic for some goods. Worries me now is Kuntz and Vanney are building a team and both know wtf they're doing. We will see what happens now.
WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE SOCCER TEAMS It's not about the revenue, it's about the brands. (click the link for the world wide list)
I was surprised but look at Leicester and Everton who are fighting relegation and lost a lot of valuation. If they do get relegated and they don't immediately bounce back it could be a long time before they ever appear on a list like this again. At the same time you have Galaxy who couldn't be any worse and yet they are keeping their value regardless. Of course they will need to course correct or they will continue to lose out to their neighbor but they have a buffer that other leagues don't. MLS is basically structured like the Super League that the mega rich owners want so badly. It's not the Super League though, because the Super League was supposed to be the worlds best soccer and MLS clearly isn't and won't be for a long time if ever.
At some point the US U20 team is going to run into some tough competition if they make it out of the next round, and Uruguay or Gambia in the next round may already be pretty good. But Colombia beat Slovakia 5-1 today and it looked like boys against men. When the US played them it looked like boys against better boys. And I don't know how good Tunisia is, but Brazil beat them 4-1, and got 2 goals in the 2nd half despite being down a man since the 45th minute.
So much for the pros and cons having to do with promotion and relegation. Abroad, you can have some exciting games at the end of a season for teams not wanting to get relegated but you can also have teams implode and go belly up if they drop down a tier. Luckily, (depending on your point of view) teams in MLS won’t face this dilemma as teams will never face relegation , can even go worst to first and appreciate in value from one season to the next. In terms of marketing and team valuations anyway, I think MLS has gotten it right whereas their relegated counterparts overseas most likely will fade into oblivion in a matter of months.
Not always. Many of those same teams end up spending a lot of money to compete in a top tier , maybe stay up a year or two and then go right back down , sometimes even losing more that before. That happens quite often with newly promoted clubs.
MLS’ single entity model works quite well for fat, complacent owners who can care little for results on the field without having to worry about imperiling the value of their asset. What it does for fans of those teams is condemn them to year after year of utter suckitude mitigated by very occasional mediocrity. if MLS went to a pro/rel model Fisher would sell so fast your head would spin, but don’t worry because it will never happen, and USSF is too incompetent and/or corrupt to force the issue.
Pro/rel is an idiotic system and if it didn't already exist, no one would think to implement it. Kind of like the electoral college. Compare how much money the NFL makes in a sport that's watched in like 1.5 countries to the Premier League, which has broadcast deals in literally every country in the world. MLS, which was giving away teams for $10 million in 2007, having the second highest number of teams with 7 among the top 30 most valuable after the Premier League, ahead of a hundred plus clubs with a hundred years of history and culture and fanbases. How bad is it? Not only are 8/20 Premier League, 17/20 Spain, 16/18 Germany, 16/20 Italy, 18/20 France teams from the first division not on the list, there are no clubs from outside the big five leagues aside from the seven from MLS. Even massive clubs like Ajax PSV Porto and Benfica aren't on that list!
3 Things Chicago is the worst best team in all of Major League Soccer. Chris Brady got f*cked up real bad Zach Thornton is HUGE
Another 3 things TFC should have 4 goals right now Jon Conway seems to be giving more instruction then Bob Bradley Bob Bradley looks like an exo skeleton
So your only criteria to judge a league is the monetary value of the clubs? What about: quality of soccer most amount of fans who enjoy watching it consistently producing clubs that compete at the international level developing and attracting the very best players from around the world attracting the best coaches from around the world the list could go on... It's far from certain that MLS will overtake the leagues that have pro/rel in all of these criteria. I think a group of billionaire owners would never design a league with pro/rel but I'm not so sure a group of fans would design a league without pro/rel. When the billionaires plans for Super League leaked out the fans universally rejected it. There was no significant group of fans that were in favor of Super League.
Of course a team in a league where there is zero possibility of going down and losing all the sponsorship/tv money is going to have a higher book value than a team that, if not nurtured, is at constant risk…
If a league has a bunch of clubs closing in on billion dollar valuations, with an exponential growth trajectory, and other leagues have clubs worth far less than that, on a much lower growth trajectory that they've been on for over a century, all the rest will follow, it's only a matter of time... quality of soccer MLS is producing players that are good enough for the U-20s to regularly make the quarterfinals 4 - The @USYNT is the fourth team to reach at least the quarterfinals in four consecutive editions of the FIFA U20 World Cup after Argentina (2001-07), Brazil (13 straight from 1981-2005) and Uruguay (1977-83). Progression. pic.twitter.com/5JaeQRw6Yn— OptaJack⚽️ (@OptaJack) May 30, 2023 most amount of fans who enjoy watching it MLS is pretty high up there in average attendance already, the expansion teams all seem to have great attendance so I'm guessing it's only been going up. consistently producing clubs that compete at the international level A MLS club literally just won CCL for the first time last year, Seattle, and LAFC is in the CCL final tonight. 👏 @LAFC paid tickets for more than 500 supporters from Los Angeles to León, Guanajuato 📍 pic.twitter.com/egnAFor6eh— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) June 1, 2023
On TV, it looks pretty neat when the ATX stadium is bathed in green after a goal. How do they do that? Could we possibly do something like that in PPP, with blue light? Just wondering
Exactly, which is why almost all the top sports leagues in the world don't have pro/rel! Four of the five biggest sports leagues in the world by annual revenue DO NOT have pro/rel, and would never even consider such an insane idea. NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL. The Premier League is the outlier in the top five!
Fans of Bundesliga teams with no shot at being relevant: "at least we have pro/rel I like my sports league to be entertaining"