Great post that should be required reading. The point about getting paid is huge and was recently called out as reason many foreign players are attracted to MLS
I think it's only if the winner is at home they do it on the field. They went indoors last year when the Giants won in Kansas City.
I knew it was a joke. But you still shouldn't feel sorry for him. It would be hilarious if they did win some time in the next 20 years, and shipped Bobby Bo a ring.
don't forget the joke that is La Liga. Real and Barca are funded by the the Bank of Spain essentially. They have their own TV deals not a league wide TV deals. Every year at least one La Liga club files for bankruptcy. Portsmouth was bad but that was a case of a club overspending to buy players like Leeds and the EPL is nowhere near as bad as Serie A or La Liga.
In 2012, Don Garber presented the Philip F. Anschutz Trophy to Phil Anschutz who then walked backwards to present the trophy to Landon Donovan http://andymead.photoshelter.com/ga...ocx7R8yzXmY/I0000OZHWUWTfJiU/C0000jwSed9Xh7G0 http://andymead.photoshelter.com/ga...ocx7R8yzXmY/I0000EoFt2Wp9TEI/C0000jwSed9Xh7G0
No... Only reason they have to watch horrible soccer is because NYCFC put a bad team on the field. There are a bunch of other teams in the league with the same salary cap New York City has, and they put out a quality product.
Yeah... I'm not even necessarily saying it's their fault. There were a bunch of people in the media predicting the NYCFC would win the East because they wanted the big story of the New York City team being a huge story for MLS right out of the gate. But it was straight up insanity. People forget how difficult it is to be an expansion team in this league.
Obviously if not for the Mets, NYCFC would have a stadium under construction right now. ******** the Mets!
Don't be so hard on NYCFC,after all, it's teams like NYCFC who will eventually force MLS to raise the salary cap level and add more free agency.
How, by being a national embarrassment? They should consider themselves lucky to have a franchise despite zero stadium plan and starting their franchise on a lie, and shut the hell up.
Not a NYCFC fan, but come on, you didn't see this coming? The newer teams won't care a thing about the leagues past troubles. They're gonna want to win, and win now. Some will want to win at any cost. With the current roster, the next guy probably doesn't last the whole season.
No, I saw it coming. I don't know how Don Garber didn't, maybe he did and figured $100 million was enough to look the other way. Hopefully that $100 million doesn't buy them a real voice at the board of governors.
I never said abandon the salary cap entirely. I am saying that the current cap is a way for the non-spending teams to keep a lid on the quality of their spending opposition. So essentially you end up with the teams that are doing the heavy investing being kept down by the teams that are sucking off that investment without actually investing. People can call that parity. But what it amounts to is freeloading. If the league would add salary cap dollars for teams willing to do the heavy spending, it would presumably encourage player investment. And it would presumably force discount teams to keep up and actually make the sorts of investments that the leagues needs to improve its position, particularly with regard to TV. Instead, what you have now is, sure you can go out and sign high-profile players, but it's going to be a major hit against the cap. All so that teams that aren't doing it and aren't taking that risk can still compete with you on the field.
Except it's not. Every team has the same rules. The high-spenders just often prioritized stars and offense over making a cohesive team, and suffered for it. Stop making excuses for teams overspending to cover for their incompetence in roster building.
Isn't this already happening? Teams that perform at or near the top of the various competitions, earn allocation money, and spend it to improve their rosters? Aren't LA and Seattle kinda built on allocation money right now? Sure, both have money to send on top DP's, but it's that tier of player just underneath DP that is critical to success- and both those teams (add others I may be missing-NYRB?) have the Alonso's and Juninho's along side those DP's because of allocation money they've earned. BTW, I nominate NYFC to blow by Toronto's "years in MLS w/o playoffs" record.