Capology suggests there's a reason for that. Payroll estimates BRZ1 Flamengo $51.3M ARG1 River Plate 44.6M BRZ2 Palmeiras $41.8M MEX1 Monterrey $37.7M BRZ3 Corinthians $34M BRZ4 Cruzeiro $33.4M BRZ5 Mineiro $31.4M BRZ6 Internacional $29.7M ARG2 Boca Juniors $28M BRZ7 Sao Paolo $28.1M MEX2 America $27.9M MEX3 UANL 27.8M BRZ8 Botafogo $25.6M MLS1 Inter Miami $25.3M MLS2 Toronto $17M MLS3 Galaxy $14.6M ARG3 Estudiantes $14M I stopped listing Brazil after 8 but there are 15 Brazilian clubs listed at higher than $15M.
Combination of Brazil being able to spend more because their economy isn't as bad and incredible mismanagement of Argentina sides sans River, who mostly suffer from having their impressive young talent always being bought up rapidly.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/ot...ld-cup-fifa-says/ar-AA1GUkyk?ocid=socialshare So 1.5 million tickets sold in advanced according to FIFA.
The rest of the Americas need some TAM, GAM and U22-I to catch up to Brazil. What you posted for Toronto is probably what Berna and Insigne are making alone. What you also posted for LA Galaxy just between Pec, Paintsil and Puig they are making $12M combined so that leaves $2M for the rest of the roster? I wouldn't doubt it from being so in MLS but something does seem off.
Yeah, those MLS numbers are wrong. Insigne and Bernardeschi alone make $21.7 million, Messi plus Busquets eclipses $29 million. Calls into question the rest of their data when MLS salaries are publicly available and they’re still that incorrect.
That's why Australia should stay in OFC, the distance for them to play Saudi Arabia is too much. In Africa we also have long travels from north to south but at least it's not a big difference time zone wise.
You either are ignoring the obvious, or are just not paying attention. The alphabet soup of roster mechanisms are in place so that the owners CAN spend more outside of the salary budget outlined in the CBA. Those rules also allow them to pay for better talent, while also not having to pay the existing "lesser" talent significantly more money. Those mechanisms allow them to go around the CBA, while also, more importantly, not violating it. Without the alphabet soup the owners would either have to: 1.) wait until the current CBA is expiring and negotiate new terms or 2.) open up the CBA for renegotiation much sooner than they would like or necessarily need to. It's why the MLSPA fought to get rid of TAM and eventually have it folded into the General Allocation Money Fund. The Players Association isn't there to help the upper middle class and High class players. They're there to protect the middle, lower-middle, and end of the roster players. If you're an owner and you'd like to spend more money across your entire roster, what's the one thing you don't want to do? You don't want to pay more money for the existing level of talent in that middle to bottom of the roster. You'll pay more money for a better level of talent in that space of the roster though..... The top 15-18 players on most MLS teams can compete with most clubs around the world (the PSG's, Real Madrid's, Man City's, etc not so much). Where MLS teams start to falter is when they need to rely on players on the bottom half of the roster. The league addressed the top end, and middle end of the rosters. Now their challenge is raise the quality of the other half/third of rosters. The handful of teams that have figured out how to use and believe in their NextPro side and their Academy to develop MLS level players are all set. The other 20-25 teams struggle when faced with injuries and absences, and competition fixture congestion.
The rules don’t allow the league to go around the CBA, they’re part of it. And the current CBA gives the league the authority to modify much of what’s in the agreement, too. That said, you’re right. The league’s complex roster rules allow for spending huge sums on a small number of players while everyone else’s compensation is growing, but at a far lower level and in a very controlled way. Its discovery process also makes it damned hard to teams to compete for the same player and, in so doing, bid up his compensation.
No other league in the world has to make complex rules to pay players more and/or to avoid paying them more.
Because paying the CURRENT players occupying roster spots 19-30 more money is going to suddenly make them better and more talented.......
Monterrey did better than expected against the UCL runner up. Let's see how Pachuca does tomorrow. So far the only clubs from the Americas that have lost are Seattle and LAFC but Seattle faced another club from this side of the world.