http://tinyurl.com/acn0 snippet - "...on the negative side, I think rosters are going to have to get bigger. I think the salary cap is going to have to be increased. And I think they're going to have to bring in some new blood from abroad while, at the same time, give some of the good, young MLS players the chance to go abroad, as well. I think if they can do those two things, the league will prosper. It will be positive. In the next couple of years, we need some higher caliber players from abroad to replace the Valderramas, Etcheverrys and Nowaks. And we need to see if some of our young and talented MLS players can make a mark overseas. That would be a shot in the arm for MLS." Logical, made sense to me. McBride's recent success has to be a positive; no one else really comes to mind for me over the past 6 or 8 months (ex-MLS who does well in EPL).
Did Friedel just go over there in the past 6-8 months? No - that's really what I was going for (hence the mention of McBride's recent success). At least that's what I was trying to get across but, in re-reading my post, that didn't come across! Also, Arena mentions specifically the "younger" MLS players - is he trying to goad MLS into pursuing/allowing more Euro trades?
I thought the same thing reading his response. But I believe that he is encouraging his young national team players/prospects to go to Europe so that they can develop into better players. At least thats what I thought after reading it.
Re: Re: Arena says MLS must do **** to improve MLS will rarely sell players to Europe because they want too much for them, well if thet let a few go over to Europe, even if they were "underpriced," and they did well i'm sure in the future offers would be bigger and closer to the value MLS puts on a player.