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Good points in the article, and he is giving a lot of respect to the league, so props to him. This is a bit of a pet-peeve, but I hate it when they say things like "the brand." He sounds like a marketing executive. "We've got to find a real rainmaker who can find our true north star, leverage the win-win axiom, run it up the flagpole and streamline the global paradigm and transition our synergy into a killer methodology." Yeah, something like that...
It is a brand and a business. That is the reality. I especially enjoyed that Gerrard used the word "astroturf."
If I got five bucks for every time I here "brand" in the course of a day, I would no longer have to work.
Not a bad piece compared to most of the student written articles that pop up here. I have a couple of quibbles but he has a point and makes it well
I'm in the minority here but when I read articles about Gerrard, I get the impression that he was one of those people; he thought he could come over here and take it easy because he didn't expect the standard of play to be very high. It's great that he is presenting MLS as a league that has challenges footballers don't face elsewhere. Everyone likes a new challenge!
This would be WAY more credible as a PR piece if it wasn't on the website of a network with international MLS broadcast rights.
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What I've heard re: #ChicagoFire search - Ramos out (too expensive); Kreis strong possibility @SoccerMorning @davisjsn @SiriusXMFC— Glenn Crooks (@GlennCrooks) November 20, 2015 I don't want to live in a world where Tab Ramos is more expensive than Jason Kreis.
One can only hope that that is what is going on. I'd enjoy seeing Ramos get an MLS HC job, though. Finally, he'd be put to a real test.
i agree totally with you- gerrard should retire and enjoy his next permanent move back to liverpool- why he needs to come to MLS for his last year, put up with all the differences in the league, be an average player at the best and then kindly give a pat on the back to the league is beyond me!!- cant be the +$6 million dollars, can it? the expensive mansion he and his family have been up in? anyone really expecting him to be a value to MLS is underestimating the league itself- we are a good league and we dont need so-called aged star players or other euro snobs to validate us- to me, drogba is an anomaly and we need to sign players under 30 to huge dollars, like a giovinco, in order to keep developing the quality of MLS- players like gerrard, pirlo and lampard lower the quality IMO- great players in their younger days, but now lacking the pace, committment and physicality that MLS requires of its players
What has he ever done to get such a salary. Everyone thought the Fire would be priced out by Kreis or GBS because they have actually accomplished something, but Tab.
As far as on the field stuff goes, this is definitely true. But I wonder if part of the reason owners bring in these guys is that the big name DPs are both marketing MLS to the fans and other players? I would guess that having Beckham, Henry, Drogba and others makes the league more well known to other foreign players who might come to the US? At the end of the day money is the biggest thing, but added publicity and seeing other players move up from the league probably also help when MLS is selling itself to young players with other options.
Merritt Paulson tweeted, and then deleted, the following: Merritt Paulson @MerrittPaulson 30m30 minutes ago @PortlandTimbros what the players union puts out...mainly for international guys is often inaccurate. sometimes showing 25-30% of actual Hmm.
is he saying the numbers put out are 20-25% overstated (which I think would be to the union's benefit) or is he saying the actual amounts are 4 times more then what is reported? (I.e., MLS is spending a ton more then we realize?)
He also tweeted that endorsements are not part of the equation. I believe in Europe it's added to the salary and the club takes part of it.
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