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Full match In 480p .. 'I'm not hot on that idea, I need rest': Didier Drogba rules out short-term ... The National
So, this ... No, Peterson didn't really respond to the prompt. But look at what he did say: merging the NASL with MLS is still his professed endgame for that league. Sometimes in the past I've thought that the NASL is just one big scheme to force entry into MLS without paying an exorbitant expansion fee. That had faded recently, but this quote certainly bolsters that old view.
.@thesoccerdon with news about Phil Anschutz: "Wel'l announce soon the sale" of the Houston Dynamo.— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) November 14, 2015
http://www.ibtimes.com/mls-news-com...in-league-will-become-one-worlds-best-2184778 International Buisness Times some really good quotes in here: a worthwhile read. I'd would love to see a video of THE DON actually saying this...
He said "play each other at the end" (emphasis added). This comment surely refers to the World Series, in which the champions of each league face one other. There is nothing in the quote which can be interpreted as expressing a desire for a merger of the leagues. It has been established that MLS has its model. Any NASL ownership group is free to petition to buy into that model and leave the NASL, as Montreal and Minnesota have done. But the two leagues' operations work on different principles; so no possibility of a "merger" can even be imagined.
For clarity's sake. About that Houston Dynamo sale thing. Garber said Anschutz is going to be down to owning one team. Garber did not name which one (cont'd)— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) November 14, 2015 I closed the quote where I did intentionally because I've heard rumblings & seen reports in the past about AEG selling the rest of its stake— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) November 14, 2015 I wasn't about to guess that AEG was selling the Galaxy. So. Let's make that clear - Garber didn't directly say Houston, I concluded it.— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) November 14, 2015
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Kraft and Rowlins would like to see the cap doubled too. Garber: What's one thing you'd change about MLS? Roth: Double the salary cap.— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) November 14, 2015 #JonathanKraft guarantees soccer-specific stadium much closer to Boston by 2035, but likely "much sooner." #BlazerCon— Jeff Eisenband (@JeffEisenband) November 14, 2015
If we see a 3 to 4 million dollar increase in the salary cap the quality of play would improve drastically. I'll see it to believe it.
Teams would more likely just waste more money. Lesser players would just demand more because its there.
They can demand all they want. A good GM goes and gets better caliber players. Of course those won't be Yanks. Just because there is more money, and this is a US league, doesn't mean I have to pay the US players more if they aren't worth it. This isn't England. Most of the players who accepted the last CBA more easily were from the back half of the league. Why? A lot more cap money would mean that many of their jobs would be in jeopardy. No matter what politik talk you hear....that was a huge reason why the cap number stayed low, and soft cap mechanisms grew. These guys don't have many options. Playing in the US is a pretty nice perk compared to what many could be doing. More money would be better quality overall, but a lot less Yanks right now.
any rise in the cap of that amount needs to be accompanied by a change to the inter/domestic roster rules ... swapping from 8 intl spots per team (tradable) to something like the UK has, a system of "at minumum X number of players trained in US/CAN for Y years before they are 22" ... i'd propose 8 "domestics" registered per team (if you just include the 20 man main roster, with all the off budget spots needing to be for domestics) or 12 "domestics" if you just consider the whole 28 man roster. For Canadian teams you could make half either number need to be Can "domestics" 8 (per 20) or 12 (per 28) are plenty of spots over 17 (soon to be 21) american teams for all of the "national team pool" level talent (current or potential) players to play their trade and to grow and gain experience in a top level competitive environment ... MLS is not an American journeyman soccer employment charity .... there doesn't need to be a spot in the league for the likes of Tony Taylor or Marc Burch, that is what NASL/USL are for. Every MLS team could replace 5 of the current ~100k or under american space fillers with 300k-500k internationals and the league would transform in quality.
I see you must of had a few too many tonight - So if your statement is remotely true that would mean the DP's and all the foreign guys that were getting market value at the front half of the league wanted to strike as opposed to the North American players the were paid below less than their foreign teammates for what they were contributing. I thought were such a great business man. If so you would have realized they'd get crushed in a strike as older foreign players have no vested interest in the league or the union and thus large numbers of players would have crossed the picket line. The lack of options exist for numerous reasons including work permits, concerns about familiarity with culture, poor fit transfer market and playing style impact their ability to sign abroad. However, the primary thing holding down their salaries is there is no competition within the league for their services within the country they want to live in which is why MLS has worked so hard to limit the kind of free agency found in other US leagues. Not very likely. While the league is not completely maxed out on work permits, they are close. While the league runs the USSF, significantly raising the the number of foreign players would get some strong push back from the Youth and Professional segments of the board.