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A take I’m tired of seeing:
“MLS clubs selling their best players hurts the quality of the league.”
Wrong.
A quick thread:
“MLS clubs selling their best players hurts the quality of the league.”
Wrong.
A quick thread:
MLS has plenty of talent at the top. If you take the 50 best players in MLS, you could make a really strong list. The issue MLS has isn’t a lack of top-end talent.
Selling a few of those won’t make the league noticeably worse.
Selling a few of those won’t make the league noticeably worse.
Where MLS can be cheeks is in the bottom 100 or so players. Those guys that you know wouldn’t have a place at any MLS club if international restrictions weren’t a thing.
For MLS to get better, they need to raise the floor AND the ceiling.
For MLS to get better, they need to raise the floor AND the ceiling.
The ceiling has been raised through TAM/DP/superstar homegrowns, but some attention now needs to be given to the floor.
The floor will be raised as the level of the 50% of players in this league who are domestic is raised.
That’s where academies come in.
The floor will be raised as the level of the 50% of players in this league who are domestic is raised.
That’s where academies come in.
MLS will find a new level over the next 10 years as MLS becomes populated with domestic players who’ve been in professional environments since they were 16.
Top players getting sold funds that movement and gives incentive to clubs for it to happen.
Top players getting sold funds that movement and gives incentive to clubs for it to happen.
