It will hurt a MLS player who is making $50,000 a year and can't pay his mortgage much faster. Does that make more sense now?
Mls CBA 2015 Thread
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The fund the players have isn't enough for a all the lower wage players isn't going to hold, but we'll see.
Oh no
Here is the actual interview, what do the good people of the forums think.
http://espn700sports.com/espn700-interviews/dell-loy-hansen-rsl-owner-2-25-15/
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i dont think there will be a strike. BTW when is the deadline for the strike? Friday morning the day of the first game?
yes
http://www.rslsoapbox.com/2015/2/26...n-on-free-agency-a-waste-of-time-conversation
RSL owner on free-agency
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Ok, MLS and the players will meet on Sunday,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...hington-on-sunday/?postshare=5881424995743233
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...hington-on-sunday/?postshare=5881424995743233
RSL's team always struck me as a pretty classy bunch...but their owner seems like an asshole.
Except his players on average are paid pretty well, he paid off all their team debt and was just willing to pay $20 million for a new USL stadium.
Sad thing is, he is probably just saying what the other owners feel as well.
Someone has already shown that MLS can have their cake and eat it, too, via a comparison to state university systems. They can have free agency while also limiting the amount the owners bid against each other AND keep single-entity.
To me, that's a huge mistake on their part if they don't follow that advice because at the minimum they're going to agree to keep giving the players bigger paychecks and bigger paychecks until one of these CBA negotiations gets really nasty because the players will have the financial means to strike an entire season. The owners are painting themselves into a corner...
My point is RSL is among the top 5 or so total spent on players but no one there is making millions like other teams. One reason they have made the playoffs a record 7 years in a row.
They tried and lost... twice.
District Court initial lawsuit:
http://www.soccertimes.com/mls/2000/dec11.htm
Court of Appeal upheld the lower court:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_v._Major_League_Soccer
I hate single entity :/
I think a salient point to come out of that suit was that the supreme court did not rule on single entity on appeal, but they did say it was not a true single entity it was a hybrid, with parts of both a single entity and a group of competitors. That was prior to the league having DPs. And that was at a time when owners controlled multiple teams. Times have changed since then.
Love hearing that... I feel that single entity and the lack of a true free market is limiting the league potential. I think too many owners are more interested in the status quo than prospering.
Not sure what DPs really matter but the no owner owning more than 1 team thing could be an important development.
Sorry but you guys really sound like crying n00bs. If it wasn't for the single entity structure and billionaires willing lose 100s of millions for soccer, it wouldn't have lasted 20 years.
Now is it time for change, probably. The world market pressures seem to be at a tipping point for MLS to advance a level. But to just say the owners suck and MLS is stupid just shows ignorance.
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