Maybe create a new thread for this discussion. Back on topic, I'd love to see Pirlo rocking a "Why Always Me?" shirt after drilling a free kick next year as he's mobbed by Balo.
NYCFC Players Wanted Thread
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how do you supposed to change that? wouldn't a league with better players have better chance to attract viewership than a leagues with lesser players? think your argument enhances my point. you hit a key point...US media market and view ship. I assert higher paid and better quality stars in the league have a better chance to solve the media market problem, what do you say? Give you an anecdotal point (by no ways scientific or meant to be representative, but nevertheless a data point), my mom does not watch soccer. But the other day, she heard Messi is playing on TV and and she has heard Messi is an amazing world star. So she actually turned on the TV and watched a Copa America game (and she liked Messi' play). star power counts and only big money brings that. you are right we need to solve the media market / view ship problem. Part of the solution is to offer better product with higher name recognition to get the base viewer to begin with. that requires money, lots of it. the current media market won't grow, no matter how even the club levels are. It will only grow if a few of the clubs start to offer great entertainment and the rest can follow.
The only way I could see that work (using our current 20 teams) is to say NY and LA, sign whomever the hell you want and you split 75% of the TV revenue between the two of you. The other 18 teams split the 25% remaining. But then there's no parity and that also turns off US viewers... And I'm not sure you could even sell the rights for that much when you get games like NY vs Columbus, if it's a sure blowout, just to watch the stars perform their soccer version of the Harlem Globetrotters.
If you are a longtime follower of the league, you know that the league was going to cease operations after the 2001 season. Tampa Bay and Miami, who had won the Supporter's Shield that year, both folded and if Lamar Hunt didn't rally the other owners, MLS was going to be finished. That was only 15 years ago.
If you take a look at the old NASL, you can attribute the fall of the league to shitty league management that did nothing to check the careless spending and operations of their clubs.
MLS is playing the long game as they should. I think they should be raising the salary cap, a little more quickly than they are but it is my guessing that in a couple years we should be exceeding Liga MX in average salary and bring us into Top 10 status across the world. The issue with player quality is that we have DPs making millions and then everyone else. League would be better served spreading that DP money out rather than having the super rich and super poor.
You will see that change. Arthur Blank in Atlanta and the new ownership group in LA are going to want to spend money which will add to the number of owners that want to change the salary cap.
If you take a look at the old NASL, you can attribute the fall of the league to shitty league management that did nothing to check the careless spending and operations of their clubs.
MLS is playing the long game as they should. I think they should be raising the salary cap, a little more quickly than they are but it is my guessing that in a couple years we should be exceeding Liga MX in average salary and bring us into Top 10 status across the world. The issue with player quality is that we have DPs making millions and then everyone else. League would be better served spreading that DP money out rather than having the super rich and super poor.
You will see that change. Arthur Blank in Atlanta and the new ownership group in LA are going to want to spend money which will add to the number of owners that want to change the salary cap.
The way you do it is with a luxury tax. Let the deep pockets spend freely and tax the spending that then is distributed to the frugal teams -(but must be spent on players, not pocketed). Then when play increases, so too will the tv and sponsorship dollars. At a certain point, it'll be enough that teams aren't hitting the luxury tax as much unless they see a special rainy-day transfer they can't live without.
The league will never fully realize its potential as long as Kraft is heavily involved. I respect that he has sunk millions of dollars into a floundering team - and he probably loses money ever year with the current arrangement. That drags down the rest of the league.
What Garber has done that is brilliant is bring in billionaire owners in CFG, Arthur Blank and the LAFC consortium. Coupled with a passionate fanbase/owner in Portland, the Seattle ownership group, a crazy spending owner in Orlando (I wonder how long he is in this for), the league is moving away from the New England and DC power base. That is good in the long run.
What Garber has done that is brilliant is bring in billionaire owners in CFG, Arthur Blank and the LAFC consortium. Coupled with a passionate fanbase/owner in Portland, the Seattle ownership group, a crazy spending owner in Orlando (I wonder how long he is in this for), the league is moving away from the New England and DC power base. That is good in the long run.
Mods, can you please move this conversation to a new thread? This is nowhere near NYCFC players wanted.
Although it is funding needed for players wanted. Sorta relevant
We did have this story last summer that NYCFC kicked the Balotelli tires before signing Pirlo.
http://www.espnfc.us/major-league-s...li-interests-mls-but-time-isnt-right-for-move
http://www.espnfc.us/major-league-s...li-interests-mls-but-time-isnt-right-for-move
From what I've been reading (and of course you have to take anything you read on the 'net with an ocean of salt) there doesn't seem to be much of a market.
Supposedly Milan wanted him gone and Liverpool doesn't want him back. I believe the only team that was sending out feelers was Fiorentina (but don't hold my feet to the fire on that one). Anyway, whoever the other Serie A team was, they insisted Liverpool pay more than half his salary. So who knows where's that's going.
More than likely, some team in Beijing will end up offering millions and that's where he'll end up.
I disagree. Kraft has gone on the record that he would double the cap if he could. Revs are one of those teams that need the cap to be raised in order to force them to spend more money to be competitive.
Kraft is playing the long con with a SSS in Boston because he already has a 100% build facility in Foxboro and doesn't want to build a SSS and spend money.
A note of minor relevance - Zlatan is spending this offseason in LA, and seems to be enjoying the beach. Once he is done fulfilling his promise of becoming the God of Manchester, I wonder if a final hurrah in the MLS would lead him back to the beach.
He could hang out on the beach with Ashley Cole.
Kraft could have doubled the cap this last time around. He kicked and screamed for small raises over several years.
You may want to read this next and then reread the tweet about Guzan & Middlesborough:
http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/truth-behind-transfer-window-rumour-mill-those-itk?page=0,1
Thanks. I had no idea transfer rumors were made up, often self-serving twaddle.
I happen to think this one is true or at least has a lot of truth behind it. Not many teams can pay a starting keeper what an epl team can pay a backup.Thanks. I had no idea transfer rumors were made up, often self-serving twaddle.
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