Where Do You Rank Mls?

[USAfan6]

Just curious where everyone would rank MLS in comparison to the other top leagues around the world. It's an interesting question and I'm curious to see if there is a large divide between answers or if everyone is largely similar in their views.

 

[LIblue]

I'd put MLS just outside of the top 10 but working its way up the list every year.

Premier League
Bundesliga
La Liga
Serie A
France
Turkey
Russia
Ukraine
Portugal
Mexico
MLS

 

[Tom in Fairfield CT]

I think of it like tiers, where teams within a tier would be able to compete in a Champions league type format and have a chance to win. You've got the top 4( or 3, is Italy still in there?). Second you have leagues like France, Portugal, then a third tier with liga MX, but since we consistently lose to them in CCL, we are fourth tier.

All comes down to salary to me.

 

[Nicholas Constantino]

I think of it like tiers, where teams within a tier would be able to compete in a Champions league type format and have a chance to win. You've got the top 4( or 3, is Italy still in there?). Second you have leagues like France, Portugal, then a third tier with liga MX, but since we consistently lose to them in CCL, we are fourth tier.

All comes down to salary to me.

I agree. Although I think the Serie A is actually better than people give it credit for.

 

[Kjbert]

Really tough question. You could argue that the bottom half of Serie A, La Liga and Ligue Un are all worse off than the EPL and Bundesliga.

With the financial rifts in Southern Europe, you almost have two divisions within a division (the Barcas, Madrids, PSGs, Juves of the world...and everyone els).

 

[roxfontaine]

La Liga
BPL
Bundesliga
Serie A
Ligue 1

After that I don't really care. I'd put MLS somewhere between 12 and 20.

 

[franchise646]

The best way to improve MLS to get it in the top 5, is to get MLS making the Linda money AMD put the salary cap in a way in which we can start stealing players for the euro leagues that are losing money (serie a, Ligue 1 and la Liga teams not name Barcelona real Madrid or aletico Madrid).

 

[jerseyhotspur]

Don't let Don Garber hear that you think MLS is a lower-tier league. Single-entity means we're all supposed to be drinking the Kool-Aid.

 

[franchise646]

Then he is going to have give the players what they want in this CBA. Free agency and at least 45 of soccer revenue a salary floor and $100k min salaries.

 

[jerseyhotspur]

Money attracts the best talent in the world (and talent will attract more sponsors).

MLS needs free agency. Eliminate the salary cap (or at least use a "soft" salary cap and can penalize teams with a luxury tax like in the NBA).

Once you have free agency, there's no need for this idiotic Designated Player system.

 

[franchise646]

Money attracts the best talent in the world (and talent will attract more sponsors).

MLS needs free agency. Eliminate the salary cap (or at least use a "soft" salary cap and can penalize teams with a luxury tax like in the NBA).

Once you have free agency, there's no need for this idiotic Designated Player system.

MLS doesn't make anywhere near enough money to get rid of salary caps.

 

[Tom in Fairfield CT]

This is a great chart and shows the disparity between what the teams make (16.4M pounds per year) vs, what hey pay the players ( 135k avg/yr) To a large degree, quality of play is a direct function of salary paid, so although MLS is about 11th in revenue, we are 22nd in salary (and in ability to attract quality players)

I think this chart directly explains why we lose to Liga MX in CCL every year, and shows that based on our revenue, we can easily jump up to about 10th in player salary, and move into the Liga MX tier in this CBA.

(and our average salary is skewed by DPs who make something like 25% of the total salary earned in the league)

 

[NYCFCFan10]

A hard question to ask at the moment.

MLS 2015 will be noticeably better than MLS 2014 thanks to the new CBA/TV money, I believe.