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Originally Posted by Fluff
MLS is interesting to me. I discussed it before with Q. I think if they removed salary caps it might have a chance to really grow. Match the wages offered in Europe and everything is there other than prestige but that can change over time. Especially if North America was included in the Copa Libatadores.
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Imo MLS definitely needs salary caps to ensure some degree of parity in the league. Americans are surprisingly content with MLS being a stepping stone to European leagues. If we tried to recruit the highest tier they’d all end up in the communities with the most Hispanics and after a few non-competitive seasons the rest of the country would lose interest. I know the USA has reputation for being obsessed with superlatives like “greatest” but as sports fans we’re surprising sophisticated (besides batlord). For example, very few college football players make the NFL but attendance at college football games still blow the NFL away. We’re never going to out premier the premier league(s) in Europe and making that the objective would be a recipe for disappointment. I follow football players from college to the nfl and often know their entire career. Hopefully, MLS will groom players for big time play in Europe and then when we watch big league soccer from Europe it’ll be more meaningful because we’ll know the players that came up through the ranks in MLS.
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