Major League Soccer (MLS)

**Mooияakeя�** · 04-01-2009, 07:14 PM

I was being ironic with the A-League, in being the new "retirement" league.

There's nothing wrong with the MLS spending money. It needs to. I think a lot of the "anti-MLS" feelings come from people hating teh way u yanks do "trades" and "drafts". It fucking confuses me now still.

To truly progress, it needs to adopt the universal transfer system, in that, the clubs control what they buy, be it the continental europe way (chairman-like figures deciding who they want), or the traditional english way (the manager controls the lot). Whatever works for the club, or whatever the owner wants.

The one thing the MLS has that I envy is the home grown style rule. I don't know it in detail, but like where u have to have a few youngsters that you have promoted from drafts (boo) to encourage continual growth in the team and also, x amount have to be domestic based (US players). Again not sure if this spreads to Canada or something, like how for some reason, domestic players in English league is classed as NI, SCO and WAL players too.

To replace these awful drafts, there's nothing wrong with the MLS teams investing in smaller teams. What we call in England "feeder teams" where 2 clubs strike a partnership, and in this particular case the MLS team would have first refusal on any players from that club. Usually in exchange for money and / or friendly games.

To keep with the US style, this could easily be a college team too. Each MLS team could be allowed to make say 2 deals with US universities to take on college players (as college seems such a big thing over there).

04-01-2009, 07:14 PM	#11
Mooияakeя� ▒▓▀▄WINNER▄▀▓▒ Posts: 5,070	I was being ironic with the A-League, in being the new "retirement" league. There's nothing wrong with the MLS spending money. It needs to. I think a lot of the "anti-MLS" feelings come from people hating teh way u yanks do "trades" and "drafts". It fucking confuses me now still. To truly progress, it needs to adopt the universal transfer system, in that, the clubs control what they buy, be it the continental europe way (chairman-like figures deciding who they want), or the traditional english way (the manager controls the lot). Whatever works for the club, or whatever the owner wants. The one thing the MLS has that I envy is the home grown style rule. I don't know it in detail, but like where u have to have a few youngsters that you have promoted from drafts (boo) to encourage continual growth in the team and also, x amount have to be domestic based (US players). Again not sure if this spreads to Canada or something, like how for some reason, domestic players in English league is classed as NI, SCO and WAL players too. To replace these awful drafts, there's nothing wrong with the MLS teams investing in smaller teams. What we call in England "feeder teams" where 2 clubs strike a partnership, and in this particular case the MLS team would have first refusal on any players from that club. Usually in exchange for money and / or friendly games. To keep with the US style, this could easily be a college team too. Each MLS team could be allowed to make say 2 deals with US universities to take on college players (as college seems such a big thing over there).