Mls Next going to school year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:High school age kids make more money playing baseball than 98% of the guys playing in MLS.

Baseball was invented in Americal and we play the game more than anyone else. It makes sense that we pay baseball players more than an American soccer league.

The same is true with Soccer + Europe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The issue for mlsn isn’t whether 1/1 or 8/1 is better. They’ve made it clear they prefer 1/1.

Mlsn needs to determine if staying 1/1 with everyone else going 8/1 will help or hurt them. Changing to 8/1 maintains status quo. Staying 1/1 with everyone else changing to 8/1 is a risk and they better be darn sure doing something different from everyone else will end up helping them.

There is zero risk to MLS Next

They are the top and superior league
Best players will gravitate there no matter the age cutoff

Yup- zero risk. Especially if they don’t make money. #DA

This is like ground hog day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone on this forum keeps posting like MLsN academies are a heartbeat from going pro. They must be trolling or have fully drank the kool aid. Either way, not based in reality. Watching p2p vs MlSN academy even at u17 and u19 is no where near other countries top youth leagues.

In your mind they're nowhere near at U17

In reality and head to head competition says different

It's at U18+ the separation really starts to happen

Nope, Europe gets better players because they pay them the most. Its that simple. The entire Academy system is there for money to find the most talented players. We kind of do the same thing with baseball.

What are you responding to?

How much are U16 players in academies getting paid in Italy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone on this forum keeps posting like MLsN academies are a heartbeat from going pro. They must be trolling or have fully drank the kool aid. Either way, not based in reality. Watching p2p vs MlSN academy even at u17 and u19 is no where near other countries top youth leagues.

In your mind they're nowhere near at U17

In reality and head to head competition says different

It's at U18+ the separation really starts to happen

Nope, Europe gets better players because they pay them the most. Its that simple. The entire Academy system is there for money to find the most talented players. We kind of do the same thing with baseball.

What are you responding to?

How much are U16 players in academies getting paid in Italy?

In England EPL top Academy u12-u16 players are paided 52k a year

In Italy they do the American university trick and consider u16 and younger players Amateur and therefore dont get paid.

England used to do the Amateur trick with young players and not pay them. This resulted in near zero Homegrown talent. So they forced clubs to pay u12-u16 Academy players with the thought that this would attract more highly talented players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The issue for mlsn isn’t whether 1/1 or 8/1 is better. They’ve made it clear they prefer 1/1.

Mlsn needs to determine if staying 1/1 with everyone else going 8/1 will help or hurt them. Changing to 8/1 maintains status quo. Staying 1/1 with everyone else changing to 8/1 is a risk and they better be darn sure doing something different from everyone else will end up helping them.

There is zero risk to MLS Next

They are the top and superior league
Best players will gravitate there no matter the age cutoff

Yup- zero risk. Especially if they don’t make money. #DA

This is like ground hog day.

Not really. What took DA down was US Soccer giving out free soccer. It just didnt make sense. Girls DA double didnt make sense.

MLS taking over boys DA and turning it into their Academy / Homegrown pathway does make sense.

GA is primed to be NWSLs Academy / Homegrown pathway whenever they choose to get involved.

MLS2 and GA are functioning as P2P leagues so theres little to no risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone on this forum keeps posting like MLsN academies are a heartbeat from going pro. They must be trolling or have fully drank the kool aid. Either way, not based in reality. Watching p2p vs MlSN academy even at u17 and u19 is no where near other countries top youth leagues.

In your mind they're nowhere near at U17

In reality and head to head competition says different

It's at U18+ the separation really starts to happen

Nope, Europe gets better players because they pay them the most. Its that simple. The entire Academy system is there for money to find the most talented players. We kind of do the same thing with baseball.

What are you responding to?

How much are U16 players in academies getting paid in Italy?

In England EPL top Academy u12-u16 players are paided 52k a year

In Italy they do the American university trick and consider u16 and younger players Amateur and therefore dont get paid.

England used to do the Amateur trick with young players and not pay them. This resulted in near zero Homegrown talent. So they forced clubs to pay u12-u16 Academy players with the thought that this would attract more highly talented players.

Stand Up Comedy

[Anonymous]

Check out this story

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6589530/2025...crocker-usmnt-uswnt/

"Tangibly, thus far, they’ve begun to coordinate a “unified youth calendar” with leagues like MLS Next. They are working on digital platforms. They are reaching out, building trust."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Check out this story

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6589530/2025...crocker-usmnt-uswnt/

"Tangibly, thus far, they’ve begun to coordinate a “unified youth calendar” with leagues like MLS Next. They are working on digital platforms. They are reaching out, building trust."

Behind a paywall and I can’t even see who is trying to “coordinate.”

[Anonymous]

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/u-soccer-vision-youth-development-130107922.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://sports.yahoo.com/article/u-soccer-vision-youth-development-130107922.html

🙏🏻 thank you sharing! Really insightful!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://sports.yahoo.com/article/u-soccer-vision-youth-development-130107922.html

🙏🏻 thank you sharing! Really insightful!

Every year a new and insightful article comes out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone on this forum keeps posting like MLsN academies are a heartbeat from going pro. They must be trolling or have fully drank the kool aid. Either way, not based in reality. Watching p2p vs MlSN academy even at u17 and u19 is no where near other countries top youth leagues.

In your mind they're nowhere near at U17

In reality and head to head competition says different

It's at U18+ the separation really starts to happen

Nope, Europe gets better players because they pay them the most. Its that simple. The entire Academy system is there for money to find the most talented players. We kind of do the same thing with baseball.

What are you responding to?

How much are U16 players in academies getting paid in Italy?

In England EPL top Academy u12-u16 players are paided 52k a year

In Italy they do the American university trick and consider u16 and younger players Amateur and therefore dont get paid.

England used to do the Amateur trick with young players and not pay them. This resulted in near zero Homegrown talent. So they forced clubs to pay u12-u16 Academy players with the thought that this would attract more highly talented players.

Wow this is false on every level. Children aren’t paid in Europe to play football. Jfc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone on this forum keeps posting like MLsN academies are a heartbeat from going pro. They must be trolling or have fully drank the kool aid. Either way, not based in reality. Watching p2p vs MlSN academy even at u17 and u19 is no where near other countries top youth leagues.

In your mind they're nowhere near at U17

In reality and head to head competition says different

It's at U18+ the separation really starts to happen

Nope, Europe gets better players because they pay them the most. Its that simple. The entire Academy system is there for money to find the most talented players. We kind of do the same thing with baseball.

What are you responding to?

How much are U16 players in academies getting paid in Italy?

In England EPL top Academy u12-u16 players are paided 52k a year

In Italy they do the American university trick and consider u16 and younger players Amateur and therefore dont get paid.

England used to do the Amateur trick with young players and not pay them. This resulted in near zero Homegrown talent. So they forced clubs to pay u12-u16 Academy players with the thought that this would attract more highly talented players.

Wow this is false on every level. Children aren’t paid in Europe to play football. Jfc

It was from The Onion paper