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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad]So let me see if I follow the argument here ...

1. MLS stinks because it has no incentive to develop players.

2. If MLS manages to get training compensation and solidarity payment, it'll stink worse because players from the USA only sign overseas because they don't come with such financial baggage.

OK then.

The bigger issue here is frankly the NCAA. Just look at Weston McKennie, who didn't sign a pro deal with Dallas because he wanted to keep his options open for college soccer, then went free to Schalke.

https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/soccer/soccer/2016/08/30/business-fc-dallas-takes-couple-losses-field

If the NCAA would allow players to regain amateur status (which FIFA allows), maybe MLS (and the USL) would be able to persuade the next McKennie to sign.

In any case -- unless players are moving to Europe at age 12 or so, they're spending some time in U.S. youth clubs. If an MLS academy is the closest youth club, it's usually there.

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MLS will continue to stink at youth player development if they continue to be a single-entity closed structure.   Having independent clubs that compete against each other creates proper incentives to develop youth.    It is a proven model which works well in the rest of the world.    [/quote]

https://rantingsoccerdad.com/all-about-promotion-relegation/

Also more detail here ...

https://rantingsoccerdad.com/2017/11/09/the-myth-of-promotion-relegation-and-youth-development-continued/ [/quote]

I loved your choice of picture at the top, but I am not really persuaded by your rebuttal arguments such as that MLS players are playing for their jobs when their team is in the last place.  If MLS had real competitive pressures, Ben Olsen would have been fired long time ago as his teams were constant bottom dwellers year after year until Rooney arrived and changed the locker room culture.  In Europe, some coaches get fired after their team finishes second.  That's the real pressure to perform![/quote]

It's not all about pro/rel. The most encouraging sign in the article is the idea that MLS is thinking about giving up the ridiculous idea of limiting access to academies and team rosters by geography, which means if you live in the DMV it's either DC United or nobody in the league. They lose good, young players for free because they don't treat them like professionals. Take the case of Luke Mishu, who left DC United after only two seasons to go to med school. He got tired of being paid peanuts while the league spent millions on tired, used-up Euro players. Why should any good prospect consider MLS when they aren't made to feel like they are the focus of the league? Just watch what happens with Arjen Robben, the latest Euro superstar to age out of his team and look for greener pastures in MLS. I'll bet Garber gives him 10x the attention he gives the entire crop of this year's best youth prospects.

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