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[quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad]Two things about Olsen:

1. Rightly or wrongly, he got a free pass for a long time because United had budget woes while throwing money down the RFK toilet, and he's a club legend. We'll see how long that continues now that he has a half-decent team.

2. Olsen is one coach in MLS. Others ...

- Carl Robinson, Vancouver. Fired this fall. 
- Mikael Stahre, San Jose. Fired this fall. 
- Sigi Schmid, LA Galaxy. Pushed out this fall. 
- Jason Kreis, Orlando. Pushed out this summer. 
- Mauro Biello, Montreal. Fired last fall. 
- Jay Heaps, New England. Fired last fall.
- Pablo Mastroeni, Colorado. Fired last summer. 
- Curt Onalfo, LA Galaxy. Fired last summer.
- Dominic Kinnear, San Jose. Fired last summer.
- Jeff Cassar, Real Salt Lake. Pushed out last spring.

You get the picture.

Players? Check this: https://www.socceramerica.com/publications/article/80510/mls-moves-six-more-clubs-reveal-roster-decisions.html

In fact, given the contract structure in MLS, it's often easier to dismiss a player here than it is elsewhere in the world.

Aging Europeans? Let's take a look at the top salaries in MLS: https://mlsplayers.org/resources/salary-guide

There, you'll find a few guys who fit that description. Schweinsteiger, David Villa, Rooney ... Zlatan is pretty far down.

#2 is Michael Bradley (USA), love him or hate him. Developed in MLS, played in Europe with some successes and some failures, returned here.

#4 is Sebastian Giovinco, who was 28 when he left Juventus to come here.

#5 is Jozy Altidore (USA). See Bradley. Same story.

The next two are under-30 Mexicans -- Carlos Vela and Giovani dos Santos.

After Rooney is Diego Valeri, a player from Argentina who signed in his late-mid 20s.

Meanwhile, here are the current homegrown players in MLS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown_Player_Rule_(Major_League_Soccer)#Current_Homegrown_Players_in_MLS

What they don't have enough of -- and here's the point of the thread -- is transfers out. Altidore and Bradley, of course, transferred out at one point.

In the past year, the biggest by far is Alphonso Davies, who's leaving Vancouver to join Bayern Munich for somewhere between $14 million and $22 million, depending on how you calculate it. Other notables sold overseas: Matt Miazga, Jack Harrison, Maurice Edu, Jermaine Dafoe, Tim Howard, etc.

Atlanta is reshaping things. They spent a fortune on Miguel Almiron and Ezequiel Barco. Almiron would generate a tidy profit if he's sold this winter. Barco will surely need another year or two in Atlanta.

If you're curious about MLS salaries in general, Jonathan Tannenwald crunched the numbers. They're not MLB or NHL. But neither are they NWSL. The minimum MLS salary for the guys with no experience is still a little higher than the average starting pay for a college graduate, so the stories of MLS starters leaving soccer for real estate (Scott Garlick, 2007) have pretty well died down.

The union needs to extract a lot of concessions in the next CBA. Outright free agency would be a good thing. And the union also needs to drop its objection to solidarity payments and training compensation.

MLS isn't there yet. Long way to go. But it doesn't help to come up with unsupported accusations.[/quote]

I don't see any young American's among the top earners.  Top earners are foreigners and USMNT veterans, who are older than 30 years old or close to it.  Why would a young American want to stay in MLS unless he has no ambition?    [/quote]

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