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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The national team on both sides (men and women) have a players union and plenty of resources to hire the best negotiators. If their negotiators are doing a bad job, blame the negotiators.

In short, WNT opted for a fixed base salary regardless of winning is losing. MNT opted to be paid for performance.

Soccer players aren't the "little guy" like some factory worker making minimum wage. They have plenty of resources to hire negotiators and ensure they get the best deal.[/quote]

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Someone cited that US Soccer's expenses for the USWNT were $2.4M in the 2017 year. [b] If that is true, then the players don't have "plenty of resources to hire negotiators and get the best deal."  Hiring a good, not great, law firm to heavily negotiate a collective bargaining agreement could result in legal expenses of around $1M or more[/b].

Same goes for suing US Soccer.  If US Soccer fought the litigation to the mat, then the 28 players who sued US Soccer would easily be looking at a couple million in legal fees and expenses.

US Soccer is sitting on over $170M in cash and liquid investments.  It made over $75M in profit during the 2017 fiscal year.  They have significantly more resources at their disposal than the players, and I can guaranty that their deep pockets impacted the negotiating history of the collective bargaining agreement and are currently impacting the litigation strategy of the 28 USWNT players who brought suit.

I heard on a podcast that it would cost US Soccer, on average, an additional $3-5M per year to pay the USWNT the same as the men, depending on the number of international games played by the USWNT in any given year.  If this is true and if US Soccer is still making tens of millions in profits each year and still holds over $170M in cash and investments, then I don't understand why US Soccer continues to fight this.  Just pay the women the same game bonuses, appearance fees, etc. as the men.  This is an easy decision, both financially and from a PR perspective.  It also happens to be the right thing to do.

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Very funny, the women were and still are represented in their CBA negotiations by Jeff Kessler, the biggest and most expensive you can get.  Who also represents them in their equal pay lawsuit . . . you see how this works.  [/quote]

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