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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]General manager of a MLSNext Academy club told me last weekend that they are receiving input about serious options of MLSN1 moving to SY by 26-27.

It would mean a complete rearrangement of rosters at the club, also from local feeder clubs U12 and younger. They are already working on it.[/quote]

By MLSnext academy club do you mean a MLS P2P club or an MLS academy? [/quote]

p2p MLSN makes sense. MLS Academy is free, so it does not care about BY or SY from a business perspective, which SY has an edge.[/quote]

The funding has to come from somewhere, I promise you it isn’t free. I recently talked to someone at a top mls academy and he was saying there were talks of the academy shutting down because of funding. That’s was before the mls next 2 rollout.

Reading the tea leaves, it appears Ecnl checkmated them into sy [/quote].

Yes, MLSN2 has been created as a money grabber for parents.

I also think ECNL is going to win this SY war. ECNL has on its SY side all under U12 soccer, most of girls business (GA is the exception), and USCS, USYS, AYSO boys.

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I don’t understand what having “rec” aligned with ECNL in SY does for “winning this war.”

ECNL doesn’t have a pro pathway, USL is awful, but maybe that is the pathway in the future?

But until the boys side of ECNL is more competitive, the “war” isn’t even happening. Age cutoffs aligned with rec aren’t the big boost ECNL needs to compete with MLSN that you think it is.[/quote]With ECNL boys and P2P MLSN being equivalent and both getting watered down, the war isn't who can get one  player a year to an MLSN academy, the war is who can siphon the most cash at the younger ages with the most teams.

Fake elite leagues have gone bankrupt pretty quickly in youth soccer without the big feeders supplying cash.[/quote]

“P2P MLSN” is such a dumb term. It’s an attempt to both jealous trash MLSN, and sound smart. But it just a dumb transparent jab.

MLSN and ECNL are not on the same level. MLS Academies are greater than MLSN, and MLSN is greater than ECNL. The focuses of the leagues overlap, but ECNL is a narrow focused league on college placement. Unless and an until it offers a valuable pro pathway, it will never be on par with MLSN.

That doesn’t mean boys ECNL is not a great league, it absolutely is. But its talent pull is narrower than MLSN. Just a fact.

There isn’t a war. ECNL is thrashing to maintain relevance on the boys side. That isn’t a war. MLSN is looking out for MLSN, not trying to compete with ECNL for talent. What is be worried about if I was ECNL is the neglecting of the true competitive advantage, the girls side. ECNL has its eye off the ball.[/quote]Your taking your eye off the ball if you are fixated on thinking talent wins the war when of course money wins the war.[/quote]

Or…it’s not a war. I’m pretty sure MLS has deeper pockets than ECNL. And absolutely MLS has the ability get remuneration after 18 for its youth players. You’re an idiot.[/quote]MLS is trying to make money off of MLSN P2P not subsidize it. If it is losing money like DA for too long then they cut MLSN all together and then ECNL or the next acronym wins. If you really think MLSN selling a handful of players comes close to covering costs, you are misunderstanding the business side.

Business is war. [/quote]

Business is business. Get out of the 80s Sun Tzu. MLSN is not DA. And selling a handful of players IS the business for the Academies, how else do you think they make money?[/quote]

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