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With the greater interest in investing in Major League Soccer, slightly more ambitious expansion (18 clubs by 2012) and increased international competition fixtures, MLSR has learned that the MLS Board of Govenors will meet later this year to discuss the following:
* Adding a 2nd Designated player per team.
* Increasing the salary cap to between 3.5 and 4.6 million for the 2008 and 2009 seasons.
* Changing rules on international players to make any US or Canadian player count as a domestic player
* Changing the rules on Senior and Youth Internationals to allow one more of each per team.
More as it develops....
COMPETITION: MLS to Consider Changing International Player Rules at this years Board of Governors meeting
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
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Would the second DP slot be called the "Landon Donovan rule"? LD would have to take a serious pay cut otherwise, as pointed out on the Offside Rules yesterday.
What about expanding rosters beyond 28 players? We need depth.
The increase in the salary cap should only come at the benefit of the reserves and developmental players first. The league minimum needs to be 50k. You can make your way on that and devote your efforts to football first while putting other career goals on hold for awhile.
After that increase, you can use it to improve quality.
Where did you learn about this from? Is it just an inside source or is there an article?
"The league minimum needs to be 50k."
You do know that's not how the free market and collective bargaining work, right? I mean they don't base those things on what YOU say they "need" to be.
Market forces or collective bargaining are what change your minimum salary. It ain't gonna be out of the goodness of the owners' hearts or because YOU think Dan Gargan deserves to make 50k just because he's a warm body and we happen to have more slots for warm bodies than actual skilled players to fill them at the moment.
Just because it's chic to think that a "professional athlete" should earn x amount of dollars a year before you consider the league in which he plays to be good enough for you doesn't mean it's so. Soccer players in this country earn what they earn for very real reasons based on supply and demand, just like most economic things in this country.
increasing the league minimium needs marketing direction, people in the stand, team expansion and lots of purchases of league merchandise.
beckham is worth so much because he has sponsorships, puts people in the stand, sells galaxy merchandise and boost league ticket sells.
does your average player increase sales and put people in the stand to have a set league minimium of 50k? i dont think so, even donavon doesnt put more fans in the stand--he never increased sales like beckham did.
can you guess why real madrid, the colts or patriots of american football, was ranked first on forbes list as the most valued team in soccer professional across the globe? they are on top of the chart because they have super stars that increases sales in merchandise and tickets.
enough said, you get the point, i hope we all come to light that MLS as a league needs SUPER STAR or high profile soccer players to increase the minimium.
First off I have to call bulls&%t on the not raising minimum salaries comments as it's got more to do with superstars merchandising etc. - that reeks of "a rising tide raisies all boats" economic logic which is flawed in this case. A minimum salary that is above the poverty line and allows players is absolutly essential to ensure that all players are able to live as full time professional soccer players without having to take some other job to pay the bills. I'm not sayign it needs to be 50k, but 17k is a downright shame and ultimately may not sway younger player to devote the time necessary to become quality footballers at the league's loss.
hey pete, if a guy doesn't like the minimum wage he can go to about 40 leagues in the world and make more money, including perhaps the USL.
this isn't a welfare operation. using terms like "poverty line" should be reserved for people who are indeed in dire straits in our society. These guys are pro soccer players who only play 8 months of the year, and who have almost limitless choices of location in the world to find jobs.