MLS Board Votes To Raise Salary Budget in 2008...
That is the good news. The bad news is that they are only going to raise it by 4% to $2,300,000. I have discussed salaries a lot around here and I can't go back right now to link to all of the posts. However, I firmly believe that teams needs to be able to spend more on their players to improve quality on the field. This plays into the top college players being more interested in joining the league as opposed to going abroad, etc.
As we all know the league is expanding quickly these days and needs a larger pool of players. The higher the salary budget the more flexibility each team has to bring in talented soccer players who will help draw in more fans.
A higher budget is good news, but I am an advocate for even more. I'd like to see more players on the roster and more money being spent on the players. With only one team joining in 2008 (San Jose) the player pool isn't going to be overly taxed. However, as we get to a 16 - 18 team league, teams will need to be able to attract more talent outside the current MLS player pool and teams will need to be able to retain more talent to keep the level of play increasing.
At the end of the day, we all want to see quality soccer on the field.
As we all know the league is expanding quickly these days and needs a larger pool of players. The higher the salary budget the more flexibility each team has to bring in talented soccer players who will help draw in more fans.
A higher budget is good news, but I am an advocate for even more. I'd like to see more players on the roster and more money being spent on the players. With only one team joining in 2008 (San Jose) the player pool isn't going to be overly taxed. However, as we get to a 16 - 18 team league, teams will need to be able to attract more talent outside the current MLS player pool and teams will need to be able to retain more talent to keep the level of play increasing.
At the end of the day, we all want to see quality soccer on the field.
Labels: MLS, MLS Salaries
posted by Bonji at
10:33 AM
1 Comments:
Is this good for young players? I'm thinking the league's expansion is, more roster spots to fill. But an increasing salary cap to me does the bets more good. My two-bits is that the reason why guys like Ritchie Kotschau bounce around isn't so much that they're not good but that teams aren't sure they can afford to spend 80,000 on a bet like that when taking the younger player at 30,000 MIGHT not be that big of a drop in skill (at least if they're lucky).
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Allen, at 5:57 PM
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