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World Soccer XXVIII: Campeones de NorteAmérica.

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Jimjamesak said:
Yup, and outside of maybe Atlanta (and I even doubt that) no MLS team would be able to afford that kind of salary bill without sustaining huge financial losses. The financial gap between MLS and the top LigaMX teams is bigger than most people think.
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I think MLS is getting much better but yes, the top of LigaMX is pretty far...the rest of the league is completely reachable but the top will be difficult.
 
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This is the longest of long shots, but yesterday's mail had my ticket to St James' Park for the 20 April match between Newcastle and Southampton. Thanks to medical reasons I'm stuck stateside. The ticket is front row just to the left of the net in the Gallowsgate Stand. Anyone going to be spending Easter weekend in northeast England and feel like some EPL football?
 
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What a game.
Spurs got "lucky"
 
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USMNT not happy about playing on grass on top of turf against Venezuela.

https://www.apnews.com/f9041c2d11b84136bc2257b556da2b78

MLS wants to expand to 30
https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2019/04/19/mls-expansion-rankings-who-could-be-teams-28-30/

Supposedly 28 and 29 will be coming shortly, most likely in Sacramento and St Louis. I’m very confused how both Detroit and Phoenix could have >50% chance of being the final team. Detroit is probably out because they sabatoged the bid to include Ford Field. Unless that changes I think anything Detroit is DOA.

With all the cities left on the board, MLS1 and 2 with promotion and relegation idea mentioned in the article would be interesting, but I’m sure that would just spark lawsuit after lawsuit from the other leagues in the pyramid.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
MLS wants to expand to 30
https://soccer.nbcsports.com/2019/04/19/mls-expansion-rankings-who-could-be-teams-28-30/

Supposedly 28 and 29 will be coming shortly, most likely in Sacramento and St Louis. I’m very confused how both Detroit and Phoenix could have >50% chance of being the final team. Detroit is probably out because they sabatoged the bid to include Ford Field. Unless that changes I think anything Detroit is DOA.

With all the cities left on the board, MLS1 and 2 with promotion and relegation idea mentioned in the article would be interesting, but I’m sure that would just spark lawsuit after lawsuit from the other leagues in the pyramid.
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There was a great post on BigSoccer that summed up the Pro/Rel talk: The European leagues will rid themselves of Pro/Rel before its instituted in the US.

There will be an AL/NL split or at the very least a divisional split as the league grows.

As for expansion, it’s the expansion teams that are growing the league right now, think Toronto, Seattle, Atlanta, Portland, LAFC, while the 2002 survivors are struggling except for SKC and the Galaxy. Expansion really hasn’t hurt the league in anyway, even the level of play has gotten better.

For the most part it’s about growing to markets that will increase TV viewership and gaining a large enough TV contract. Even an NHL level TV contract would put MLS in the top 5-6 of leagues worldwide. Given that, I’d expect St. Louis, Phoenix, and Las Vegas as the cities getting teams.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
There was a great post on BigSoccer that summed up the Pro/Rel talk: The European leagues will rid themselves of Pro/Rel before its instituted in the US.
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Certainly the owners of the big clubs want that. I'm surprised they didn't kill relegation when they created the Premier League. And it benefits the stars. But everyone else?
 
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Kepler said:
Certainly the owners of the big clubs want that. I'm surprised they didn't kill relegation when they created the Premier League. And it benefits the stars. But everyone else?
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your boys finally picked up a road win :eek:
too late of course...
 
Kepler said:
Certainly the owners of the big clubs want that. I'm surprised they didn't kill relegation when they created the Premier League. And it benefits the stars. But everyone else?
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In so far as it could give other clubs beyond the big clubs a chance to win the title? Yes.

The European soccer model has not adapted well to the changes in the game, most notably free agency and TV money. It has taken an already unequal system and exacerbated it. In the last 20-30 years it has been the same clubs winning the domestic titles and the same clubs winning in the Champions League. The only way to break the monotony is for a sketchy billionaire to spend millions.

There are better ways to break up the 40-50 qualified clubs in each country beyond a Pro/Rel, Division setup.
 
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such as????
 
mookie1995 said:
such as????
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Divide the clubs that can meet First Division criteria (stadium, financial requirements) into regional based conferences and have a playoff at the end of the season. Impose a salary cap and a transfer budget limit.

At a realistic level there are only so many clubs that can be first division teams, it’s 40-50 in England, 30-40 in Germany, and far far lower in even Spain and Italy. The financial divide between top clubs and even mid level clubs is huge and only getting worse.

Of course the other option is a European Super League but FIFA and UEFA will do anything to prevent that and the top clubs know that and use it to their advantage.
 
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