By J Hutcherson USSoccerPlayers
“I don’t necessarily have to be apologetic to say that these are trying times. We’ve got to figure out ways that we can allocate the money we have, ensure that we are able weather the storm, make the priority at making our teams better at a time when we don’t necessarily see increased revenue coming in to be able to have an escalation of our salary budgets. When this crisis is over and our league continues to grow, then maybe we can think about investing more money in players’ salaries.”
Don Garber Commissioner, MLS
This Is Our Soccer Nation
Well said Commissioner Garber, but… remind me how much you expect to get from expansion fees?
Yeah, about that $40 million or so from every new club and the insistence that those clubs will pay or expansion doesn’t happen.
As always with Major League Soccer, we’re getting the ‘whatever is best us in the moment’ treatment of a broader issue they’ve already told us won’t have much of an impact. That would be the economy, the current excuse for pro sports to undo a multi-year spending spree.
Did the Arizona Diamondbacks really need over 300 employees at the best of times?
Probably not.
Was anybody questioning NASCAR’s expansion into new areas at the expense of established tracks?
Yes, they were.
Should anybody be surprised that the National Football League, already taking the most advantage of their players by operating without guaranteed contracts in a sport built on smashing into each other, would become even more economically conservative?
You get the idea.
Here we have Major League Soccer, to this point only spending on real estate and the occasional foreign player, deciding it’s Woody Guthrie season and times are hard. Well yeah. They were also hard when this same League ran itself $200 million into the hole and responded by cutting the Florida contingent.
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