Everyone said, the FIFA Club could be very bad for the World Cup Major League Soccer, in which Inter Miami reached the second round and its three teams gave competitive performances.
Nevertheless, the tournament made it clear that there was some distance between MLS and the world’s best clubs. And it is also shown that if you are not going to spend real madrid or Paris St.-Germen money, then the best way to compete with brands around the world is to bend in a huge domestic talent pool.
In this way Brazilian teams became the story of the tournament, which mostly rely on domestic players, young and old, with some growth from elsewhere in South America. But it is a model that most of the best MLS clubs cannot follow due to an old collective bargaining agreement that domestic players can earn relative to imports.
MLS players take five seasons to earn free agency, which is worse than an earning perspective for players who start their pro careers in MLS – especially those who do so in their early 20s after college career.
The result of this is that, very often, American players who feed and attract interest from abroad can not really say, even though the circumstances in another country may be worse for their long -term development.
For example, take us the men’s national team striker Patrick Egimang. A year away from the World Cup, it is widely reported that the 24 -year -old striker is going to Derby County in the second -level EFL Championship of England.
Ram was almost again accused in the previous season, and agyemang will surely go to an environment where he will have more pressure and low service than Charlotte, where he plays with Israeli’s International Leel Abada and former Crystal Palace Star Wilfred Zaha.
She is far from a certainty to create next year’s World Cup squad, and going to a new club can definitely hurt her 2026 opportunities.
But he is only in the year 2 of his MLS career, making a minimum of $ 104,000 to the Senior Roster League in Charlotte, with no major motivational factor for the Crown-or another MLS to meet its value as a target scorer of a double-digit in the Employer-Promot. In Derby, there are reports that he will see an increase of more than ten times in his salary. How can you expect him to go down?
Maybe agyemang is an exception rather than a player that begins on the league-nuns and becomes the possibility of a national team. But it is an extraordinary talent that MLS should start thinking about challenging Brazil for the best in the US, let those big European divisions rival them someday.
The most crazy part of all this? Many MLS teams will voluntarily pay far more for the services of the agamang if they came from abroad and had to compete for their signature on the global market.
A look at the American peers of Agyemang in the recently concept Gold Cup that his position is sad that it is not unique.
Diego Luna, who led the US and led the Real Salt Lake this year, in Scoring, is less than $ 500,000 annually – and is just $ 100,000 less than the league average. Sebastian Berelter, one of the prominent players of Vancouver Whitcaps, runs in the ConcacAF Champions Cup final, makes $ 385,000 in its fifth season in the league and can be the best free-kickman throughout the USMNT program. And 20-year-old defender Alex Freeman- Former NFL Wide Receives Antonio’s son-in-Caval manufacture $ 108,000 and can soon find themselves subject to a foreign offer, which is almost impossible to refuse.
Overall, the MLS has increased significantly from the early days of the pay league, when the players on the roster’s fringes often have to take a second job to get. And MLS should still aim to be a sales league where it can be, especially in relation to the top levels of the European game.
But it makes very little understanding to stick to a structure, resulting in strictly abandoned American players, for foreign destinations that are not all aristocrats – especially when foreign talent in MLS is not forced to perform the same calculation. And in a nation that is rich in more talent than ever, it is holding the league back.
