“Rumblings of a move here or a move there and players whining about contracts and their ill-fitting value distracts from the on-field business that is increasingly important during this time of year...The league should be forthright in placing a reasonable value on a player and letting him move if the interested parties reach a suitable accord with MLS.”
“Instead, players around the league are caught in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the league, not knowing whether or not the league will show the midseason money, place an unreasonable bounty on a player's head or allow a player to move to supposedly greener pastures.”
The chopping and dicing omits some balance in his points, so check out the full post (I’m trying to stay within fair-use limits).
Like my earlier comments (LINK and LINK), McCarthy is responding to Taylor Twellman’s (NE Revolution) midweek gripe about his pay package. McCarthy also improves on mine in terms of pith and clarity. MLS needs to either keep their athletes happy, let them go when other suitors come a-courtin’, or cope with the best talent opting to bypass the league to START their career in Europe. Whether the league likes it or not, American players have career options - more risky and trying options to be sure, but promise of a bigger payout mitigates some of the risk.
There’s also a comparatively high-quality Big Soccer thread on this issue. At last reading, “Ursula” and “goussoccer” turned in the best comments.
On the subject of previews, I’ll put mine out later today.
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