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Message: [QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 3034710, member: 652"] The league is fine. It’s AAA soccer compared to the big leagues. Just like European basketball compared to the NBA. The problem is the league isn’t developing world class talent for the USA. It’s developing talent for the other CONCACAF teams to get better against us. The coaches in the MLS are not going to elevate the US to be a consistent world class team. Of course their are outliers who are better than average. The USSF went cheap post-Klinsmann. Klinsmann was an awful manager Joachim Low did all the tactical work for Klinsmann when he managed Germany. However Klinsmann had the right idea for what the direction the US Soccer team should go towards. Problem is Klinsmann sucked and he lost the team after he kept Donovan off the roster in the WC 2014 out of spite. US Soccer needs a manager who will develop the skills of the players. Player development has to get better. The problem IMO started when guys like Michael Bradley took MLS money to play here over developing into better players over in Europe. That is the problem I have with MLS. I don’t blame a player for taking money to play in North America over in Italy but the league isn’t world class and doesn’t challenge the players. Hopefully the league gets better and the Mexican league partnership helps the American teams. If MLS wants to be taken more seriously by myself then it should. 1.Play a season like the European leagues do. Home/home with every team and if you want to do a playoff off that fine. 2. Play August thru May like the rest of the world. The NFL is done by January and then can take a winter break like the cold weather countries do overseas. 3. Institute a promotion/Relegation system. If teams can’t take being relegated then win enough. MLS only survives now because they are financially disciplined and that is smart but it shows the league’s problem. Teams that want to spend more can’t and not all teams have to use their max DP slots if they don’t want too. [/QUOTE]

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