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08-16-2008, 05:35 AM
Interesting read
What is the Best Method for MLS to Stock its Rosters?
George Gorecki
TVSPORTSDAILY.COM
MLS is currently in the middle of its summer transfer window, a time when clubs fine-tune their rosters for the stretch run. Teams with playoff aspirations make the moves that they think will put them over the top. Over the last couple of weeks, US National Team players Josh Wolff, Brian McBride, Pat Noonan, Eddie Lewis and Corey Gibbs are back in the league and the path they have taken to land at their current clubs is straightforward in some cases and very complicated in others. MLS’s procedures that MLS lack common sense and make player transfers needlessly complex.
Everywhere else in the soccer world, player acquisitions occur in an uncomplicated manner. When a player switches clubs, a deal is struck between the clubs to determine compensation for the transfer, usually in the form of cash. The process becomes even simpler when a player is out of contract. The player can seek a new club and his old club receives no compensation.
Player transfers in MLS don’t work this way and the league’s single-entity system is the fundamental reason why. Because of single-entity, all player salaries are paid by the league through a central fund, rather than by the individual clubs. Technically speaking, all MLS players are employees of the league and once under contract with MLS, the league assigns them to one of its clubs. In the case of Americans who return to MLS after playing abroad, their re-entry is governed by allocation rules and this is where things get sticky.
Read more (http://tvsportsdaily.com/article.php?story=2008081522025475)
What is the Best Method for MLS to Stock its Rosters?
George Gorecki
TVSPORTSDAILY.COM
MLS is currently in the middle of its summer transfer window, a time when clubs fine-tune their rosters for the stretch run. Teams with playoff aspirations make the moves that they think will put them over the top. Over the last couple of weeks, US National Team players Josh Wolff, Brian McBride, Pat Noonan, Eddie Lewis and Corey Gibbs are back in the league and the path they have taken to land at their current clubs is straightforward in some cases and very complicated in others. MLS’s procedures that MLS lack common sense and make player transfers needlessly complex.
Everywhere else in the soccer world, player acquisitions occur in an uncomplicated manner. When a player switches clubs, a deal is struck between the clubs to determine compensation for the transfer, usually in the form of cash. The process becomes even simpler when a player is out of contract. The player can seek a new club and his old club receives no compensation.
Player transfers in MLS don’t work this way and the league’s single-entity system is the fundamental reason why. Because of single-entity, all player salaries are paid by the league through a central fund, rather than by the individual clubs. Technically speaking, all MLS players are employees of the league and once under contract with MLS, the league assigns them to one of its clubs. In the case of Americans who return to MLS after playing abroad, their re-entry is governed by allocation rules and this is where things get sticky.
Read more (http://tvsportsdaily.com/article.php?story=2008081522025475)