Originally Posted by
jloome
Ronaldo is 37, and would still score 30 goals in MLS.
We're a decent league now, ala Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Scotland. But we're also a skill-heavy league -- skill on the ball, far less tactically disciplined, and technically quite naive.
A good technical player, who understands the cut-off angles that are blind to defenders, who knows how to move against the movement of the rest of a team, who can bounce between two central defenders until he has subtly pushed them a bit too wide... that guy doesn't need a lot of speed in our league. He just needs service, and LAFC has tons.
But maybe he'll come in disinterested. That was the knock in England, that he really didn't seem to want to be there. Which I can understand. When I was kid living part of the year in Africa and part in England, I'll be blunt about how depressing English weather and some social elements could be.
Angola had all sorts of problems, but it also had the nicest people on Earth, fantastic weather, beautiful beaches.
If you're a pro footballer with enough money that you could afford to live anywhere, England can wear on you. Kevin De Bruyne, who lives in London for his career right now, was quite blunt in an interview with the Guardian before the World Cup about how quickly he'd be leaving once his career was done.
Auba is at the end of his career, a guy in his thirties with a family. It might be that living in LA is a refreshing change of scenery.