Originally Posted by
ag futbol
Depends on your definition of TAM. With an ever increasing number of teams and a limited talent pool it is inevitable the cost of domestics will go up in the short term.
I think the stupidity is, because MLS would like to keep domestic salaries low, it burns near a million on VDW rather than paying Beitashour what might have been an extra 75k-100k. Listing to him talk post season, he wasn't expecting the world. He just wanted some sort of increase because literally everybody else was given one but he essentially told to "take one for the team".
Now, all that said. Management can wax poetic on this, and I'm sure the league office didn't make it any easier, but Manning and Bez screwed up, plain and simple.