I just can't think about this without speaking out loud.
Maybe just because I'm a European guy, and lived all my life in "European soccer mentality" until I started watching MLS exclusively because of TFC, in 2007?
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Let's be honest about this for a second:
In any of the world's top 10-12 soccer leagues, after:

1. A team would have had a season like TFC had last year, and
2. That team would have had a season like TFC had this year, and
3. That team would have had by far the most expense with player salaries compared with the other teams from that league,

Probably both the coach and the manager (see Vanney and Bez) would have been fired, or for sure at least one of them.
(no matter all the injuries and the CCL factor this year, etc...etc...etc...etc...)

Here this won't be the case, because in the MLS too many things are done too differently compared with the top soccer leagues of the World.
And this is the major reason why MLS is still far from being one of the world's top leagues.
It will never be one until too many things are done too different from the world's elite.

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Any other thoughts about this?