Quote Originally Posted by stegosaurus View Post
That’s the one — thank you!

While I understand the league structure, it’s pretty irritating that the league dictates transfer policy, signings, and salaries like this.

Basically everyone slagging off the FO for dropping Beita when he seems to indicate that the league doesn’t want teams spending TAM on domestics (unless they’re “brand names”) needs to understand that there are times the FO’s hands are probably tied. Pay VdW a bunch because of his pedigree and name, but you’re not allowed to give Beita a raise because he’s domestic.

Without this kind of autonomy, you’re going to wind up with silly situations. “Sorry, you can’t have a DP defender or give TAM to a keeper. However, we hear Ronaldinho is looking to play a match or two if it doesn’t interfere with the beach...” I still wonder if the league has anything to do with TFC’s new “cost cutting” and playing hard on our DP contract renewals...
This’s is a the problem and will be a bone of contention when the players vs mls new agreements are started a5 years end .