re: For those whose favorite club is abroad.

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However, does the Giovinco signing not somewhat send a message that the MLS is growing in its competitive nature?

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It's certainly a nice signing for Toronto and fans of the league in general.

However, I think it's more another small step in the right direction more than some momentous harbinger.

For example, Alessandro Diamante, another pretty high profile Italian fringe NT player signed in China 1 1/2 ago (even though he did come back this winter). A common denominator in both cases was a salary way out of line with what a European club would pay (though both also had some extenuating circumstances like Giovinco not really wanting to go a rival of Juve and Diamante having a Chinese wife).



I don't think it's "strong" message until players the calibre of Giovinco start choosing MLS for fairly equal salaries (the old NASL already had prime time stars playing in the USA for massive paydays). But, again, it is certainly a very nice coup to get Giovinco as he's a very entertaining player to watch.

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What leagues here in the States are best at.

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The issue is it is creating a huge class gap b/w the players.

Thats why free agency is so important.

You have some MLS players making less than League Two wages while some are getting paid double their market value, whos wages are more than a lot of MLS clubs total wage bill.

Id rather the league grow with paying players who would be playing in the 2nd divisions of England, Germany, Italy and Spain just slightly over what they are worth, than getting a few guys each season paying them way over what they should be making.

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When MLS becomes relevant to the world, and produces elite players, are you going to stick to your foreign club or commit to an American side?

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Why are you so hung up on "rooting for an American side"?

Football is a global sport. This is a global world. How shortsighted, immature, and infantile to think that because of where someone lives, they must "root for an American side."

I accept who we are.

Stadium is way outside the city. I only saw the city itself from a distance.

Just the way I like it.

I only walked because i was poor.

Things seem further when you walk.

Split taxi from airport to the hotel and stayed around old trafford and just walked around that.

After that, honestly, i don't know, we followed the directions of a kid we could not understand, went the way he pointed and somehow, after a long walk, found our way to the right bus to the right station to get to london.

Met an English man who was friends with a lsu
tennis player (from 7 years ago).

I dont count tranport hubs as visiting a place though

We didnt spend money getting to and from the city proper and just stayed in the little suburb