i say screw david beckham

If you're selling players to those teams, that means you're putting out top notch talent. Players will see that other players that have gone the MLS route have ended up with the best teams in the world. It will only help the MLS's cause in attracting good young players.

Gotta agree.
Beckham is in no way American nor can we claim any part of his skill.
Basically, he would NOT be on America's Mt. Rushmore.

MLS isn't a dead market. It's doing quite well as a niche league. No one thinks soccer in Brazil is in trouble because all of their best players are in Europe. It would be silly to argue the same with the US. A high transfer fee would keep the league afloat and be a good financial decision. Also, the MLS loses credibility if it prevents its top players from moving on to the top leagues.

I also don't think Beckham has really been all that great. For a great player, he certainly didn't light up MLS, and the Galaxy were among the worst teams in the league despite his presence.

MLS is never gonna be the EPL. But it is a respectable second tier league, and those leagues make their bones selling their top players to Europe.

"Nothing can help the MLS, it's a dead market here"

MLS is doing just fine. expansion team in seattle this season, in philadelphia next season, and 1 or 2 more three seasons from now (a 2nd NY team, florida or another canadian team)

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because he was benched at Real Madrid.

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great players are benched all the time in europe

he still has world class talent and would positively impact A LOT of good teams in europe

but I agree, they should let him go after negotiating a very high transfer fee.

he wasn't on the bench for very long either.
real madrid also tried to keep him at the end of the season, but the galaxy told them to frick off

MLS had a chance to become bigger, thats what they tried to do with beckham

the problem is that he went to the wrong team, I say he should've gone to a team that was winning, NY Red Bulls (who at the time, were the better team), where he would've made a more visible difference because he would've been winning, and he named his kid brooklyn, seemed a better fit for him, but I guess his plastic doll preferred the sun and (more) cameras(who knew?)

galaxy sucks, beckham wants to return to topflight, so the MLS experiment failed, america is in no way as excited about the MLS as they were when he first arrived


and personally (IMO) the MLS has other problems that it needs to get straight, like the two conferences IMO, I don't like them


I say one table, winner is MLS champs, and not the team that was shite all year just to come in and catch the best team on an off night and win the title, then have your tournaments

and you probably want to say, hey that's exactly the type of system the have....everywhere else (excluding south/central america), america is far too in love with conferences (IMO)

i believe they have conferences because of the travel

no other domestic leagues deal with a country of our size with teams as spread out

it's one of the biggest reasons why MLS will always be different from the rest

i agree completely, think in a sport where everyone plays one another home and away...then that should decide everything.

the playoffs are just because it's in America, and it makes money. Still dumb.