Profit Sharing and Salary Caps! That's what is keeping MLS soccer down!?

[Stop Asking Me Questions!]

That plus indifference to the sport on behalf of most Americans. The MLS can get somewhere but not under it's current structure. Beckham will change nothing.































Currently all teams divide profits equally. Salary caps make it impossible to pay players even close to what Mexican, Brazilian or even Colombian teams pay.































The MLS has stayed alive for 10 years because of those stop losses in place. To get to the next level they need to take a leap of faith. They need to kill the salary cap and revenue sharing. Let teams risk 30 million on real talent that isn't 5 years past it's prime. Let them risk losing hundreds of millions and possibly reap huge returns.































If the talent COULD be bought...American's might turn on to the sport. Right now it is a second hand subsidized product like any product formerly socialist eastern block nations put out. That product doesn't interest anyone....it's what is called "filler" for television.















His contract isn't for $250 million. His contract is for UP TO $250 million with incentives. I'm guessing about $10 million of it is guaranteed. He will end up receiving nowhere close to that figure.

[Peter Gibbons]

Saying Beckham will change nothing is an understatement. With his quarter-o-billion contract, he has ensured that the salary cap will stay around. This is an example of just how carried away the spending can get if a cap is not instituted. You have a problem with the idea of a salary cap? Baseball is the only sport that doesn't have one.