Patrik

US Soccer - MLS - 1.FC Kaiserslautern

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@marshallcotiger @USMNTCORNER Please go to mexico and tell kids wearing a tigres or chivas kit that their league is a similar level to MLS and therefore you will never fall in love with the game watching it

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@USMNTCORNER @BiscuitsDad30 It was on regular tv and people didn't watch. That is not the issue at all

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@BDailey222 @frenchjraff Wait until you har about Jamie Vardy

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@frenchjraff @capitaljayhawk HAHAHAH aint no way you are serious about this. 35th is insane lol MLS is a top 15 league

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@reformussoccer @banannaise @ussoccer It's actually more than 15 since 2011. But pro/rel doesn't magically save any of those clubs from folding

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@reformussoccer @banannaise @ussoccer Because we are stable at the top for the first time in our entire history as a country. We are building soccer infrastructure for the first time in our entire existence as a country. And USL has gotten more and more stable over the years. You are blind not to see that

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@reformussoccer @banannaise @ussoccer The data is very misleading. If you are counting "desanctioned" as a metric then you have to count every club that has been relegated out of a professional league system in a pro/rel system

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@imperialgunnar @PaulSpacey @WarPigsChief @MLS We just really don’t like pay to win in our sports lol but yes it is ironic

[Grayson 🛡️ @CincyLe]

Watching the World Cup is fun and all but it doesn't hit the same knowing none of these teams can be relegated

[Matthew Doyle @MattDoyle76]

One has to wonder if England's players should test themselves in MLS the way Messi has. Perhaps then they wouldn't choke.

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@PaulSpacey @WarPigsChief @MLS It just sucks because pro/rel is a beautiful mechanism but to not be able to see the glaring negatives to that system is sad.

Thinking players don’t try in MLS because there is no pro/rel is the real non-competitor attitude.

I’m glad our system incentivizes football vs money

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@PaulSpacey @WarPigsChief @MLS It’s a fun thought experiment but just never seems to actually play out. Innovation and development are supercharged where there is incentive to do so

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@iamchrisnorton @THEChrisKessell MLS teams are incentivized to develop youth because of roster mechanisms for homegrown players

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@SiempreSeattle @THEChrisKessell Mostly right. People still think MLS takes a big cut of transfer fees, but clubs keep 95% now. And you’re right if you sold a player for $20M the club gets $19M and only $3M goes directly to the roster, but that $16M goes to the club, could be used for DP, transfer fees for U22

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@PaulSpacey @WarPigsChief @MLS You’re saying that the 100m sprint is “artificial parity” since everyone has to start at the same starting line and it’s about running that allows you to win.

You would probably like Olympic sprinters to have billionaire owners who pay to start them closer lol

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@PaulSpacey @WarPigsChief @MLS I feel like you’re using “artificial” with a negative connotation. Yes I like a system where you win with youth development, careful roster building, coaching, and tactics. Rather than a “pay to win” system.

That’s what you like, a “pay to win” system.

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@PaulSpacey @WarPigsChief @MLS That’s why pro/rel works so well in amateur leagues and lower division football, because it’s not random billionaires coming in and paying to win, it’s about on field success, and you get edges from developing players or selling more tickets

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@PaulSpacey @WarPigsChief @MLS Okay so sorry if it helps you understand better we can call them franchises, and we can say the contracts are central with the league. That doesn’t change what I said at all. They are all operating under the same rules, same world, etc

[Patrik @SoccerPatrik]

@PaulSpacey @WarPigsChief @MLS It’s a world market. Each team has the same access to the same world lol. They have the same financial rule set as every other team, with flexibility with being able to pay over the salary cap. For example Inter Miami pays 54.6 mil per year and Philly union pays 11 mil.