heres what every player in MLS Earns

maybe the players union in england should release the same figures every season


http://www.mlsplayers.org/salary_info.html

if you copy and paste you can see the wages

 

While I can see would help with transparency, wouldn't richer clubs just say hey he gets this much lets offer him a bit more. No need to tap up

 

Unfortunately over here it's more likely to lead to inflation of below standard players wages as opposed to controlling them in the other direction!
Player power and all that.

 

When i saw the email with the link the other day it interested me that they would do this.

I think its good so fans know where the moneys going.

 

I agree.

 

Don't they run it like the NFL with a salary cap, therefore stopping a club from stacking its tea, with loads of high profile players?

 

No salary cap and theres a problem with FIFA about player contracts and rights.

At the moment MLS own the players rights not the clubs which doesnt comply with FIFAs 3rd party ownership agreement.

But its not the same 3rd party ownership of players like in south America.

 

Interestingly the pfa will tell a ply er if a wage offer is on parity to the salaries of the other team members...

 

wouldn't mind seeing Darren O'Dea from Toronto at oakwell.

 

Surely peoples salaries are their business.

 

Tim Cahill, Robbie Keane and Thierry Henry all earning in the region of $70,000 a week - what's that about £45,000? I doubt any club in the Premier League would pay them anything like that at this stage of their careers - suppose it explains why they're in the MLS.

 

obviously when you join MLS you agree to this, so theres no problems there

 

Glad you have picked up on that jedstar that was the reason i posted

 

Are there lots of moving in the MLS between clubs?

 

Hemsy no. there not allowed read this piece

What MLS has done is pull from two systems that are intended to benefit clubs while limiting the options for players. The world transfer market allows players to be sold rather than traded, and the North American sports model allows for multiple restrictions.

Major League Soccer's Frankenstein version is designed to limit financial risk by never defining the worth of any individual player as determined by MLS clubs in an open market. That's as true for the players already in this League as the ones entering it. The one exception is a team willing to spend real money on a transfer. Even with this League's love of regulations, that seems to be the only way to subvert the system. Given the strong message built into MLS about constraining costs, is it any wonder that so few clubs even consider paying a fee for a player?

 

Mikael Silvestre must have fallen on hard times. He'd get more than that with us.

 

this may explain it better Hemsie.



Players can be traded at certain times of the year, and new players can be offered contracts. Where it is very different, is that in the MLS the players are owned by MLS itself, and signed contracts are made by the clubs. In the European Leagues the players are bought and sold, wholly by the clubs.

It seems to me that, as in Europe, the Major League Soccer season has two transfer windows. In North America the season starts in March so the Primary transfer window is the first one of the year. In Europe, the season starts after the summer so the Primary Window is over the summer.

USA.
Primary Window is January 15 – April 15
Secondary Window is June 15 – August 15

Europe
Primary Window is July 1st – August 31st
Secondary Window is January 1st – January 31st

Lets look at the Major League Soccer Roster Composition in more detail.

A roster seems to be what in England we would call a squad. The basic rules are that no club can have more than 28 total players in a roster, comprising of 18 players on the Senior Roster and a maximum of 10 players on the Developmental Roster. The developmental roster comprises of the younger players, less than 25.

All 28 players are eligible for the match day squads during the course of the season, including play-off’s. These numbers are kept the same throughout the course of the season, apart from pre specified times in pre season, or in the case of an injury or other extreme situation. The teams have a pre specified salary budget.

The senior roster is comprised of the following players, who all count against a team’s salary budget: Domestic Players, Senior International Players, Youth Internationals.

Major League Soccer teams may not have more than 10 development players on their developmental roster at any time (except in the case of extreme injury replacements). Developmental players can be either domestic or international and must be 24 years of age or younger during the season in question. These players do not count against a team’s salary budget.

MLS teams may acquire new players and add them to their Senior and Developmental rosters using any of the following ways : Allocations, Draft, Trades, Discovery signings, Development Roster Signings, Waivers, Lottery, Extreme hardship call ups, Season ending injury call ups, & returning United States National team pool players.

To the uninitiated this seems quite complex, especially in comparison to the UEFA system. I will cover some of the other methods of transfer mentioned here on the forum and in future articles, but for the time being, lets look in brief at the draft system.

Generally speaking what happens is that the weakest teams (those who finished in the lower positions the previous season) get the first pick of the best young players from the college system. They pick players in several rounds, those players that are not picked are free to talk to anyone they wish. They can either take that player or trade, by selling their pick to someone else.

There is an argument that this system is anti competitive, or protectionist. I am not going to go into politics here, but I would say that whilst it brings an equalizing force to the distribution of young talent it also limits the players options. As Major League Soccer is a fledgling league in comparison to the European leagues, I think it is understandable that the system is developed to make the fairest distribution of young talent, perhaps a purely competitive transfer window, might not work so well in the United States at present.

In Europe the squads can be as large as the club can afford, and the players are bought and sold within the transfer window. Their contract is fully owned by the individual clubs. They cannot be sold twice in the same transfer period. Free trade agreements mean that there is no stipulation on the number of foreign players that can play for each club. Some countries have made their own private agreements within the league themselves as to how many domestic players should be in the squad, but this is not a restriction of trade as it is a private and voluntary agreement.

 

Interesting, you'd have thought a club in Europe would have taken him on what works out at just over £2k a week if only for the experience

 

theres a young forward who plays for Philladelphia who is a great finisher that could score goals at championship level.

Jack Mciernerney. Hes small but fast as buggery and knows where the goal is. think it said hes on $187000.

 

he played for Werder Bremen who released him after one season saying he was too slow and had lost it