If anyone can show any of the math on these evaluations, please do. Because Forbes does this every year and never show any methodology or anything showing how they got their evaluations.
MLS has the extreme benefit of being in the world's most lucrative consumer market and most influential cultural market. It is what allows Don Garber to be such an arrogant prick. He has no real competition and a captured market for (domestic soccer), but they shouldn't take it for granted as long as Europe's big 5 and Liga MX are so accessible. Also reforms are being proposed for Brasileiro that could see improvements in that league as well.
exactly...1st: let's not copy what other leagues are doing...let's be innovators and watch the world copy us...no promotion and relegation needed here and watch them change their format in the next few years...and 2nd: if MLS has 20 of the 50 most valuable teams in the world, would that make MLS the most valuable LEAGUE in the world or close to it?...
Thee valuations are useless. The other issue is Andrew Wiebe's viewpoint on the need for the US to follow its own path and not enter the concert of nations when it comes, for example, around the issue of promotion/relegation. I should remind Mr. Wiebe that Mexico is part of North America and follows the international recognized system of relegation/promotion. Once again, even in sport, we see this American centric view of the world.
I love Mexican soccer. And I'm a strong pro/rel advocate. But there is no pro/rel in Mexican soccer. The federation cancelled it a few years ago because almost all the second tier teams couldn't handle promotion.
The model for MLS is the NBA and NHL, not the European leagues. Pro/Rel is not happening in a US sport. Say what you will about Don Garber, he has done a great job of growing the league, financially, commercially and overall level of play.
MLS can't replicate the global commercial and marketing advantage of the Champions League. Without that, the best players will continue to go to Europe until they've aged out of competition at that level.
Wiebe knows MLS inside and out. Other leagues, not so much.
If anyone can show any of the math on these evaluations, please do. Because Forbes does this every year and never show any methodology or anything showing how they got their evaluations.
Its possible. Becks thinks so
MLS has the extreme benefit of being in the world's most lucrative consumer market and most influential cultural market.
It is what allows Don Garber to be such an arrogant prick. He has no real competition and a captured market for (domestic soccer), but they shouldn't take it for granted as long as Europe's big 5 and Liga MX are so accessible. Also reforms are being proposed for Brasileiro that could see improvements in that league as well.
exactly...1st: let's not copy what other leagues are doing...let's be innovators and watch the world copy us...no promotion and relegation needed here and watch them change their format in the next few years...and 2nd: if MLS has 20 of the 50 most valuable teams in the world, would that make MLS the most valuable LEAGUE in the world or close to it?...
Thee valuations are useless. The other issue is Andrew Wiebe's viewpoint on the need for the US to follow its own path and not enter the concert of nations when it comes, for example, around the issue of promotion/relegation. I should remind Mr. Wiebe that Mexico is part of North America and follows the international recognized system of relegation/promotion. Once again, even in sport, we see this American centric view of the world.
I love Mexican soccer. And I'm a strong pro/rel advocate. But there is no pro/rel in Mexican soccer. The federation cancelled it a few years ago because almost all the second tier teams couldn't handle promotion.
The model for MLS is the NBA and NHL, not the European leagues. Pro/Rel is not happening in a US sport. Say what you will about Don Garber, he has done a great job of growing the league, financially, commercially and overall level of play.
MLS can't replicate the global commercial and marketing advantage of the Champions League. Without that, the best players will continue to go to Europe until they've aged out of competition at that level.