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« on: December 28, 2014, 03:20:27 PM »
MLS is not that bad. There are some teams that are more exciting than others and I'm sure if they did good television coverage the game out look more exciting. I've always had a problem with how they present the product. The audio, the camera angles and announcers are all poor. I'm sure that Seattle Sounders, LA Galaxy and now New England Revolution are about as good as a middle table EPL teams.
Here's how they can improve their league
- Increase salary cap (pretty obvious)
-Better production for games (Announcers over explain things, quote meaningless stats. The cameras are too far, can never tell who ahs the ball, I hate hearing the sound of the ball and even in noisy stadiums they don't let you hear the crowd, they don't do slow-mos , nothing just bland production and I find American accents extremely annoying when listening to commentary and they aren't witty like English commentators either. just awful).
-Stop acting like players on their last legs are stars. ( the world laughs at the them when they do this).
-Stop Adidas sponsorship. ( Some might disagree but the kits look similar to me and Adidas makes some boring kits to begin with) No team has a strong identity except maybe Redbulls and Seattle.
Stop the Conference non-sense. I saw Seattle play LA five times in one season in regular MLS play. What is the point of that. Why can't they play each team Home and Away. Teams in the West will always have a it harder to win the Supporters Shield because that conference is much harder.( for those of you that don't know, the Shield is given to the team with the most points at the end of the regular season) When you have to play LA, Portland, Salt Lake five times, meanwhile some teams in the east have to play lame teams like Chicago, Toronto, Columbus and DC it's no wonder the Eastern teams win the Supporters shield more often. Also the playoffs are unfair because the teams are harder in west and teams from the east just need to be good enough. They should make brackets that mix from east and west to decide the Championship.
No more expansion draft- By having new teams pick from an already talent deprived pool just makes the talent even more diluted. New teams, sign new players and trade when the window opens like normal. How stupid is it that teams have to submit a list of players 11, that they want to protect from being drafted to Orlando or NYCFC. You could end up loosing a valuable player. Like Portland didn't protect Ricketts ( their starting Goal Keeper) and he was taken by Orlando. Why couldn't Orlando just buy a new keeper.
No more games during the International Window.
The commissioner needs to stop arguing with Klinsmann. Jurgen doesn't give a damn and the commissioner is just there arguing over everything he says. At the end of the day America is not a country with footballing knowledge, no one respects the commissioner (not even in America) but people do respect Klinsmann.
That's just my take on what I've seen from watching and following MLS.