No Good News On Transfer Deadline Day

Here’s an irate letter I just sent the MLS. If anybody wants to send one of their own, we can start a campaign.

To Whom it May Concern,

Unless you’re sitting on an enormous covert offer from Chelsea or Barcelona, it’s inexplicable to me that Major League Soccer turned down a $1.5-million offer from Charlton Athletic for Clint Dempsey.

This decision is bad for Dempsey. He wants to be in Europe, and he would improve faster in the EPL. Plus, he currently makes a tenth or even a twentieth what he could make in the EPL.

Moreover, the decision is bad for MLS. Dempsey has a year left on his contract, and you’ve now alienated him so badly that he’s sure to leave in 2007, whereupon MLS will get nothing for his departure except bad publicity. There aren’t any major international competitions between now and the end of his contract, so if you do get further offers for Dempsey, they’re likely to be less valuable than they are with his World Cup performance still fresh in managers’ memories.

So if it’s a financial decision, it’s a bad a idea. And if it’s an image decision, it’s a bad idea too. If you’re doing this because you think it’s better for MLS’s reputation at home to keep as many of the top American players as possible, consider it from the point of view of young American stars. Are they going to want to sign with a league that persistently ignores the financial and athletic well-being of its players? Or will they do everything they can to avoid the MLS in the first place–join foreign developmental squads and sign with the first foreign team that will have them, even if it’s a second-division English club, because they’ll assume that, if nothing else, the foreign team will handle them professionally.

Let him go. It doesn’t make sense to keep him.

Sincerely,

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Moreover, the decision is bad for MLS. Dempsey has a year left on his contract, and you’ve now alienated him so badly that he’s sure to leave in 2007, whereupon MLS will get nothing for his departure except bad publicity. There aren’t any major international competitions between now and the end of his contract, so if you do get further offers for Dempsey, they’re likely to be less valuable than they are with his World Cup performance still fresh in managers’ memories.

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