MLS player salaries

[Thedelldays]

interesting read.

wonder if Euro clubs would ever be so transparent

http://www.mlsplayers.org/files/September%201,%202011%20Salary%20Information%20-%20Alphabetical.pdf

[Glasgow_Saint]

mmmm interesting!

 

2011 guranteed compensation - is that the value of base salary + bonus or stand alone bonus (in addition to base)?

 

Henry is doing alright!! lucky git

[Thedelldays]

to add to that...Man City are the 3rd most highest paying sporting club (of any sport) in the world.

barca and madrid are 1st and 2nd

 

Man U are now 11th

[Glasgow_Saint]

to add to that...Man City are the 3rd most highest paying sporting club (of any sport) in the world.

barca and madrid are 1st and 2nd

 

Man U are now 11th

 

Saints?

[Saintandy666]

The pay gap between Beckham and everyone else at LA Galaxy.

[Window Cleaner]

interesting read.

wonder if Euro clubs would ever be so transparent

http://www.mlsplayers.org/files/September%201,%202011%20Salary%20Information%20-%20Alphabetical.pdf

 

Is it like the NFL where all contract details are made public because of the Salary Cap system with fixed figure minimums for Rookies/1 year players etc?

[Rut]

Is it like the NFL where all contract details are made public because of the Salary Cap system with fixed figure minimums for Rookies/1 year players etc?

 

Yeah I think so.

 

The MLS does have a salary cap. It would be interesting to see what would happen if this was abolished & some seriously rich people took over some clubs. Would 'I've always wanted to play for Man City' turn into 'I've always wanted to play for the Chicago Fire'?

 

Would most Americans know or care? Probably not.

[Chin Strain]

You'd wonder about how these guys get on when you have players on $5.5m and $3m (Becks and Keane) and colleagues on $32k. Must make it interesting in the dressing room.

[jjsaint]

Some of those players earn less than I do. Wow.

[Crab Lungs]

I pwn Leandre Griffit.

[Crab Lungs]

I pwn Leandre Griffit.

 

********, actually, I don't. But I will. Soon. Lol.

[CB Saint]

There is a hell a lot of them earning less than £ 100,000 pa and a large number earning £30,000 pa

[DanW]

Yes, the MLS has a strange structure in that in its early days the league owned all the teams. Or one guy owned all the teams. Or something like that. As the league has grown and established itself it's been trying to turn itself over to a normally operated sports league with individual owners and such but at the moment I believe that the league still negotiates for all transfers (and possibly all salaries).

 

Most leagues in the US have publicly announced salaries - I've never figured out why this should be or shouldn't be. You can easily look up how much every single NBA player makes or, as mentioned above, NFL players. Looking through the posted list it should not be noted how Beckham, Keane, and Henry all make a pretty penny, but rather how many of those guys are making in the neighborhood of $32,000 per year. I legitimately could not live on that little income a year yet these guys do it in the hopes of a future contract that is much better. Or just that they'd rather play footie than have a real job.

 

The MLS wage structure also has a limit on salaries - I think it's $400,000 is the max a player can earn? - with the exception of the "Beckham Rule" which allows for two players per team to be paid more than that. And this exception is transferrable, as well, which is why the bigger clubs have more of those marquee names.