Kasey Keller has written on his website that Management and Labor are far apart in the MLS labor negotiations. Keller states that MLS anticipates a lockout, and has set a probable lockout date of February 1st.
http://kaseyslastline.com/
So maybe better a league with single-entity than no league at all.
I have the feeling that there isn't a tremendous amount of wiggle room on this one, and that the best that the Player's Union can hope for is a slightly expanded salary cap. I doubt it will be a very large increase. The minimum developmental salary does need to be more than the roughly $12,900 and $17,200 that I think is the going rate just now. If they could get the minimum up to, say, $30,000 it would be competitive with many professional starting salaries in non-sports jobs.
Jordan Cila opted to leave his MLS club in New York, retiring in 2006, because he accepted a position as an interest rate derivative analyst for Goldman Sachs.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jordan-cila/4/576/1a8
I wonder how many others like him have had to make similar choices since MLS was founded?
As far as guaranteed contracts and players leaving on a truly "free" transfer within MLS...I don't think the league would grant that, even if they could.
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