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jzek
06-07-2014, 08:58 PM
http://www.mlsplayers.org/files/April%201,%202014%20Salary%20Information%20-%20By%20Club.pdf


NBA players earn their entire year's worth of salary in a week. :wtf:
KobesFinger
06-07-2014, 09:03 PM
Its because no-one watches MLS. Leo Messi apparently gets paid 20m Euros a year, or $27m. That's Kobe money
AnaheimLakers24
06-07-2014, 09:03 PM
some nba players
Smook A.
06-07-2014, 09:05 PM
WNBA salaries are 10x worse lol.

The maximum salary for them is $105,000
Frozen1
06-07-2014, 09:13 PM
Its because no-one watches MLS. Leo Messi apparently gets paid 20m Euros a year, or $27m. That's Kobe money

LOL messi new deal is $50 million a year.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2014/05/16/lionel-messi-agrees-to-new-50-million-a-year-deal-with-barcelona/
9512
06-07-2014, 09:19 PM
Euro soccer players' salary has announced is actually NET total with agent fees paid, taxes paid by the team etc... So when messi is said to earn 50 million or whatever it's the amount he gets in his bank account.

NBA, NFL etc salaries are GROSS total. Kobe may make $25 million But a big chunk will go to his agent, taxes to uncle Sam, and any obligational fees. So he will end up maybe with $16 million out of that $25 mil.
outbreak
06-07-2014, 09:55 PM
They don't bring in enough money to warrant more. Can't pay more in salaries than you make in profit
JohnMax
06-08-2014, 04:55 AM
Its not like the MLS is the NBA of soccer. There are several leagues that are higher in competition.
Quickening
06-08-2014, 04:58 AM
What a stupid thread, there are football players who get a wage of 500 thousand dollars a week.

Would be like someone saying basketball players in europe don't earn that in a year.
RoundMoundOfReb
06-08-2014, 05:00 AM
Its not like the MLS is the NBA of soccer. There are several leagues that are higher in competition.
This. Compare MLS salaries to a secondary pro bball league and see what you get.
MiseryCityTexas
06-08-2014, 07:12 AM
Baseball fell off hard.
fiddy
06-08-2014, 07:21 AM
Baseball fell off hard.
:wtf:
bagelred
06-08-2014, 07:37 AM
Barely any TV revenue. How you gonna pay players with no TV money? NBA has billions coming from ESPN and TNT.
pastis
06-08-2014, 09:33 AM
Barely any TV revenue. How you gonna pay players with no TV money? NBA has billions coming from ESPN and TNT.

thats pretty sad. you've got some really talented players over there. as i was in the us in the course of a school exchange, nearly everyone was playing soccer. for real. especially the girls, but lots of the boys also. it was funny to see, that lots of people were playing soccer, but only watching nfl or nba:lol

and btw: nobody cared about baseball. never seen anyone playing it. but mlb players are paid in a ridiculous way
MiseryCityTexas
06-08-2014, 10:01 AM
:wtf:

compared to 90s, baseball fell off. baseball was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more popular in the 90s.
La Frescobaldi
06-08-2014, 10:09 AM
compared to 90s, baseball fell off. baseball was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more popular in the 90s.

basketball is the greatest team sport in the world.

You know it, I know it, Ish knows it.

Just taking time for the rest of the world to catch up on that fact.

But athlete salaries are no indicator of sporting events and their impact. I mean look at the Tour de France. Those guys bring down maybe a couple million for their teams but literally Billions of people watch the race each year, and business revenues are magnitudes higher than the NFL playoffs.

And cycling pales in comparison to soccer!!
AcquiringSteak
06-08-2014, 10:14 AM
yeah youre comparing apples and oranges...

compare the salaries of NBA to La Liga or BPL and then come back please
Rubio2Gasol
06-08-2014, 10:14 AM
MLS is not a top 10 football league IMO

What's more amazing is baseball and NFL salaries :lol Who watches this stuff :lol
Crafty
06-08-2014, 10:24 AM
LOL messi new deal is $50 million a year.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2014/05/16/lionel-messi-agrees-to-new-50-million-a-year-deal-with-barcelona/
20M
PistonsFan#21
06-08-2014, 10:30 AM
Baseball fell off hard.


we aint talking about baseball here homeboy :lol

MLS is a soccer league
MavsSuperFan
06-08-2014, 11:02 AM
Because MLS is not even close to the elite soccer league.

Its like saying NBA players make more than Triple A baseball players, or that NFL players make more than D-League players.
TiagoSimoes
06-08-2014, 11:22 AM
mls isnt even a top10 football league.

messi and ronaldo make about 50M before taxes, which almost doubles the best NBA salaries
NumberSix
06-08-2014, 02:22 PM
Max players get somewhere around $250,000 per game in the NBA. Damn, soccer players are getting $36,000 a season?
Soundwave
06-08-2014, 02:27 PM
Meh a quick glance at that list shows plenty of MLS players making over 100k per year for playing a sport they presumably enjoy ... that's a sweeter deal than most average Americans.

If they want higher salaries, then grow the sport and generate more revenue, simple as that.
Rubio2Gasol
06-08-2014, 02:34 PM
Meh a quick glance at that list shows plenty of MLS players making over 100k per year for playing a sport they presumably enjoy ... that's a sweeter deal than most average Americans.

If they want higher salaries, then grow the sport and generate more revenue, simple as that.

Or simply be good at football and move to a better, higher paying league.
PistonsFan#21
06-08-2014, 02:36 PM
Max players get somewhere around $250,000 per game in the NBA. Damn, soccer players are getting $36,000 a season?
No max player in soccer gets paid 36 000$ a season... how did u come up with that?
Soundwave
06-08-2014, 02:37 PM
Or simply be good at football and move to a better, higher paying league.

Yeah I mean if you're not good enough to cut it in the Euro leagues where the big money is, but you're still a pretty decent level soccer player, then I'd say the MLS is a pretty sweet deal. You can earn from the looks of it a respectable, even decent six figure salary for doing something you love rather than having to ice your soccer talents and take a "regular" job somewhere else.
Jon_Koncak
06-08-2014, 03:09 PM
these are actually really good salaries for a league as shitty as mls..most of these unknown players would struggle finding similar contracts in europe.
jzek
06-08-2014, 03:20 PM
Look at this bill from an NFL player:

http://i.imgur.com/evgQba2.png

That's an entire year's worth of salary for MLS players in just one sitting. :oldlol:
flipogb
06-08-2014, 03:46 PM
why are people defending leagues in Europe ? this isn't a contest between NBA and soccer in general. this thread is just looking at how little MLS players are paid
R.I.P.
06-08-2014, 04:04 PM
why are people defending leagues in Europe ? this isn't a contest between NBA and soccer in general. this thread is just looking at how little MLS players are paid

Dempsey, Bradley and Defoe earn over six million dollars a year.
Just2McFly
06-08-2014, 04:06 PM
Toronto needs to chill.... they about to be spending baseball money :oldlol:
Legends66NBA7
06-08-2014, 04:21 PM
Toronto needs to chill.... they about to be spending baseball money :oldlol:

Blue Jays aren't owned by MLSE.
no pun intended
06-08-2014, 04:31 PM
doesn't arod make like 30 mil? lmao
TiagoSimoes
06-08-2014, 08:21 PM
why are people defending leagues in Europe ? this isn't a contest between NBA and soccer in general. this thread is just looking at how little MLS players are paid

its not about defending europe. its just that mls is such a small league in football, that obviously it cant be compared to the biggest league in basketball(nba), and NFL and MLB