As a Spurs fan, fuck you all, we’ve got David Bentley and you don’t hahaha.

i don’t know whether that includes itish, scottish and welsh player or if its purely british (england) players)

Though I completely don’t have a head for numbers either. I failed Buisness Studies at Secondary School.

We (MLS) obviously have a similar dearth of supply of quality homegrown players. And our demand is less. Yet…not that much less, especially with expansion.

But our revenue upside is much lower, and so cost is a big deal. MLS seems intent on filling the gaps with up-and-coming foreigners. The value of homegrown US players is going up for foreign clubs, but not for MLS teams. We’re losing a lot of US boys to overseas teams because they’re willing to pay more than MLS for the not-quite-stellar players.

So why are British boys worth more for EPL teams, but US boys aren’t for MLS teams?

Single entity must be having some effect, since MLS basically doesn’t pay transfer fees, ever, if it can help it.

Also, the exhorbitant sums that can come to a successful EPL team are WAY over what an American team will see for at least decades.

But I guess, from a purely economic standpoint, it would seem more efficient for the EPL to keep bringing in the foreigners, like MLS is starting to do, because they’re good and cheaper. And basic economics says that if two products are equally good, the cheaper one is the one that will sell.

So the high cost of British players would seem to imply that they’re responsible for something like more revenue coming in? That there is some less visible cost to having too many foreigners, like not being able to drum up interest from your average British fan?

Curious what others think.