MLS lockout looking increasingly likely
Major League Soccer’s 2010 season looks set to be delayed as the Players Union’s chances of staging a lockout looks more and more likely.
In what could be a disastrous move for the USA national team leading into the World Cup, the MLS Players Union have rated a work stoppage as ‘inevitable’ is there is not an agreement before Thursday’s extended deadline of the new collective bargaining agreement.
Players are preparing to strike so their salary demands are met by the league and Kansas City Wizards captain Jimmy Conrad was of firm belief that this strike would occur.
“We feel like we’ve made a huge effort to be reasonable, to propose things that are within the confines of the single-entity structure,” Conrad told ESPN. “At this point they’re not even humoring us with something tangible. If things stay where they are, then it’s inevitable that a work stoppage is going to happen.”
The player lockout could force LA Galaxy stars Landon Donovan and David Beckham to extend their stays in Europe with Everton and AC Milan respectively and could be a potential disaster for Bob Bradley’s national team as many MLS-based players make up his squad.
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Comments (3)
This would not affect the national team at all. At least not in the immediate future.
If the season is cancelled, this will be the end of professional football in the US, the end of something really promising called MLS. Both the league and the players must be aware that no season will be detrimental to both sides. Sit on the table, hammer out a compromise and get the games under way, already!!! Shame on the club owners if they let this happen. I am siding w/ the players when it comes to the free agency issue. In a capitalist country, the professional sports leagues are being run like a communist cartels. This is disturbing and runs afoul FIFA rules.
I guess you missed this on Saturday:
"We've communicated that the league doesn't have an intention of commencing a lockout," MLS president Mark Abbott.
If there is a work stoppage, it will be due to a player strike, not a lockout.
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