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Message: [QUOTE="KryHavok, post: 5043941, member: 12905"] Yes, yes, yes, and yes! Spot on mate. Regarding your second point, Carli Loyd mentioned something along those lines in terms of expenditure for the sake of playing time. Went through this with my kids, the higher the "academy" the more money spent, and the less return on investment in terms of joy playing the game. My kid isn't going to Serie A, but do we need 30 kids on a team when you can only roster 18 for games? On your third point, we may have had "lesser" players a few decades ago, but the team overall played better. Now we have "stars" that suck given how they perform on a national stage. I'll give Pulisic a pass since he's had a rebirth in the last year at AC Milan, but he alone can't will the team to win. As for your last point, you know as well as I as the closed system of US sports is too much a money grab. Relegation works for foreign clubs as they were never beholden to the type of model we use for the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and MLS. That said, I wish we had relegation or at the very least reduction in the # of MLS teams. The product suffers from talent dilution. I'm glad the league grew, but it doesn't hold the appeal that the first decade did. [/QUOTE]