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Strikers ECNL rumors
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Youth clubs are not getting a slice of the pie.
Even when a MLS club get some transfer fees they are sharing some of those with the single entity franchise owners.
FC Dallas spendt(s) millions on DA and others programs each year and the net effect is there not making 'tons' when the sell a few players to euro clubs. I would be surprised if they even made any $ over the last 6 years on what they spent on youth vs what they received in transfer or other funds for those players.
vegasguy
GOLD
First Dortmund was not going to ever pay Pulisic's you club anything. There is a case America that precludes MLS from paying solidarity payments to amateur clubs. MLS hangs their hat on this and because it is a closed league believe that FIFA do not have jurisdiction. If Danny Leyva at Sounders gets transferred to Getafe do not expect Getafe to pay Heat FC in Vegas or the Sounders to pay anything for that matter.
Dortmund is a different situation. That would have only been training compensation, which is a very small sum in comparison, and the signing occurred before the Yedlin case was decided. Pulisic's move to Chelsea was the big money move since it involved solidarity payment based on a second move for a transfer fee and that was where Classics was asked about whether it would apply for a share of his fee. The amount of solidarity payment is a fixed percentage. The payer doesn't pay more or less if there are fewer or more clubs dividing it up, so it wouldn't have bothered them. The reason Tottenham was contesting the Crossfire application is because it would have been an additional amount and they had already paid their full required fee to MLS.
If Levya left, it wouldn't be Sounders who would pay Heat (there is no system for domestic SP/TC in the US and many other countries anyway) it would be Getafe if Heat would have to put in a timely claim. The biggest problem wouldn't be a legal case. There was a case filed by some youth clubs seeking a declaratory judgment that would prevent the MLS players' union from contesting solidarity payments on antitrust grounds, which was ultimately dismissed on jurisdictional grounds to be refiled likely in NY rather than Houston, TX, but that wouldn't prevent this. The biggest question is whether US Soccer would support it, but because MLS has recently come out in favor and no longer opposes it, I suspect US Soccer wouldn't stand in the way if Heat put in a claim and was awarded the money. The biggest problem for Heat would be the player passport. Most of the claims for solidarity payment or training compensation worldwide that are rejected are because the player passport, which tracks a players' club playing history, is incomplete or inadequate. Leyva's playing career with the Sounders Academy is well documented and available on the still up USSDA website, but it would probably be difficult to establish he played for anyone else starting at age 12 (no TC or SP before then under FIFA rules).
Kante
PREMIER
Good on CP for giving some back. Wasn't aware of that.
However.
Impt to remember that when PA Classics announced they wouldn't seek comp for Pulisic, estimated by most to be btw $500k - $1m, it was a controversial decision.
Xfire was actively advocating/litigating on the Yedlin issue, with US Soccer and MLS on the other side of the issue, and PA Classics seeking comp for Pulisic would have been really problematic for US Soccer/MLS.
About three months after PA Classics announced publicly they wouldn't seek comp - with PA Classics DOC Steve Klein taking the public lead stating (almost verbatim) several US Soccer/ML talking points against solidarity comp as the PA Classics rationale - Klein was appointed by US Soccer to be the u15 YNT head coach for what was essentially the 2019 cycle.
For context, when Klein was appointed, PA Classics had one of the worst collective team win-loss records across all age groups in the whole USSDA (about 100-ish clubs).
Will leave it to others to infer or not infer causality.
Kante
PREMIER
One of the ramifications of the ridiculousness from US Soccer/MLS on training/solidarity payments is that clubs across the US have been deprived of millions in funding, and thousands of kids have had less opportunity over the years as a result.
keeprunning
BRONZE
I think that post was just referring to the boys side. GA and DPL are on the girls side.
El Clasico
GOLD
What DA programs?
What girls team? Irvine Strikers don't have any girls team
SoccerFan4Life
PREMIER
Sounds like a false rumor.
Strikers ECNL G06 played a tournament last week in the East coast.
The 05’s also did too. They’re also getting ready for ECNL playoffs in Florida. So sounds pretty false to me as well.
Keepermom2
GOLD
Are they gone for sure?
