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Owen Patton on The problem with Major Leauge Soccer
Owen Patton
The problem with Major Leauge Soccer
Claims and stances
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Owen Patton strongly supports: The absence of a promotion and relegation system creates a fundamental conflict with the global soccer standard because it removes the competitive incentive for teams to improve and protects the investments of owners who paid high expansion fees.
Transcript
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I completely agree with your points.
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I think the struggle with the MLS right now is that they don't have a promotion and relegation system.
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This is where the top three or top however many teams can get promoted into a higher league, and while while the bottom three teams in a league can get demoted into a lower league, like we see in the English Premier League over in Europe.
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This is one of the most successful leagues in the world, and I think this is important because it encourages lower teams that are in lower divisions to push towards the top of their table in order to get promoted into the um into the Premier League, which is a big deal and it brings in a lot of money for the team and brings in more fans and brings in more revenue.
0:46
And I think and then on the contrary, the um relegation system, it keeps teams that are in the lower half of the league keep fighting every single game, even towards the end of the season if they're not having their best season.
0:58
They can still sneak out and stay in the Premier League or stay in that league that they're in and not get relegated into a lower league where they bring in less they probably bring in less money because it's less the league is less televised and less popular.
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Um I think the MLS uh struggles with this because teams that are doing bad in the MLS they have no incentive to keep going towards the end of the season.
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They know they're gonna stay in the league and there's no really consequence for these teams finishing towards the bottom.
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And I think by implementing this system, it would encourage teams to try harder.
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I think we'd see more interesting games, and I think also it would bring in more revenue um and make it more serious and on the level of all these European leagues like the Premier League and La Liga and all these top-tier um European soccer leagues.
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So yeah.