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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Interesting thanks! Makes sense that would be very hard to do if the market is so limited. Almost seems like it would need to be a very top tier player for it to be worth it for a big Euro club to use a foreign spot then.
Although I don't understand how MLS would be able to avoid paying compensation to lower leagues when they take their players. Did they just decide as a group to always wait out the contracts? Because otherwise it seems like someone with a USL contract couldn't just decide they didn't feel like honoring it anymore...
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USL contracts are usually very short. So yes, just wait until the contract expires.
The same way a European club might take a flyer on a young North American teen, but there's generally no way they will pay a transfer fee or a training solidarity payment. Only the best of the best would warrant a transfer fee. So if the CPL ever wanted to sell a player, he better be an absolute baller for someone to pay a transfer for him.
MLS has only just decided to become "a selling league" but their track record of selling players has been pretty dismal considering the tens of millions they sink into their club academies every year. That shows how hard it is.