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Originally Posted by JerryUnderscore
Yes, but by that logic MLS is a Tier 1 league in name only as well. No one aspires to top out at the MLS. Everyone wants to eventually play in one of the big leagues (EPL, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A).
And yet, just because EPL is the greatest league in the world (and occasionally has Welsh teams) that doesn't stop Wales from having their own premier league as well.
The CPL won't hurt MLS at all. If anything, it will help develop Canadian players that can go on to play in MLS or even further.
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It's a worse situation than Wales. Wales' national league still has teams in it's largest cities even with the EPL already established in them, the CPL won't. Wales doesn't have the logistical nightmare of having to make trans-continental travel for its league road trips on a PDL-tier budget, the CPL will.
The thing is, 'topping out' at MLS still produces WC level national team-quality players. When you already have three leagues in this country playing at a superior level I can't fathom how this Canadian league is supposed to be comparable, especially when it's nowhere to be found in Canada's biggest population centers and thus is denying itself to a huge chunk of Canada's potential talent. Unless Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto flip over, this thing reeks of a half-measure token gesture that exists simply to get a WC bid approved.