World Soccer Persuasive Essay

In the summer transfer window, Premier League clubs spent over £1.4bn. Before 2017, the largest transfer the world has seen was £105 million for the French, Juventus star Paul Pogba to English giants, Manchester United. During the summer transfer window of 2017, Neymar moved from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for a whopping €222, shattering the record for highest transfer player of all time by more than double. Overall, money has a negative impact on World Soccer.
Negatively, players careers are ruined by money. According to a Star and Stripes article, “Teams have doubled down on Homegrown Players and are doing a lot to keep promising players from leaving for Europe with relatively strong salaries.” This means that the MLS is keeping local

For example, Bayern Munich, the best team in the German league, has won the Bundesliga the last 5 years in a row. Despite the talent in their starting 11. Bayern Munich continue to “cherry pick” any German talent in the league, increasing their superiority. Journalist Amanda Whiting wrote, “How much better would MLS be with a rotating series of plucky upstarts challenging the established order every year?...That’s the kind of fantastical rise-from-the-ashes story that promotion favors–imagine if teams from the United Soccer League had a shot at joining the MLS each year.” Back to the MLS, they refuse to incorporate a promotion/relegation system to cleanse to league of the team that constantly finish within the bottom four in the league. The league will not do this. One reason is that for new clubs to enter, they must pay a fee of $150 dollars to enter. Adding a system where lower division teams can enter for free would pointless. As well as, current MLS team owners wouldn't be thrilled with the idea of being relegated and losing

According to The Guardian, “The Chinese government’s ambition to become a footballing superpower is another reason why clubs are so keen to splash the cash. The companies who own the 16 clubs in the Chinese Super League see investment as a way to gain favour with the government.” This means that owners of CSL teams view spending big money on foreign players a way to get in with the Chinese government.This is why there should caps for league transfers, In the CSL, teams must have a certain amount of native players in there team. This doesn’t only just sky rocket homegrown Chinese players, but talents elsewhere as well. For example, Ezequiel Lavezzi earns £789,000 a week from a chinese club, that twice as much as his international teammate Lionel