“The way the league is, you’ll never have a consistently good team in the league. You’re going to have the peaks and valleys over the course of your history for a variety of reasons. It’s not like you are going to have the Lakers in basketball and be consistently good for 10 or 15 years. You can’t do it in MLS because of the different rules. “You think I would trade [veteran goalkeeper] Donovan Ricketts [now with Montreal]? That was one of the things we had to do to deal with the evolution of having a team that is successful: the salary cap, the bonuses, the raises. We were probably $700,000 or $800,000 over the salary cap” in the offseason.~ Bruce Arena, in an interview with Steve Goff
A fantastic interview by Steve Goff with LA head coach Bruce Arena. I pulled this quote out from the interview because I felt it was worth highlighting. You don’t see a ton of teams anymore have three and four year runs in this league. That may just be what is happening to this year’s group…[continue reading]
