With memories of the golden years (80's) of the albanian football still fresh on her mind, Albania is now attempting to recreate its strong football legacy. As young players start making their names abroad, the future is looking bright for Albanian football!
Aurora Bulkualis wrote: Sat Oct 04, 2025 7:14 pm
I don't know if you've ever seen an MLS game in person, but half the games look like high school teams.
Right!
That’s why European stars like Insigne and Bernardeschi came over and made Toronto FC play worse!
That’s why Canada full of MLS players and MLS products came and smoked European sides like Romania and Wales in their backyard!
Outside of the EPL and a handful of other big teams, the level in Europe is very low!
LAFC would run through a majority of Serie A teams!
MLS is very amateurish. Teams are tactically very stupid and bad defensively. Comedy goals left and right. Busquets, Alba and Suarez can play until they are 60 just because they are smarter than everyone in the league even if they can barely walk. I think Saudi league is much stronger than MLS and club world cup showed it too.
Btw Lecce always seem to get a positive result when Medon Berisha starts.
MLS suffered from the same syndrome as Saudi League. You can bring Benzema and Kante to your team, it still looked like an amateur team. It's not that easy to change the level of a league just because you bought a few good players.
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Aurora Bulkualis wrote: Sat Oct 04, 2025 8:21 pm
MLS suffered from the same syndrome as Saudi League. You can bring Benzema and Kante to your team, it still looked like an amateur team. It's not that easy to change the level of a league just because you bought a few good players.
Except that MLS (Canada and USA) produce big time players who then go over and play for the biggest teams in Europe!
The competition for young athletes is very high in North America. Every high school is producing NBA players, NFL players, NHL players, MLB players, Olympic medalists..
Growing up in North America means you are competing against the very best!
European Football is still relatively new in North America but the growth in such a short period of time has been fantastic and will continue to get even better!
Except that MLS (Canada and USA) produce big time players who then go over and play for the biggest teams in Europe!
So? So does Serbia. That doesn't mean the Serbian league is good.
The American NT still priorities players playing abroad over domestic ones. They are even calling up Championship players over MLS ones because they know the level in most of Europe is higher than the MLS retirement league.
Some of you guys are stuck in 2010. The MLS is not the Premier League but it's generally a very competitive league with a niche system that is not found in other leagues. The infrastructure and player development is better than most European leagues but that's not a conversation any European wants to have because muh america sucks at soccer lol.
The league has alot of parity and it has alot of teams in it so the quality of play and the talent level can vary quite a bit but it's no means a bad league. They have exported numerous players to big european leagues. Generally if a player performs well in the MLS chances are he's a decent player.
I also don't think the comparison with the Saudi League applies. The MLS has a salary cap system that preaches parity and it has generally went away from signing big European stars as their expensive signing. Most teams sign young and upcoming South Americans or other young developing stars as their "designated players".
Aurora Bulkualis wrote: Sat Oct 04, 2025 8:21 pm
MLS suffered from the same syndrome as Saudi League. You can bring Benzema and Kante to your team, it still looked like an amateur team. It's not that easy to change the level of a league just because you bought a few good players.
Dude, the Saudi league is solid, MLS is just trash.
