At first blush, MLS owners appear to have adopted a policy of retrenchment. As of two weeks before the start of the season, there were no significant foreign signings. The accent has almost entirely been on youth, the talk on teen stars such as DaMarcus Beasley and Bobby Convey and the next generation of MLS schoolboys, Santino Quaranta, Eddie Johnson and Devin Barclay.
Profitability remains a long-term proposition.
A distant memory are the heady days of late 1996 and early 1997 when there was talk that MLS would achieve profitability in less than four years. It hurts that most owners are so anonymous. MLS will ultimately sink or swim on the basis of how the public views its product. MLS must get Donovan home. The day they begin digging at the Los Angeles Galaxy complex in Carson is the day Philip Anschutz is in too deep to get out.