Paul Tenorio

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The Athletic FC Podcast · How can MLS become an elite league? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

We know that would be the better sporting decision.

We don't have to look very far to see it.

We can look at League MX.

We can look at those results in CONCACAF Champions League.

But they haven't done it yet.

And so this is the ask right now is...

let's open this up.

Let's create optionality.

So one owner might say, I want Miami.

I'm going to be a star-driven team.

I'm going to spend 40 of my $50 million on stars and 10 over the rest of the roster, the other 16, 20 players.

Some teams are going to say, I want...

$2 million spent on 20 players, and I'm going to spend my money that way.

Give them the optionality to do that.

Whereas right now, MLS says, no, you must build in this very rigid system of this many designated players, this many young, all the way down the line.

And so in the name of parity, but they might have that competitive balance within the league, but they're operating in a global marketplace.

Yeah.

So they're losing the competitiveness to Mexico at the Club World Cup and they need to change that.

Well, I think there's a few things here in terms of both pay to play and MLS's role in the infrastructure.

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