Where Would The Best US Major League Soccer Team Place If Competing In The Premiere League?

Forget Premier League levels, The senior walking league would be about their levels
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
Lalas IS delusional. No one would know who he is/was if he didn’t have a shock of red hair about 7 feet high, a big mouth, and once was a decent defender on a thoroughly average national team.

Americans ALWAYS overrate the national team, even those I know who know the sport well. There isn’t an American who has ever been the best player on a good club side in European history. Never once. Who was closest? Fucking Clint Dempsey? It was probably Tim Howard. America has literally created no world superstar at any position ever. Let’s start with that. How can you be good if you don’t have that? You can’t be. Maybe a Morocco comes along every four WCs or so, but that’s a fluke.

Even in the US/NA in 26 it will be the same old story — will get out of their group, and lose in round one of the knockouts.

Until the best American athletes start picking footy/soccer in their youths as their focus vs. American football, basketball, baseball or even hockey, this will be an issue.
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FWIW I think that Donovan was the best ever US player. Judging by Donovan's interaction with Ian Wright as co-commentator of the last WC - and his fallout with Klinsmann - Landon seems to have major personality issues which likely prevented him from reaching his ultimate potential.

And, for a time, I think that Donovan might have been the best player in Everton's PL squad circa 2012.
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==> "Until the best American athletes start picking footy/soccer in their youths as their focus vs. American football, basketball, baseball or even hockey, this will be an issue."
I guess so. Still, America is a nation of some 300+ million individuals. Yet we cannot field a decent men's (international) football squad. Numerous gifted athletes are short of stature - and rule out basketball and football. And hockey seems a stretch too. What's left? Tennis (some will go that way) - and soccer. It's still puzzling to me why the men's USA team is so uncompetitive at the world level in this sport.

Yet, Uruguay, with a population of roughly 3 million, 100 times less than the USA, in years past has challenged for the world cup title.

Moreover, Women's "soccer" in the US is (was?) going gang-busters - producing the best squad in world football for years running. You'd think that some of this might rub off on the men's side of things (e.g., your sister loves soccer and that encourages you, a man, to try the sport).
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TL/DR - Donovan (**** that he is) is the best player men's soccer has ever had. And beats me, why men's soccer is terrible - even given the competition among other sports - especially since the women's game is so dominant.

Then again, China is even worse than the USA in world football in spite of their vast population. So I guess it's down to infrastructure - early identification of potential child stars and immediate focus on their development. Skip a year or two of this - and I guess the next Messi becomes the next Adu.
 
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I think one of the best would win it. Let’s face it, your league is only as good because of cash. That’s it. No mystery. No magic, no English factor, money. It would be an awful indictment if it wasn’t. I have Sky and if I watch four games not involving City, it’s a record year. It ain’t that good. It really isn’t. I wish you got charged what you watch, the cunts would owe me money.
 
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