The Issey Nakajima-Farran trade: The kind of transaction MLS needs to avoid if it wants to be a world-class league 16 May 2014 If MLS wants to attract talent from abroad to boost the league, it must eventually understand that strictly following North American practises — such as trading a player just a few weeks after he’s been offered a contract — don’t sit well in the global soccer marketplace. MLS must compete for talent with leagues that regularly pay for their players’ accommodations and transportation, and who guarantee a player will be settled for the length of his contract.
Saiko won’t discuss the emotions of a San Antonio-FCE match; “what’s done is done” 16 May 2014 >The 11 asked Saiko if he wanted to talk about the prospect of his new team playing his old club, and he wouldn’t go there. He said "what's done is done." All he wanted to discuss was how important this game was to his new team, the Scorpions.