You can’t take US sports as a base for European football. First in the US every sport rely on Drafts as a feeder system of talent into the league coming mainly from the NCAA. The MLS is a bit different that it has both but the limit is the payment but the whole Messi situation is good fronthe marketability for the league but not good for the competition. He is way better than any player in that league and he’ll get help and no other team is going to match that level of player. It creates an unfair environment that will take Miami as a bottom feeder to a top team in no time.

The other issue is European competitions, if the PL does it and the others don’t then it means they’ll be in a disadvantage. So the European competition will become one sided with teams not being able to compete. The PL for what it is is really fair in comparison to other leagues, in Spain there are basically only 3 teams that are able to spend to compete at the top flight the rest just survive. Meanwhile in England you can have teams that Nottingham forest spending when they got promoted to try and compete with the top dogs.

That’s why it wasn’t a good idea to any European club to pay that amount of money to get him. He is too injury prone and now in his 30s he has already reached his cealing.