Does MLS Still Suck Ass? An Investigation

Here are the L.A. Galaxy, historically MLS’s premier outfit, the team that currently employs the league’s most high-profile player in Zlatan Ibrahimović, boasts the second-highest total salary expenditure this season, and is currently spending more money on defenders than anyone else in MLS, in Monday’s match trying to pass the ball around amongst its defenders—a strategy that is a staple of most every truly elite team’s play the world over—and suggesting that the answer to the headline’s question is “Yes”:

2022 is just four years away.