Open Borders for Pro System coming

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MLS is going to roll out an “Open Border” policy here soon.

This will mean the clubs like the Portland Timbers will have to start doing things the right way or they will lose players to academies that are already spanking them. It will mean hiring of a real professional staff that actually develop players.

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MLS is going to roll out an “Open Border” policy here soon.

This will mean the clubs like the Portland Timbers will have to start doing things the right way or they will lose players to academies that are already spanking them. It will mean hiring of a real professional staff that actually develop players.

What's hilarious is that they think the policy change will result in an influx of players into their academy. As if any player with a choice would choose to play there.

Have to agree with you that they'll be losing the top 3 or 4 at each age group.

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MLS is going to roll out an “Open Border” policy here soon.

This will mean the clubs like the Portland Timbers will have to start doing things the right way or they will lose players to academies that are already spanking them. It will mean hiring of a real professional staff that actually develop players.

In the long run that is good for improving soccer. There's plenty of clubs that phone it in and get away with it.

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MLS is going to roll out an “Open Border” policy here soon.

This will mean the clubs like the Portland Timbers will have to start doing things the right way or they will lose players to academies that are already spanking them. It will mean hiring of a real professional staff that actually develop players.

It will give them the opportunity to find talent outside of PDX & SW WA, the MLS Timbers brass have been praying for this and it's finally a reality.

Bye, Bye MS & EL back to the OYSA once the contract expires, if not sooner.

If they'll (OYSA) have you.

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If they drop territories, will bet anything on the following: we'll see a Portland kid go pro for an MLS team that isn't Timbers before we see any kid come through Timbers academy.

Timbers spent so many years blaming the local pool that they forgot to build anything that even resembles a proper academy.

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If they drop territories, will bet anything on the following: we'll see a Portland kid go pro for an MLS team that isn't Timbers before we see any kid come through Timbers academy.

Timbers spent so many years blaming the local pool that they forgot to build anything that even resembles a proper academy.

So spot on.

The funny thing is there are a few top players in the Sounders Academy that came from the Portland market because the Portland Timbers staff have their heads so far up their arses.

With this change the path to becoming a pro will not be through the Portland Timbers that for sure

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So spot on.

The funny thing is there are a few top players in the Sounders Academy that came from the Portland market because the Portland Timbers staff have their heads so far up their arses.

With this change the path to becoming a pro will not be through the Portland Timbers that for sure

I'm sorry but the only regular (1st team) 5 to 10+ year MLS pros that came from Oregon never came as products of any MLS Academy system- it wasn't around in PDX and in most cases in the nation, all those Oregon MLS Regular dudes came from local HS, ODP and clubs. Jus saying.

Please name any current MLS 1st team regular, match day player, season long $100K+ salary that went through the Timbers MLS Academy or another MLS Academy since 2012 after inception of MLS Timbers Academy?

Farfan is not a regular on the 1st team, before you stretch the truth neither is Langsdorf.

We Oregon have not produced an MLS Pro for nearly a decade, is that the fault of the Timbers MLS Academy? mwanga & hurtado were the last ones to stick in the league as 1st teamers for any duration. Hurtado is playing in KC these days.