As others have noted, only Yedlin and Cameron are from MLS, and neither was a star there, but turned into solid premier league players.Cuenca 'ammer wrote:hammer1975
have to agree...although I haven't seen much of the Atlanta lad and he does get rave reviews...
not too many players from the MLS do well from what I can make out...
Jeff Cameron - Stoke decent
Cameron Carter-Vickers - Spurs reserve
Emerson Hynderman - Bournemouth reserve
Antonee Robinson - Everton reserves
Danny Williams - Huddersfield
DeAnre Yedlin - Newcastle; sold to them after not making an impact at Spurs
they have hardly set the world on fire..admittedly it is a HUGE jump and time may be needed...but if the asking price is 30M from the MLS - he had better be someone like Arguero
For past players
Clint Dempsey had 72 goals in 275 appearances in the Premier League across Fulham and Spurs
Tim Howard was a top keeper for many years
Brian McBride had a decent career 45 in 162 for Everton and Fulham
Currently a lot of the best products have been going to the Bundesliga
Weston McKennie is a 20 year old who has been in Schalke's first XI for 2 years
Carlos Salcedo is in the first XI for Frankfurt after a year on loan to Fiorentina.
On the whole though, judging someone like Almiron based on past MLS transfers probably isn't that informative, he was really the first of the new class of MLS players where they just splashed a ton of cash to get a young prospect from the south American leagues, he's more like Lanzini in that he was a big prospect in Argentina who then went to an intermediate step before Europe, except instead of going to a total joke league he went to a second tier league and raised his value. I can't see anyone paying 30M for him, but I'd expect that there will be bids over 20M.