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Anyone care to paraphrase how you can be contracted to the MLS..and not a club?



I think you just did it. The league prepares and signs the contracts, hence, the players are bound to the league, not the club. For a player move or contract change to occur, it's the league that handles that transaction, not the club. This is the cornerstone of MLS's "single entity" system. This was done to lower costs and provide financial stability to the new league. Since MLS players can't auction themselves to the highest bidder, the theory is that the league won't face issues like sky rocketing salaries which doomed the North American Soccer League.