Getting close to 31 January

The Collective Bargaining Agreement between Major League Soccer and its Players Union expires at the end of the month. The current agreement can be found at the Players Union website. Negotiations on a new CBA have been ongoing since the end of the season (and some time before that), and according to Ives Galarcep's blog, the sticking points are three major areas: (1) Guaranteed contracts (2) Contract negotiation with individual teams (3) Free agency If there's not a deal by the 31st, the League would no longer be banned from locking out the players from training camp, and conversely the.

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