MLS: Joint Liga MX super league has enticing upside

There is growing talk of a joint MLS-Liga MX super league. While the idea may sound crazy, there is enticing upside to the proposition which should be explored.

Major League Soccer has grown enormously in recent years. Commissioner Don Garber has accelerated the expansion process, the league has secured bigger TV deals than ever before, and the standard of player is higher than it has been throughout the league’s 25-year existence.

And yet, while Garber and others may eulogise and protest about the great ambitions of the league, projecting its growth into one of the elite leagues in world football in 10, 20, 50 years time, predictions that are almost entirely ill-advised and unfounded, there…