The comments came in quick succession from three of the biggest names in the league.



First, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a few weeks after calling himself a Ferrari amongst Fiats: “When you talk about the playoff, you just need to make the playoff, win the playoff and that’s it. It doesn’t matter if you lose or win. … How can you learn mentality, if you just need to reach the playoffs? … I think the system is shit, but that’s the way it is.”



Then U.S. soccer legend DaMarcus Beasley to SBI Soccer: “No disrespect to MLS, but when you lose a game and you don’t play well, it’s like, ‘Eh.’ For MLS, making the playoffs is the threshold. That’s where the line is. Really? That’s how it is. It shouldn’t be that way.”



Most recently, Wayne Rooney to his 17.1 million followers Twitter:



The players are talking. Are the people who run Major League Soccer...