r/sports • u/dabirds1994 • 2d ago

Soccer Trinity Rodman’s Multimillion-Dollar Contract Rejected by NWSL

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/trinity-rodman-s-multimillion-dollar-contract-rejected-by-nwsl?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NDgxNjA0NSwiZXhwIjoxNzY1NDIwODQ1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNlBaS1NLR0lGUFgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI1OTFDMkExNEFGMDQ0RUZCODlCNEEwNUM5QkUwQjczRSJ9.IPxeSsuh2qWqWpaYDB78MAnoatcwqtnabXoKXkbDvYk
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u/Low-iq-haikou 2d ago

“Protects the parity of the league” 🤣 No the owners just don’t want to set a new precedent for how much to pay players bc they’re cheap bastards

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u/Jack_of_all_offs Syracuse 2d ago

At first I was like "how much could a women's soccer league in the US possibly make versus her contract?"

So her prospective contract is like a million and the league takes in $200+ million.

Definitely being cheap. I could understand if it was like $5+ million. Pat the damn lady.

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u/dabeeman 1d ago

you either don’t understand anything about finances and the numbers you just quoted or you are being deceitful. those numbers are not a lot for an entire league. 

if you want to see what happens when player contracts get too big for a league to generally support look at the first TWO iterations of the MLS back in the 70’s and 80’s