"Rookies" in Europe get paid peanuts >$100k/year. Guys who make it onto the 20-25 man 1st team roster of a top league (EPL, Bundesligia, Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1, etc.) club starts in 7 figures and makes it to 8 figures if he becomes a leading player.
The track record of US players going at a young age into the top European leagues is not a good one, viz. Bradly, Donovan, Altidore, Howard (who was handed the GK job at Man United on a platter and dropped the platter...). Unless Jordan can get into a team where the manager and the GM see him as a potential Galactico, he is better to stay in the MLS and look to a jump to the big leagues and the big bucks after he has proven himself in NA (viz. McGuire, Keller, Dempsey, etc.).
IMHO
The track record of US players going at a young age into the top European leagues is not a good one, viz. Bradly, Donovan, Altidore, Howard (who was handed the GK job at Man United on a platter and dropped the platter...). Unless Jordan can get into a team where the manager and the GM see him as a potential Galactico, he is better to stay in the MLS and look to a jump to the big leagues and the big bucks after he has proven himself in NA (viz. McGuire, Keller, Dempsey, etc.).
IMHO
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George Box