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Players in no rush to renegotiate Collective Bargaining Agreement

As much as one might think that renegotiating the same deal for the third time in less than a year would be easy, it turns out it can be more complicated than coming to a deal in the first place.

Especially when it is one side applying all the pressure and trust is at an all-time low.

After Major League Soccer invoked the ‘Force Majure’ clause on Dec. 30, which set a 30-day window to discuss potential changes to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the league last week let it slip to media sources that they were looking for a two-year extension of the CBA, among other concessions.