New York Red Bulls' Thierry Henry has criticised the Major League Soccer's salary cap policy after watching fellow striker Kenny Cooper leave the club.
Cooper, who was the Red Bulls' top scorer last season with 18 goals, was traded to FC Dallas in early February to free up some space on the cap and Henry has publicly criticised the 'American way' of dealing with players.
"As you know here, with salary cap and all of that, that's the only reason why he left. It wasn't for a football reason," the 35-year-old told the MLS's official website.
"If you're in any other league in the world, you keep your good players. Not in this league.
"That's just the way it is and that's why most of the time you see players [moving] and being traded. It is an American way of dealing with things, salary cap, draft, trade."
The former Arsenal man says the MLS should adopt a more European approach when it comes to player transfers as he believes this will allow teams to hang on to their best players, instead of trading them because of salary cap issues.
"In Europe, we don't do that. In Europe, if you perform for your team, you're sure of staying," Henry added.
"But here it's different and if you want to be compared to some of the big leagues in Europe, something has to be changed. I don't know what, but something has to be changed."
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