I don't put much stock into any of this. If the Sacramento group makes real progress on a stadium, MLS will welcome them. If those other cities fall flat, MLS won't go out of their way to put teams there.
Yeah, I don't put any stock in it either. I think they do some of that just to troll the fans. If they don't, they should.
Well, fans is the only thing the Saint Louis idea has going for it. In any case, Orlando wouldn't have been on that sort of map a few years ago. In fact, it would have seemed laughable. Yet, here they are.
Is the fact that San Antonio is in a white font significant and sending an message? Or was an MLS intern sleeping on the job.
MLS is spending $20 million on youth development, in comparison, Bundesliga is spending around $100 million a year.
And the ROI is higher as well. They're getting most of the cream of the crop of German athletes. MLS is going to continue to get the leftovers after football, basketball, and baseball pick over the young athletes.
By comparison, the two Bundesliga teams in the Champions League final last year probably made more money in that one game than MLS did in all of 2013.
We're spending a fifth of what the Bundesliga is on what I am 100% sure is less than a fifth of the 2.6 billion revenue that the Bundesliga has.
And 20 million likely includes all the expenses of playing games - and with the investment in D3 teams it will grow. ---- Expansion from Don mentioned Beckham/Miami just saw Arthur Blank/Atlanta Miami and Atlanta could be the second or third (after Orlando) Minneapolis, San Antonio or Austin, Saint Louis - Yogi Berra only wants to talk soccer when Don meets him.
Actually, if you add up the revenues per team in the recent Forbes report it comes to just under $500 million...which is pretty close to 1/5 of $2.6 billion (assuming that number is in dollars).
Yes the number is in dollars .. and yes, it is close but not quite. Given that, we're spending 1/5 of our revenue on it, while the Bundesliga is spending ..... yeah