News: Saturday, April 19, 2014

Interesting that Chivas might have had a buyer in the wings all along..

 

you sound surprised??- everything that we have seen over the past 8 years has been well-planned and built for success bu MLS HQs... probably more than even the MLS execs could have dreamed of, so i have not doubt that the ducks are all lined up to move chivas to committed, well-pocketed owners who will make the move to a new market (probably downtown LA) a success

 

MLS will always be greedy, incompetent, rash and clueless to some no matter what. Garber will always be a greedy, money grubbing despot.

No different than the clowns who still believe a US player can only be worthwhile of he plays in Europe, or is autmoatically superior, or only matters if he achieves in the almighty hype machine that is tbe EPL.

These factions get smaller every year, but they will always be there in some form.

 

None of which do I understand.

MLS does in fact do whatever it can to make money but we're not talking the NBA here, where the owners want to make $100 million each instead of $80 million. Most MLS teams have to work their asses off to break even, many are not accomplishing even that and the ones that are managing it aren't exactly lighting cigars with $100 bills.

But people insist on acting like they're so many Robber Barons, "Those bastards! Doing things to make money!"

Somehow the fact that if they stop doing things aimed at turning a profit the league will go out of business escapes a lot of people.

As for Don Garber, the man is on a salary. He may get a bonus of some kind but it's not like he's personally wringing every last dime out of soccer in the US to enrich his own ass. He was hired by and is paid by the owners to turn a profit so they can stay in business. If he doesn't do just that he'll be fired and they'll find someone who will. Nothing will change.

Why can't people understand that?

 

Anybody we know??

The "MLS is buying it to give it a good scrubbing to get the stench of Vergara off it and thereby increase both it's value and it's viability" crowd on BS got this one dead right.

I don't recall much of anyone suggesting that there was a buyer waiting in the wings, but it's not exactly a shock. MLS is not a seat-of-the-pants kind of deal. They actually do many things for real reasons.

But don't tell anybody.

 

Most likely.
I would've been more surprised if there wasn't a buyer lined up already.

 

why the dance around with league taking ownership instead of directly selling to whoever the new potential owner?

 

I sure hope not. Let him retire in Australia.

 

Garber stated at the initial press conference that they already had a couple parties interested in the team. That's why I never bought into the whole "what if there's no buyer in 2015/contraction/relocation" panic.

Garber didn't say, and I didn't guess, that the potential buyers were already trying to buy directly from Vergara - but the tone the league set at the time indicated that there was plenty of viable interest.

 

I believe the sale to MLS was critical to divorce the lawsuits from MLS/Chivas and keep them with VergaRA.

 

Maybe, but they could settle those easily and cheaply any number of obvious ways, and they should.

 

I'm sure there were a few reasons. In the article itself MLS FO did mention "clean up the mess a little".
We'll probably find out more after the official announcement is made.

 

As a fan of A-League football, I can say that he still has it . . . I just don't think he can play a full 90 in MLS for any consistent basis. He'd be phenomenal off of the bench for any club but who would pay DP money to a 30-60 minute player? I'd love to see him take a loan to MLS for a few months to stay in shape during the long A-League off-season an play one more season in the A-League. He is still very entertaining to watch.

 

First 1000 adults at the FC Edmonton home opener against the New York Cosmos get a free can of Red Bull. Well played Eddies.

http://www.fcedmonton.com/news/deta...kz/match-preview-new-york-cosmos#.U1LmKMuDQm-

 

The new owners will need a year to get their plan together. Finding the right marketing formula is not easy. Getting trademarks and finding the right people takes time and effort that the new owners would not have. Given how dismal Chivas was last year any owner going in would have had stamp out too many fires. Nobody can trust Vergara to run it anymore and the man himself didn't want to shoulder the costs anymore. Ergo the league.

 

Yep:

 

What if the NFL in the 50s signed a contract with a tv network that showed "snow"
on football Sunday . Here we are. Heads should roll at MLS live

 

Yes, because every time something doesn't work as intended, someone should be fired.

Excellent strategy.