I can also confirm that the new '04, '05', and '06 teams that just had tryouts will be folding. Big money owners won't float the $800,000 being spent for the next couple years until MLS. they will now be charging $250 a month per player for the older three teams. They are going to finish this academy season which ends in May, then evaluate whether or not to keep the oldest age groups. Also a slight possibility that they move the three youngest age groups to Graham Smith's son Adam Smith at Elk Grove FC and then buy them back if they go MLS but U.S. Club unlikely to allow it. Upper management did not inform the coaches until just a week or two ago and a few have already left.
So one our erstwhile opponents put a "name the team" poll up on their website. The results were predictable, of course... BREAKING: Footy McFooty Face is leading the online Facebook vote for San Diego's MLS club name. pic.twitter.com/6rTXRwxYeC— NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) March 24, 2017
Question...with the NFL owners approving the Raiders move to Las Vegas today, does that make it more or less likely Miami Beckham United becomes Las Vegas Beckham United?
I think it increases the odds for both Las Vegas, who now have a nice new stadium coming along, and San Diego, who now have a lower shot of the potential return of NFL disrupting it's stadium/development plans. Not sure this will have a critical impact on either City chances though, but bottomline for this thread is that two cities received a small, potentially difference making boost today. Sacramento was not aided by this move at all.
The skeptic in me wonders how that ownership group will spin suddenly being able to foot the bill without the public handout. I guess more investors will.materialize?
This is the only board on BigSoccer on which I can be gleeful about this defeat. I feel bad for the St. Louis soccer fans. MLS should be there. But I also basically agree with them that the tax revenue should not go to a soccer stadium.
sucks for STL, but theyre dead again....... Miami is not even a rotting corpse anymore, its just dry bones. So uhh........Sacramento then??? Duh??
Just took an interesting SRFC online survey. Lots of questions generally about SRFC fandom, and also some questions about MLS.
It was written for Sacramento locals, but it seems it just went out on their SRFC mailing list: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RCX72V6
Las Vegas' mayor has expressed exactly the opposite sentiment. With NHL also going to Vegas she has, at least verbally, now set her sights on MLS, MLB and the NBA. It's nice to see MLS included in this type of conversation these days without any prompting or incentive initiated by the league... http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/mayor-las-vegas-says-wants-nba-mls-mlb-team-also/
"Think big, dream big, believe big, and the results will be big" Or not: Gofundme account for a St. Louis soccer stadium might take a while
MLS Expansion Update Sacramento Republic FC One by product of the news that LAFC were coming into the league alone next year was word from FiftyFive.One that Sacramento were rumored to be coming in with them. Apparently the unrest in the ownership group and submitting a bid without the Republic brand caused them to just fall back inline as just another bid. Ouch.
Get that garbage piece out of here. That dude just regurgitates headlines, and passes along opinion as actual information. "Apparently" is the key word. See below Here is the quote from Fiftyfive.One The bolded means that "in the authors opinion". In other words, nobody said that, he just thinks that. The dumbass from Blue Testament just passed that along as actual info. Also, he fact that the FiftyFive.One author is saying there's "unrest" within the ownership group shows he didn't do any meaningful research. The latest from Warren Smith and Kevin Nagle: Damn. Sounds like some serious ownership unrest. Don't forget, MLS participated in mediating the two groups on Nagle's purchase of Sac Republic from Warren Smith. They're not going into this 50/50. They never were. The MLS ownership group is ponying up ~$400 million to build a stadium and buy a franchise. There was never ownership unrest. Warren doesn't have anywhere close to that kind of money to be a participating partner. He'll be a small investor. Nagle is buying a brand that MLS wants. It was a disagreement over the purchase price (caused by USL's rapidly increasing value- with SRFC is its flagship) Regarding Sac entering in 2018 with LAFC. That was briefly discussed Spring of 2016, when Miami was on the ropes (right before Beckham bought Overtown), and MLS was looking at Sactown as the replacement. Remember the letter SRFC sent out before last season? The one that said this was our year for MLS? MLS was getting ready to pull the plug on Miami. Becks met a deadline at the eleventh hour by purchasing property. Tidbit of info for everyone.
Sac would not enter the league in 2018 regardless, unless they want to play at Papa Murphy's Park for 2 years. The soonest they could have their stadium is 2019, and that's maybe. No one was expecting 2018 with LAFC (at least not recently).
Good luck with MLB. They'll never go anywhere near the gambling capital of America. Especially such a small market whose future growth is constrained by how little of a vital resource they have access to, namely water. Vegas will not continue expanding indefinitely, especially when Lake Mead can no longer feed their existing population.