How (Not) to Fix American Soccer: Bring an EPL Team to New York?
Posted on April 10, 2012 3:28 am
Brett and Derek discuss the “fixing American soccer” article by businessinsider deputy editor Nicholas Carlson which conceives of a plot to buy Wolverhampton Wanderers and move them to New York City in an effort to bring EPL football to North America–providing an example to Americans kids everywhere that playing top flight football is just as lucrative as playing basketball, American Football, or baseball. Really? Someone has been smoking a bit too much something down at the businessinsider. On The Straight Red Card.
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You could have a North American Premier League (NAPL) which would play amoungst themselves and then Play the EPL champion for the Atlantic Cup, hahaha. That is the only way I could see that happening, and it will NEVER NEVER happen!
As ridiculous as that is, for an american soccer fan, it’d be funny to have an EPL team in NY and a FMF team in Los Angeles (there was talk like that when Chivas originally invested into the league) in addition to the MLS ones. It’d be real interesting to see how each of them develop analogously. It would also cause some fun derbies!
Back before the Dynamo came to Houston I was proposing the idea of a FMF club in Houston, now I feel like anybody who proposes an idea similar to that should be kicked in the nutz.
Problem is Wolves are probably going down!
A nice idea for a business school project…like hybridizing self-peeling bananas.
Excellent analogy!
The NBA hasn’t added those European franchises yet. And they don’t even have the problems that the EPL does. The NBA could just add them whenever they want. The fact that they haven’t speaks volumes about the logistical problems of having a global league.
The NFL will have a team in london in 2015
we should move an MLB team to Japan and then tokyo or somewhere can have an MLB team and that would awesome!!!!!
I 2nd that because I want A-Rod to know what the Arctic Circle looks like.
Can you imagine if this NYC team makes the Europa League? The travel REALLY becomes an issue for some of the smaller teams who now have to travel to NYC for a match.
According to Google Maps, they can take a jet ski from the coast of Portugal to Manhattan.
Boom! Problem solved!
The USA had foreign teams play a schedule during the summer back in the 60′s before NASL if I remember correctly. Wolves was one of those teams.
A Championship team in NYC? Cool!
I was gonna say the same thing Soccerglue just said. In the 60′s there were ENTIRE English teams that came over to the US in the summer and played in an “American” soccer league. Don’t remember reading that it was very succesful?
I believe that was during the offseason of English football. Where’s Roger Allway when you need him?
Yes, it was a post-season “tour”. I have a Wolves programme from back then with some pics – I’ll have to dig it out. here’s an article on it:
http://www.wolvesheroes.com/2009/05/04/usa-1967/
Thanks M
It’s a hasty idea. If you want to bring all-star talent in their prime to the U.S.A why doesn’t the group of investors come together to put one super DP on every team.
Imagine; Lionel Messi to Sporting KC, Neymar to DC United, Ronaldo to Gals, etc.
There would be an immediate raising of the bar for referees, none of the investors would want to see a super DP get injured after three games……. I could go on.
There’s nothing wrong with MLS, just not enough money flowing through it yet. Increase the salary cap and the talent will come. American soccer will fix itself.
Dude, money doesn’t grow on trees. Even if u increase the cap, the teams will still suck becos of money. Get a clue.
To put this in a business perspective. Every player you listed, would cost more than the current buy in to OWN an expansion mls team.
I think it’s a cool idea. But oh the problems they will face when they try to build their team under the salary cap and to find a coach that coach with all those limitations and binding rules.
I’d like to see Tijuana Xolos come to from the FMF to MLS. They already have a good handful of Americans on the squad.
They wouldn’t have a salary cap or goofy rules because the idea proposed in the article is to buy an EPL team and relocate them to NY but still play in the EPL
I think they should expand the Scottish dart league to include Utah.
I really like the goofy voices
I have a nifty idea. Let’s have a league of our own, supported by very rich and patient men. Let’s take the plunge and soak up some losses but with prudent spending that increases as revenue increases, until, eventually, we have teams with their own facilities or are principal tenants, paid TV contracts and sponsorships, and growing attendance and fan intensity, such that it makes sense to invest in player development academies.
Nah, it’ll never work.
This idea is insane. Wolves are actually a decently-supported team and New Yorkers generally love winners. We’d want Manchester United.
…insane as in mentally deranged…
I’d say clueless.
Can someone actually explain to me why it would be bad to have an EPL team in New York?
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