No, it was as annoying as the people who respond to other obvious trolls. This thread has been mostly good, but a few of you can't control the impulse to not go for the ride with someone who clearly is just here to be a douche. Makes you just as bad as them and ruins the thread just as much as the troll.
You mean our new friend Morrisey decided to spend the day in bed instead of posting his words of wisdom? OK, maybe he didn't decide...
Whilst others amongst us are rubes. This troll got me along for the ride - because I'm accustomed to his/her tone. Many discussions on this site seem so routinely trollish, and folks who might know something here are so commonly dickish about it, you kind of have to abide that to see if another poster might be close to a situation and have some better perspective (rather than sitting in the audience or reading articles like me in this case.)
I'd say that the tone of this article and quotes in it lead me to believe that Sacramento's hopes are fading away: http://fox40.com/2018/02/01/nothing...blic-fc-confident-they-will-find-an-investor/ "We are looking for a lead investor," said Ben Gumpert, the team's chief operating officer. "We've had multiple conversation toward that front. We are continuing those conversations, and MLS is incredibly excited about Sacramento." After all these years they are still looking for the big money person. Which sucks cause I want them in the league.
"Shovel Ready" This is why MLS has a formal bidding process now. The league's investors take their time in deciding who will be let into the league. They leave no stone unturned. They sift through all of the Noise that fans hear and accept at face value as truth, to determine if a potential investor group has long term viability. Remember when Sac Republic's owners were begging MLS to take Miami's spot? Miami's ownership group has a combined wealth of what, $15 BILLION dollars??? Good times.
---------- Any idea what the combined ownership groups of LAFC and NASH are worth in comparison to MIAMI and for that matter SACTO ? Billions will usually win over Millions.
Since billions now appear to be a requirement I wonder if any current owners might be pressured to make way for bigger fish.
You do not need billions to operate a successful MLS club. With the SUM money, they make money. However, if you need to privately finance a $250 million dollar stadium, then, yeah, you need billions.
Yep. Public financing will become more and more scarce, at least for a league like MLS. So, you need billionaires to privately finance a stadium and still have money left for all the operational costs. Plus, now that MLS is stable, they want owners that are going to be ambitious and willing to take a risk to push the league forward, yet rich enough that if those risks backfire, it won't drive them out of business.
maybe it has more to do with the Republic's head honcho, kevin nagle- its interesting to note that in the last moment in december and just prior to MLS awarding expansion franchises, the major billionairess investor, meg whitman, pulled out - might be some undercurrents going on in the investor potential in the city- i think its more than just she lost interest and lost her courage to go all-in
It seems to have been that way for quite some time now. Case in point: Multi-millionaire Dan Van Voorhis (who had previously owned the APSL's San Francisco Bay Blackhawks) was the yet-unnamed San José MLS team's Investor/Operator when it was announced as one of the league's ten inaugural teams. His I/O tenure was very brief, though, as ugly divorce proceedings with his wife at that time forced him to then accept a buyout from the league, which was why San José started the inaugural 1996 season as one of three league-owned teams (along with Dallas and Tampa Bay). I'd heard that a few years later, Van Voorhis tried to buy back in and become San José's I/O again sometime either around the turn of the century or just shortly afterward, but by then the league was only interested in letting in multi-billionaires rather than "mere" multi-millionaires (I suppose in the league's eyes, it didn't want another Ken Horowitz / Miami Fusion F.C. situation). -G
Mls is just being smart. Things may be good now where there aren’t likely to be huge cash calls on owners but if that ever changes who would you rather stand shoulder to shoulder with as an owner? Billionaires or millionaires?
The Net Worth of LAFC's Ownership is $4.5 Billion – mtest212 – Medium LAFC owners: Henry Nguyen Peter Guber Tom Penn Ruben Gnanalingam Vincent Tan Will Ferrell Magic Johnson Nomar Garciaparra Mia Hamm Garciaparra Tony Robbins Allen Shapiro Bennett Rosenthal Brandon Schneider Chad Hurley Harry Tsao Irwin P. Raij Jason Sugarman Kirk Lacob Larry Berg Mike Mahan Mark Leschly Paul Schaeffer Rick Welts Miami MLS owners net worth Masayoshi Son - $23 billion David Beckham - $450 million Simon Fuller - $608 million Marcelo Claure - $1.26 billion Tim Lewinke - $1.2 million (multiple sources) Miami wins...MMMMMiami wins! But it's not just about the owners' net worth, there's also the companies behind them.
You're also forgetting the Mas Brothers who own multi-billion dollar companies in South Florida as well.
Nightmare behind David Beckham's Miami dream: Residents battling his plan for 25,000-seat stadium in drugs hellhole Thx, Jay!
From the headline and the first few sentences (I couldn't make it further), I take it the Mirror isn't exactly known for its high journalistic standards?
Will Ferrell vs. @osunaespn. The challenge: Who can shout "goal" the longest? pic.twitter.com/us9lVtJNgp— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) June 28, 2017
Holy hell, I just started reading that conversation via my mobile phone and kept thinking, "what the hell is going on with our mod"?!
True. But then you look at the Colorado Rapids who are owned by one half of a power couple (Stan Kroenke and a Walton) that probably has 20 billion, and realize that even a rich owner might not get the job done on the field.