Beckham's Ownership Move

Yes, you are correct.

 

With Atlanta and LA coming in , the way its sounding is this new Beckham team will not be ready by 2018/19.

 

Maybe Beck's have 20/20 Vision?

 

My guess is that Garber believes that it would be a plus to have Beckham in the league so I expect that MLS will keep giving Golden Balls extensions. But, MLS is going to require that a stadium deal with Miami-Dade County be signed, sealed and delivered before MLS will let Beckham field a team. And, that may never happen . . .

 

Because that's what often happens when one party to a contract that involves big money breaks it.

 

I was writing something, then the app rudely shut off, when i went back my words were.gone so i said ******** that and just posted the link. Sorry about that, i just hate to write for no reason....

 

I'm sure its been discussed somewhere but with Paolo Maldini's NASL team which is coming in next year, be a steppingstone for a merger with Beckham's MLS team or will there be two teams playing in two different stadiums? I just can't Miami will go from 0 to 2 clubs so soon....

 

Kind of like Virgina and Oklahoma City. Not sure why the NASL makes these expansion announcements if nothing is certain or concrete.

 

Yes to a point I agree. LA was supposed to come back next year and now its been delayed. This Becks-Miami deal has also been in the works forever.. Beckham could have continued playing until he was 40 , going through the motions and walking around the pitch like Carlos Valderrama did and will have probably drummed up more enthusiasm than this expansion ordeal...

 

Bert Wolstein had signed a letter of intent to launch an MLS club but when he died in 2004 is when I think that deal fell through....

 

Well kind of. He retired in 2012 and he was interviewed back in 2010-11 I think it was about the expansion franchise that he said he would utilize.

 

I understand but the lure for him coming to MLS in 2007 when he initally signed his huge contract was that he would get an expansion team option. As a fan, I believed (at least from 2007-2012) that it was all but a formality but then we are learning it was all a bunch of nothing. I don't think anyone ever thought it would take this long..

 

A friend and I were talking about this Minnesota situation over the weekend. He said, I don't remember where I read or heard this but Bob Pohlad{one of the Twins owners] on the record somewhere said, "we would not have come this far only to lose the franchise. This will get done."

 

Isn't some of this uncertainty just part of the nature of professional sports? The NFL apparently has 3 teams willing to relocate to L.A. and 2 potential stadium plans (and that is after AEG pulled out Farmers Field). And, L.A. has been talked about for a number of years.