Columbus Crew to Austin Texas?

Too bad. To quote Shawshank, the colossal prick even managed to sound magnanimous.

 

*high fives everyone*

 

That's gold Stan! Gold!

 

So are we going to rename this thread to #SaveMLS2Austin

 

The league won't let Precourt sell his rights. The League would most likely buy Precourt out (a la Vergara) and then open an expansion slot to the highest bidder.

 

And that's how it came to pass, that on the second-to-last week of the MLS season, the convict Crew that tarred every league Twitter post with hashtags in the spring of 2018 wound up sitting in a bar at three o'clock in the afternoon, drinking icy cold Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screws that ever walked a turn at Major League Soccer...The colossal prick even managed to sound magnanimous.

We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men.

 

Congrats folks.

 

Where's a mod to fix the thread title when you need one? Or a new thread? Not sure which is better at this point.

#SavedTheCrew

 

Congrats to the Crew and all the fans who worked so hard to save them. A victory lap here is well deserved.

 

Yeah, they will never have any way of knowing at all.

 

One of those times that written word is more hilarious than the meme.

 

Well @crookeddy Internet begins and ends with Bigsoccer so he thinks everyone else's does too

 

If this comes to pass... wow.

The good guys actually win for a change in real life? Inconceivable!

 

All the hours I spent so I would not miss the moment the Crew was saved press F5 over the year. And a customer walks into the shop at 330 today and stays for an hour in a half.

 

So, wait... that's it?

The Crew will go on? PSV still goes to Austin? This is officially turning into the Browns/Ravens scenario where the club itself goes to a new city under a new name and a new team pops up in the old teams' place?

If that's the case that works out for just about everybody... except for any potential expansion team who might have been skipped over because of an oddball circumstance ... and any fans in Austin cause that jabroni PSV is still gonna be their owner. But otherwise it's kind of perfect.

I mean f#ck, if this was the deal to begin with I wonder if C-Bus fans would still be nearly as justifiably angry? I mean, they're still losing the team itself , any investment in guys like Zardes or whoever goes out the window. That sucks. But at least soccer goes on!

 

"Columbus Crew to Cleveland Ohio"

 

It looks like Precourt is engaging in an options trade on the financial market. He doesn't have to deal with Columbus anymore and he gets the Austin expansion rights at a discount, but it could end up almost worthless if he can't get a deal done to have a place to play.

I guess Beckham is in the same situation. Yes, you have a team, but MLS won't let you field a team without a place to play.

Can Miami and Austin get passed over by one of the other markets like Detroit, Sacramento, San Diego, St. Louis, San Antonio, or any of the other rumored markets?

Congrats to Columbus on saving the Crew.

 

Sucks for San Antonio.

 

I'm not sure Precourt gets Austin expansion rights at a discount. He's going to 'sell' the Crew to Haslam for possibly $200m less than FMV.