It sounds like Smith is going to be cashing in on his initial investment with these wealthier investors coming in, or at least only having a minor investment in the team, but Nagle and co don't want to pay him what he's asking for the rights to use the team he built.
All- 1) The disagreement is (and has been) over the quickly escalating valuation of the USL team/brand. A team/brand that has gained millions in value over a short period of time. From what I've gathered, neither party (WSmith and Nagle) are trying to screw the other- just stubborn business negotiations. 2) Lots of spin doctoring from the Smith/Republic camp. Not sure if WS was even aware of how big it spun. Evan Ream was fed A LOT. 3) Regarding Evan's tweet about "MLS not really wanting the Sac market, looking for an excuse to say no, but being forced due to team's popularity", I'm only going to point this out: Garber/MLS participated in negotiations to resolve the dispute between Smith and Nagle. IF you are really looking for an excuse to dump a potential market, a fracture within an ownership group is the perfect excuse- stand back, let it fall apart, say "that's a shame". WHY, pray tell, would MLS (behind closed doors) participate in getting both groups to success? AND, no, its not the "bargaining chip" theory. Maybe, just maybe, its because MLS recognizes that bigger isn't always better. That MLS is more relevant in the mid to smaller markets, and that some of the current underperformers are the larger markets because MLS gets lost in the crowd. And that the advertising bang isn't as big outside the top ten media markets....... that's it for now
You know what I thought about today? How we'd not be in this situation if MLS just announced Sacramento as an expansion team last year like they should have! Can't help but think if they weren't using us as a bargaining chip for Miami we'd likely have things sewn up already long ago, instead of this last minute dumpster fire with 11 other expansion bids now being competition and recent moves by the NFL changing the sporting landscape. This could have all been avoided if Sac hadn't been in limbo for year after year.
Or they could've announced Sacramento a year ago and the divorce going on now would be far more problematic for the league and the franchise.
You know, this feud might be why they didn't. From what has been said in here this isn't a recent event.
No. It was Miami. All would have depended upon what the team was worth at the time versus what the tentatively agreed upon price/value was.
I'm guessing if any of us tried to hug him, it would only make things worse. @sitruc get in there! Knave needs some lovin'!
This is like the ONLY accurate and unspun tweet from Ream, and basically says it all. Everything else has been blown up and is just fluff "WS will probably get less than he wants, KN will probably pay more than he wants. But in the end, they will sort it out." 2/4— Evan Ream (@EvanReam) February 2, 2017
I was willing to grab you and then give you the push you need. I was going to let 78 cover anything else.
I am going to assume that you mean you will give @Knave the push off the ledge and leave me to cover his mangled and bloodied corpse with a blanket.