The continued presence of the NASL in the thread title is appropriate, since the C"P"L is starting to sound like a similarly delusional proceeding. Giant domes across the land! Thriving fanbases from Moose Jaw to Yellowknife! TFC/Montreal/Vancouver poached, as legally binding arrangements are dissolved by the pure sovereign will of the glorious Canadian people! With evil MLS no longer able to stifle a generation of hyperborean Messis, Jules Rimet still gleaming! Hot tub strippers equal New Brazil!* This is gonna be good. * Note to USSF: Consider?
Years ago I managed a small bar in New Rome which frequently hosted some strippers from a nearby gentleman's establishment after their shift. It was a small place where people left them alone and if they didn't I'd toss them or get my pals in the NR police to do it. They just wanted to chill with a couple drinks after work like everybody else. Not many of them were Sweetheart of Sigma Chi material but they were mostly pretty cool if a bit rough around the edges. ANYHOO most of them hired out for this type of stuff. Topless beer cart girls at golf outings, a lot of hot tub gigs, hostesssing on private event busses, etc. Paid incredibly well even before the tips. Tits are a license to print money.
its not going to be good- can you imagine a new league starting with 6 teams spread across almost 4 000 miles?? and your 4 biggest markets arent a part of it and they have some of the best young talent already locked up and played in front of an average of 500- 1 000 supporters for USL3- even if somehow the CSA talks vancouver, TO and montreal to join in the CPL and ottawa leaving the USL 2, the chances of it avoiding huge financial losses without significant government/tv assistance is very, very minute this is all tied in with a 2026 WC bid/joint bid and some semblance of a high amateur/semi-professional league with 75% canadian talent looks better than none at all
Has anyone ever heard of exit fees? It's not going to be cheap for Ottawa to leave the USL. As for the MLS teams, they would likely have to pay a price on par with the expansion fee. Not to mention the no-competition clause, that American business men are very fond of.
CSA isn't going to let Ottawa into USL unless there is a release clause that allows them to leave USL if/when the CPL is created.
Not a lawyer, myself. Not engaged in sports management. But, knowing how cautious and circumspect MLS is, I'd be shocked if there was any avenue for any teams to secede from the league, ever. If anyone has knowledge to the contrary, do chime in.
I seriously doubt the CSA has the power to do any such thing. I'm sure you can point to some history of CSA actually blocking or vetoeing a move by a Canadian team to an American pro league (not semi-pro). I don't know much about Canadian soccer, but Ive never heard of them flexing any muscle with the US based leagues.
by your reasoning, the CSA will force by whatever means they have to get ottawa- and we can deduct that vancouver and toronto also- in the new CPL; that should make for an interesting court action- not quite the way for a new league to start and loose- and where that leaves montreal is unknown-- with a lawsuit from 3-4 major cities simply, put- why would ottawa- averaging near 5 000 in the NASL div 2, now entering the USL- even want to try an experiment league with the serious potential to loose bags of money with a realistic average under 2 000? the CSA will have to come up with serious money to pull it off
CSA has approval authority of everything Canadian soccer just like the USSF has over US soccer. They most certainly can reject Ottawa's admission into USL if there isn't a release clause. If they wanted to, they could probably make their approval conditional upon there not being a Canadian league so that Ottawa's approval to be in USL expired as soon as a Canadian league was created.
CSA has previously said they have no interest in making the MLS teams join CPL, but if they really wanted to, they probably could make a go of it. It would certainly result in a lawsuit, but it is within their authority as Canada's governing body for soccer. You act like Ottawa doesn't want to join CPL.. Every report I've seen has them being one of its founding members once it gets off the ground.