http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinna...nati-s-berding-talks-mls-expansion-teams.html https://sports.yahoo.com/news/detro...pansion-mls-make-sense-detroit-052523063.html http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...g-agent-for-mls-soccer-stadium-300451139.html http://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2017/05/03/chris-ilitch-detroit-mls-bid/101252708/ Expansion teams trying to separate from the pack. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017...ermo-barros-schelotto-first-coach-report-says https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017...y-2-new-york-red-bulls-0-2017-mls-match-recap https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017...yer-displays-his-right-footed-prowess-victory http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1110...s-desire-to-reunite-with?ICID=SP_HN_HP_RI_0_1 https://www.fourfourtwo.com/us/features/mls-coaching-job-security-former-players-jay-heaps-ben-olsen
Okay, this article is going to take some unpacking. The first is that I have always found Leander Schaerlaeckens to be an oddball - kind of a crank about US soccer but unlike Alexi Lalas who revels in being contrary, he tries to hide it. I think the key to this article is to be found in the middle paragraphs - the article is really a disguised position paper for Detroit FC. Is the offered deal that hard to understand? Is it true, like he claims that no MLS stadium has been built without significant public money? (If it was, what bearing does it have on this deal?) Is he really suggesting that 5 to 7000 for an amateur team is the max for Detroit soccer interest? Are there issues with the Detroit proposal? I don't know - there are issues with any proposal and I haven't read detail plans. On the face of it, it sounds promising. Unfortunately, this article has an agenda that it keeps masked in a bunch of neutral sounding musings. At least that was my reading. who knows, maybe I'm the crank
Might not be mutually exclusive, you know. ;-) But my read has been that the deal legitimately is pretty complicated. And since the general public probably doesn't have all the details, it really is hard to tell whether a shell game is being used to hide a large subsidy. That said, the DCFC bit, which otherwise should have been a completely separate story, seems to tip Leander's real hand here. I think there's a lot of wishful thinking (or what I tend to call the oughtabe/is problem) in his talk about this 'it won't work if it isn't 'grass roots' ' stuff. He's more hoping its true that Detroit MLS needs DCFC more than he's persuading, as if it were true he probably wouldn't need to write about it. I think the cognitive dissonance is precisely that if Detroit MLS wanted to come in and bulldoze the local grass roots club, they could*, and this is something that would be unfortunate. (*- Not that I'm saying there wouldn't be any cost at all to that, just that it's hard to believe it's a make-or-break issue for the MLS team.)
There's an Irish express is that a crank is a small thing that makes revolutions. But I digress... I think you're read on his DCFC/MLS take is right. I just find the way he gets there is deliberately in direct. Someone unaware of what's going on might read that article and think, "Oh there's too many problems!" The deal does seem complicated, but land swap deals are not unusual.
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San Jose privately financed Avaya stadium. There were zoning adjustments made on other parcel's owned by the investors, which allowed them to recoup the investment in Avaya.
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COnsidering how long the guy has written about soccer, I can only assume that was a deliberate falsehood. Another example of the bias and manipulation in the article
Local sports writers/announcers/media members are the worst people to have cover business issues involving sports. When your livelihood depends on the existence of a thing, and your income at least partially scales with the popularity of a thing, the conflict of interest becomes overwhelming.
The guy's not a local - at least his resume is pretty broad. Partly why I spent some time dissecting the article. As for your other point, Upton Sinclair said it best: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Nooo GBS still has work to do with Boca! Besides I want him to be the Rowdies first MLS coach. Would be a great hire though. Could probably bring a lot of guys like Tata in Atlanta.