snake Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 its going to be vancouver and portland in 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis_Rancagua Posted October 10, 2008 Author Share Posted October 10, 2008 quote:Originally posted by snake its going to be vancouver and portland in 2011 If this is so, it would leave a huge vacuum in the Eastern division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis_Rancagua Posted October 10, 2008 Author Share Posted October 10, 2008 quote:Originally posted by snake its going to be vancouver and portland in 2011 If this is so, it would leave a huge vacuum in the Eastern division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveBeau Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 quote:Originally posted by CanadianSoccerFan I'm starting to think Joey's not getting in this round if he's going to play hard ball on the franchise fee. The competition's stepping up. Read what you want into this but MLSR got their hands on a bunch of memos and feasibility studies from Portland city hall. One says that Garber has assured Merritt Paulson (Timbers owner) they will get in this round as long as the stadium funding issue is sorted out. http://www.mls-rumors.net/2008/10/expansion-more-details-emerge-in.html If anything the people involved with Vancouver's MLS bid should be the ones worried about this, not Joey Saputo...The MLS will not bring in 2 western teams in the same expansion round.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bxl Boy Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Just forget that stupid mls-runors website please Even The Sun (the british trash one) is more reliable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianSoccerFan Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 quote:Originally posted by Bxl Boy Just forget that stupid mls-runors website please Even The Sun (the british trash one) is more reliable All they did was post documents from Portland city hall to read. Yes, the site has garbage credibility but they're not the information source. Portland city hall is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmcmurph Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 quote:Originally posted by Luis_Rancagua What are the possibilities that MLS is willing to accept 3 candidacies (Vancouver, Montreal and Portland) all at the same time during the announcement at the end of November 2008??? Would anyone here on Voyageur consider this a reality or nothing but a pipe dream??? The reason why I'm dropping this idea into this debate is because certain people have been circulating this rumor on the Internet. Look, these are 3 important valuable markets that can not be ignored. I floated the "3 in 2011" scenario a while back. From a regional standpoint it makes a whole lot of sense. Vancouver, Seattle & Portland are already Cascadia Cup rivals within travelling distance of each other. Montreal and Toronto, well they are rivals at everything. It would also benefit MLS by knocking back the USL when their 3 best supported teams all leave at once. Nip that resurgent USL stuff in the bud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 With regards to the expansion fee: since the losses (and profits?) are shared, some teams might be able to make a case for them with a lower expansion fee if they bring in more money through operations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massive Attack Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 Food for though: Just a few months ago, a bid for an MLS franchise cost approximately 40 million Canadian dollars. With the current exchange rate, that would be about 47 million Canadian dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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