Shouldn't you be worried why Atlanta can't keep a NHL Hockey team from moving to Canada.... twice now!! :eek:
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The details are vague on how St. Louis' $250 million stadium will be financed, but it has been said it will be "largely" privately financed. We'll see about that.
St. Louis taxpayers had better hope so. They are still saddled with a mountain of debt for an unused football stadium after the Rams sucked them for all they could get only to leave for [[even) greener pastures long before that was paid off.
Here's hoping next time Detroit pitches for a team they too have learned from their own, and so many others' mistakes.
BTW, if 313WX is correct [[not sure about that), and fans will move on to Rugby or any other next big thing, the imperative not to waste public money on a new stadium is especially strong.
Eh, MLS is still a money-loser and we don't need another stadium Downtown that's empty most of the year. MLS needs Detroit and it's 12th largest CSA more than Detroit needs the MLS.
I haven't met a single person who wants this
MLS wants soccer-specific stadiums because it wants to move past playing in half-empty football stadiums like some kind of minor league gimmick with football lines painted all over the field like the early years of the league. Sure there are outliers like Atlanta and Seattle, but some of the best atmospheres are in the smaller, soccer-only stadiums.
Detroit is not getting a pro soccer team, forget it!!! Four lousy Detroit teams is enough.
If MLS wants to pay for a new soccer stadium, great... welcome to Detroit.
If some rich dude wants to spend a ton of their own money to build a soccer stadium in Detroit... I’d hope the mayor or other powers that be try to convince them to spend it in Detroit on X, Y, or Z instead [[other things Detroit could use more). If they won’t budge and still want to build a soccer stadium, great... welcome to Detroit.
But if we the tax payers have to pay for a new soccer stadium... forget it. Use Ford Field or have no MLS team here. Either works. Sorry, but we can spend public money on much better uses than a new soccer stadium.
Quite. Even I have a hard time understanding it
Well to +1 your anecdote, I haven't met anyone who wants this either. Then again, anyone I know who cares about soccer is completely enamored with DCFC.
Additionally, considering the usual divisiveness and bickering on this forum, I don't sense from any of the comments that anyone on here has that strong of opinions about this.
I'm with previous comments that MLS needs us a lot more than we need them. And no more stadiums downtown. If any stadium is built it should model Keyworth as woven into the fabric of a neighborhood.
Forget it. In order to start a new major league team expansion. Follow these steps.
1. Have lots of money about 250 million dollars or more.
2. Gather some folks that know how do to marketing, sales in sports. [[with money)
3. Gather sponsors [[with money)
4. Gather investors [[with money)
5. Gather athletes [[with money)
6. Let the City Council and its code investors know what your doing and let them vote on it. If they say no. Go back to repeat steps 1 to 6.
7. Spread the word that the new major league team is coming to your town.
8. Make sure all of your employees, athletes, sponsors investors, city developers, marketing agents are signing contracts and it must be iron clad.
9. Start find a site that the city improves and build a stadium
10. Bring your new audience in and make sure your major league team is winning games, losing less and winning national championship titles. Then you make more money.
Detroit gets passed over yet again. The MLS is set to announce that Charlotte is getting the next team on Tuesday...
https://www.wfae.org/post/charlottes...ptown#stream/0
That's OK, Detroit has a PRO SOCCER team.
https://www.crainsdetroit.com/sports...7-d3934bbbcd94
DCFC is joining NISA, which is trying to be the third tier in American soccer. They practice more of an open system; no franchise fees and the teams have more individual control compared to MLS and USL. They can now pay players which will bring in more talent and not hold the team to the collegiate schedule [[longer season).
Great article that explains NISA: https://nisanation.com/2019/08/07/te...isa-different/