MLS announces San Diego as it's 30th team, starting in 2025
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Viqsi
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Just don't call it "San Diego FC" (or "FC San Diego") and I'll be fine with it.
robertmac43
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JordanStaal#1Fan
500M. Gotta give Garber one thing, he truly took the league to the next level. I remember the Impact paying like 10M in expansion fees in 2012.
kingsboy11
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sabremike
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Quality of play in MLS is going to shit so let's add more teams, that should fix things!!!!!! One of my best friends put it best years back: "MLS is a Ponzi scheme".
hatterson
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Would be a lot better than Real Salt Lake or Inter Miami or the other fake historical names MLS has done over the years.
Live in the Now
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The quality of play is going to shit but adding teams has created more soccer fans here than ever before. So it’s a weird balancing act where up to a point it’s a good idea to keep doing this. But really after this there’s only room for two more teams before you start scraping the barrel on how many more fans you can get out of this.
San Diego was pretty much a given once Sacramento didn’t have the funds to “earn” a MLS spot and once the Chargers left, outside the Padres they have no sports competition and it has good potential. Sucks that the Loyal will likely get screwed though, for a league which claims to want to grow the game they do alot of damage to the lower leagues in the US, especially now with the creation of MLS Next or whatever that reserve league is called
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Canes
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I know you'd be hard pressed to buy a team in the other major 4 leagues for that much these days but 500 million for an expansion MLS team seems like way too much. Then I don't really know shit about the MLS and its financials.
KingLB
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Huh? That’s like saying the Easy Coast has too many teams…state could easily handle 2-3 more teams no problem.
Disagree, quality goes up every year, and I think the $$ on players leaving the league proves it. Being a global game, expansion does very little to dilute talent in MLS, as most starters on expansion teams end up being imports from somewhere else.
How are they supposed to expand without disrupting lower leagues? Only go to 5th tier cities that can’t support a team?
And the reserve league was created because the second division didn’t like having MLS “2” teams in their league.
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robertmac43
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Excited to catch a game there. I often end up in San Diego for work due to the conference centre there. Every time I go it seems the Padres are on the road, this should increase the odds of me going to a sporting event.
Wee Baby Seamus
Yo, Goober, where's the meat?
30 teams is an obscene amount. It was too many for the NHL and it's too many for MLS.
varsaku
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I easily see MLS expand to 40. There is no risk of talent dilution in MLS that the other big 4 leagues may face with too much expansion.
Ideally i would like to see MLS split into MLS 1 & 2 to appease the promotion/relegation supporters and add more meaning to games at the bottom of the table with these many teams.
BKIslandersFan
F*** off
If the name is San Diego FC, FC San Diego, San Diego United, San Diego City SC/FC, I am DONE with MLS. DONE.
sabremike
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You are aware that MLS teams have limited international slots correct (each team is given 8 IIRC)?
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This is completely wrong. There isn’t enough talent for 30 teams, let alone 40. That’s ridiculous. Maybe you could get away with that if there was promotion/relegation, but that’s never happening either
varsaku
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Right now the number of international roster spots are limited but that can always be increased to allow more foreign talent to offset the dilution of domestic talent.
