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$200 million expansion fees
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 8:11 pm
by suge night
MLS, Commissioner during TV broadcast of Seattle Toronto championship game said he expect franchise fee to reach $200 million, when pushed about where money goes he stated infrastructure, building academies and other development programs alone with paying players considered middle of pack talent from abroad.
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 2:49 pm
by Sam Hill
Split it 20 (and then 22 and then 24 and then 26) ways, that's not exactly a huge windfall.
The US is rarely going to get top-tier talent from abroad. Playing in Madrid or Paris on Saturday or facing Juventus in the Champions League is a much stronger pull than playing in Kansas City on a Wednesday and playing Joe Public in CONCACAF.
But they can - and have, and will continue to - upgrade the level of talent.
The actual next round of expansion clubs will apparently pay $150 million, so that's $300M split 20 (or 23 or 24, depending) ways. That won't go THAT far. The league supposedly lost slightly more than that in its first several years of life.