RIP Vancouver Whitecaps
>american sporting culture
>>154408559Wait, what's wrong with Vancouver and the franchise?
>>154408834There's more potential revenue in having a team in Vegas than having one in Vancouver.
>>154408834Canada's economy has been shit and their stadium is gonna kick them out
>>154408559>join league by handing over all your rights as an independent club to become a franchise>league decides to move youWhy should I feel bad again?
>>154408895It's not MLS forcing them outThe whitecaps are for sale and no one wants to buy them and pay for a new stadium in Vancouver
>>154408919Are they getting kicked from their current stadium?
>>154408986Their lease expires this year
>>154408834they were given a team contingent on building a soccer specific stadium but they never did, and now are the only team in the mls who dont own their own stadium to make it seem like they are a multi billion dollar franchise like all the other mls franchises and the others jews are getting upset. mls has several us cities with goycattles tripping over themselves to pay for some billionaires stadium so playing hardball isnt really an option.
>>154408559Being North American and having to support movable franchises that are nothing but toys for billionaire owners ... I'm shuddering at the thought of it. You can of course meme on the Bundesliga because of its shitty title race, but at least my club will never be disbanded because some rich guy wants to make cash elsewhere
>>154409092Where would a team move in Germany? There's usually already another one in town
>>154409092I’d def take the ladder.
>>154408834>>154409057>>154409092the team is also owned by a group of billionaires including one of the founders of yahoo, so its not like they cant afford to build the team a stadium, they literally just dont want to. they paid $40 mill for this team in 2010, and now its worth close to $500 mill about 15 years later. 10x their money in a decade and are now just using american tax payers as their exit liquidity.
>>154409092I mean I support college team so not really a problem
>>154409153They're selling the team
>>154409176to a city that built a stadium with tax payer money. so you pumped 2 billionaires bags.
>>154409196Well buy it yourself and build a stadium
>>154409123We've got a few quite relevant cities whose clubs have been sucking for many years now. A select few were never good in the first place. If we had a franchise system, then some owner would definitely have taken a club that plays second fiddle within their city, like TSV 1860 München or FC St Pauli, or maybe even Viktoria or Fortuna Köln, and moved them to Bonn (19th-biggest city, currently 4th tier), Wuppertal (17th-biggest city, about to get relegated to the 5th tier), Krefeld (33rd, 5th tier), or Heidelberg (54th, literally never had a single relevant club anywhere in the first four tiers or so). Or various East German cities where the traditional GDR clubs got fucked after reunification and are now stuck in the 4th or 5th tier>>154409142What would you use it for? Screwing in a lightbulb?
>>154409057>>154409153Interesting. Sounds grim. But financially, it makes sense. That just shouldn't dictate such things, though ...>>154409154Good!
In another timeline, Vancouver an UBC embraced NCAA football, joined the PAC10, and now is a member of the Big Ten. >Canadians aren't into university sportsIn the other timeline they are. They also don't have several million jeets (the Chinese however are still there).
Canada should have its own league anyway and MLS should be entirely american.
>>154409277Is U Sports a joke to you?
>>154408880>Canada's economy has been shitGee, I wonder whose fault that is?
Is it the owners' obligation to keep a team in a city if no one is willing to pay for it?
>>154409321Given the level of support: yes.
>>154409404Is it Wal-Mart's obligation to keep a store in a city if no one is willing to pay for a building?
>>154409428No which is why they close
>>154409452My club barely stays in the league. And we will celebrate if that happens. Have fun with your totally heterosexual fat niggers in spandex colliding, and with the Jew owners rigging everything and moving your precious consumer activities like chess pieces, paypiggie
>>154408834No one cares
>>154409552by that logic, every single MLS franchise has to disband
>>154409491there is no point in trying with these brainwashed types who think paying for some billionaires stadium is something to brag about.
>>154409579It's not my tax money lol
Rather buy lower division English teams
>>154409675Wrexham was worth only $2.5 million when he bought themThe Whitecaps are probably gonna sell for $500 million and he doesn't have that kind of cash
>>154409552The team is actually one of the best teams in the league and is drawing rather well as a result. Nobody wants to see this happen. It is short-sighed IMO of these owners to do this considering in a few years, the franchise could be worth north of a billion USD.
>>154411524Yes but they could make more and build a stadium for less in Vegas
>>154409552Muller is German, he can't understand them
>>154411524I bet it ends up like the columbus/austin thing with the precourts where they keep the team. MLS isn't a passion that has been in people's families for fifty years so it helps to kind of wave the bloody shirt with this stuff. Vancouver is stupid rich, I'm sure they can find a basically evil chinese guy
>>154409240>my club will never go anywhere it will stay and suck in perpetuity
>>154408559I hope all these teams moving to Vegas crash and burn lmao
>>154409397The Canadian government?
Las Vegas is supposed to be a host city when the World Cup returns to the US in 2038. It'll need an MLS team by then. FIFA want to extract more cash and New Zealand + Fiji have offered to host a group. Maybe Hawai can host but need a 40K seater stadium. Mostly West Coast venues. Pacific 2038 bid. Or wait until 2042 to get Australia and Japan to join the bid.
>>154408834there's a demographic shift towards people who like cricket more than football
>>154414022Not quite. But even still who exactly are the soccer loving demographic of Canada ? Or the soccer loving immigrants for here ?
>>154408834The owner wants to sell and literally nobody in Vancouver is stepping up to offer
>>154408559Fewer leefjeets in any sport is a good thing
>>154409397Initially, Trudeau. Though Carney is really accelerating its decline.
>>154414852True it's better to put the sport in the country that's being ethnically replaced by Mexicans who actually enjoy it
>>154408559The Las Vegas Browncaps
>>154413437Who's gonna buy the team?It's not like the Columbus thing where the current owner wants to move themThe current ownership has been looking for a buyer and none of them can keep them in Vancouver
>>154409045they can't extend it or they don't want to?
The group that is buying the club should be forced to play in the same city
>>154409552Muller never worked in any office
>>154408559>be best team in the league>die
>>154415927Who would enforce this?
>>154416567>Who would enforce this?The fans
There is not any culture or history worth saving in this meme league>>154409552Why did they select this image
>>154416567The club itself should have this prerogative desu.Just like some companies only sell 49% of their stocks so they can still make decisions.
>>154409092I mean this kind of happened with RB Leipzig. They bought a club from Markranstädt, renamed it and moved it to Leipzig. Not across the country though.
>>154409552The US is a huge market. Soccer doesn't need to be on the level of the NFL or even the NHL to still have a robust league with good fanbases. Crying because not everyone in the country sees them as sports gods is rather pathetic. We're getting a new stadium here in Detroit for our USL team but it's never going to be on the same level as the Lions, Tigers, Red Wings, Pistons, or Wolverines. That's fine. The games are still fun and are their own thing. It doesn't have to be something everyone enjoys for me to enjoy it.
>>154416955>Detroit CityFaggot
>>154416955The state was robbed of a comfy USL in state rivalry
>>154408559>relocate the franchise
>>154409397>>154414871it looks stable compared to the fucking pedo in the white house's economy
This is example #969019401 of why I laugh at "NOOO you have to support your local club ok?!?!" anons>movable franchises>no pro/rel>conferences and playoffs>league-promoted faggotry in the standsWe don't have "local clubs" here. Taxpayers don't want to spend 20+ years paying for a stadium? Fuck you, we're moving. Well Fuck MLS and Fuck their franchises.
>>154417482Once a cartel sets up shop, you're not going back. Americans looked down on pro sports when it was better and leagues had to cartel up to survive
>>154409560They should, yes. Nothing would be lost.
>>154409404These insanely jewish club evaluations are a huge part of the problem. How the fuck are Vancouver Whitecaps worth ((($500 million))) when they don't even own their own stadium infrastructure? And who the hell is going to pay $500m for an MLS shitter just to spend that amount on a newer smaller stadium and the land near a Skytrain station to serve it?
why are Canadian teams in an American league anyway, fuck off.
>Vegas went from 0 teams to NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB and MLS in 10 years
>>154419677Why are American teams in a Canadian League anyway, fuck off.
>>154419677Be nice. We let American teams play in the CFL for a little bit.
>>154419631Is it Jewish accounting tricks so they can borrow off the equity?
>>154419756Definitely. Don't forget, only the goys pay usury ;^)
>>154419756they are also exempt from paying property taxes too as part of the "sweetheart" deal. taxes for the goym, but not for them. and the goym in this thread aggressively defend this scam.
>>154419631They are worth $500 million because someone is willing to buy it for $500 million
>>154419716this league started with 4 American and 2 cucknadian teams.
>>154408559>franchises
>>154419716What rustled your jimmies, anon?
>>154421543He saw too many black people today I imagine, a tragic outcome
>>154408559Ive been in Vancouver with the whitecaps playing and it was nice, but I guess nice things aren’t allowed in North America anymore. Vancouver is a great city ruined by all the drug addicts roaming the streets, chinks owning all the real estate, and jeets coming in to shit up the place. Vegas is objectively a soulless city in comparison, but it’s all about the $.
>>154421158My question is why the fuck is someone paying $500m for something no one cares about that has no assets?
>>154419716>San Diego Canucks>Houston Oilers>Phoenix Flames>Milwaukee Maple Leafs>Baltimore Americans (formerly the Montreal Canadiens)>Indianapolis Senators>Atlanta Jetswould be based
>>154414022The average Indian probably watches more soccer than the typical Canadian desu
>>154408567Incorrect, this is Canada>B-but they are in North America!Then you should have specified
>>154408559nice name, how often were they associated with whitecapping?
>>154421158>They are worth $500 million because someone is willing to buy it for $500 millionNo, (((they))) and the league just throw out their own evaluation and demand others to pay them what they want. There is nothing tangible backing that evaluation. If they put an open bid for prospective buyers they might get $40m-$50m if they are lucky. You could buy a middling EFL Championship club for that price that has a large established fanbase, their own stadium, and training ground included.
>>154417452But Bill Clinton isn't in the WH anymore.
>>154422883The championship team has a 125% wage to revenue ratio with threats of smaller and smaller revenues with relegation
>help us save our MLS franchise from it's evil millionaire owners>just support your local soccer team?>But i want to support a MLS franchise owned by evil millionairesIs this an accurate representation of that sport in the US?
>>154426791Despite what Trump might want you to think, Canada is not part of the US.
>>154408834Owners throwing a hissyfit because they want leaf taxpayers to finance their new stadium
>>154408834tl;dr they make absolutely no money and the owners want out. The only people that want to buy the team don't want to keep it in Vancouver.
