Where would you move them?
>>158557033CF Montréal to Vancouver and the Vancouver Whitecaps to Montréal.
MLS should die already
>>158557033>the threat of relocation is very realNot really, Québec investors will be given priority
>>158557033Baffin Island
>>158557033one of those random football clubs I took over in FM some years past
>>158557108Why would they stay in Montreal when they flip the calendar?
>>158557033MLS shouldn't even have canadian teams, start your own league.
>>158557108That's what was attempted for the Expos but literally no one in Québec wanted to buy them
>>158557033>Very sad day for local supportersI'm sure there will be 3 very sad habs
>>158557033Montreal wont try to fight it because that dumbass city and overall province likes to drive itself into irrelevance. Hence why montreal no longer has baseball and quebec city no longer has hockey. Fuckass province didnt even host a world cup match.
>City of 1,762,949>Metropolitan area of 4,291,732 >Can only support one (1) rinkadink NHL team and everything else fails
montreal is france but without the black people to care about soccer, why would they care about an mls team?
>>158557793we do have our own league, a team from the Canadian Premier League beat Montreal in the Canadian Championship finals and will be playing CONCACAF Champs League as a result
>>158557033Shouldn't have changed your 90s NASL name to generic Eurotrash nameJust leave Canada already
>>158557033Canada should only have one MLS team, just like they have only one NBA team, and only one MLB team.
>>158557810That's because that was boreball
>>158557810Anyway the Molsons are already on it
>>158557761The calendar flip is going to hurt MLS big time unless they somehow get out of the Apple deal>>158557078Nah anon MLS is a great alternative in the summer to MLB, especially if your MLB team is a fucking joke like mine
>>158561982Why the fuck do you fags keep acting like the Apple deal has been bad? Why the fuck do you prefer the rsns?
>>158562043Because I went from season ticket holder to someone who doesn't even care anymore and hasn't watched any matches on Apple TV. I'm not the only one. I used to be able to see every single one of my teams matches without paying a single penny
>>158561982ya closest mls show to me is too far but if it was like 20 mim to the thing id rock a few games every year why not
>>158562060You were paying for cable
>>158562060Couldn't see my local team for the last couple of years before Apple became of the fucking rsn so tough shit
>>158562077no I wasn't I had a way to bypass the companies if you were tech saavy
>>158562089So you're just complaining about not getting it for free lmao
>>158557033trump is making the MLS move them to Nuuk in Greenland. they're going to be called the Nuuk Eskimos. all in order to increase US legitimacy on Greenland.
>>158557078F
>>158557033What do you mean relocation, not out of montreal?
>>158557033Saskatoon and Regina
>>158557033bharat
>>158564277Yes, so a new investor buying the team would be buying the right to hold an MLS franchise from there they could move the team anywhere they want or keep it in montreal.
>>158562104with a minority/young/growing sport like soccer in USA the most important thing you can do is gain fans. aka put the sport on as many eyes as possible, sure you make less money from broadcasting but you get more fans so it evens out. NHL fans know what its like when they got dropped from espn and the sport stagnated ever since.
>>158557033>Where would you move them?Haiti
>>158557033why not move them to mexicoits time for a mexican MLS team to bring in the CHI and mexican ameriboosi know they have the mx lig or whatever but the MLS is of higher quality.
>>158557033Hope that doesn’t happen. Moving will make MLS less legit than it already is
>>158557033Anchorage
>>158558692>without the black peopleLmao, should we tell him? If you're African, Nafri, or Haitian, you're as welcome in Quebec as a Habs playoff run. Plenty of brown and black folk, and many more on the way.
>>158557033Vancouver Whitecaps are really ever closer to moving to Vegas so Montreal will probably go to Vancouver. The Saputo's are also struggling finanially with Bologna too. They just sacked their manager Tedesco and he was given 3.5m severance. Wayy expensive. Whats mad about CF Montreal is that their owners had ample years to do the Basque Cantera policy with Quebecois' considering how nationalistic they are in Quebec. They were even allowed to by the MLS. That was their niche...
>>158577628>i know they have the mx lig or whatever but the MLS is of higher quality
>>158577940i thought that was toronto
>>158572205Its outrageous and shouldn't be allowed. Some cunt basically did that with Wimbledon here. Bought the club, moved it to Milton Keynes (newfag city), and renamed them MK Dons. The existing fanbase created a new club called AFC Wimbledon. Started in lower divisions, now up to league 1, 3rd tier of the footballing pyramid. Its very rare, renaming clubs, moving them out of the area goes down very badly. The problem with the franchise model, is I feel its more acceptable, considered less outrageous. Also its not like Montreal locals can just create their own club and get promoted to MLS, they'd have to do the whole franchise shit right. I've mentioned this before, but promotion and relegation has to be a thing. Cities and towns must have the ability to create their own football clubs, grow their fanbase, recruit, gain sponsors, compete, get promoted. Football clubs are not a media brand, something you can chop up, rebrand, move, get rid of. They're part of the community, local. It doesnt matter whether they get 2k fans or they're shit, they should exist. Montreal should have a team, it should be in the footballing pyramid, and the potential to get promoted to the MLS should be feasible. It shouldn't be gatekept.
*tips trilby*
>>158581928>They're part of the community, local.They're owned by foreign billionaires
>>158581928Montreal can have their own team in the Canadian leagueIdk why they need a team in the American league in the first place
>>158583124i agree but that seems to be what usa wants. nba mlb nhl all have canadian ones too. only NFL refuses to bend the knee
F
>>158583246Widely considered that NFL won't expand to Toronto because Buffalo is only 100 miles away with a team and have a great concentrated interest than the entirety of the larger Toronto (who also gets Bills games on their tv)
>>158581696Toronto? More like New New Delhi!
>>158587500They also don't really need itCanada has a higher percentage of people who watch the super bowl compared to the USThere's already football fans there and there's not much to be gained from having a team
>>158557810Because baseball is expensive as fuck, and the MLB practically gut the Expos and alienated fans.
>>158569315>saskatoon and regina>MlelS moving to a winter scheduleFund it
>>158588490Saar six god saar. Chow mein papi saar
>>158581928No one in Montreal gives a shit, that's why the team is moving
>>158590595>saskatroon
>>158582320>>158590737These responses tell you all you need to know about the problem. Its clearly ingrained in you, cultural. Its bizarre as an outsider.
>>158557033New Delhi
>>158593087i think its the most sensible option if you want instant high level football. building a club up from literally nothing to becoming a top league club literally takes decades if at all. our teams are good because its been 100 years. they just want to go watch good football without having to put in decades of hard work building it up and then dying. its such a time/effort saver to just get given a top league club. sure it can move if it doesnt get enough fans but at least it can never go bankrupt from being relegated. 90 percent of mls teams would just die if they got relegated. plus north america is so huge, there would be no away culture because nobody is travelling the length of north america every weekend to watch their 4th division club play away in nunavut
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>>158593087Yeah, it's cultural that no one gives enough of a shit about soccer to save the team. Do you cry when bri'ish hockey teams die?
