Will MLS really stop at 30 clubs if Mohamed Mansour, the British-Egyptian billionaire and Conservative party treasurer, is willing to pay a $500m expansion fee for a club in San Diego?
soccer commissioner, an Egyptian billionaire and a Native American tribal leader walk into a bar. Hmm, let’s try that again. OK, they walked onto a stage in San Diego on Thursday to plant a flag in Major League Soccer’s latest frontier: the city beat Las Vegas tobeginning in 2025, after this ownership group paid a record expansion fee of $500m for the privilege.
as an expansion-team destination for even longer. But launching a sports team is rarely easy in big cities. When a stadium to play in was available here, various ownership groups couldn’t earn the bid or backed off with the emergence of nearby Club Tijuana in Liga MX. Then when prospective ownership groups seemed to have everything in place, the necessary soccer-specific stadium couldn’t materialize due to ballot measures and local political alliances that opposed it.
Nonetheless, confetti was launched, Ice Ice Baby and Can I Kick It? made obligatory needle-drops over the sound system, hype videos were played, scarves were gifted and worn onstage. At one point, Stone turned tocommissioner Don Garber. “These never get old, do they, Don?” To which Garber flashed a smile and glow befitting a man who just secured a half-billion-dollar expansion fee.
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