Did you realize that there are 3(!) legitimate groups bidding for an expansion side in Seattle? I sure as shit didn't. Aside from the Keston group that got a few mentions earlier in the summer and the owners of the USL Seattle Sounders there is a third group, Atletico Seattle which includes French World Cup winner Frank LeBoeuf.
Atletico Seattle is looking at no more than 7 different sites to build a stadium but some of them seem to be on land that is in some way a deathtrap, due to pollution or earthquake risk for example. Nice.
Hopefully all 3 groups will fail miserably. NO MLS IN SEATTLE WITHOUT PORTLAND AND VANCOUVER!
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USL and the owners of the three teams you mentioned should be working with MLS to flip these three at once into MLS franchises with USL getting a cut as they are already embedded with a strong supporter's base.
Otherwise, you're going to erode one group of supporters when the MLS team shows up and those same people are now paying a fucking premium for seats while others will stay with the USL teams they already support and pay substantially less.
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