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We spoke yesterday of some of the other markets and why their current bids aren’t enough. Well this news today is kind of one of those too. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes that an English Premier League team researching the Atlanta as a possible place to invest in MLS. Ugh. Yeah another foreign club investing in MLS.…[continue reading]

It looks as though the MLS to Montreal movement will happen fairly soon. The AP reports today suggest the league is moving forward on it’s plan to expand to Montreal. An official announcement should come soon. For some time it has been known that the league was expecting to announce Montreal as it’s 19th club.…[continue reading]

During a teleconference this afternoon Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber dropped some expansion news. First all he said Montreal would likely get their bid for 2010 very soon but we already knew that was coming. The bigger news may have been the city he mentioned for where the league could possibly go for the…[continue reading]

Editor’s note: This is the second column but Geoff Reid. As mentioned before Geoff will be writing on WVH from time to time. Today he tackles the fun that has been the 2011 expansion race. With the 2009 MLS season about to kick off this week and everything that’s happened the week gone by, I…[continue reading]

We started a few months ago with seven hopefuls. Now we are looking at just five. Montreal cooled their jets about MLS expansion back at MLS Cup  and Atlanta did the same last week during the SuperDraft. Five cities remain in what is starting to sound like a nasty episode of Survivor. Portland, Vancouver, Ottawa,…[continue reading]

And then there was five. Major League Soccer won’t be coming to Atlanta in 2011. Arthur Blank and his group pulled out of the expansion race today saying they couldn’t commit to play in time for the 2011 season. Honestly I never saw Atlanta as a player in this race, nor do I really see…[continue reading]

This is kind of a shock to some but in a tough economic time here in America it could come as expected for others. The USL-1 Atlanta Silverbacks announced they will not field a team in 2009, citing the economy as well as the potential arrival of an MLS expansion team in Atlanta in the…[continue reading]

I’ve been meaning to post this for a day or so now but just haven’t got around to it until today. A few months back I did a story on MLS Expansion and how each potential city out there stacked up. Strengths and weaknesses were listed along with some key questions. So in a way…[continue reading]

At the end of the day there are seven cities competiting for a MLS expansion bid. Two cities will win out and begin playing in 2011, while the rest will wonder and hope if the league will put up another round of expansion for the 19th and 20th clubs. Once more those in the mix:…[continue reading]

Tomorrow is the deadline but let’s go through and see who all has sent in their bid to the league for an expansion club. Right now there are a few cities with some big bids on the table for MLS to go over for the next two clubs. But floating out there is also the…[continue reading]