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As we all heard on Friday at the Commissioner’s Address, Montreal backed out of the MLS expansion race for this round of expansion. Or did they? Reports out of Canada suggest that some communication between the two parties was not good in the weeks leading up to Commissioner Don Garber’s announcement about their dropped bid.…[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]

Yesterday we pondered if both St. Louis and Montreal had submitted an expansion bid or not to Major League Soccer by today’s deadline. Turns out both were finalizing their bids to send in today to the league’s front office. I still wonder if both have enough steam to move back into the front two positions…[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]

The biggest discussion this week without a doubt has been on MLS expansion, and even further MLS expansion in Canada. I think had the All-Star game not been in Toronto this year we wouldn’t be discussing this as much in length but here we are, the possibilities seem to be there for more Canadian teams…[continue reading]

Some reports out of Canada today are suggesting that MLS Commissioner Don Garber is raising the expansion ceiling a bit. Yeah, a good bit if you buy into these TSN reports. I know the league wants another Canadian team in a few years but seeing these kind of expansion numbers just don’t add up right…[continue reading]

Yup, while some sites believe that MLS Commissioner Don Garber is going to announce something today about possible expansion to another city in Canada, I have received word that in his press conference he said nothing has changed in the league’s expansion plans. “We’re in no rush to expand at this time,” said Garber. Garber…[continue reading]

This really is no joke folks. A possible expansion club in the Canadian capital in the cards for Major League Soccer? According to this article (in French), MLS officials have recently been in expansion talks with owners of NHL’s Ottawa Senators about a possible club. Not a whole lot of meat from the article to…[continue reading]

You know the more I look into this whole expansion to Montreal, the more I get behind it. Sure, I think it should still be a few more years away but after seeing the final product of the new Saputo Stadium today, I’m thinking an expansion bid for the city could come sooner than that.…[continue reading]