Comments on: USL Sale Complete: Reporters Notebook’s……Owners Upset (UPDATED 5:30 PM MONDAY)

By: Silverbacks Battery

Silverbacks Battery — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:33:03 +0000

This is heart wrenching stuff, Kartik. Can Holt and Marcos talk Atlanta, Miami, Montreal and Carolina, the clear ring leaders back into the fold.

Markets like Rochester and Charleston cannot survive in some sort of super league that has clear D1 ambitions against the likes of a Atlanta or Miami which are HUGE markets. It would be the Premier League all over again, and in that eveyone loses.

Also, to the MLS fans above who insult us, it’s amazing that you know zero about USL but we are constantly told we must watch and support MLS even if we are nowhere near a team for the good of the game, yet these same people do not even know the structure in their own country. PATHETIC.

By: Jason Toon

Jason Toon — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:01:36 +0000

Non-soccer fans have no idea the USL, or even MLS, exists.

If USL brass thinks they can run a league without consulting the teams, well, they’re about to find out that nobody’s gonna buy a ticket to watch Tim Holt.

By: Kartik Krishnaiyer

Kartik Krishnaiyer — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:38:37 +0000

Keep an eye on FC New York, Daniel. I have reason to believe they may be joining the group sooner or later.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:42:19 +0000

To the non-soccer fans in this country this looks very bad and unstable. I hope this will not be a major blackeye for the sport in this country.

By: Daniel Feuerstein

Daniel Feuerstein — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:08:46 +0000

It’s interesting that many people are afraid of the USL that they want them to shut down. I’m not afraid of the USL, we need the USL. Just like the Premiership needs the Championship Football Leagues 1 & 2. Where will all the players go to if MLS clubs won’t use them.

If majority of the USL-1 clubs leave and form their own league, Marcos would look like a fool and USL-2 would become USL-1 with the few that will remain like Charleston, FC New York & Rochester.

Amazing that Tampa Bay Rowdies have joined this group and FC New York has decided to stay with Marcos, because they are too afraid of not having a home when they enter to expand USL-1. It goes to show you that the Rowdies ownership group has seen the light.

By: soccer goals

soccer goals — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:54:13 +0000

I hoope that they move in the right direction.

By: Vnice

Vnice — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:15:22 +0000

I guess all second and third tier leagues around the world should just fold. Fuck anyone trying to make a living playing soccer anywhere who can’t quite cut it in the top flight. They’re out of a job. Fuck ‘em all. While we’re at it…fuck American soccer.

CIRE< you're a complete tool.

By: OL

OL — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:30:45 +0000

This is terrible news guys. I wish these owners would have waited before pulling the trigger.

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:37:40 +0000

CIRE 55,

You are a fool, and besides, USL has something like 120 teams, not 11.

If the whole USL structure collapses what happens next?

Carolina, Miami, Montreal and the other ring leaders of this must be held accountable if USL goes down.

Then again, maybe USL will wise up and make a compromise with these guys. They need to start talking again.

By: CIRE 55

CIRE 55 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:29:34 +0000

YES! YES! YES!

8 of 11 USL teams leaving. A three team league and an 8 team league, both of which will fail.

Poor Kartik will shut down this site rather than cover MLS, the only true league that should exist in this country. These teams should either go to MLS are be forced down to the Amateur leagues.

USL should not exist.