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Good point. I guess it's my math that's messed up. :redface:

You buy an MLS franchise, you get a share of SUM. It's not as separate as you are making out.

However, the fact that the SUM money vastly changes the cost/profit/loss dynamic goes against the...

No it's not a typo. $90 million U.S. greenbacks.

Yes, 20% was sold to an equity company, but we don't know the terms of that deal, plus it's also offset by the foreign revenues which I haven't...

The SUM numbers that were posted are incorrect. Just the US revenue numbers alone are $90 million per year ($18 million per team), and that does not include lucrative deals like with Sky Sports. ...

I don't see them selling Giovinco.

Take away the 10,000 and there is no atmosphere. That actually matters as well to the average ticket buyer, so much so that they successfully sold a losing team for 3 years based on that.

That's true. While we like to see great players, it's meant something to have Ashtone Morgan on the team.

Actually, $30 million is the low end of the scale (the top end is $40 million). Revenue sharing evens out a lot of things between the teams.

If they are grossing $30 million why would that be the case?

That is great stuff, excellent find!

Here we find out that TFC is worth $195 million and that MLS clubs gross $30-$40 million (I'd assume TFC is on the high end of that scale). It shows why TFC...

Under Mo the "scouting network" was one player agent.

The tweets show that he genuinely doesn’t want to change things. He's no MLSE lackey, he could have gone to the Impact or other clubs, so I believe what he's quoted as saying.

He already knows...

If you look at RSL, they had Lagerway as "GM." He just did the contracts, maybe watched the "cap," Kreis built the team. I imagine TFC will follow the same path.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/ex-rsl-boss-manning-hired-as-new-tfc-president/

A real positive is that he will already know Vanney's strong and weak points from RSL, can properly evaluate him without feeling a need to dump him just to "get his own guy."

Also Vanney will...