MLS commissioner isn’t adding fourth designated player after ‘most successful season’
MLS commissioner Don Garber gave his annual state of the league address Friday. “The eyes of the world are now on Major League Soccer, because the best player to ever play the game is here.” So if the league’s not broken, there’s no need to fix it. When San Diego joins MLS next season, it will become the league’s 30th team and Garber said that’s enough for now. And if expansion makes sense at the right time, there’s a market with a facility and the opportunity for us to manage the competitive format and everything related to that, then we’ll certainly consider it.” All that could change next week when the league’s board of governors meets in New York, but no major items are on an agenda that is expected to focus primarily on standard topics such as budget and commercial issues. The league’s apparent unwillingness to consider expansion to the size of, or spending on, rosters was no doubt disappointing to many teams and players, although the board could take up some minor tweaks next week.
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