So the league is getting something from the Haslam consortium. Maybe it's $150mm, maybe less, because he's bailing them out of an embarrassing situation.
But then the winner isn't Precourt. Precourt paid the going rate for an expansion team several years ago in a city he did not want, with an option to move to Austin. He was forced to operate in Columbus for 5 years before getting what he wanted. I don't feel sorry for him, but he's hardly the big winner. That would be Haslam -- if in fact he and his gang got a discount off the current expansion fee -- and the politicians in Ohio, who leveraged a statute of dubious enforceability, and whose stated time period had already expired, into bluffing MLS to stay in Columbus even though the league showed no interest in staying there.
Losers are Crew fans, who keep their team but now have the same ownership as the Cleveland Browns.