Stadium Discussion
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NYCFC risks an IMPOSSIBLE backlash to come back from if this is announced and we don't have a site to announce of our own. And you know what? They will fucking deserve it and I hope they lose as many STH as possible.
I hope there’s an expansion plan for when QFC buys into MLS. 20k is perfect. Sell out every match at 20k and make it a hot ticket.
I have 4 season tickets I will try to cancel my subscription if this is true. This is highly disappointing, it makes NYCFC ownership look incompetent.
This would be the end of my affiliation with the club if this was to happen.
I was of the mind to keep my NYCFC tickets and also get QFC. But I’m starting to lean towards dropping too. Even in the middle of this season. I’m just selling all my tickets anyway to hold onto my founding member status. Now I’m thinking fuck it, I’ll just get to the front of the line for QFC and buy the $10 sale tickets at YS when I want to see NYCFC in person.
I continue to wonder if CFG wants out and MLS would “direct” the sale to QFC rather than allow a typical expansion process??? Fans get local ownership that cares. Villa’s academy absorbs NYCFC’s (it does train in queens already). The IKEA training center can be sold to the local professional Croquet Club to use the perfectly flat pitch tablet....
Cut their losses and take a tax write off. Atlanta and LAFC have rewritten how teams excel in MLS, and it’s fair to wonder if CFG didn’t expect it and the difficulty getting a stadium built. Without the stadium, they will never draw a respectable number of fans to make YS feel intimate.
If the Mitrita thing happens, CFG don't look like a team that is planning to pack up and leave. Even without, there is a level of investment in the future of the squad which seems at odds with a fire sale. Unless they are incompetent enough to have been blind to this development, which seems extremely unlikely.
Keeping one foot in the game. The stadium is the make/break point. If QFC gets a stadium approved and into construction, and NYCFC is drifting rudderless in the water, it’s game over. The fan base would fracture with many leaving for QFC. Sure NYCFC could continue to operate and “survive” but the margins would be crap and MLS wouldn’t view them as a flagship.
I know what that article said today, but still count me as skeptical that a stadium would be for a currently non-existent USL team with no usage for the MLS team. It just doesn't make sense unless we already had a location.
And by the way -- if Villa's group did do an end around here, you can bet your bottom dollar NYCFC has at least expressed interest in being involved in that project. The only reason we're not hearing about their involvement is how close-hold everything is with NYCFC.
It simply doesn't pass the smell test that NYCFC would sit idly by while a USL team got a stadium in a location they've been gunning for all these years.
lmfao you really think too highly of CFG's interest in nycfc. its their fuck up not knowing the nyc political landscape.
queens representatives want a stadium in queens. dont matter if team exists or not or if its in USL. there was even the whole mls2queens campaign before nycfc even existed. that was always their intention. people will go to this team and fill their stadium. what they did was promote queens to villa and his academy and he bit into it and im sure they reached out to cfg but they probably wanted bigger stadium and not be part of the whole affordable housing stuff and maybe not shell out cash for that.
of course nycfc can always rent it, but not sure they can if its only 15K due to MLS rules on stadiums.
this is still bad and im not convinced at all CFG is involved. Patricoff getting reassigned pretty much confirms this to me.
who buys it though and at what price really? i dont know what exactly happened with columbus. did the new crew ownership pay 100M like expnsion?
i do see the selling as plausible though, they realize it takes lots of money to compete now and to even build anything here is really hard with the red tape.
But that's what I'm saying though -- at the very least you have to think NYCFC would be a tenant, and the stadium would be bigger for that reason.
We've been unable to sniff anything for nearly a decade, and now a team that doesn't even exist is going to swoop in? Does that really pass the smell test?
Villa/partners buy it. Once they have the stadium, they have all the moxy/capital needed to show they’re real players for the long run and can attract (if necessary) larger pockets to be additional partners.
The optics of NYCFC being a tenant of a USL team are horrible. Maybe it happens, but that’s a talking point that won’t attract new fans that don’t want their team to appear as second fiddle.
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i believe in the theory that this is the USL queens stadium which will eventuality become nycfc 2:Villa Boogaloo and that NYCFC will announce their stadium in the BX SOON. let me dream, im 20 mins away from YS....
yes, they love villa always at least sucked up to him and they always wanted to "bring soccer to queens" and probably pitched idea and since he may know queens thru his academy and his partners probably liked idea too even for USL team. again, who knows maybe they originally went to CFG but CFG didnt like it for some reason or maybe asked for too much perks from government.
as for renting, its last effort move for CFG, im sure they want to own rather than rent from a USL team. all this queens plan is really forcing their hand.
