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Originally Posted by shermanator
I agree that it doesn't make sense to force the MLS clubs into CPL in the short term. They would have to cut their salaries from $25 million or whatever to $750K. Just not worth it. Long term? That could be a different story.
The Fury on the other hand, I think it makes sense. They have a league at a similar level of play in their own country. They were going to be given salary cap concessions to join CPL. And they chose not to. This was entirely preventable on their end. I feel bad for the supporters, but the club crying foul is just not cutting it.
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I do agree that Ottawa should not be allowed to stay in USL long term. I don't think CONCACAF playing this card this way was appropriate though. They should have said something along the lines of "you can play in USL this year while CPL starts out, but we will deny your sanctioning in 2020 or 2021 if CPL exists and you aren't in it."
For the next 5 years the Canadian MLS teams have absolutely nothing to worry about... but if CPL grew to a CFL level salary cap (~$5m CAD), possibly introduce a DP/TAM like system for CPL Div 1 to allow teams to overspend on a player or two, and the gap between a cap CPL team and the Whitecaps/Impact (around $12-15m CAD) narrows to where this precedent becomes a concern for them. Even though TFC spends about double that, they might get dragged down too.