MLS actually folded 6 years in and Noonan wrote the press release announcing it. It was saved at the last minute when two owners bailed the league out. Without that bailout there would be no TFC and who knows what the fate of the Whitecaps or Impact would have been.
Noonan is just doing what a commissioner does and is defending his league in the public eye. We love our oligopolies in Canada and professional soccer is no different. As with any business in this country the little guys have to fight and scratch and claw for relevance, or risk having the big 3 clubs stamp them out.
MLS clubs continue to not take this competition seriously until the final stages and they keep getting burned.
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