Remember when Don Garber said that Montreal was dropping out of the expansion race? Well they may be coming back. I guess selling almost 50,000 tickets (and it might go higher) for one of your biggest matches in club history grabs some people's attention.
MLS needs Montreal bad. Montreal has the stadium in place, the attendance figures and are in close proximity to one of MLS' most successful clubs (in terms of attendance and money) Toronto FC. Can you imagine what those matches would be like? They would have to move it to the Olympic Stadium. It would be insane. I can just imagine how intense it would be. TFC brought over 2,000 fans to Columbus which is much farther than Montreal. I could see 6,000 TFC fans making the trip.
And have you seen what an expanded Saputo Stadium would look like?
Here's what I think expansion should like like over the next 3 years:
2010: Philadelphia, Miami
2011: Montreal, Portland
2012: Vancouver or St. Louis
And can you imagine a Portland-Seattle derby at Qwest Field?
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