The ambition gap

One trend in the league over the last decade has been that a handful of clubs are extremely ambitious, and another handful just suck. (I hope we can avoid distractions like arguing which clubs fit in which category. It doesn’t matter which franchises fit where, what matters is the massive gap between them.)

I have a hard time seeing the ambition gap between the top 6-8 clubs, and the worst franchises stuck in MLS 1.0, as sustainable. Either the top clubs will get tired of subsidizing the...

The ambition gap