Liverpool to Boston?
Liverpool to Boston?
Is the Liver Bird spreading its Wings across the Pond?
You've had Manchester City to New York, now the next Big Boy makes it's move...
By El Lobo
Manchester City appear to have started a well-planned revolution in American soccer. Their hook-up with the New York Yankees has finally let the genie out of the bottle: Liverpool are coming next.
Then Manchester United. Then Barcelona. Then Real Madrid. Then...
You get the picture.
Soon, the growing interest in soccer Stateside will become a monster, and nobody will be anybody unless they have an American summertime-club - 24/7, 365-day-a-year coverage means all-year-round profits - and the potential to double, even triple their performance on the stock market.
But John Henry, despite missing the gun on this occasion, is instigating an even bigger plan of action.
Sources in Massachusetts tell me that Henry's going for the WOMEN'S soccer market too.
Liverpool already have a professional ladies team - the first one in England - and are planning to dominate female domestic football the way in which their men owned the seventies and eighties. Over here, with the re-emergence of the Soccer Mom, and the Gold-Winning Olympic team, Henry has spotted the opportunity to enhance US Soccer on both fronts, male and female; in turn maximizing profits once more.
Henry's beloved Boston Red Sox will assist in the running, as with the Yankees and the new New York expansion, and they will have local competition too - the New England Revolution just 22 miles away in Foxborough.
But as with the upcoming NYCFC/New York Red Bulls match-ups it will simply provide more excitement, interest and ticket sales.
Liverpool are a huge draw around everywhere they go: a truly global name in world sport, and with Liverpool legends like Steven Gerrard approaching the twilight of their careers, expect to see even more big names crossing the Atlantic for a shot at MLS glory.
It's a bold, expressive move by the futures wizard, and one that will doubtless bear fruit as expansion team numbers grow and this wonderful league is broadcast to more and more screens around the world.
El Lobo: he hears stuff...
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