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Wasteful spending, lack of star power outweigh the promise of the Academy

An article yesterday on FourFourTwo.com by Paul Tenorio details how the successes of Toronto FC and Atlanta United are shots across the bow from the billionaire owners of these clubs to the other billionaires owners that they’re going to have to start spending in order to be competitive in whatever version of MLS we’re in now (3.0? 4.0? MLS X?) To me, this raised one very simple question: What becomes of the millionaire owners that aren’t even competing now?

Naturally, my reason for asking was because the Philadelphia Union have not and will not be spending the kinds of money that Toronto spends - owner Jay Sugarman has come out in the past and said just that.