Being an expansion team in MLS is never easy. While there is always a growing appetite for more teams, with every year, the league grows, and thereby, the teams grow. Take Toronto FC, for instance.
Not only did they put together one of the best MLS seasons in the history of the league last year, but they then proceded to improve themselves in the offseason. How can an expansion team, even with all of the early help they are afforded in their infancy, compete with that?
Well, don’t ask that question to Bob Bradley and his Los Angeles FC.