It would appear that — at least in the eyes of outside observers like Grant Wahl — that the Seattle Sounders’ place among the MLS elite in terms of “ambition” is waning a bit. While the Sounders were among the top three in Wahl’s “MLS ambition rankings” from 2012-2017, they’ve fallen outside of that the past two years. This year, they come in at No. 6, one spot below where they were a year ago.
While there’s some room to quibble — the Top 5 especially seems to simply be a matter of how much money the teams are willing to spend regardless of what kind of gain they get from it — the Sounders don’t seem to be pushing the envelope, at least not yet.