..from 2 anonymous backers from NY and London as well as confirming that they will play out of the Red Bull Arena (which is in New Jersey BTW, not New York.)
Steve Mascord also tweets that they have letters of Intent from sponsors in the world of air travel and Hotels, with the Players for this pipe dream flying business class


2020 is when they expect to start and have budgeted for 5k games in year 1....

.....so this PE teacher and online brochure printer plans to have an 80% empty stadium, in a borough that isn't New York for a team called New York in a sport that most Americans have never heard of and he has £5,000,000 in backing.

February can't come too quickly





and remember, Brian Noble and David Argyle where already whinging about extra costs at the end of last season, so £5 million won't last long.

We get it, you don’t want North American teams to succeed.

Not at all....... But there's no joined up thinking going on here...... Argyle has abandon developing Canadian players and this bloke has no Pedigree in anything about running a pro sports club let alone an expansion one as is shown by their supposed target of 5k fans in a 25k seat stadium......

but according to your signature you don't need away fans so why have home ones

You do no new jersey is just the other side of the river, like over a couple of bridges, and millions live in that part of new jersey that makes up the New York metropolitan area,and commute to Manhattan daily, its just like north and south London, and the biggest fact of all, met life stadium home of the New York jets and giants is in new jersey. so whats your point.

Indeed. New York is a state as well as a city, and the city of New York consists of the 'five boroughs' of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island AND New Jersey.

Sorry but NJ isn't one of the 5 boroughs swap it for the Bronx

Yes the bronx is the 5th, new jersey newark is one if new yoks airports.
New york is a bit like London where middlesex sussex kent all border the city if London and encrouch onto the greater London boroughs

New Jersey is state. With Jersey city, NJ sat on the Hudson just opposite Manhattan.

if someone decided to build, say, wakefield a stadium 10 miles away from the city would it be the same issue?

No. What my signature says is that there are pro's and con's for having expansion into North America and that "away fans" are not that important. The Break even figure is 10,000 fans at games according to a number of RL chairmen, so yes, Home fans are important.....ask David Hughes who was bankrolling us to the tune of £2,000,000 back when we had 4,500 home fans.

No break even is income coming in and expenditure going out. If you have good sponsorship tv deals etc you can get by on no fans potentially. I posted that previously on another thread.

If you have 5,000 fans but a £2m sponsorship deal then that gives you the same income probably as 10,000 fans and a 1 million pound sponsorship deal.