A rumour circulated yesterday -- really it was the rehashing of a rumour that first emerged in August -- that suggested that Toronto was one of several cities interested in bringing a WPS team to the city.
In an interview with Examiner.com Philadelphia Independence owner David Halstead said that WPS "(was) talking to a number of markets that are interested in coming to WPS and some of those markets are MLS markets."
He went on to single out Seattle, Dallas, Toronto, Portland and Vancouver as the MLS markets that were most likely to make a jump to the league.
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That led some to speculate that MLSE, the owners of TFC, were interested in a women's team to cross brand with the Reds. That model is what the Whitecaps, who have publically indicated a desire to have a women's team play in the highest level possible, plan to use.
However, sources inside MLSE say that is unlikely. In fact, they confirm that "there are no current plans to purchase a WPS franchise."
The source went on to say that there may be a third party in the city interested in bringing professional women’s soccer to the city, but that they had no inside information as to who that might be.
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