Philadelphia, PA - Philadelphia Union owner Jay Sugarman announced a bold plan, today, for the Major League Soccer (MLS) side to be dead last in spending in 2025 and beyond.

“We were the 26th team in the league out of 29 in terms of spending and we finished in 23rd place,” stated Sugarman to The Nutmeg News. “Next season I demand that we are in 29th place. Only then will we be competitive.”

According to inside sources, the spending on the team and their insistence on using unproven assets to balance out their roster was one of the core reasons with the dismissal of Union coach Jim Curtin. However, for his part Sugarman doesn’t seem bothered.

“We gave Jim a lot of assets,” stated Sugarman. “But in order for us to see success we are going to need to sell a lot more players. See the Union do things a bit different. We are a bit avant-garde. The Union see success as success off the field. Success to our organization is the continual selling of structured assets to diversified holding companies overseas that will allow us to balance the expenditures of the 29th most funded team in a 29 team league.”

The Nutmeg News will have more on this as Sugarman decries the fans as, “having no vision about the prestige of being in last place but having a record youth transfer to the Real Madrid academy.”