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In early 2015, the league announced that 2 groupsLos Angeles FC and Minnesota Unitedwould join MLS in either 2017 or 2018. The 20th season of MLS saw the arrivals of numerous gamers who have starred at the highest levels of European club soccer and in global soccer: Giovanni dos Santos, Kak, Andrea Pirlo, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Didier Drogba, David Villa, and Sebastian Giovinco.

MLS verified in August 2016 that Minnesota United would start play in 2017 along with Atlanta United FC. In April 2016, the league's commissioner Don Garber repeated the objective of the league to expand to 28 teams, with the next round of growth "most likely taking place in 2020". In  I Found This Interesting , he upgraded the growth plans stating that the league will aim to approve the 25th and 26th groups in 2017 and to start play in 2020.

In July 2017, it was reported that Big league Soccer had declined a $4 billion deal by MP & Silva to obtain all tv rights to the league for 10 years following the conclusion of its current agreements with Fox, ESPN, and Univision. While it represents a significant increase over the existing contracts, MP & Silva insisted that the offer would be conditional on Major League Soccer embracing a promo and transfer system comparable to other international leagues.

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sports leagues. Furthermore, MP & Silva founder Riccardo Silva appeared to have a dispute of interest due to the fact that he also owned Miami FC of the NASL, which stood to take advantage of such a promotion and transfer system. In October 2017, Columbus Team SC owner Anthony Precourt revealed strategies to move the franchise to Austin, Texas by 2019.