Reuters reports that the breakaway threat comes after a failed bid by the eight clubs to buy the USL, which was last week sold by Nike to Atlanta-based Nu Rock Soccer Holdings. The eight-team consortium, which includes franchises in Miami, Atlanta, Minnesota, as well as Vancouver and Montreal in Canada, issued a statement saying a breakaway league was one of the options they were now considering.
Selby Wellman, owner of the Carolina Railhawks team, and spokesman for the consortium told Reuters: "We are clearly at odds with USL, we have been at odds with them for two years over the fact that we are the only league in the world that doesn't have (team) owners controlling it.
Wellman said his expectations of being able to reach a compromise with the new owners were "quite low".
"If you just bought a league for that money and put it in Nike's pockets you are probably unwilling to turn it over to other people," he said.
"We have been at this for two years..we are not willing to start all over again and drag it out for another year or so. Quite frankly we are tired."
