Of course Major League Soccer wanted to get the new site up before the season started, and it looks like they rushed it, as many soccer fans are complaining that the site isn’t working properly and non too happy about.
The problems are so pervasive as to possibly be terminal. I wouldn’t be surprised to see MLS struggle through a year of this site before totally ditching “mlssoccer.com” and rebranding with something entirely new. At the very least there will be another redesign in the next couple years. The die has already been cast for this turd.
It’s obviously a huge undertaking, taking an existing site and turning it into a new domain. I don’t know if the MLS try to do it on the cheap or just ran into problems they didn’t expect. For me, the site looks sharp and very interactive, so it just might take some time to work out the kinks. However, first impressions are big, so they failed right from the start and that could hurt things in the long run.