The Vancouver Whitecaps cannot carry on as they are, Don Garber reiterated this week.

The MLS commissioner visited Vancouver this week looking to shake loose the apparently stagnant Whitecaps stadium story.

The lease the Whitecaps have with B.C. Place stinks, he says and it’s also set to expire in December. A new one is needed for next season — and the fact it’s still not sorted is on him, he claimed.

“That’s reckless on my part,” he said Friday, speaking with a roundtable of reporters and other local media figures. He has long been an optimist, he said. He was optimistic the Whitecaps’ lease situation would be sorted for next year.

Obviously B.C. Place ’s operators, PavCo and ultimately the provincial government, need a regular tenant like the Whitecaps in the fold, so from Garber

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