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[SaH] Upcoming offseason will be most significant in Sounders history (www.sounderatheart.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by coys25 to c/soundersfc

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TD;DR (Oshan's predictions)

Lodeiro probably leaves
Rusnak probably gets renegotiated to a max-TAM level player
Ruidíaz may get bought out or traded; he wants an extension but that would be hard to imagine
JP probably back
Heber probably gone unless he scores a boatload of goals in the rest of the season
Xavi probably leaves, either by having his option declined or by having it picked up and Sounders trading him
Hopefully Frei stays on a team friendly contract with a small pay cut
Cleveland may be headed elsewhere to let the other keepers in the pipeline get more time at lower cost
Rowe and Fredy probably won't be back
Sounders will probably listen to offers for Vargas, RBW, and Leyva.
AB is probably gone given his age and so he can get playing time elsewhere, to free up minutes for some of the Defiance CBs
CR7 will have a bounce back year after the injuries; JMo will be back to his excellent form, Atencio needs more minutes, and Chu will be in the last year of his contract and out to prove that he deserves a big new contract.
biggest off-season priorities: new DP 10, new number 9 (maybe somebody younger to develop while Jordan starts up top for now)

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[–] coys25 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think Craig will stand pat and bring back the vets?

[–] CombatWombatEsq 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there's a lot of space between moving ~65% of our total wage bill in a single winter window and standing pat, and I might more expect us to inhabit the space between those two extremes than either end of the spectrum. I would love for O'Shan to be correct here, but it's the winter window -- the secondary window for most of the world -- and turning over two DPs and three TAM players, plus a bunch of squad players, all in a single window is almost unheard of.

[–] coys25 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep. My guess is Lodeiro leaves and the focus is really on a quality 10. Ruidíaz probably stays though any extension before next season seems unlikely. More likely the team sees what he can do next year / if he can stay healthy and then makes a decision after that. But I guess they could try to move him and Xavi and open up a bunch of space and DP slots for next summer, while relying on JMo up top for the first part of the season?