Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Who will stay or who will go?

Gaaaah that's kinda cheesy but whatever the clash rules. We lose one guy to Seattle Sounders FC tomorrow in the expansion draft. Our list of unprotected is kinda tricky to see who they will pick. Of the players I think most look at Ricketts, Johann Smith and Greg Sutton as the surprises on the list. If you break that down though, word is that Ricketts is looking to get back to England asap so we might not even be signing him next season anyways - plus his salary is $200K - a decent dent in their cap. Sutton makes around $150K and with Keller probably making a good salary I'd be surprised if they want to spend that much money on a back-up keeper - or take the risk of making that pick to trade. Johann Smith I have no idea. We wasted our allocation on this guy and missed out on Will Johnson. Some say he hasn't impressed but I think he only played a handful of games so not sure why we are looking to dump him already, unless his attitude sucks!

There's a couple of guys who I think could fit in at Seattle. Right now they have their 2 midfielders (Ljungberg and Nyassi) a striker and Keller in net. So it's wiiiide open. We could perhaps expect to lose a defender, and right now my money is on Marco Velez heading out. Other than that it's either Johann Smith or Jarrod Smith for the youth factor. Pretty good set of guys put out there if you ask me for TFC to hopefully not take any major damage.

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