Five players who could be worth picking in the expansion draft 23 Nov 2010 Here are some of the interesting possibilities out there for Vancouver and Portland in Wednesday’s expansion draft. Here are five names that really jumped out on the lists of unprotected players released Monday.
Designated Players go up for auction 23 Nov 2010 DPs for sale or rent... rooms to let 50 cents... OK, apologies to Roger Miller for that one. But, when Major League Soccer released the lists of players its existing 16 teams had made available for Wednesday’s expansion draft, the Designated Players jumped off the page. The Vancouver Whitecaps and Portland Timbers could each max out the three DPs allowed on their rosters in the first three rounds of the draft. Not that either would do that.
MLS Can-Con decision can’t be based on Toronto FC’s four years of failure 18 Nov 2010 It is troubling that the only evidence the committee will have to work with comes from four shambolic years of TFC mismanagement. It’s like having to decide on new rules of the road based on the actions of one chronic drunk driver.
“Don’t see there being any changes” to roster rules for Canadian MLS teams: Garber 16 Nov 2010 MLS commissioner Don Garber said Tuesday that the league has been in talks with the Canadian Soccer Association, and that he foresees “for next year, no changes” to the Canadian roster quotas for Canadian MLS clubs.
Can-Con rule ain’t dead yet 8 Nov 2010 According to the league, all roster-rule changes for 2011 are "still in the works" and "it's still too early for leaning one way or another at this point."
