Major League Soccer has released the names of the players protected by each of the 16 current MLS teams ahead of Wednesday's MLS Expansion Draft.
Portland and Vancouver will choose from the players left unprotected on Monday, with each MLS team in position to lose as many as two players in the expansion draft.
New York Red Bulls striker Juan Pablo Angel, Kansas City defender Jimmy Conrad, Columbus star Guillermo Barros Schelotto and FC Dallas midfielder Dax McCarty are just some of the more intriguing names on the list of available players for Wednesday's Expansion Draft.
Here is the full list of players who were left UNPROTECTED for Wednesday's Expansion Draft:
Chivas USA
Carlos Borja, Jonathan Bornstein,Chukwudi Chijindu, Rodolfo Espinoza, Maykel Galindo, Alan Gordon, Dan Kennedy, Eduardo Lillingston, Giancarlo Maldonado, Gerson Mayen, Jesus Padilla, Osael Romero, Marcelo Saragosa, Mariano Trujillo, Alex Zotinca.
Chicago Fire
Nery Castillo, Andrew Dykstra, Collins John, Krzysztof Krol, Freddie Ljungberg, Peter Lowry, Dasan Robinson, John Thorrington, Deris Umanzor.
Colorado Rapids
Andre Akpan, Quincy Amarikwa, Stewart Ceus, Ian Joyce, Ross LaBauex, Claudio Lopez, Ciaran O'Brien, Scott Palguta, Ross Schunk, Wells Thompson, Peter Vagenas, Anthony Wallace.
Columbus Crew
Eric Brunner, Kevin Burns, Jason Garey, Leandre Griffit, Andy Gruenebaum, Frankie Hejduk, Adam Moffat, Duncan Oughton, Gino Padula, Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Joshua Williams.
FC Dallas
Eric Avila, Jeff Cunningham, Kyle Davies, Edson Edward, Bruno Guarda, Atiba Harris, Daniel Hernandez, Dax McCarty, Milton Rodriguez, Dario Sala, Jason Yeisley.
D.C. United
Dan Allsopp, Brandon Barklage, Adam Cristman, Jordan Graye, Pablo Hernandez, Devon McTavish, Kurt Morsink, Juan Pena, Troy Perkins, Barry Rice, Carlos Varela.
Houston Dynamo
Samuel Appiah, Corey Ashe, Ryan Cochrane, Richard Mulrooney, Joseph Ngwenya, Anthony Obodai, Dominic Oduro, Pat Onstad, Eddie Robinson.
Sporting Kansas City
Korede Aiyegbusi, Jamar Beasley, Sunil Chhetri, Jimmy Conrad, Birahim Diop, Zoltan, Hercegfalvi, Aaron Hohlbein, Nick Koenenakis, Eric Kronberg, Jonathan Leathers, Chance Myers, Shavar Thomas, Josh Wolff.
LA Galaxy
Gregg Berhalter, Alex Cazumba, Leonardo Da Silva, Bryan Jordan, Jovan Kirovski, Dema Kovalenko, Mike Magee, Yohance Marshall, Brian Perk, Josh Saunders,
New England Revolution
Zak Boggs, Preston Burpo, Nico Colaluca, Kheli Dube, Cory Gibbs, Jason Griffiths, Roberto Linck, Tim Murray, pat Phelan, Seth Sinovic, Khano Smith, Ilija Stolica.
New York Red Bulls
Juan Pablo Angel, Andrew Boyens, Conor Chinn, Austin da Luz, Irving Garcia, Brian Nielsen, Carl Robinson, Ibrahim Salou, Luke Sassano, Greg Sutton, Carey Talley, Sinisa Ubiparipovic.
Philadelphia Union
Cristian, Arrieta, Eduardo Coudet, Fred, Andrew Jacobson, Brad Knighton, Stefani Miglioranzi, Alejandro Moreno, Joseph Noone, Shea Salinas, Chris Seitz, Nick Zimmerman.
Real Salt Lake
Jean Alexandre, Pablo Campos, Robbie Findley, Nelson Gonzalez, Ned Grabavoy, David Horst, Rauwshan McKenzie, Timothy Melia, Alex Nimo, Kyle Reynish, Robbie Russell, Chris Shuler, Collen Warner, Andy Williams.
San Jose Earthquakes
Arturo Alvarez, Andre Luiz, Steve Beitashour, Bobby Burling, Joe Cannon, Ramiro Corrales, Eduardo, Geovanni, Cornell Glen, Chris Leitch, Justin Morrow, Brad Ring, Tim Ward.
Seattle Sounders FC
Julian Baudet, Terry Boss, Danny Earls, David Estrada, Leonardo Gonzalez, Taylor Graham, Patrick Ianni, Roger Levesque, Tyrone Marshall, Miguel Montano, Blaise Nkufo, Pat Noonan, Sanna Nyassi, Zach Scott, Michael Seamon, Nathan Sturgis, Tyson Wahl.
Toronto FC
Chad Barrett, Julian deGuzman, Gabe Gala, Nick Garcia, Raivis Hscanovics, Fuad Ibrahim, Milos Kocic, Miguel Angel Ferrer Martinez, Joseph Nane, Amadou Sanyang, Martin Saric, Maxim Usanov, O'Brian White.
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What do you think of these lists? Which players would you take if you were Portland or Vancouver?
Share your thoughts below.
Still in shock Dax is unprotected. 🙁
Guess he in Schellas really did not patch up their differences after all. One of the best holding mids in the league, imo.
This wouldn’t be the worst team fielded by an expansion side:
Chad Barrett
Mike Magee
Corey Ashe Shea Salinas
Pat Phelan Ned Grabavoy
Anthony Wallace Eric Brunner Cory Gibbs Tim Ward
Chris Seitz
Really? Dominic Oduro is serviceable? this is a STRIKER who in 118 mls games over the past five seasons has scored 15 goals and dished out 12 assists. this means he averages about about .13 goals a game which is about a goal every ten games (.10 assists per game). most starting central defenders avg. better than this. not acceptable even at MLS standards. The Robbie Findley factor can only go so far. its no good if you can run a 4.2 40 if you cant trap a ball or put a shot on frame/back of the net. I hope he is picked up and frees the dynamo from this vacuum of scoring ineptitude.
so is dominic oduro. praying they pick him up.
it’s accurate
im with Andrew only half way, we shouldnt have played this finals b/w the rapids and the burn. we should have just hand picked it: galaxy vs. red bulls. end of discussion.
though im not sure if i agree with you, Andrew, on not playing the season at all. i know a lot of our players could use a break esp. after a world cup year but i mean, the season is where the league makes most of its money: off ticket sales, etc. and builds its fan base. plus, its a great way to for our younger players to develop and expose themselves to the rest of the world. so dont know where your really going with that.
but im with you on the first part
Keller is just fine but he won’t be in goal in 2012. Hanhemann is not the answer.
I agree, I was suprised we protected an injured Brad Evans over him.
Maybe, but with Hurtado coming back and the trade for two more defenders, I have a feeling it’ll be Nyassi.
ya is he going to Randers too?
really? Boss? what do Sounders fans think of Keller anymore?
Collen Warner would be a huge pick for Portland! a lot of potential and familiar with the area with a very low salary. If only Colorado could have found him b4 he went to college…
ah.. about to ask the same question..
it will be interesting to see if VAN or PDX go for N’Kufo or build around their own DP.
Love this logic
No way… he doesn’t even have one clean sheet at Wolves.. 25 goals against? I’d rather see Boss and that SSFC spend their money on a force in the mid and to strengthen the D
I know, it does make sense when you look at it that way. It’s just annoying to me, as a Union fan, because we had to protect two international players (Stahl and Gonzalez) that haven’t shown much over two guys (Salinas and Jacobson) with some great potential that I really don’t want to lose.
Ryan Cochrane is from Portland too.
He’s gonna get his playing time with the Open cup and the CCL and maybe start a couple MLS games. He’s earned it. He may not start at forward but that doesn’t mean he can’t play wing side.
Don’t be a d*ck, dude. For those of us that actually follow RSL — you obviously don’t — we see a lot of talent and potential in Alexandre and Warner(especially) and realize that with their extremely low salaries – about $45k each – they are really prime targets for expansion teams.
RSL is too deep and has too many other good players to use a protected slot on either of these guys, but yeah, I’d probably rather lose most of the other guys (except Andy Williams for sentimental reasons)than Jean or Collen.
Either way, I think RSL protects one or the other as soon as somebody is picked from their list.
Yeah Fucito was fine when playing but who is he going to be starting over? The answer is he is not.
DPs aren’t automatically protected this year.
The club has to decide if they want to protect them.
Question is would they used their #1 pick before Summer transfer window opens.
Vancouver already used their #1 slot to get Demerit.
I don’t think Portland will use it on him. They may be fine at GK once it comes to the summer transfer window when Hahnemann’s contract expire.
So its possible Seattle may trade for the #1 slot and take Hahnemann. Of all 3 NW teams Seattle would need him the most.
He wants to come back and play in the NW.
And who thinks Zak is gone. Seesh just cause he is training doesn’t mean he’s gone to europe.
Fucito was a beast when he was playing in games.
Now on N’kufo I wouldn’t assume that N’kufo is gone given for the reason i stated in a previous comment + that he is 36. I still question does Van want to use a DP slot on a 36 year old and have to pay DP money with 335k of it against the cap.
I cannot comprehend why we protected fucito over nyassi/ianni. that is the one that baffles me the most. i to agree that nkufo is gone to vancouver more than likely
Does Van want to take N’kufo via Expansion draft especially when JPA is on the board? OR do they want to use a DP slot in the expansion draft?
I assume Dax is getting sold, but I’m not sure how this works. Hyndman and Dax have had a rocky relationship, and he didn’t have a big year (at least in the regular season), but this would seem pretty foolish if they don’t have something worked out.
At least 4 starters unprotected–including el Capitan and young Ginger Ninja–and then 2 of our first guys off the bench.
No it won’t be rough for seattle. So if seattle loses blaise they’ll bring someone in. They just traded for a LB and a CB that will lesson the blows. So if Leo and Ianni are gone they have replacements.
If nyassi is gone then Alvaro plays RW. Seattle is one of the better scouting teams in the league.
Please take Nevy!!!
rumors are surfacing Dax has interest abroad. Of course these are just rumors, but leaving him unprotected seems to justify it. Dax was quality for FCD
wow, what an awful post. Dax’s vision this season has been absolutely amazing. Perhaps some personal bias is clouding your vision
Portland would get first dibs but the Union are 4th in line for Allocation order with DC United and Chivas ahead of them- so really only Chivas would stand in the way.
I hated the Sporting KC thing until I read that they’re going to invest in multiple sports. They will actually be operating like a European club. Rugby could be their first addition under the umbrella, but the article I found mentioned lacrosse as well. I still don’t care for it, but its less dumb when if you know that they’re actually running an entire Sporting program, rather than just lifting a name.
you’re crazy, this kid is barely a backup and when you look at all the formidable #2s on other teams it makes no sense for the Revs to protect him: The columbus backup, Seitz and Knighton, Joe Cannon, Josh Sanders, Onstead, Greg Sutton- they are the only team to protect two goalies and the backup is neither a big time prospect or a proven backup so it makes zero sense for them to protect him. He also went to Albany so it is not like either team will have some strange affinity for him. Why were Zak Boggs, Sinovic and GIbbs left unprotected when Shuttleworth could have been replaced by one of them with no worry of ever getting picked. I don’t think Ives is commenting on how bad he is but how terrible of a front office move this is.
Somebody should take Leandre Griffit. Great playmaker, didn’t have a chance to bust onto Columbus’ rotation this year because he arrived late and then picked up an injury. One of the few dynamic playmakers unprotected. I’m telling you, next Le Teux.
I know these some of these guys are a bit old, but I’d love to see Portland with
GK-Seitz
RB-Dasan Robinson
CB-Cory Gibbs
CB-Nick Garcia or Eddie Robinson
LB-Anthony Wallace
DM-Dax McCarty
and please Portland take Jeff Cunningham. He has at least 2 above MLS average years left in him…
Portland tops the USMNT returnee waiver wire now after Vancouver picked Demerit.
Does nobody else like Nathan Sturgis from the Sounders? I love this kid and would easily pick him high in the draft.
Didn’t Colorado trade FOR Peter Vagenas?
Hanhnemann needs to come home and be a Sounder….again.
I am thinking they WANT NKufo gone. Zakuani is getting looks from Everton and they saw what happened to Holden last year. $400k wasn’t enough to keep him.
Tough choices with a salary cap and expansion draft.
Except that Hahnemann has ties to the NW and expansion teams would get first dibs on returning Nationals.
So let me get this straight. Colorado traded two players for Pete Vagenas, and then immediately put him on the list of players that are unprotected from the expansion teams.
Huh?
I tend to think Ianni will be protected before Nyassi. We have a lot of options on the right wing (Fernandez, Fucito, Montano, Estrada)
Hahnemann has already said he wants to go to Cascadia.
Dallas has 3 players graduating from GA. It would cost 321k to keep them all. Even with the 128k increase in the cap, they have to shave 200k in salaries. This is without any raises or new signings.
SMH
Findley was left unprotected as he is a free agent. Will be heading to Europe according to his agent today.
Ives,
If you get bored could you do a comparison of the last couple protected lists/expansion drafts?
It might give us a better idea of what to expect from this draft by looking at the Seattle / TFC / Philly expansions.
Just a thought.