MLS teams wasted no time making deals after the end of the 2010 season, in part because of the looming MLS expansion draft.
The Columbus Crew continued its dismantling of its 2008 championship team by dealing midfielder Brian Carroll to the Phiadelphia Union (NOT D.C. United) for a conditional second round pick and an allocation.
The deal re-unites Nowak and Carroll after the two spent time at D.C. United, where both helped D.C. to the 2004 MLS Cup title.
Meanwhile, the New York Red Bulls sent former 2008 first-round pick Jeremy Hall to the Portland Timbers for a third-round draft pick. The Red Bulls did not plan on keeping Hall on its protected list, but Hall was clearly an expansion draft target for both Portland an Vancouver.
Portland wasn't done dealing. The Timbers also dealt an allocation to Los Angeles for an international player slot for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. The slot returns to the Galaxy after 2012.
Colorado celebrated its MLS Cup victory last night, but made a deal on Monday, sending defenders Julian Baudet and Danny Earls to Seattle for Peter Vagenas.
We will update this posts with any other trades that go through.
For now, feel free to share your thoughts on these deals in the comments section below.
Na, he’s a free agent. Ljungberg, there are some other dps available as well.
I thought Juan Pablo Angel was a DP and therefor required to be protected.
Galaxy Unprotected
Berhalter, Gregg
Cazumba, Alex
Da Silva, Leonardo
Jordan, Bryan
Kirovski, Jovan
Kovalenko, Dema
Magee, Mike
Marshall, Yohance
Perk, Brian
Saunders, Josh (GK)
Red Bulls Unprotected
* Angel, Juan Pablo
* Boyens, Andrew
* Chinn, Conor
* da Luz, Austin
* Garcia, Irving
* Nielsen, Brian
* Robinson, Carl
* Salou, Ibrahim
* Sassano, Luke
* Sutton, Greg (GK)
* Talley, Carey
* Ubiparipovic, Sinisa
wow Knighton is a surprise. At some point that kid is going to hook on somewhere and become a top regular in MLS. In my opinion.
Per Kyle McCarthy
NE protected list: Alston, Barnes, Joseph, Mansally, Nyassi, Osei, Perovic, Reis, Schilawski, Shuttleworth, Tierney + Fagundez (HG)
Not protected:
Zak Boggs, Preston Burpo, Nico Colaluca, Kheli Dube, Cory Gibbs, Jason Griffiths, Roberto Linck, Tim Murray, Pat Phelan, Seth Sinovic, Khano Smith, Ilija Stolica
wow, sucks for baudet and earls, win the championship one night, find out the next day youre no longer with the team, rough
fake grass in both venues = no schelotto for timbers or caps
If you stood Gabevoy on top of Dax McCarty, would they be as tall as Omar Gonzalez?
He should never have left DC. He is better than Simms. I think he’ll do well in Philly.
Ives is already starting the Hahnerman to Phily rumor.
If I was going for a keeper off the 6 lists in, I’d def go for Dykstra.
Not sure how fair that is to Riley. He’s been Mr. Consistent for the Sounders both in terms of durability and effectiveness.
Riley’s not perfect but I think he’s perhaps a touch underrated.
Le Toux has to go up there with Chris Armas in terms of an expansion pick.
My argument is that fans and expansion teams greatly overvalue the worth of the players they get from an expansion. A few–very few–of these players will turn out to be Jason Hernandez’ (meaning…in the right situation and 2-3 years down the road they’ll become competent starters). Most of these players are guys who are great role players in a particular system. Take them away from that coach or that system and you get….James Riley.
too many jokes…
Uh-oh…No Seitz on that list? lol
As a Le Toux fan from his first day on the USL Sounders,I’m pissed as hell I don’t get to watch him here, but really glad he went somewhere he could be truly appreciated and blossom into a star.
RSL notable unprotected:
Ned Grabavoy
Robbie Russell
Andy Williams
Collen Warner
Robbie Findley
Pablo Campos
Nelson Gonzalez
Kyle Reynish
Tim Melia
Jean Alexandre
Chris Schuler
David Horst
Rauwshon McKenzie
Alex Nimo.
Grabavoy, Gonzalez, Warner or Schuler would be who I would choose from if I were taking from that list.
Knighton’s better than Seitz but that’s not saying much. Both the expansions already have at least a GK now technically. Portland has Cronin, Caps have a couple on trial.
Are expansion pics from last year were like panning for gold: sometimes you get nothing, or some flakes. But we got us a big ol nugget in Le Toux so it was worth it.
Interesting that NEITHER GK from Union is protected.
I don’t get this, Jacobson is better than Carrol thats crazy to me.
Why isn’t the Union protecting Knighton? I thought he played will in his brief time as a starter.
It’s also interesting that six of Philadelphia’s expansion picks from last year are not being protected.
def agree. no one would swipe Harvey and Naka. Salinas, bit worried he’ll be poached.
The two big names left off are Shea Salinas and Andrew Jacobson- Nakazawa and Carroll seem to have taken their place when looking at the different projections for the team.
IMO i would have put those two on and left off Harvey and Nakazawa
I didn’t think Appiah was Gen Adidas or Homegrown…
UNION
Philadelphia Union’s Protected Players:
1. Califf, Danny (DF)
2. Carroll, Brian (MF)
3. Gonzalez, Juan Diego (DF)
4. Harvey, Jordan (DF)
5. Le Toux, Sebastien (FW)
6. Mapp, Justin (MF)
7. Nakazawa, Kyle (MF)
8. Orozco Fiscal, Michael (DF)
9. Stahl, Toni (MF)
10. Torres, Roger (MF)
11. Williams, Sheanon (DF)
Generation adidas Players (exempt from selection):
1. McInerney, Jack (FW)
2. Mwanga, Danny (FW)
3. Okugo, Amobi (MF)
Unprotected Players:
1. Arrieta, Cristian (DF)
2. Coudet, Eduardo (MF)
3. Fred (MF)
4. Jacobson, Andrew (MF)
5. Knighton, Brad (GK)
6. Miglioranzi, Stefani (MF)
7. Moreno, Alejandro (FW)
8. Noone, J.T. (DF)
9. Salinas, Shea (MF)
10. Seitz, Chris (GK)
11. Zimmerman, Nick (FW)
Philadelphia Union’s Protected Players:
1. Califf, Danny (DF)
2. Carroll, Brian (MF)
3. Gonzalez, Juan Diego (DF)
4. Harvey, Jordan (DF)
5. Le Toux, Sebastien (FW)
6. Mapp, Justin (MF)
7. Nakazawa, Kyle (MF)
8. Orozco Fiscal, Michael (DF)
9. Stahl, Toni (MF)
10. Torres, Roger (MF)
11. Williams, Sheanon (DF)
Schelotto’s getting old but he’s still effective. He might be a decent veteran presence for one of these two new teams.
Columbus Crew Protected list:
William Hesmer, Danny O’Rourke, Andy Iro, Andres Mendoza, Eddie Gaven, Chad Marshall, Kevin Burns, Emmanuel Ekpo, Robbie Rogers, Emilio Renteria, and Shaun Francis.
Automatically Protected (Generation Adidas): 11 M Dilly Duka.
Houston’s 11, according to Chronicle:
Houston Dynamo’s Protected List according to the Houston Chronicle is : Brian Ching, Brad Davis, Geoff Cameron, Lovel Palmer, Bobby Boswell, Colin Clark, Mike Chabala, Andrew Hainault, Adrian Serioux, Cam Weaver, Tally Hall (according to Chronicle)
Generation Adidas players are exempt from the expansion draft, so Danny Cruz, Sammy Appiah, Francisco Navas Cobo and Tyler Deric also are safe.
The Timbers just bought an international slot from the Galaxy for some allocation cash.
welp, there goes my idea.
Adam Serrano just reported on twitter that the galaxy grade international spot for allocation $
Hopefully there is also a behind closed doors agreement that they won’t touch our unprotected list!
Ljungberg and Castillo not protected.
Good Findley is lame, RSL will surely win the title next year without his presence!
Wouldn’t be a bad trade……
“the New York Red Bulls sent former 2008 first-round pick Jeremy Hall to the Portland Timbers for a third-round draft pick.”
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Which proves I’ve been 100% correct in ripping into DC United for the last six months for giving away a 2nd round pick to get Hall’s college teammate Stephen King, who was only a third round pick to begin with. King’s a nice player, but the team grossly overpaid to get him. W
ith that trade, and the way the team got taken to the cleaners in the Troy Perkins game of chicken they played with Nowak…I would love to get in a high stakes poker game with DC United’s front office….I could probably retire early.
He’s a flight risk. I doubt any team would take him considering he’s going to be a free agent and is trying to go to Europe. Problem for him is he’s playing like crap and who would take him? Outshined by a 17 year old in his last audition.
First rumors out of Seattle say that Patrick Ianni will not be protected and young Mike Fucito made the list, according to Prost Amerika
Findley’s gone:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50729963-76/rsl-league-players-season.html.csp
no robbie findley you say?
No, Findley… yet he still gets called up by Bob.
As Ives said on Twitter, it might have been that they thought Portland was gonna take him in the expansion draft so better to get something rather than nothing.
RSL has released their list of protected players for the 2010 Expansion draft:
Nick Rimando
Nat Borchers
Jamison Olave
Chris Wingert
Tony Beltran
Kyle Beckerman
Will Johnson
Javier Morales
Alvaro Saborio
Fabian Espindola
Paulo Junior
Luis Gill (GA).
Whats up with Hall for 3rd round pick…any insight into RedBull ThinkTank?
The Galaxy should trade for Marco Pappa! The galaxy have only won MLS Cup with game winning goals from Guatemalans, they need Pappa right away!
——–Buddle——Donovan——-
Pappa—-Dema—-Juniho—-Beckham
Seems to be some delay. Dropping Timber seems to be posting protected player lists as they get them.
What exactly is a “conditional” pick in the off-season for a draft only two months away? I get it when the trade is prior to or during the season and the player has to meet games/minutes/starts,etc criteria to trigger the condition. What conditions are to be met prior to the draft on 1/13/11?
echo…
Where are the bloody lists???
DC United? Or Philly?
(SBI-Philly. That was my mistake writing it up at the airport. I had D.C. United on the brain because of Nowak-Carroll’s D.C. connection.)