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.
exactly.. Pappa is not going anywhere… unless you want to trade Donovan 😉
im not saying going to seattle sucks, im sure tons of players would love to join seattle, im just saying to do it less than 24 hous after winning the champioship sucks
NYRB got something for nothing. By that I mean…he was going to be exposed in the expansion draft. He’s young, fast, semi-versatile, and relatively cheap plus not foreign. So that means it’s a guarantee that either Vancouver or Portland would pick him (probably Vancouver b/c Soehn have seen him a lot as U.Md and DCU do scrimmage at times and DCU looked very hard between Hall and Wallace). And in that case-you get nothing for him (other than another player on your roster doesn’t get picked.
As it is, you got a 3rd round pick for a guy who was a certainty to be selected by one of those two teams.
First, DCU didn’t trade Carroll, he was picked in the expansion draft by SJ who (in a pre-arranged deal) traded him to Columbus and Sigi Schmid.
Second, Brian Carroll is like a lot of good players in MLS–how good he is depends upon the system. If you want a box-to-box D-Mid like Beckerman or a distributor like Hernandez, he’s not your guy. If you want a smart, cerebral D-mid who makes smart tactical fouls but doesn’t pick up cheap stupid cards, who covers from sideline to sideline maybe better than any D-mid in MLS and has a tremendous work-rate, than Brian Carroll is your guy. As part of a 3-5-2 or a 4231 he can be a great fit.
Carroll and Nowak will be a great fit. Ray Hudson tried to make Carroll an outside defender. Nowak started him at D-mid from day one and he was superb during Nowak’s time at United, much less so when Soehn took over.
Well, we did get a 2nd round draft pick from NYRB for Talley. To me that cancels out the King trade, although I can’t make much of an argument for the Perkins trade.
Why would Dallas leave McCarty unprotected. Wasn’t he a revelation for them this year?
A third round pick for Hall? Isn’t he worth more than that? He was a first round pick. Yes he got injured, but c’mon…
Hehehehehe!
Am I the only one that snickers every time I see/hear “Vagenas?”
Just me then?
Okay.
No way Jacobson and salinas are taken. Once one is taken Philly will protect the other.
DCU should get try to get these guys: Maykel Galindo, Cory Gibbs, Llija Stolica, Irving Garcia, Bruno Guarda.
I definitely agree. The time he spent subbing in for Reis at NE while he was injured was impressive. He has a good read on the game, amazing relexes, and he isn’t afraid to command his defense. Everything I love in a keeper!
Knighton is a good keeper. He would be 1/4 the cost of a Troy Perkins, should the DCU brain trust have any clue.
Dude, Brian Carroll sucks. Did you see him against Bafana Bafana? Anyone can make square passes if they have 30 secs on the ball.
He was useless at DCU, that’s why we traded him. And now, few years later Columbus found out the same thing. Now if only the DCU brain trust grabs Maykel Galindo on the cheap, we might actually start to get somewhere.
Jokes on you if that was a sincere statement
No way Pappa is leaving as he and Sean Johnson are about all we have to build around
VANCOUVER:
Blaise Nkufo-SEATTLE
Bruno Guarda- DALLAS
Wells Thompson- COL
Shea Salinas- SJ
Devon McTavish- DC
Dasan Robinson- CHI
Conor Chinn-NYRB
Greg Sutton- NYRB
Andrew Jacobsen- PHI
Gino Padula- COLUMBUS
PORTLAND:
Tim Ward- SJ
Joseph Mgwenya- HOUSTON
Patrick Ianni- SEATTLE
Ryan Cochrane- HOUSTON
Bryan Jordan- LA
Dax McCarty- DALLAS
Ned Grabavoy- SLC
Pat Phelan- NE
Jason Garey- COLUMBUS
Peter Lowry- CHI
Yeah, that’s rough that is! Havin to go to Seattle and play in front of 36-40k every home game. Sucks to be them.
FC Dallas Unprotected
* Avila, Eric
* Cunningham, Jeff
* Davies, Kyle
* Edward, Edson
* Guarda, Bruno
* Harris, Atiba
* Hernandez, Daniel
* McCarty, Dax
* Rodriguez, Milton
* Sala, Dario
* Yeisley, Jason
Wages, highly doubt any team would be willing to pay them. And beyond that, they both sucked since arriving in Chicago.
MLS just finally got around to posting the complete list on their site.
please pick up Mike Magee Portland or Vancouver