With most previous articles in this series, we’ve been asking D.C. United fans a simple question: Do you want a given player back for 2018? In the case of Bill Hamid, it was more of a case of “would you want him back if such a thing were possible?,” but close enough. This piece on Lloyd Sam is the first where fans will be tackling the same question the club itself has apparently not yet resolved.
Sam’s arrival in the summer of 2016 made a lot of sense. United needed more creativity opposite Patrick Nyarko, and Sam had been one of the Black-and-Red’s chief tormentors during his time with the New York Red Bulls.