At long last, Lee Nguyen’s continuous and peculiar banishment in New England has come to an end. Nguyen was traded to LAFC at 11:43 p.m. ET Tuesday night, the last possible moment before May 1’s MLS transfer deadline slammed shut.
The 31-year-old Nguyen, still a highly-productive creator in midfield, fetched $700,000 of allocation money (split between Targeted and General) in addition to further incentives, which could potentially include an additional $250,000 of cash and LAFC’s first round SuperDraft pick in 2019 or 2020. New England are unlikely to reap the fruits of those incentives, according to ESPN’s Jeff Carlisle.