The MLS offseason is coming fast and heavy. A peculiar half-day trade window was held the day after MLS Cup, LAFC’s expansion draft will be on Tuesday and the free agent list is out with all contracts declined and accepted. Protected lists are out for the expansion draft, featuring a number of quality players.
All of it is hard to process. Most teams barely have enough players to fill out a gameday 18 at the moment, and the ridiculously complicated roster rules make it difficult to decipher which players will stick around. Trades are more concrete, though, and there were plenty of them on Sunday.