I promise you, I don’t like it either.
I’d prefer it was different. I’d prefer Caden Clark stayed in Harrison for a decade and won every trophy imaginable. The idea of loans, dual-ownership, and pre-arranged transfers has always been one of the more unappealing aspects of following modern football for me. So much about this move is affront to romantic notions of team building and community lore that I and many other humble, honest sports fans possess.
But the somewhat open secret that Caden Clark is on his way to RB Leipzig is officially out, so I must write a blog about it, and I must write one in a way that seeks to illuminate at least some of the logic at play for the New York side of the Red Bull equation.