The preamble will likely take longer, and there will definitely be more time spent talking about it afterwards than it takes to complete: don’t expect the 2018 MLS Expansion Draft to be a spectacle, just a potentially significant moment in the off-season.
FC Cincinnati will get five picks with a maximum of three minutes per selection: so 15 minutes from start to finish is all this will take - plus whatever time MLS gives itself for speeches beforehand.
In principle, FCC is picking from the rosters of 18 current MLS teams - all but the five who lost players in last year’s Expansion Draft (i.