Ernst Tanner took a look at the players available in Friday’s MLS SuperDraft and decided he’d rather add some general allocation money to the pot instead of selecting any players in what would have been his first college draft.
It was a bold move, trading not one but all five of the Union’s draft picks to FC Cincinnati in exchange for $150,000 in general allocation money for 2019 and another potential $50,000 for 2020 depending on performance metrics of the players who end up getting drafted.
“This has something to do with the strategy we are going forward with the second team to make them much younger,” Tanner said in a phone call with reporters on Wednesday night.