The Portland Timbers post-championship offseason hit its first unexpected bump on Monday, as owner Merritt Paulson acknowledged on Twitter that winger Rodney Wallace had turned down the Timbers’ contract offer and will ply his trade elsewhere in 2016. Because they extended a bona fide offer to Wallace at the end of the season, the Timbers hold Wallace’s MLS rights, making it most likely that Wallace’s other suitors are overseas.
Wallace, one of five remaining original MLS Timbers, had an up-and-down first two years in Portland at left back before breaking out in 2013, Caleb Porter’s first year at the helm.