Nelson Valdez has probably played his last game for the Seattle Sounders. This probably won’t come as a massive shock, but Sounders GM Garth Lagerwey seemed a bit resigned to this fact during a Friday conference call with reporters that served as a sort of review of a so-far active offseason.
“We made Nelson an offer, at a massive salary cut,” Lagerwey said. “It was something he wasn’t able to contemplate at the time. It seemed like it was going to be very difficult to find an agreement. The cut we were asking him to take was very large.