The general thinking for at least the last couple of years has been that Nicolás Lodeiro was planning to return to his native Uruguay to close out his playing career and then likely retiring there. The 34-year-old mostly spends his offseasons there, has spoken glowingly of his boyhood club and Nacional’s president has even stated they’d “do everything possible” to bring him back.
With Lodeiro’s contract running out at the end of this season and his seeming reluctance to talk about his status with local media, all signs seemed to point to it being his final year with the Seattle Sounders.