While there were some quality performers left exposed, there really weren’t any big surprises on the list of players the Seattle Sounders protected from the 2021 MLS Expansion Draft. Of the 11 players the Sounders left exposed, only three are currently under contract for the 2022 season and all of them were accurately predicted by our “Protectionator.”
Predictable or not, the Sounders could still suffer a painful loss when Charlotte FC picks five players in Friday’s Expansion Draft.
Perhaps the most attractive of those exposed players is Abdoulaye Cissoko. The soon-to-be 22-year-old is coming off a MLS debut season in which he made 12 starts and logged nearly 1,000 first-team minutes.