With the Seattle Sounders tight against the salary cap for 2023, one of the routes they’ll need to take to find help will be via the youngsters whose MLS futures they control. If one or two of their talents can pop like Obed Vargas, Jackson Ragen, Josh Atencio, Danny Leyva and Abdoulaye Cissoko have, that will go a long way toward helping the team compete for MLS trophies again.
Mostly, they’ll need players who can help in wide spaces, as there are already too many young defensive midfielders and even centerbacks. This year, Tacoma Defiance and the Sounders had a few flashes of who that could be.