Monday marked the deadline for Major League Soccer clubs to announce which options they were going to exercise for 2018 and which they were going to decline. For the Vancouver Whitecaps, that meant retaining Sam Adekugbe, Marcel de Jong, Brett Levis, Jake Nerwinski, Tim Parker, Kendall Waston, and Tony Tchani. It also meant potentially saying goodbye to David Ousted, David Edgar, Cole Seiler, Sheanon Williams, Christian Bolanos, Marco Bustos, Nosa Igiebor, Matias Laba, Ben McKendry, Mauro Rosales, Russell Teibert, Kyle Greig, Jordan Harvey, and Andrew Jacobson.