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Jay “Yankiboy” Long's avatar

Alex, I understand that the terms are not disclosed.

But is it a pretty safe bet to just assume the following (which is typical regarding loan deals):

Sounders take are taking care of player’s salary and travel expense to and from Richmond. Kickers take care of housing. And per diems for the player travel when he’s selected to travel.

To me, this seems like a text book loan move. Except…

Being a 28th pick and only seeing the field in two Defiance matches in a league that skews so young indicates to me that Sounders are very aware that they to needed to make this move sooner rather later. He needs to find his footing in the pro game.

If it wasn’t a custom to have player drafts in the US based sports leagues, I think MLS would have already pulled the plug on the process.

I attended a few that took place, here in Baltimore. While it can be fascinating to observe some of the wheeling and dealing, it seems to me to be more of an exercise for the sake of having one.

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