With one final act, Chivas USA will officially be relegated to a footnote to the contemporary MLS. Here’s our attempt to make sense of the Chivas USA dispersal draft, set to take place on Wednesday.
Here are the foolish assumptions we are laboring under:
1. Teams will be drafting out of need. For example, FC Dallas already boasting two high-caliber goalkeepers don’t snag Dan Kennedy as trade bait.
2. Players are under their most recent salary restraints. In other words. Caleb Calvert retains his homegrown rights, Leandro Barrera is still on loan, and Carlos Bocanegra is still retired.
3. Let’s assume that the on-loan players return to their parent clubs.
4. No Discovery Rights claims or other, similar shenanigans
Here are the ineligible players: Erick “Cubo” Torres, Eric Avila, Eriq Zavaletta and Carlos Bocanegra.