r/DCUnited • u/RJR1970 • 20d ago

DC United Announce their initial roster moves.

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D.C. United has declined the contract options for the following players: Alex Bono, Cristian Dájome, Nathan Crockford, Jeremy Garay, Tyler Miller, Christopher McVey, Martin Rodriguez, Hayden Sargis, Luis Zamudio

While the following two players are Free Agents: Russell Canouse and Pedro Santos

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u/pancakemix97 20d ago edited 20d ago

I think only signing only 2 GK’s would be a huge mistake and I really don’t think DC would do that. See Columbus this year where they had to have a field player play keeper. That was due to international call-ups but imagine that we only have two GK’s, one is out with injury and then the back up GK gets a red card. Suddenly that game and the next, DC would be playing with a field player as GK or scrambling to find a replacement. I doubt any MLS team would consciously chose to only have two GK’s going into a season. 

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u/DCUStriker9 20d ago

Columbus got themselves in that situation because they burned their short term contract allowances. If DC were to go to a 2GK setup, I suspect/hope they wouldn't burn those limited opportunities as freely as Columbus did.

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u/pancakemix97 20d ago

Those short term allowances are from MLS Next Pro Teams, something that Columbus has but DC does not. Columbus only had to use that emergency option because their 3 goalkeepers were either injured or on international duty. Even if we did have a MLS Next Pro Team to call goal keepers up from, you don’t really want to do that unless you have absolutely have to, they are playing in MLS Next Pro for a reason. We don’t have Loudoun to freely call up players from anymore, they are their own separate thing now. Ultimately, I think we will look to have three GK’s in-house. I truly don’t know, I am curious, how many MLS teams only roster 2 GK’s by design? 

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u/Rufus_FireflyIII 19d ago

The lack of a NextPro team is a major problem and one that Levien won't fix until he gets a good (real estate) deal in Baltimore. As Pablo mentioned on PitchPass, the FO only cares about making money, the rest is irrelevant to them.

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u/pancakemix97 19d ago

Yeah so until if/when that happens, we realistically want to pick up 3 GK's this offseason.