DCU will fill the last spot in a lottery held among season ticket holders. Winner gets signed to a developmental contract and is required to pull a hamstring in pre-game warmups.
Better idea: sign Ronnie O'Brien off his couch in San Jose. He's one of the ten best MLS players, IMO, and I think he's only 30. They love him on the Quakes board, because he played his heart out. He would cost us about $200k, I figure, but we would have to drop someone from the senior roster anyway as we are full up (as Dom Mediate found out, to his sorrow). So, let's be bold: drop Emilio and his DP dollars, sign ROB, and we save money and improve the team. ROB plays right wing; Santino moves inside in midfield or up to the forward line and plays along with Jaime, Pontius, Doe, and N'Silu. Since we make money on the deal, when the summer signing period comes along we can meet any identified need at that time without raising our overall salary hit. We would just need to drop a non-performer to make room on the roster.
ROB doesn't solve our defensive issues, and his injury history sure as hell doesn't help make us healthier. He'd be injured five games into being signed, and then where would we be? We already have Olsen taking up a huge chunk of change if he goes down; if ROB went down, that'd be a sixth of the cap between the two.
You're saying that you enjoyed last year's experience of having players on the roster making big money while too injured to play any minutes so much, you want to do it again?
Of course we can sell him. Someone has to want to buy him. But for heaven's sake, can we give the guy a couple of games before we throw him under the bus?
Oh, not throwing him under the bus... yet. At least he's a little more fit than last year's first game.