Rumor: 2025-26 MLS Offseason Roster Moves, Signings, Speculation, & Rumors

✅ DONE DEAL

🇺🇸 Griffin Yow signs for New England Revolution in Major League Soccer!
The American didn’t want to wait until the summer and agreed to return home.

💰 Westerlo will receive €400K in the deal.

✍️ Four-year contract.#mercato #MLS #JPL pic.twitter.com/gs8jy9kSQ7

— Sacha Tavolieri (@sachatavolieri) January 13, 2026

 

DC had a great player in Benteke. No one is sad he’s gone.

Thx,

Jay!

 

What the heck does that have to do with Diego Luna? Did you quote the wrong post or something?

Thx,

superdave!

 

🚨🇲🇽 Hirving Lozano doesn’t plan or want to leave San Diego in this window as he’s intentioned to stay at the club. pic.twitter.com/0I1LLkp7ov

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 14, 2026

We got a Mexican standoff in San Diego. It’s not easy to dump a DP player on a cushy guaranteed contract if there is no interest in him and the owner doesn’t want to eat the cost via buyout.

what is Gio Dos Santos up to these days?

 

We are hearing rumors that RSL is actually going to part ways with DP Diogo Gonçalves. Guy *could* have made it happen in MLS, but he gets pushed off the ball too easily, half-heartedly defends most of the time if at all, and is not committed. The frustrating part is that if he fought and gave a shit, he could be a best XI, but just didn’t. Might have something to do with our club or him just not liking living here. Whatever.

Apparently, he has removed all mention of RSL on his social medias. The team was explicit this offseason in pivoting to Diego Luna being the focus of our midfield and playmaking.

If this goes through, we’ve now dropped

• Brayan Vera to Montreal for GAM,
• Braian Ojeda to Orlando for GAM (still a bit shocked about this one),
• wriggled out of a DP loan for Brazilian Rwan Cruz (famous for a top 5 worst playoff performance where he tackled a player in the wall on a FK that Brayan Vera scored, so it was called back) and then
• dropped our only official DP left.

We have only signed prospects to ¿maybe? replace any of them, or just leaning on the guys we didn’t give much time to already on the roster. Dropping Diogo, which our team felt obligated to start most every game last year, may be addition in subtraction. Yet the others seem to only make us a bit worse than the borderline playoff team we were in 2025.

We eagerly await any news that may give us hope for the upcoming year.

 

I would be surprised if Schnegg isn't starting for Charlotte in their first game.

 

Former Rapid Calvin Harris signs with SKC

Former Rapid homegrown Oliver Larraz signs with Vancouver

 

Luis Muriel transferred to Atletico Junior in Colombia, opening up a DP spot:

Orlando City transfer Luis Muriel to Atlético Junior | MLSSoccer.com

 

Sergi Solans signs with RSL.
https://www.rsl.com/news/real-salt-lake-adds-2025-mls-superdraft-pick-sergi-solans
We are saved!

 

Yeah, that might have been a reply I wrote and didn’t send. It was still in the box when I hit quote. I probably thought I cleared it all and saved the draft but maybe I posted it instead. No idea even what I was replying to.

Thx,

Jay?

 

Not bad at all! Should've never left MLS in the first place. Glad they are trying to bring players like this back. Now do Almada to ATL.

 

Cremaschi is roting away in Italy. If Miami doesn't want him someone else in MLS should pick him up. TFC and SKC need midfielders.

 

Just about every team in MLS could use him. Heck, with Busquets retired maybe Miami needs him.

DC has a roster almost empty of quality. Have the Crew replaced Nagbe? The Gals have a Puig sized hole on their roster. I could go on for a while here.

 

I think several MLS teams should be taking advantage that Miami is just buying players to replace the ones they have now. Players like Cremaschi, Toto Aviles, Lujan and Segovia are players that Miami might be trying to move away from and an easy chance for anyone to take advantage and offer cheap money for them.

Also....

🚨🤯 BREAKING: GERMAN BERTERAME WILL LEAVE MONTERREY TO JOIN INTER MIAMI!

The Mexico international received a call from DAVID BECKHAM and LIONEL MESSI, and the MLS club will pay his $15M release clause! 🇺🇸

Via @FelipeGalindot pic.twitter.com/y1cFzFsIQj

— All Fútbol MX 🇲🇽 (@AllFutbolMX) January 17, 2026

Inter Miami activating the $15M buy out clause for Berterame.

 

It's called "earning your place".

You don't just walk from a MLS bench into a Serie A team. He's on loan until June. Miami can recall him any time.

 

Bogert has confirmed this today but also notes Portland and Cincy both had activated his buyout clause last year only for the player to change his mind.

Boy, I wonder what's different this time.

 

Has Berterame really recovered from his atrocious injuries?

 

I assume so - he's starting every game as usual for Monterey.

 

The appeal of playing with Messi is what’s different. Most kids grow up dreaming of playing with their heroes, and now he has the chance to do that.