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How will Lee Nguyen's standoff with New England Revolution end?

The playmaker is holding out in search of a trade away from New England, but the Revs aren't budging. Here is a closer look at the mess

Major League Soccer's offseason has seen several of its top attacking midfielders change employers during a whirlwind winter of trades driven by the league's infusion of targeted allocation money — cash that has made wheeling and dealing the new normal in a league that has never seen so much trade action.

That makes the case of Lee Nguyen's tug-of-war with the New England Revolution all the more puzzling.