FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Michael Burns went to bed early Thursday morning tired, but happy.
The New England Revolution’s general manager was up until the wee hours finalizing a deal to bring forward Kei Kamara to the northeast, with the Revs sending a hodgepodge of allocation money and draft picks to Columbus Crew SC in exchange for Major League Soccer’s 2015 joint-leading scorer.
It was a move that needed to be made last night as the MLS primary transfer window will now be closed until July 4, and according to Burns, that sense of urgency pushed the deal through.