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Exploring Possible Alternatives To MLS's Expansion Draft

MLS's Expansion Draft is unfair to the current teams in the league, but what is there to be done about it?

Major League Soccer is currently on break, the Copa America is going strong, the United States has won it's group in said competition, and the Philadelphia Union currently sit in First place in the Eastern Conference. Quite a state of affairs we live in right? So let's take a hard left turn and use this time to talk about the expansion draft!

Lost in all the fanfare of the Union's run of play and the Copa is the fact that as things currently stand, there will be an Expansion Draft sometime just after the end of the MLS season and some teams more than others stand to lose talent that they can't protect.