One of Major League Soccer’s stranger mechanisms (of which there are a few) is the half-day trade window the day following the MLS Cup. It allows clubs four hours to trade players because why not? While not usually very active compared to other trade deadlines, a few players did wind up moving from club to club yesterday.
D.C. United traded $75,000 of general allocation money and a 2018 international slot to New York City FC for French center back Frederic Brillant. D.C. shored up their back line which was a sore spot for them in 2017, but Brillant made an exorbitant $280,000 in base salary.