Okay, I’m officially changing policy on these off-season posts. Trying to keep them under 600 words was overly ambitious, so I’m moving the goalposts. Under 900 words, that’s my new target. Let’s see if I can pull it off.
1) All day yesterday I was planning to write about how the team’s search for a big-money DP striker seemed to be over. And then late Tuesday night, Twitter blew up with this news.
As others have already tweeted, can confirm that the Timbers have made a big-money offer for Tigres forward Edu Vargas.