It’s been a good month since news first broke that Clint Dempsey would be returning to the Sounders on a one-year deal for the 2018 season. What wasn’t known at the time is that Dempsey agreed to take a bit of a pay cut from his 2017 salary.
Dempsey will be joined on the 2018 roster with striker Will Bruin, who Tuesday was one of 11 players with their options picked up for next season. But one of those the team let go on Tuesday was longtime midfielder Brad Evans, an original and much-celebrated Sounders veteran from 2009 slowed by a herniated disc in his back for most of the past season.