The 2017 season may only be a little more than a week from kicking off, but it’s starting to look like the Seattle Sounders may be poised to make one last big move. There are at least two outlets in Italy reporting that the Sounders are reasonably close to signing Japanese star Keisuke Honda, with one of those reports claiming an initial offer was made three days ago and another suggesting the deal could be finalized “in the coming hours.”
It should be said that both outlets are very much of the “rumor monger” variety, and that more mainstream outlets haven’t been independently reporting this, but there’s at least some reason to not dismiss the news out of hand.