Seattle Sounders General Manager and President of Soccer Garth Lagerwey mentioned following the club’s first MLS Cup win this past December that he wanted to make the team younger and faster.
The team that won in 2016 was comprised of a myriad of grizzled veterans and oozed experience, which is not to say it couldn’t be successful. It very clearly was. But what Lagerwey knows and has begun to prepare for is that replicating success with that DNA is next to impossible.
A team can win a championship like that. It can’t build a dynasty.
Lagerwey has already acquired two younger attackers in Will Bruin and Harry Shipp, as well as selected defensive depth on the back line at last week’s 2017 MLS SuperDraft.