Oh, the places you’ll scout

Craig Waibel and Brian SchmetzerDuring the Seattle Sounders’ press conference introducing Craig Waibel as the new General Manager & Chief Soccer Officer, Waibel was posed a question: with the potential to add a TAM player or two to the roster, and work already underway to that end, could the Sounders be working on adding any players who could be playing in the World Cup Round of 16?

“Currently? Not yet.” There’s a reading of this answer that interprets Waibel’s meaning to be that Seattle is looking at a player or players who hadn’t yet secured qualification, or that maybe they have but their playing time isn’t guaranteed. At various points Waibel discussed needing to adapt to a changing…