Sports can be a harsh business. Injuries and time take our players from us, and in American sports expansion drafts add to potential ways to lose players beyond just reirement, trade and purchase. The Seattle Sounders did not protect their 2017 captain. Osvaldo Alonso apparently took to social media in response.
He is retweeting and liking messages of support. He has not offered more original words beyond:
I hate it when people use you for what they want. Then they just push you aside like your [sic] nothing. But they keep you close just in case they need you for something.