Do you remember May 2016, when several media pundits broke the news that Kei Kamara had been traded to the Vancouver Whitecaps, with Octavio Rivero leaving? Remember how that did not occur, with Kamara instead heading to New England, and Rivero to Chile? Flash forward a year and a half and Carl Robinson has finally gotten his man.
In Major League Soccer’s short four-hour transfer window, on Sunday, the Vancouver Whitecaps acquired Kei Kamara from New England in exchange for the Caps first-round pick in the 2019 SuperDraft, and a condition second-round pick in the 2020 SuperDraft.