Offseason Priorities for the Vancouver Whitecaps

If this Vancouver Whitecaps offseason has a theme it would be uneasiness. At least that’s what I’m feeling about it, maybe that says more about me than anything else. But I don’t think that feeling is all that unreasonable. At the root of the uneasiness is that, despite going on an unprecedented run of form with a lovable head coach, there are all kinds of red flags that the Whitecaps success isn’t sustainable.

After 10 games Vanni Sartini was on a pace, xG wise, to have the 3rd best Whitecaps season in their MLS history. This still wasn’t amazing, the Whitecaps have mostly been bad in the MLS era. But what followed from that initial stretch was four games where they kind of got their assess…