In my last article, I took a look at how Lucas Cavallini was emblematic of the lack of direction that has plagued the Whitecaps for much of their time in MLS. In that article, I freely admitted that I had no idea if they should pick up his contract option or not. I think it is worth going into a bit more detail about why that is such a hard decision. After all, any jackass can say what should have been done in hindsight. It takes real punditry chops to say what should be done next.
To my mind, there are two potential paths.