Bobby Boswell was one of the surprise names on the list today. (Getty Images)
The 2011 Re-Entry Draft has a few interesting names. The Vancouver Whitecaps will have the first
pick and could snag a quality player in the first stage of the draft next week, or they could wait
until the second stage when things are expected to get really crazy.
Major League Soccer has revealed the names of the players who will be made available in the
upcoming MLS Re-Entry Draft.
Bobby Boswell, Bobby Convey, Joe Cannon and Andy Williams are just some of the veterans left
exposed by their MLS teams in the Re-Entry Draft, which will be held on Dec.
Major League Soccer released the official list of players left unprotected for the 2011 Expansion
Draft. D.C. United left 11 players unprotected including veterans Steve Cronin and
Santino Quaranta.
According to the press release from MLS - each current MLS club has had the opportunity to protect
11 players from their 2011 roster.
In the first three parts of this series, I worked my way through the thick weeds of the roster,
pruning and purging. On the far side, I arrived with the roster sorted into the following
categories...
- PROTECT: De Rosario, Jakovic, Kitchen, Pontius
- EXPOSE: Barklage, Burch, Cronin, Davies, Korb, McTavish, Morsink, Ngwenya, Woolard, Zayner
- BUBBLE: Boskovic, Brettschneider, da Luz, King, McDonald, Quaranta, Simms, Willis, Wolff
- N/A: Hamid, Najar, Shanosky, White
Four of the twenty-seven players on the roster don't need to be sheltered from the rapacious
grasp of L'Impact de Montreal by virtue of their being home grown talents.
Olly explores his Scottish side Bids for Blackpool midfielder Charlie Adam have once again hot his
manager Ian Holloway hot under the collar. A cheeky inquiry from Aston Villa had Holloway comparing
himself to a dog and threatening to bite people a couple of weeks ago. Now he has fallen out with
Liverpool manager Kenny [.
