{"id":18261,"date":"2013-02-19T23:58:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=18261"},"modified":"2013-02-20T00:18:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T05:18:22","slug":"shalrie-traded-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=18261","title":{"rendered":"Shalrie Traded to Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MPTMZ6k3ZWQ\" height=\"315\" width=\"455\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Shalrie Joseph is on the move. Again.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks after first year Chivas USA boss Jos\u00e9 Luis S\u00e1nchez Sol\u00e1 announced that Joseph no longer fit into the club&#8217;s clans, the former Revolution midfielder was traded to the Seattle Sounders on Tuesday for two draft picks and a higher allocation spot.<\/p>\n<p>In a complex deal that allowed the\u00a0southern California club\u00a0to unload Joseph&#8217;s designated player salary ($550,000), the Goats sent Seattle its 2014 and 2015 second round picks. Additionally,\u00a0Chivas USA swapped its third spot in the allocation order for the 15th spot occupied by Seattle prior to the trade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re happy to add a player of Shalrie&#8217;s experience to our team,&#8221; said Sounders FC head coach Sigi Schmid in a statement. &#8220;He&#8217;s been to MLS Cups before in his tenure with New England. He&#8217;s a player that has proven himself to be a leader in game situations and a player of his quality can only help us be a better team as we move into this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The longtime Revolution midfielder played in 12 games for Chivas USA following last August&#8217;s surprise trade that netted New England midfielder Blair Gavin,\u00a0a pair of draft picks and allocation money. The move was intended to bolster the Goats midfield, but the club went winless (0-10-4)\u00a0in the wake of\u00a0trade and fell miles short of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Following a last place finish, Robin Fraser, who helped bring Joseph to the west coast, was sacked during the offseason and management brought in S\u00e1nchez Sol\u00e1, better known as &#8220;Chelis&#8221; in many circles. Shortly after his appointment, S\u00e1nchez Sol\u00e1 wasted little time revamping the roster, and as a result, Joseph found himself on the outs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s a great player, but he is not in my plans,\u201d S\u00e1nchez Sol\u00e1 told mlssoccer.com last month. \u201cHe showed up the first day (of preseason) with an injury and after that has not returned. Maybe he\u2019s sick, maybe he\u2019s injured, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Sanchez Sola&#8217;s comments, Joseph showed up in Seattle for a brief training spell with the three-time U.S. Open Cup champions, despite still being under contract with Chivas USA.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the eight-time MLS All-Star remained in limbo after he exited Sounders camp earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>With a hefty Designated Player contract holding up negotiations, Chivas USA knew it would take a considerable effort to move their high-priced midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>But that effort paid off on Tuesday, when it found a trading partner in Sounders general manager Adrian Hanauer. Despite already having two designated players (Mauro Rosales and Christian Tiffert) on his roster, Hanauer knew that a trade involving Joseph would force\u00a0him to use\u00a0the\u00a0club&#8217;s third and final\u00a0designated player spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was effectively the only way to get the deal done. All in all we&#8217;re very happy with the deal otherwise we wouldn&#8217;t have done it,&#8221; Seattle general manager Adrian Hanauer said in teleconference on Tuesday. &#8220;We realize that gives us three designated players between Mauro (Rosales), Christian (Tiffert) and Shalrie. We also have two weeks left and we still have the ability to buy a player out if we decide to do that to open up a slot &#8230; if that was something we decided to do. Would we rather have not absorbed a designated player slot sure, but that was the only way to get the deal done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even though he&#8217;s relocating for the second time in six months, Joseph expressed his approval of the trade via Twitter on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>So psych about my trade to Seattle. Preciate all the welcome n shout out. Can&#8217;t wait (Bart Scott voice)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shalrie Joseph(@ShalrieJoseph21) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShalrieJoseph21\/status\/304014606970548224\">February 19, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Revolution midfielder Shalrie Joseph was traded to the Sounders from Chivas USA on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,1274,63,106],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18261"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18267,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261\/revisions\/18267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}