Following the closure of the secondary switch window, Sounders FC Basic Supervisor & President of Soccer Garth Lagerwey spoke to media at Starfire Sports activities on Thursday.

Lagerwey fielded questions concerning the state of the roster and targets for the remainder of the marketing campaign. One theme that emerged was the will for sustaining consistency and stability – two hallmarks of the membership’s roster constructing technique beneath Lagerwey. It’s an method that has yielded successful the 2019 MLS Cup, appearances within the 2020 MLS Cup and 2021 Leagues Cup Last, and turning into the first MLS facet to win Concacaf Champions League.

With many of the squad secured the 2023, it left little wiggle room for this season with out making wholesale modifications to the roster subsequent 12 months.

“The optimistic is that everyone on the workforce is signed, excluding Jimmy Medranda,” stated Lagerwey. “The draw back of that’s everyone seems to be on a wage that makes it very, very troublesome to do something [this year].”

One other theme from the Lagerwey’s presser was that the choice to maneuver ahead with the present roster was, finally, a vote of confidence within the group from the entrance workplace.

“The second layer is to ask would it not be applicable to interrupt up the workforce that gained Champions League three months in the past,” he stated. “I believed that was a extremely unhealthy message. These guys which have grinded for us, which have put it in, which have completed one thing historic and made it an immortal workforce. 

“We consider in them, and we must always consider in them. This was one of the best workforce on the continent three months in the past. To place ourselves able the place we needed to break the group up after the season, that didn’t make any sense to us.”