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Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images Good morning! It’s cold enough that it’s all I can think about. In a normal year I’m just fine with having four seasons, but this year I feel like I could do without a winter. Just an extended October-November vibe until all the sudden it’s late April, that’s what I’d be into. So hopefully that completely unprecedented and inexplicable weather change happens now that I’ve spoken it into the world. In the meantime, got some things to talk about: Chris Seitz, who was out of contract, signs one-year contract extension with D.C. United to remain t...

Erik Sorga Of that group, eleven are under contract for 2021. Odoi-Atsem, who established himself as first-choice at right back over the final third of the season, has been given a bona fide offer by United, which makes this choice to protect him a strong indicator that he will eventually sign a new deal. Importantly, United does not have to protect any Homegrown players who retain their Generation Adidas status. While this rubric was used years ago to declare that Bill Hamid had “graduated” out of the GA program (which in turn means they have to choose to protect him), it also means that...

Getty Images Austin FC’s Expansion Draft is this evening, and for D.C. United, it’s a straightforward event: losing a player is bad, not losing one is good. Fortunately, the odds are in the Black-and-Red’s favor, as Austin can only take five players from a group of 16 teams, but it’s nonetheless a possibility that United ends up losing a player and getting just $50,000 in General Allocation money (far less than their market value) in return. We talked about the protected list yesterday, and you can see the full draft rules here, but this piece is going to focus on the likelihood of Un...