The choices just weren’t good. Players opted out before the draft. Or there were too many expensive options. Either way, FC Dallas passed in the second stage of the 2017 Re-Entry Draft today and now the roster rebuild for 2018 remains a bit of a mystery as we head into the end of the calendar year.
So now what?
We know the club still remains atop the league’s Allocation Order, the mechanism that helps teams sign former and current national team players that are coming into MLS. We’ve discuss that the team could be looking to use that before the end of the year to sign a defender (there are plenty of defenders on the list right now).