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The 2019 MLS Expansion Draft will take place on Nov. 19, with Inter Miami CF and Nashville SC able to select five players each, the league announced on Thursday.
Each of the current 24 MLS team may protect up to 12 rostered players — one more than in prior years — from inclusion on the eligible players list. The complete list of players eligible for selection in the 2019 MLS Expansion Draft will be released on Saturday, Nov. 16.
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Randall Leal will join MLS expansion side Randall Leal.
Nashville SC has signed Costa Rica international and Deportivo Saprissa midfielder Randall Leal, league sources have told ESPN.
Leal’s salary will be above the threshold for a Young Designated Player, but it is unclear if Targeted Allocation Money will be used to buy down his hit to the salary budget.
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Leal, 22, is in his second season with Saprissa, having made 38 league and cup appearances while scoring six goals. He spent the previous three seasons with Belgian side KV Mechelen. In 2013, Leal…
With MLS expected to announce Nashville as the next city for expansion, Jeff Carlisle explains how their expansion bid impressed the league.
Nashville SC, slated to begin play in MLS next season, has signed Brondby IF attacking midfielder Hany Mukhtar to a Designated Player contract, multiple sources have told ESPN.
Mukhtar, 24, will remain with Brondby on loan until January, at which point he will join Nashville for preseason. Sources tell ESPN that Nashville paid a transfer fee of around $2.85 million for Mukhtar’s services, and the combination of the fee and his salary means TAM can’t be used to bring him below the Designated Player…
With MLS expected to announce Nashville as the next city for expansion, Jeff Carlisle explains how their expansion bid impressed the league.
Nashville SC, slated to begin play in MLS next season, has signed Brondby attacking midfielder Hany Mukhtar to a Designated Player contract.
Mukhtar, 24, will remain with Brondby on loan until January, at which point he will join Nashville for preseason. Sources tell ESPN that Nashville paid a transfer fee of around $2.85 million for Mukhtar’s services, and the combination of the fee and his salary means TAM can’t be used to bring him below the Designated Player threshold.
Nashville also sent $100,000…
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Nashville SC officially announced that it has named Gary Smith to be its manager of its MLS team, ahead of its debut next season.
CEO Ian Ayre, in an exclusive interview with ESPN FC, said he mined his contacts in Europe, looked to South America and scoured the U.S. in trying to find a manager. As it turned out, his top choice was already working right in front of him, as Smith has been managing the organization’s USL team since the start of 2018.
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Gary Smith is set to be named Nashville SC’s manager for its debut MLS season, sources have told ESPN FC.
Smith, 48, is entering his second season as manager of Nashville’s USL team, which competes in the second tier of U.S. soccer. Now he will retain that role when Nashville makes the jump to MLS in 2020.
The appointment, which could be formally announced this week, sees Nashville continue its habit of promoting from within in terms of hiring its technical staff.
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Nashville SC confirmed its name, colors and crest on Wednesday night.
Nashville’s Major League Socccer franchise has an identity: Nashville Soccer Club.
The expansion city announced its team’s name, crest and club colors on Wednesday night at a party in downtown Nashville in front of 2,000 fans.
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The name goes unchanged from moniker that the club used for the past two seasons in the USL, and will continue to use in the USL Championship in 2019 ahead of a move to MLS in 2020.
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Nashville is backing out of a deal to take American defender Andrew Gutman on a season-long loan from Scotland’s Celtic.
Celtic said on Thursday they had agreed to a three-plus-year contract with the left-back, a 22-year-old who was a senior at Indiana and won the Hermann Trophy as the top men’s college soccer player last year. Celtic and Nashville then announced the loan.
However, Nashville said in a statement on Saturday that as an “expansion member of MLS and in light of the fact that MLS does…