There was a dramatic rally to victory from two goals down the last time they were in Portland, but there were no late heroics against the Timbers this time —…
Gressel talked about being called into a meeting with Wayne Rooney, GM Lucy Rushton, and sporting director Dave Kasper on Friday morning, where they dropped the bomb: he’d been traded to Vancouver.
“ … You feel a lot of emotions in that sense … you’re almost in disbelief that it happens that quickly, and your whole world gets flipped like that.”Article content “I just don’t like the way it happened. That’s what I have a problem with,” he said. “I was completely kept in the dark about all of this. I’m just get told I’m not a DC United player anymore while I’m wearing their training clothes. It’s that type of thing, of not seeing it coming.”
The plan is for him to fly to Vancouver on Monday, while his wife and baby will meet him in Nashville for the Whitecaps game on July 30, after which they’ll fly back to Vancouver together.