The Rapids made the loan for Serbian keeper Marko Ilic official today, announcing his joining of the team KV Kortrijk. The official announcement says he's joining "throigh July 2023" with an option to buy. The announcement from his Belgium side is a bit more specific, the loan is through July 5th.
Once again a Rapids player press release has misleading or incorrect information. "Through July" would suggest until July 31st or at least close to that, not through 4 days of July. I had heard word that the Rapids were working on improving these issues, but I guess not.
Only having him until July is a bit odd. Yesterday we talked about how if he stayed until the window closed on or around September 1st he would be the obvious starter for the Leagues Cup matches. Even staying until the end of July would get him the Leagues Cup group games. Now the only time I'm sure he'll get is our opening U.S. Open Cup match, which given the team's track record in the competition is likely to be our only USOC match. Otherwise Ilic is going to have to beat our Yarbrough for playing time or Fraser will have to decide that giving Marko time over Will is worth it for long-term strategy even if it reduces our chance of winning that game. A hard place to be in when you only have him available for 22 league matches before having to make a decision.
With this move you have to figure Colorado is largely done for the offseason. We could see a late trade involving an international slot or maybe a swap of non-starting XI players but I think our big moves are likely done at this point.
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