Lamine Diack Arrives

Today Colorado made the signing of Diack official, on a 6 month loan "through July" with an option to buy.  As we saw last season with Ilic "through July" is a little broad, Ilic's "through July" was actually to the opening of MLS's Secondary Window on July 5th.  If that's true with Diack it will likely be until the window opens on July 18th this year.  That would be 25 league matches, plus whatever happens in the USOC.

I'm still a little concerned that going into the offseason we really needed to solve our holes at striker and defensive midfielder, and it appears we will enter the season with those solutions being two players who don't have much experience at the MLS or above level, and who are both on loans that expire in July.  If we go into the final RMC game on July 20th starting Yapi up front and Löffelsend in midfield because we declined the buy option after the loans its going to waste what's been a fairly good offseason otherwise.

With that I think we are likely done with any significant acquisitions.  Diack will reportedly take up our final international slot, and we now have 33 players under contract if my math is correct, against a roster limit of 30.  Remi Cabral and Navarro are on season long loans, and Daniel Chaco is on injured reserve, which should get us to 30 (some MLS roster rules are unclear around this), plus it seems unlikely Keita will be with the team when the season starts given his training in Austria.  So the Rapids should be down to the roster cap successfully, but they don't really have room for any other major acquisitions.  Here's the full roster as it sits now.  Again, the international and homegrown designations are my best guess based on where players were classified last year.

Goalkeepers:

Adam Beaudry - Homegrown

Marko Ilic - International

Zack Steffen

Defenders:

Lalas Abubakar

Seb Anderson - Homegrown

Moise Bombito - Generation Adidas

Daniel Chacon

Michael Edwards - Homegrown(?)

Alex Gersbach - International

Nate Jones

Aboubacar Keita

Andreas Maxsø - International

Miguel Navarro

Keegan Rosenberry

Sam Vines

Midfielders:

Cole Bassett - Homegrown

Lamine Diack - International

Omir Fernandez - Homegrown(?)

Wayne Fredrick

Braian Galvan - International(?)

Oli Larraz - Homegrown

Jasper Löffelsend

Djordje Mihailovic - Designated Player

Ralph Priso - Homegrown(?)

Connor Ronan - International

Sidnei Tavares - International

Forwards:

Remi Cabral - International

Kevin Cabral - Designated Player, International

Calvin Harris - Generation Adidas

Jonathan Lewis

Rafael Navarro - Designated Player, International

Kimani Stewart-Baynes - Generation Adidas

Darren Yapi - Homegrown