Carver staying with TFC
By DEAN MCNULTY, SUN MEDIA
Message to the Red Patch Boys: Take a breath.
Rabid Toronto FC fans who have developed a love affair with first-year coach John Carver have filled the Major League Soccer Internet message boards with angst over the past two days on rumours Carver is about to sign a deal taking him back to the English Premier League and Newcastle United.
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Sutton left unprotected for draft
Canadian goalkeepers may be claimed in Wednesday's 10-round MLS expansion draft for Seattle
Canadian Press
TORONTO — Canadian goalkeepers Greg Sutton and Pat Onstad have both been left unprotected for Wednesday's MLS expansion draft.
The 10-round draft is to help the Seattle Sounders, the league's 15th team, take shape. The Sounders can only take one player from a team — 10 in all — which means that four clubs will escape losing a player in the draft.
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Toronto FC's Sutton left unprotected for expansion draft
Canadian national team goalkeeper Greg Sutton was one of 13 players left unprotected by Toronto FC ahead of Major League Soccer's expansion draft.
Seattle Sounders FC will begin play in MLS 2009 season, but first they must select players left unprotected by the league's other 14 teams in Wednesday afternoon's 10-round draft.
Other players left unprotected by Toronto include...
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Impact won't pay any price for MLS team: president
The Montreal Impact are still interested in joining Major League Soccer, but "not at any price," team president Joey Saputo said Monday.
The United Soccer League club had its bid for a 2011 expansion franchise in MLS rejected last week for reasons still unclear to Saputo.
It especially irked the Impact that MLS commissioner Don Garber announced on Friday that Montreal had withdrawn its bid because it was having trouble raising the money, although Saputo said he later revised that statement to say the bid had not been retained by the league.
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