Atlanta United acquires international slot in trade with Colorado Rapids

For the second time this offseason, Atlanta United has acquired an international roster spot via trade, this time with the Colorado Rapids in exchange for $225k in General Allocation Money.

Atlanta traded with Nashville SC in December to acquire an international slot in exchange for $175k of GAM. The Five Stripes had traded last year’s co-scoring leader Jon Gallagher to Austin FC.

By the current public count, Atlanta is over its threshold of available internationals, which we outlined here in a post earlier this month. This acquisition will obviously help, but it still seems that Atlanta would need to clear an international player from the roster or acquire a green card (Anton Walkes and Jurgen Damm seemingly being most likely to be a candidate). There’s still time, but there’s now only three weeks remaining before MLS teams must be in compliance with league roster rules ahead of the 2021 season kicking off in mid-April.