Well now I see why I missed your comment the first timeit wasnt even on my talkpage I read it on someone elses talkpage Broxtons and got confused haha  But anyway yeah  To give a good example of a cup of coffee MLS transaction let me go back to Torontos actions in the expansion draft of   In expansion drafts clubs have the option to protect a certain number of players while leaving others unprotected  Unprotected players can be drafted at will by the expansion franchise Toronto in this example who can take one from each team  One of the leagues clubs Real Salt Lake made a strategic gamble that they could leave one of their keytotemic players Jason Kreis now their manager unprotected  They assumed that TFC would want nothing to do with an aging player whose oversized salary would be a big hit on their cap  Seeing an opportunity Mo Johnston at TFC took Kreis from RSL in the draftnot because he actually wanted Kreis but because he knew that RSL still needed him  By doing this TFC was able to briefly hold Kreis hostage until RSL agreed to trade something else of value to get Kreis back  So Kreis was briefly a TFC player but only because he became a pawn in larger machinations  Because of instances like this which are common enough throughout league history we seem to have a consensus to disregard inandout situations during the offseason And for a bit of further detail  not relevant to Atieno and USL players but important as a point of reference for many other USbased players  it should be noted that MLS has a singleentity corporate structure and that technically all players are contracted by the league itself not by individual teams  This means that all listings of player tenures with MLS teams are de facto in the first place and that gives us a bit of leeway in striking out certain unimportant and very temporary tenures as in the example given  Hope that helps