taiwo atieno ii just noticed your question on my talkpage somehow i'd missed it my understanding of the wp convention is that if a player is rostered with a club for any significant period of time that club is listed in his infobox even if the player makes no appearances for the club if a player only passes through briefly and makes no appearances for the club however it isn't listed as for the other question i'd say it's fairly common in the us for a player to spend a very brief period on the roster of one club before being traded to another for instance in the expansion draft expansion franchise toronto fc snapped up a couple of guys simply for their trade value and then proceeded to deal them to other teams in exchange for players they actually wanted i believe that in circumstances like this we wouldn't list a toronto fc tenure in a player's infobox overall my understanding of the guidelines here is pretty shakey to be honest ''' defender of open editing '''