VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps are down one other goalkeeper after sending veteran Evan Newton out on mortgage.
The membership introduced Tuesday that it has loaned Newton, 33, to El Paso Locomotive FC of the USL Championship by the top of the 2022 season.
The native of Virginia Seashore, Va., got here to the ‘Caps from the USL’s Indy Eleven in 2021 and acted as a backup for 14 video games final season, however didn't determine right into a match.
Newton’s transfer comes after Vancouver despatched star ‘keeper Maxime Crepeau to Los Angeles FC in a blockbuster commerce final week, receiving US$1 million normally allocation cash and a 2025 draft decide within the deal.
Whitecaps CEO and sporting director Axel Schuster mentioned Crepeau requested to be moved on account of a “very particular private scenario.”
Canadian Thomas Hasal is the one ‘keeper at the moment beneath contract with the ‘Caps, although Schuster mentioned in an announcement Tuesday that the membership is “within the means of focusing on a goalkeeper to spherical out our group.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 25, 2022.