A few weeks preceding last year’s MLS Cup, ex-Timbers captain Will Johnson sat across from head coach Caleb Porter inside a Lake Oswego restaurant, south of Portland. With Johnson set to enter the final year of his deal, the duo discussed the 29-year-old’s future. Once a mainstay in Porter’s lineup there wasn’t a place for Johnson post-injury. Johnson told the Toronto Sun this week he’d already listed his home at that point, knowing he’d been deemed excess to need, a player who likely wouldn’t factor into the 2015 MLS Cup playoffs the following weeks. “I told Caleb I was probably going to want to leave,” Johnson told the Sun ahead of...
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