Every winter, the Portland Timbers wait until the final moments of the primary transfer window to make changes for the upcoming Major League Soccer (MLS) campaign — a high-risk strategy that has historically failed to yield early-season victories. The Green and Gold have had seven instances in their current 13-year period in MLS where they’ve earned just three points or fewer in their first four matches of a calendar year. That is a fiasco no other club has ever gone through.
Some fans have pinned the blame on the annual preseason injury crisis, others on strength of schedule. Still, the delayed materialization of new signings leaves depth thin until
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