Le Journal de Montreal is reporting that the Montreal Impact have acquired the MLS rights to Carolina Railhawks forward Etienne Barbara, the leading scorer in the past NASL season. Also potentially headed to Montreal is defender Brad Rusin, who was one of Martin Rennie's leading players before joining Danish Superliga side HB Køge.

Given the interest and speculation surrounding the Whitecaps possibly taking a few Railhawks players to go with their coach, it's interesting that their highest-profile player appears to already be off the board. He's not the one I wanted anyway; I'm a John Krause advocate.