UPDATE:

It turns out it’s a little of both. All WPS contracts become guaranteed at 7 p.m. Central time on Wednesday. At that point, teams can’t release players and no new players can enter the league.

However, teams can trade those players within the league up until 7 p.m. on July 15. At that point, rosters are frozen. So after Wednesday, any trade would have to be straight up, one for one or two for two. (Unless your team was carrying less than the allowable number of players.)

And so far today, there’s been one trade: L.A. has acquired Christie Shaner from Sky Blue and she will replace Martina Franko, who is pregnant and can’t finish the season. Interestingly, this is how it shows up on the league’s transaction log:

Los Angeles Sol have listed Martina Franko as having a season-ended injury.

ORIGINAL POST:

It’s not a done deal yet, but it appears there’s a movement afoot among WPS coaches to push the day for freezing rosters at 22 players back to July 15. Presumably they’d have to come to an agreement on this by tomorrow, but it seems likely to happen.

The roster deadline date is the kind of thing that may have seemed reasonable at the start of the season, but as it got closer, coaches may have felt it was too early.  Not that there have been a whole lot of trades this season.