Real Salt Lake General Manager Craig Waibel has had centerback reinforcements on his mind for months. Waibel detailed some of the process on ESPN700 On Frame on Monday and Matt Montgomery from RSLSoapbox filed a report.
"It's been difficult," Waibel said. "We've been very thorough with our homework, not only on players, but on personalities. We need a leader in our back line, in the middle. There's no question."
Waibel did tell ESPN 700 that RSL is in discussion with two centerbacks.
"We've already interviewed one face-to-face last weekend, and we've interviewed the other on the phone," Waibel said. "We'll continue to do our homework and see if we can reach an agreement. But the one thing we don't want to do with regards to our club is make a snap judgment or a panicked decision where we rush into signing someone who isn't what we want and what we need moving forward at the club."
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