(Writer’s note: This is the third of a recurring series on first-year head coach Marc Dos Santos’ plans for remaking the Vancouver Whitecaps. There will be further installments as his inaugural season in British Columbia winds down and beyond.)



This was always going to be a tremulous stretch in Vancouver, even prior to the breaking news on Friday morning that president Bob Lenarduzzi was being demoted, and that the club was opening an “extensive global search” for a full-time sporting director.



A sense of growing desperation had been evident since the beginning of the month, when the Whitecaps began offering “risk-free” season-ticket renewals. Re-up by Sept. 14th, and customers can cancel any time prior to Jan. 30th, for any reason, and receive a full refund.



Basically: give us part of another transfer window, and if signings aren’t promising or ambitious enough for your liking, you can walk. It was warmly received by...