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In the other pro sports in Canada, fans follow a trade that can be done in a minute on the floor of the NHL Draft or in an hour at a Toronto airport hotel at the return of Montreal Alouettes GM Kavis Reed’s flight from Calgary to trade for Johnny Manziel from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

But there’s a deal in the works right now like no other in the history of soccer in North America that is fascinating to follow as it goes down.

When it does finally go down it will be nothing short of a monumental moment in the history of soccer in Canada and especially in Edmonton.

A 17-year-old City of Champions soccer product clearly is on the verge of inspiring the largest single transfer fee in the history of Major League Soccer.

German giant Bayern Munich is completing the deal with the Vancouver Whitecaps for a projected $12 million US to transfer the player’s registration rights of Alphonso Davies to the Bundesliga team.