“So You’ve Terminated an MLS Contract” article
*Note: I fiddled with the title to try to make clear that I am not asserting we’ve terminated Moreno’s contract. The pain title seems like it’d be misleading. Hopefully close enough? Good faith effort etc.*
I figured drama similar to the Moreno absence must have happened before, so I did a bit of digging, turning up this article from Cincinnati about MLS’s termination of Designated Player Aaron Boupendza’s contract. It talks about the process in what seems to have been a similar situation.