{"id":559582,"date":"2026-02-01T22:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/559582\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:34:18","slug":"fc-dallas-closing-in-on-canadian-goalkeeper-jonathan-sirois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/559582\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Dallas Closing In on Canadian Goalkeeper Jonathan Sirois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that FC Dallas is back in Texas, following its preseason camp in Portugal, one of the roster areas that has needed to be addressed before the start of the season was at goalkeeper. With veteran keeper Maarten Paes on his way out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigdsoccer.com\/fc-dallas-maarten-paes-transfer-ajax-report\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dutch side Ajax<\/a>, Dallas only has one other keeper signed on the roster at the moment in Homegrown keeper Michael Collodi.<\/p>\n<p>A new report Sunday afternoon from The Athletic\u2019s Tom Bogert states that FC Dallas is close to landing Canadian keeper Jonathan Sirois from CF Montreal in a trade.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:ubbw452rsazc436oq5xnagp7\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mdszjncnzs2t\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreianbxw2vqrhidsmlfvbfgogeu665kkdoenerqrub2zvg7dtu6xfwi\">\n<p lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 Sources: FC Dallas is finalizing a deal to acquire Canadian goalkeeper Jonathan Sirois from CF Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p>Deal worth $150k + $200k add ons.<\/p>\n<p>Sirois, 24, made 102 apps for Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:ubbw452rsazc436oq5xnagp7?ref_src=embed&amp;ref=bigdsoccer.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Bogert (@tombogert.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:ubbw452rsazc436oq5xnagp7\/post\/3mdszjncnzs2t?ref_src=embed&amp;ref=bigdsoccer.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026-02-01T19:04:12.329Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sirois has appeared in over one hundred games with Montreal since 2023. Last season, he started 23 games for CF Montreal and earned four clean sheets. <\/p>\n<p>The free stuff tells you what happened. A paid subscription tells you why it happened, what it means for FC Dallas, and what\u2019s coming next\u2014before anyone else catches up.<\/p>\n<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigdsoccer.com\/2026-fcd-coverage\" class=\"kg-cta-button \" style=\"background-color: #000000; color: #FFFFFF;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                            Claim your 2026 offer today!<br \/>\n                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quick BDS Take<\/p>\n<p>With Paes on the way out, the club still needed a roster battle of sorts for Collodi. Sirois isn\u2019t a \u2018name\u2019 many in MLS will know right away, but the 24-year old has some good experience under his belt that will be good to bring to Dallas. <\/p>\n<p>Sirois was on Montreal\u2019s senior roster last season, earning right at $275k. He\u2019s signed through the 2026 season, with an option for the 2027 season. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll dive more into Sirois once this deal becomes official, which should be later this week (likely once Paes officially departs to Holland). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that FC Dallas is back in Texas, following its preseason camp in Portugal, one of the roster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":559583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-559582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115997760903672070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}