{"id":823641,"date":"2026-07-24T18:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823641\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:43:09","slug":"san-diego-fc-acquire-dagur-dan-thorhallsson-from-cf-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823641\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego FC acquire Dagur Dan Th\u00f3rhallsson from CF Montr\u00e9al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:\u00a0Trade<\/p>\n<p>SD receive: Dagur Dan Th\u00f3rhallsson<br \/>\nMTL receive: Up to $650k GAM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-diego-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego FC<\/a> have acquired defender\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/dagur-thorhallsson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dagur Dan Th\u00f3rhallsson<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/cf-montreal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CF Montr\u00e9al<\/a>, the clubs announced Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for the 26-year-old Iceland international, Montr\u00e9al receive $500,000 in guaranteed General Allocation Money (GAM), plus an additional $125k in conditional GAM.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll also hold a percentage of a future transfer of Th\u00f3rhallsson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re happy to get this over the line and welcome Dagur to San Diego FC,\u201d said sporting director Tyler Heaps. \u201cHe is an experienced player in this league and internationally with the quality to make an immediate impact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe he&#8217;ll be an important player for our group, and we&#8217;re excited to welcome him and his family to San Diego.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Th\u00f3rhallsson had one goal in 10 regular-season appearances for Montr\u00e9al this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He spent the previous three seasons (2023-25) with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/orlando-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando City<\/a>, where he tallied 9g\/11a in 116 appearances across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Capped 10 times by Iceland, Th\u00f3rhallsson most recently featured for his national team last month in a pre-2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/fifa-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> friendly against Argentina.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/transfer-tracker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS Transfer Tracker presented by Avant<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:\u00a0Trade SD receive: Dagur Dan Th\u00f3rhallsson MTL receive: Up to $650k GAM San Diego FC have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,16535,288088,2338,14704,24855,34331],"class_list":["post-823641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cf-montreal","tag-dagur-thorhallsson","tag-montreal","tag-san-diego-fc","tag-sendtonews","tag-transfer-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}