image via Brann

After going on record that he wanted out and refusing to return to Norway (would have faced Timmy Howard’s Everton last Tuesday in Uefa competition), MLS has negotiated a buyout with SK Brann of the Norwegian Tippeligaen for American left-back Ramiro Corrales. It doesn’t stop there as New/Old San Jose Earthquake coach Frank Yallop’s first order of business was to trade for Corrales’ player rights as they had stayed with the Houston Dynamo (when they were the original Earthquakes) when he first left MLS for Norway club Ham-Kam in 2005. Confused yet? Now Corrales is back home in Salinas, representing locally in Northern California for the reinstated MLS club.