While the Red Bulls added Designated Player Frank Rost to solidify their goalkeeping situation, it appears to be Bouna Coundoul that will stay on as the German veteran’s backup, and not Greg Sutton.

Rost arrived today and did some light training at practice, while Coundoul and young Alex Horwath did most of the work. Sutton was conspicuously absent and presumed to be the casualty that GM Erik Soler and coach Hans Backe will part ways with, with the former acknowledging as much when asked about Sutton being the odd man out.

“We had to move some pieces and for now that’s how we had to get it solved. We are working on all the details,’’ said Soler. “There were a lot of considerations, some financial ones, some sporting ones. It’s just when you add things together, it looks like we end this way. It could’ve ended another way, but for now it looks like its ending the way it is.’’

Coundoul had vexed Backe by skipping the first week of pre-season training in Mexico to play for Senegal, and he earns over $100,000 more than Sutton. He makes $178,250 base and $179,500 guaranteed according to the MLS Players’ Union, while Sutton makes $75,600 base and $80,000 guaranteed salary.

But he also set the team-record with 11 shutouts last year, and is also younger, more athletic and has performed better over his career. The Martin Luther King High grad said he didn’t expect or need Backe or Soler to talk to him about the Rost acquisition, but just planned to put his head down and do his job.

“They don’t have to have any conversation with me to let me know who they’re going to bring in, because I’m just one player doing his duty,’’ said Coundoul. “When it comes to choosing who to bring or who not to bring, the player is powerless. All I can do is let my actions speak louder than my words, so I can control what’s on the field, but what’s off the field is the coach’s job.’’