It's not really fair to characterize the New York Red Bulls' decision to sign Omer Damari on loan for the rest of the 2016 MLS season as a "risk". The club knew what it was getting. As RBNY Sporting Director, Ali Curtis, said when the striker was signed:
We follow a lot of the Red Bull-associated clubs pretty closely, so we’ve gotten to see him play on a number of occasions, and we think he can add a lot of quality to what we’re doing in the final third.
And as Curtis told the New York Times:
He is part of our family of clubs, and understands the way we want to play.