The 25-year-old has been traded to Eastern Conference rivals CF Montréal after three seasons in purple, the club have confirmed.
Just as supporters were beginning to concede that, as usual, Orlando City's off-season was simply going through the motions, yesterday's barrage of bombshells threw everything out of the window.
I'll admit, when I first logged on to social media to be greeted with a post concerning Dagur Dan Thórhallsson, I just assumed that he'd been awarded a new contract.
But no.