The signing of Tranquillo Barnetta in the summer of 2015 was one of - if not the - biggest splash that the Philadelphia Union had made in the transfer market in club history to that point. Since then they made Alejandro Bedoya their first seven-figure player, but a player with plenty of Champions League and World Cup experience was nothing to ignore.
Barnetta brought creativity, quality, and pace that was welcomed by anyone that witnessed the Cristian Maidana experiment (that ended with Chaco being shipped to Houston with Andrew Wenger).